Long Dignify Poems

He was the Lamb that had to be slaughtered 
during the Passover and without Calvary, there wouldn't have been any salvation;
nothing would have forgiven our unpardonable sin!
Christ, as Isaiah prophesied, came when Jerusalem
was in dire...

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We are soldiers
This is our life
                    our job
        ...

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My generation my poems 
Everything I love don't matter now 
Cos I keep up the fire burning
After all it doesn't matter how 
I live or die 
Just pray for me if you care 
And I...

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Barely Bear!

Today, barefooted I walked behind a bear.
Not behind just any old bear,
But behind a bear, whose behind was bare!!
And barely steps behind the bear - 
This is the bear with the bare behind,
Followed two...

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Psalm of praise


Oh Jah, we laud you 
for your magnificence 
as the one and only true God 
and Sovereign of the universe.

Your splendor is beyond 
our imagination and your glory 
surpasses all conscious thought. ...

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"Them there stories
Twas the decade of worries
In the lower half, of the mighty Mo’
My grand-PaPa and em’ picked cotton
It twas below the Mason-Dixon Line;
Grand-pa always had an old cotton kerchief

Handkerchief
PaPa wipe his brow
Gave a loud...

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you wanted something that would dignify or give meaning to these days
something that contained a real reason to face them
but if your vision doesn't allow you to understand what could redeem you
will never be surprised...

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My little versification remains
I versify to satisfy 
Beautify and dignify
Our union

My Amazon
Flourishes in honesty and dignity
Glows in beauty and sanctity
Flawlessly flaunting your scintillating
Curvature with all courtesy and curtsy

My Arkhaggelos
With an angelic benign voice
Warbling sonorously to...

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My Family

It’s not that we connect by blood, 
nor share our bread through drought or flood.

It’s not that we are joined by name,
nor think, nor act, nor are the same.

It’s not a place we call...

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her eyes are gray, foreboding
reflecting the wrath of Zeus
yet therein lies the charm of Hera
who silences Olympian thunderbolts
she is sharing a tenebrous introspect
the smile withdrawn, judgmental thought
an ego that must be fed, expense of others
aloofness...

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Author Dana Redricks
July 22, 2023

Jesus, You are the source of my joy, filling my life with completeness, an endless supply, never far from reach, You are always by my side, You showed me how to...

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Time passes so slowly,
laughter seeks solitude-
Breaking hearts of the holy,
devoid of sinister gratitude.

Reservation of feeling love again has expired,
seeking not what leads to joy leaves me tired. 
I fear only what lies ahead as the...

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So let us have our laugh;
it is enough for just a moment
sacrificed to force belief
that somewhere an intangible
divinely-ordered plan exists, 
to which we must conform.
Dear God, give mercy to my plea
that that may not be...

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If you are so proud
of your sensibilities and tastes,
so convinced that your arbitrary judgements
are infallible as heartbeats of angels,
if you are the sole instrument of God's grace and evaluations
then why don't you allow them to...

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Poets  break easy or not at all                           ...

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Grope slopes of love doves through your palpitation periscope
Sacrifice the price of neglect notoriety, preserve the verve of hope
Multiply and gratify the clue and value of courtesy
Divide glides, prides and slides of mock mercy. ...

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A Hopeless Being.
 

Oh Lord! Before in hell forsake,
dreams do remove from all the men;
strip them, their hope away do take,
or shall in hell rebel again.
 
The dreams I dream they aren't mine,
but of that...

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I hate you, trully hate you,
My bad breath smells of hate,
Hate for you,
I hate to see you walk,
Hate to see you talk,
Hate to see you joke,
Of things, that hate you back.

Do you even realize how...

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I’ve been here before
Knowing what to expect
Or so I had thought
This time, I’m perplexed

Similar exterior
I gave little thought
But the inside is backwards
I, surly, am lost

This was not the first time
I assure you, I’ve felt
That I’m...

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Are You Skew-Whiff?

				Are you feeling rather skew-whiff?
Awkwardly placed and standing?
		upside-down
		back to front
		inside      out
		topsy - turvy
							Are your senses damp and unresponsive,
					Beckoning confusion and despair? 
	Does your heart pound even when there’s...

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On the day that you were born
The angels gathered by
To sing for you the melody 
Of heaven’s lullaby

The memories of life before
You left your home above
Are diamonds in a crystal pool
Of pure and perfect love

Softly...

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A violet ladyslipper’s seed did fly
On tropic breezes to cold forest’s womb
Her hidden beauty, a gift to the eye

Past bluebirds, saffron and red butterfly
On wings of her soul dream to come abloom
A violet ladyslipper’s seed...

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All I am saying is you have to try
Not only will it help you get by
But truly indeed it will help you fly
Under a new earthly universal sky
You are the whole piece of the pie
Now,...

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Regardless of reasons, no one’s heart do tear
Beat your chest, but dare to care
In every eventuality, display care and concern
Above all, blame and game endeavor to discern.

Regardless of reasons, no one’s heart do vandalize
Beat your...

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Something about a tree that welcomes me
and pulls me in with its majestic charms,
as graceful limbs reach out in joy- so free
to lure me close with gentle, giant arms
that sign with every breeze- I welcome...

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