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Premium Member A Kind Reconsideration of the Abrahamic Faiths In a Difficult Time
A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...

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Categories: folk tale, spiritual,
Form: Free verse



Sticky Fingers
I can only write on the computer.
And I suppose that that’s not really the right thing to say, because people are going to say that I really am part of the next generation who survives...

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Categories: folk tale, philosophy, poets, slam, words, write, writing,
Form: Free verse
Freedom To Free-Doom
Freedom and freewill
One of the best gifts bestowed to mankind
I heard it is all around
But how many of us seek and find?
I heard it’s free but many have left lives behind

Having it is like growing...

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Categories: folk tale, freedom, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
You Are So Beautiful
You are so beautiful like Helen of Troy
So brainy, special, and unique
Nobody can compete you
Her smiling reflection answered from the mirror
She was lost in her own eyes
Bang!! From no where a stone strike the mirror...

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Categories: folk tale, betrayal, pain, parody, peace, philosophy, pollution, self,
Form: Free verse
A Student's Folk Tale
Stacked with books, assiduity elsewhere
Exams knocking at hand
Yet the Friday get-go
And final cut buff. 

Night at sea and morning sloth
The evening prowl and buddy talkies
Escaped tuition and soul mate bask
Brainsick few moments
Ended with a break...

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Categories: folk tale, allegory, schooltime, time,
Form: Bio



My Grandmother's Pearls
Read a folk tale to my grandson
In which kindness’ reward
Was, whenever the young maiden spoke,
Pearls from her mouth just poured.

Her evil sister’s punishment
Was toads instead of pearls,
The moral fairly obvious
For little boys and girls.

My grandson...

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Categories: folk tale, grandmother, grandson,
Form: Rhyme
The Sonnet of Valeria Botello
Deep voices from the earth call out her name
Growling and rumbling, corpses from graves
Summoned by the devil, she cannot tame
The monster within, locked away in caves

Her name is a folk tale, forbidden lore
Her lips are...

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Categories: folk tale, adventure, dark, death, fantasy, journey, magic, writing,
Form: Sonnet
Welcome Back Home
I will be with you tonight,
Fondly sharing the love of your beholding sight,
Embraced meanwhile by the warmth of your absence,
Blazing passion causes me to be happy,
Distance displays disputes readily promoting a fight.
Thus conflict arouses beeping...

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Categories: folk tale, home, lonely, love, passion,
Form: Sonnet
Spears of Betrayal
Your actions speaks louder than words
Your desertion of me this whole summer
Brought me to end of my life
You said you love me but hid her on the side
Traitor and betrayer lack the feeling
To describe your...

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Categories: folk tale, anger,
Form: Free verse
Cinematic Reveries
our long lost love in depths of time
our story like a folk tale
started with a kiss and ended in a torturous goodbye
will passed down in time
to be recited for generations
was never too pure and dark

in...

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Categories: folk tale, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Innocence
A child turned to a woman before her time. In the darkness and coldness of this 
hateful world, the innocence is lost.  The story is like a folk tale now each narrator 
changes it...

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Categories: folk tale, life, truth,
Form: Free verse

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