Long Approvals Poems

Reading a post by Alfred Vassallo, I have decided to start a discussion on soupers about the ortodoxy of poems. Vassallo complains that the site is boring because comments are not directed to favour the...

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When your hard work is achieved, and it makes you feel proud,
You are quick to share its reward with a familiar crowd.

Expecting reactions to affirm your accomplishments,
Wanting those close to you to show signs that...

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Think of a time when your rent was due and it got paid and then, thank God.
Think of a time when you got fired and then, thank God.
Think of a time when you were sooo...

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December 26 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 13-14

Key Verse – Revelation 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

MY GOD, THANK...

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So right before I moved to Texas, the property manager where I was moving to called me and said, “Ms. Dright, I just want to let you know, you’ve been approved.”   
Now, as...

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Through the narrow window of time, I see fleeting shadows of lives that remain unfulfilled,
Men bound to desks like to foreign altars, captive in routine and silence,
Souls enclosed in a shell of paper and numbers,...

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The Hat Game come play
It's going down today
We will giggle, be glamorous, and have fun
the Hat Game has begun

Ladies, please come dress to play
No ones excluded all will be on display
Gonna play this game our...

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We die at tender ages,
while ambitions are still young; 
we are trials and failures.
Poets are people too.

Our wastes stink like everyone’s.
We cry, we hoot.
We love, we show disgust.
Poets are people too.

The same lips that brought...

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Approvals I Should Praise

The rhythm of my pen knows no bounds
Its ticks, treks, and steps knows no count.
The songs on my lip just loose the count.
No where, I suppose to untie the bond.

Strong bones are...

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The flame of creativity is born from unknown and daring depths,
where desires and thoughts intertwine with dreams still untainted,
each spark from the free spirit is a triumph of flight over fears,
opening new skies, breaking the...

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Alone in the dark
Hips locked in locked dance mode
We touch in such wayward ways
Our bodies assimilate as one
The music captures all we are
Falling one into the sun
Mastered moves meld
Cosexual sentient bliss
Let's get physical on foot.
Eyes...

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Author Dana Redricks 
June 10, 2019 

Our past does not define 
who we are it took a long
time for me to see 
The traumatising actions 
 of others had nothing to
had nothing to do with...

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He had a "hate/like" relationship
with the world.  His usual reactions
were always critical, mostly negative,
and his scarce grudging approvals
were, at best, luke-warm.  He judged
everything and everyone immediately,
contrasting them with his own imagined
greater beauty, strength,...

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