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Bleeding Homeland
The value of her name is fading,
Oh mother Ghana, mother of beauty and richness.
Every sector in her government is creating hopelessness.
A place attained from the sweat of passed souls within nationalism and confidence,
Today has appeared...

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Categories: backslide, africa, angst,
Form: Political Verse



Addiction Part 2
You ask how I really am when you damn well know,
My world is crumbling right now.
But I'll be fine,
Just give it some time,
Just take it one day at a time.
This isn't the first time,
Nor will...

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Categories: backslide, addiction, anger, anxiety, crazy, depression, drug, how
Form: Free verse
Environmental Pollution
The release of the naked sword of marine oil spills 
From the window and door of offshore platforms drilling rigs,
From the arena of natural oil sips to execute our living meals.

Petroleum hydrocarbon spreading its tentacle...

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Categories: backslide, africa, earth, environment, humanity, poems, pollution,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Inspiration From Above
He is wise beyond what I might have guessed
He knows the moon and calls the stars by name
He whispers sweet dreams and I know I am blessed
He helps me to know forgiveness and eases my...

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Categories: backslide, christian, faith, god, heaven, hope, jesus, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Creator
January 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 1-3

Key Verses – Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.  Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he...

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Categories: backslide, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form: Rhyme



Regret
I’ve seen their spirits ride at night, 
In total darkness and clear moonlight, 
Souls that search for what is right, 
These men that they call Cowboys. 

     With open heart, determined...

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Categories: backslide, cowboy-western, history, people, song-men, me, men,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Premium Member The Paradox
God allows us to be born
	so we can die
He allows us to be sick
	so He can heal us
He allows us to be weak
	so He can make us strong
He allows us to be poor
	so He can...

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Categories: backslide, blessing, christian, conflict, god, heaven, people, perspective,
Form: Prose
American Families Cry Out
Why must the American people keep asking why
The FBI always seems to get a Bye
When accountability for one's actions
Should be so high
Persecution of so many a- lister's stuck in the public's eyes
Though they deserve the...

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Categories: backslide, bullying, conflict, faith, family, peace,
Form: Narrative
Life For Eternity
Whenever someone is cruel toward us in either word or deed
 Remind us how You first loved us and did so unconditionally
 When sorrow threatens to immobilize, warn us it's just a test
 May we...

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Categories: backslide, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Premium Member This Isn'T Folklore
2 Peter 1:16 (KJV) “For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.”


If I spoke...

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Categories: backslide, faith, heart, hope, inspirational love, jesus, joy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Backslide Companion Blues
Of all the gin joints, 
and pool halls, 
on bar stools, 
and in the shallows of oceans, the Siren calls.
It calls us men back.

If only men can bust that Jack!
Oh, for years you evaded all...

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Categories: backslide, success,
Form: Rhyme
No Dread
No dread of disease in the darkness or disaster that strikes in the day
Can't sicken the stricken with voltage and venom or strike once again in  the same 
spot or place
Frowning face to sunshine...

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Categories: backslide, faithlove, prejudice, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Survival
On this side of the world
Fire is another way to name life
And there are three ways to keep burning:


I. Build a cave on your tongue;

You do not say your body is perfect
Before a cracked mirror...

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Categories: backslide, art,
Form: Free verse
Betrayed
I wanted you to know
That you did not steal the show
Unable to harness the harmony 
You did not screw this up for me
In fact, it's such a huge favor
Not wasting the fruits of my labor
Knowing...

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Categories: backslide, anger, conflict, grief, integrity, loss, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Hook, Line and Sink Her
Today the blurry vision calls to her
Last night She drank too much
And to be honest, 
She doesn't know why
It was without reason
She awoke this morning and the air was screaming
at Her to breathe once more


And...

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Categories: backslide, absence, addiction, angel, emotions, missing you, thanks,
Form: Free verse
The Optimistic Pessimists Resolutions
Get in shape, lose some weight.
Every year it’s always the same.
Read a book, stay home and cook,
And I only have myself to blame.

Till some land, lend a hand.
You’d think that I’d be smart enough,
Cards to...

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© Tony Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: backslide, funny, holiday, me, me, time,
Form: Light Verse
Rising With the Rising Stars
You think, therefore 
You're rising with the rising stars

But in dreams 
You're falling to the far side

Day by day 
Collecting what's yours from your sales
Of whatever it is you sell these days
You watch your profits...

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Categories: backslide, assonance, dance, philosophy, rap,
Form: I do not know?
On the Backslide
another somber rise of day through autumn's reign
where clouded thoughts backslide through eyes
while the anguish of my pain lies misted in the lash of october's skies
i watch as the breeze strips color from these trees
crimson...

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Categories: backslide, autumn, feelings, sometimes,
Form: Free verse
Tooth For Tooth
You hide all the money,
Without paying to me a clue,
The skies was wet with morning dew,
At little time,broken ways get me not backslide, 
Broken ways,never goes on a king reign,
Hail a mind to sway,
We've moved...

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Categories: backslide, adventure,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member A Traveler's Prayer
Travelers tempt the hand of fate, of time
moving from within one box to the other side.
Sometimes we’re scared, we cry sometime 
yet, to take that step, that risk “Ah, let the heart abide.”

Moving from within...

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Categories: backslide, adventure, allegory, cry, devotion, faith, forgiveness, heart,
Form: Pantoum
Premium Member Help Me Do Your Will
My God, here am I with my desire to do Your will*
Though I’m not worthy... such I'll strive, triumphantly, fulfill
Cognizant of Your might I must depend on, totally still…
Help me; keep my soul marching toward...

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Categories: backslide, christian, dedication, endurance, faith, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Acrostic Man: a Collaboration With Ken Duddle
Form: Acrostic
Don’t walk by,pretend not to see

Outside in the cold is no place to be

Whistle to yourself,think glad it’s not me

No-one can escape their destiny.

 

No-one can prepare for all trials of life

One day it...

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Categories: backslide, adventure, community,
Form: Rhyme
The Chosen
How long, would you hide
Aren't you tired of the roller coaster ride
Put aside your pride and return to ' YAH ' side
Don't be sadden, don't be afraid
Stop digging your brother's grave
Be strong, turn from wrong
Just...

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Categories: backslide, black african american, history, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
False Preachers Prayer
Money consceous in precise.
It's a bone thrown to domesticated dog,
My whole life was set on clock,
Narrow way wasn't part of my want...
Broadway was a prioritised sort,
Fire in my heart shows Golliath size,
Nobody knew David would...

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Categories: backslide, analogy, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Premium Member God Is Talking Calling Me On the Phone and I Just Won'T Listen-
The phone is ringing, ringing ring ring ring
But I won't answer it
I just keep on singing, singing
God is talking to me
So I got to praise Him
You see God is on the phone
And He won't leave...

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Categories: backslide, allusion, analogy, caregiving, relationship,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs