''When Existential Angst and Doubt Meet Faith'' Ii
...When existential angst and doubt meet faith,
the saved hold on and cleave unto their God
through prayer; like Job's wife, apostates oft' saith
“Curse God and die!” when lightning strikes...
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Categories:
leavens, christian, death, faith, god,
Form: Sonnet
The Bijou Gift
...The Bijou Gift
David J Walker
Lifestreams from mountains
Into pools of liquid blue
From heavens golden fountains
On paths that we once knew
The sun shines on halos
A prisms filtered aw...
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Categories:
leavens, faith,
Form: Rhyme
O, Meal Worm
...A meal worm eats me like a gourd of flesh,
this slimy beast I dread; two weeks or more
until my heart's (that once was young and fresh)
a hole that brims with the plaque of its gore.
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Categories:
leavens, extended metaphor, heart, horror,
Form: Sonnet
Festering Wound
...A little leaven leavens the whole lump,
A moment of festering,
The whole body is thrown off balance,
The whole body is out of coordination,
A moment of taking off the eyes,
A moment of neglig...
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Categories:
leavens, emotions, imagery,
Form: Free verse
The Lever of Faith
...The Lever (1) of Faith
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The lever we need to move earth, if not heavens,
is Science, my friend, not your ‘take’ on our Bibles
(some mindfart of personal prejudice)! Playe...
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Categories:
leavens, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Return My Love
...She is adorn in henna blooms
Her lips as red as crimson
Her fragrance fills rooms like pillars of smoke
Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense
Betrothed to One Husband
A marriage of minds
A ...
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Categories:
leavens, beautiful, divorce, engagement, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Run the Race
...By Dana Redricks
April 11, 2020
"You were running [the race] well; who has interfered and prevented you from obeying the truth? This [deceptive] persuasion is not from Him who called you [to free...
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Categories:
leavens, bible, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
When
...When I first beheld my creation
And held you in my arms
I determined I would obliterate
Anything that would try to bring you harm
When I suckled you at my breast
Offering all my love without r...
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Categories:
leavens, growth,
Form: Rhyme
Let's Meet At Sundown
...please meet me as the sun is setting
by the old mill road
we’ll spend an evening not forgetting
sharing heart’s abode
we’ll take a stroll down to the river
by the city park
and cl...
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Categories:
leavens, love, romantic, sunset,
Form: Rhyme
Know Ye Not
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Know ye not,
a little leaven leavens the whole lump
Mix in a few little lies,
and make the unleavened bread rise
Puffed up full of pride
Mix in a little leaven,
and you gotta toss the whol...
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Categories:
leavens, allegory, introspection, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Like a Bee In a Bottle
...Every resonance
that seems to bring into life
It makes one's being
a likely confounded mind
yet leavens its fleshliness
03/25/16
Note:
* "Like a bee in a ...
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Categories:
leavens, confusion, metaphor, music, nature,
Form: Tanka
The Silliness
...Homey eyes of peasant stew
A cozy-colored mossy mew
Stony cottage, snowcheeks bleu
The forest fins for frosted fruits.
The warmest thought speaks crumbly bread
A partridge purr puffs through m...
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Categories:
leavens, fruit, language, love, nature,
Form: Verse
Either Way
...If a poem or essay can end with a conclusion or its opposite, either one,
Can it be of any use to anyone?
Do the discrepancies and disparities, dualities and densities, reflect only
the de...
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Categories:
leavens, day, evil, heart, kid,
Form: Verse
The Abcs of Pubescences
...An adjustment of ageless allure,
Buzzing bees, chirping birds,
Conversations confused, girls play coy.
Disconcerted; demanding; desire.
Early stages evolving each day,
Form like fiddleheads frol...
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Categories:
leavens, life, miracle,
Form: Abecedarian
The Day Death Died
...A bang rattles the heavens,
The earth shakes, jiggles, and leavens.
Silence swarms hell. Black darkness!
Humans wonder, panic at the madness!
Close to an hour, darkness prevail.
Close to an hour, hea...
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Categories:
leavens,
Form: Rhyme
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