Now, a Church Attacked
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Lawlessness comes home to roost
Israeli settlers’ troubles self-induced
Fool ‘lawmakers’ look the other way
for their crimes, settlers never pay
Yet killing i...
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Categories:
lawmakers, america, international, jewish, murder,
Form: Couplet
FOR ALL THAT IT'S WORTH
...FOR ALL THAT IT’S WORTH – BY HAMID SINCLAIR
In God… we find the godless.
So-called transformers of faith—
Neo-Decepticons, New Age ravers,
Ravenous sheep… in wolf’s clothing.
Hapless...
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Categories:
lawmakers, america,
Form: Spoken Word
Florida, How Many New Law's does It Need Each Year
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The sun still spills on the oranges' skin,
Bright as the lies we bury within.
The sea is patient, the palms still sway,
But silence gathers at the edge of the bay.
How many rules must the war...
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Categories:
lawmakers, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
The Blood Remembers
...In the shadow of Newark’s bricks and bones,
Where the pavement hums with moans,
Where mothers pray with open eyes,
And sons are born beneath gray skies—
The blood remembers. The land remembers.
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Categories:
lawmakers, 12th grade, black african
Form: Free verse
Guiding principles
...Laws
Laws, disciplines, norms; God’s laws, man-made social laws
What’s the first, what’s the important, or more important?
Excellent this question. Priority? Hmm, there are atheists
What or ...
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Categories:
lawmakers, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
Happy Valley
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It was a strange and unexpected experience.
Suddenly, I found myself in a place called Happy Valley. A man was on a park bench gazing upon the trees as if listening to a particular bird call. ...
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Categories:
lawmakers, humanity, hyperbole, myth, rights,
Form: I do not know?
National Day of Prayer
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So far, we have come since our birth.
So much favor and many blessings were tendered.
So many prayers of gratitude are yet to be rendered.
So many battles were lost and fortunately, some wars ...
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Categories:
lawmakers, america, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Gun Addicts Despair
...Gun addicts sad and looking glum
No lives were lost to guns today -
No tallies to add to their sums,
No reaper swaths with live...
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Categories:
lawmakers, america, death, destiny, holiday,
Form: Rhyme
Total Unity
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Whether secular, religious, or 'just-let-me-be'
Sefardi, Ethiopian, or Ashkenazi
90% of my fellow Israelis agree
today in Israel there's 110% unity
Behind this statistic lies ...
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Categories:
lawmakers, history, humor, jewish, war,
Form: Couplet
The Unsupervised Stop Sign
...I remember being ticketed twice for running a stop sign.
The first was for not realizing that there was a stop sign.
The second was willful because I was driving a car with a
bad battery, and was ...
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Categories:
lawmakers, people,
Form: Free verse
Tears Are Flowing In My Eyes For Haiti Again
...Haiti is a country that I love dearly
That's where I was born
That's where I took my first healthy breath
That's where I had my first inspiration
That's where I saw the first birds
There I saw t...
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Categories:
lawmakers, abuse, corruption, emotions, future,
Form: Free verse
My Thoughts On Smash and Grab
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My Thoughts On
Smash & Grab
Miracle Man
8-15-2023
Some big cities now enforce a change in their law,
which allows an enclave to freely smash and grab.
What offenders deserve is some...
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Categories:
lawmakers, how i feel,
Form: Quatrain
The Way of the World
...The once mighty have fallen,
Their ashes fills the air.
The new martyrs have risen,
Bringing tears of despair.
Behold the cold lawmakers,
They cast a shadow of doom.
Perched on lofty towers,
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Categories:
lawmakers, world,
Form: Rhyme
Bigots and Racists Will Persist
...truthful and sincere
in right direction steer
honesty appear
a real earth shaker
they expelled two lawmakers
by fools and fakers
when they were expelled
bigots heads had been all swelled
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Categories:
lawmakers, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Legislators Are the New Mill Owners
...JUSTICE
They stare out at us unsmiling
from tintypes of the first photographs,
from the tea-colored pictures
of thin, ragged immigrants, huddled
in cold bare rooms in tenements,
children cl...
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Categories:
lawmakers, anger, angst, feelings, humanity,
Form: Free verse
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