Long August 15 Poems

Traditional Solitaire potential combinations...
that clenched another win (yahoo)
jimmied today August 15th, 2022 single handedly
just before the crack of dawn
with both hands tied behind my back,
and a blindfold worn over my eyes.

While in the midst of...

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Christmas poetry submissions call below poem...


A Butterfly through the Storm
By Stacy Savage

 When they first dated
 He treated her good,
 And did all the things
 That boyfriends should.

He gave her compliments
And made her grin,
With stars...

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Sitting in the living room on a rather
chilly winters evening, reading the life
journal of a daughter whose parents, 
Pakistani and Kashmiri both dead when
she was really young. 

In an alternate narrative, the clock moves
as fast...

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Mashallah mashallah
Woh oh ho..
Mashallah mashallah
Chehra hai mashallah
Naino pe naino ka
Pehra hai mashallah
Tujhko churaaya hai
Paaya hai yeh jahaan
Ho..hey..
Ho..hey hey hey
Mashallah mashallah
Chehra hai mashallah
Rang tere ishq ka
Ghehra hai mashallah
Tujhko churaaya hai
Paaya hai yeh jahaan
Hey hey hey hey
Hey...

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Good, bad or otherwise it is so interesting when we discover one of our ancesters is famous.
'Daredevils over Niagara' was written to showcase people who have attempted to dominate the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. While reading...

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August 15 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 45-48

Key Verse – Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the LORD, an...

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WoodStock - Fifty Years Ago August 15-19, 2019

I knew nary a whit about
rock n roll history
soon to unfold August fifteen –
eighteen ninety sixty nine
mollycoddled, nestled,
obliviously preoccupied

bajillion miles away
attending Baker Park Day Camp
within Phoenixville, Pennsylvania
innocently naive...

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Dancing vibrant hues
Blink in shades of blue
Peafowl, A majestic bird
Our nation's pride

Peacock -  Pride of India
Come, visit and enjoy
All are welcome, yeah!!!

Yellow sturdy physique
On glimpsing him, the forest shrieks
Bright black stripes on body regal
Stands...

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Skeptics who are unbelievers ask the ultimate question? Why does God allow all these bad things to happen?
Picking on His children, famine, diseases , drought, death war and living this existence.
If you had read the...

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Well over a hundred years ago
The illustrious Vincent Willem Van Gogh
A genius somewhat like Michelangelo
With thousands of artworks in his cluttered studio
From the sublime to the grotesque for show
Might have been better off working as...

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Every poem you write, a universe (and just your creation)
Yet somehow I’m free there to follow my dreams
And this freedom you give (child of imagination)
Reflected back to you by my mirror of being,
Thunder flashing in...

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Seeing others doing harmful things,
excessively drinking and using hard drugs,
I say this road is the wisest one
a very prudent individual could ever take, 
hoping that nobody will lay flowers 
on that spot, where a horrible...

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In our spirited worship for the Lord, we are ushered to seek His face
While abiding in His truth and grace
Since He secures us upon His compassion-brace
Despite attacking fears, smeared with doubts’ trace.

In our spirited worship...

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Written: August 15, 2023
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Being devoid lends the soul to thrive fonder. 
Missing you—for longer and longer,
With each passing day, my love grows stronger.
Bound by distance—but hearts beat in wonder.

Deathly afraid—my heart may burst,
Aching for your...

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August 15 Scripture Meditations Based on Daniel 4-6

Key Verse – Daniel 4:2 I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.  

MY GOD, THANK YOU...

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It was a day of jubilation, 
                       A majestic country got its independence 
 ...

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IF ever I had a country : LVI - LVII

			LVI

IF ever I had a Stateless country
And if ever I were a Stateless Person citizen patriot ready to lay my life down for the statelessness of...

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-- January 30, Martyr's Day --

noble and martyred
wrapped in the colours they served
   nation in their legacy
                ...

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Seventy-three spins 
The earth has completed around the sun
Since the first time I saw the light of
The day 

There were a few spins I had that were full of laughter and joy
That I wished never...

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I go to a place of memories
  That haunt my vivid dreams
On a winding path I walk,
  The path is always there ;
Old oaks bend their branches,
   Of dripping leaves and...

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Hallelujah medical coverage reinstated!

Prior to the morning
of August 15th, 2019
this joker riddled and
judiciously hollerith,  
punched with anxiety
approximately couple weeks earlier

prophetic notification
courtesy public assistance office
Norristown, Pennsylvania
wrought psyche asunder
worse news than plagued
with most pernicious disease

slack jawed...

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I knew they would come back.
I forgot what they had felt like,
A dozen neglected dogs returning to bite.
Uncomfortable old emotions now return to me,
Circling around and haunting me when I am lonely.

When I see a...

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So close to me she sits yet I am blind,
the thoughts she seeks to plant within my mind.
Naivete prevents their cognisance,
as immaturity meets happenstance.

Much older she - though hesitant to move,
engages guile with swift effect...

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Northern Ireland, it was a peaceful Saturday of August 15,
1998. There were many people shopping in the center of
Omagh, in Tyrone. Then, at 3:10 p.m., the car bomb
exploded close to the junction of Market Street...

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The mountain stream chisels a valley
Crystal water dances down in musical cascades
Crashing on the rocky ledges
Splashes silvery drops spiraling high.
They carry the cadenced expression 
The stream proffers to the rock and to the sky.

A magnolia...

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