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Leavens Poems - Poems about Leavens

Premium Member''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

Premium MemberThe 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



Premium MemberO, 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberLet'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

Premium MemberEither 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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