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What are the three physical signs that Bob Barber is predicting to immediately proceed the rapture

These are the three physical signs that Bob Barber believes could proceed the
rapture

1  The ink becomes dry 'on the covenant that is signed by many'.
     And after the rapture when...

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Categories: in vain, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Prose


The pain of not knowing

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A lament of Love? and Loss
In the silence, I hear your voice,
A whispered reminder, of my foolish choice.
I was blind to your needs, and deaf to your pain,
And now I'm left...

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Categories: in vain, anxiety, betrayal, black love, crush, cute love,
Form: Light Verse

Below the Horizon - Shallow Shame

Agony be to society's demise
Labels are for fools, not for the wise
Play the familiar tune of in-unison serenity 
Fatality won't come any time soon, thankfully...

Homeless people were on the news not to long ago...I weep...

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Categories: in vain, cute, deep, depression, desire,
Form: Free verse

Son Say Goodnight To Grandpa

“Son”...”say goodnight to grandpa”

Spurred by mother dearest 
as well as other politesse
drummed into her second born
fobbing blandishments as incentive
tumbled off fingers of prodigal son
tripped wordsmith to splutter forth
forthwith the following lines.

Back in the day 
quaint...

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Categories: in vain, 12th grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, absence,
Form: Rhyme

The Breeze at Ease - with hardly any difficultiez

Driven insane by sorrow, there’s no tomorrow to cure it…
Honestly, I’m in vain and so guilty…feeling way less than legit…
I’m holding you close in my optimism and its memories along with it
Torn apart by negative...

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Categories: in vain, angst, beautiful, emotions, encouraging, endurance, hope, how
Form: Free verse


A Wisp of Thought

There was a glimpse of time unknown to man
The things none may ever describe
All wrapped within this wall of thoughts
For if a moment of my thoughts are clear
They are not my thoughts at all
Never again...

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Categories: in vain, beautiful, dream, grief, lonely, lost, metaphor, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
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Beary Tales Episodes 15-24, More Poet's Notes

Note to Readers of Previous Versions:
There are so many new vignettes scattered throughout the poem that I hope you will reread the whole thing! There are many new GEMS, improvements to previous verses and improved...

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Categories: in vain, adventure, beauty, friendship, innocence, love, mentor,
Form: Quatrain
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Ask The Master - The Quatrain Style



~ Ask  The  Master  ~
 (  Quatrain )



~O~



When all around you see 
All your dreams go wrong 
Ask the Master for help 
He'll help you be strong 

~o~ 

When troubles pile...

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Categories: in vain, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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Jacqueline Trestrail

On this day 40 years ago in 1978 my mother, Jacqueline Anne Trestrail, left this world after a relatively short battle with cancer - she was 46. Jimmy Carter was President and Annie Hall won...

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Categories: in vain, mother, tribute,
Form: Prose

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
evoked yesterday with very little effort
(aside...

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Categories: in vain, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration, confusion, halloween, natural
Form: Free verse
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The Reason I Write

“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” * 

If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something soothing...

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Categories: in vain, family,
Form: Prose Poetry
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Borrowed Blessings - the Chain Style

~ Borrowed  Blessings ~
( The  Chain Style )


When  all our dreams seem somehow to go wrong
Wrong can motivate us  all the time to be just strong
Strong when need to be in...

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Categories: in vain, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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Dante's Divine Comedy Iii Canto Translation

“Through me you enter the city of woe
Trough me you enter the eternal pain
Through me you go to people lost below.

Justice inspired my highest factor reign;
I was created by act of divine,
Supreme wisdom and the...

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Categories: in vain, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
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The Philistine Troops Gathered Up For War

The Philistine troops gathered up for war,
Between Azekah and Socoh amassed.
Israel encamped near in Elah vale
And drew a line against the number vast.
There Saul, upon one mountain, made a stand,
To face the other tribe across...

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© Jeff Kyser  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in vain, bible,
Form: Rhyme
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Canto Xxvii Hell Transalation

Already was straight up the flame and steady
To speak no more, and yet away it went
Being the sweet poet to let it ready,

When another, which followed in ascent,
Made us to turn our eyes to top...

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Categories: in vain, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
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Every Day - the Minuet Style

~Every Day~ 
(The Minuet) 


You can always spread  His  Love  to 
To all around 
Around bring  Hope
Hope,  Peace,  love  show 

Love heals the aching heart that hurts 
Hurts...

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Categories: in vain, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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Dante's Divine Comedy Hell Translation Canto Vii

(Continuing the trip through Hell of Dante with poet Virgilio)

Pah-peh Sah-tan, Pah-peh Sah-tan al-ept!”,
Started Pluto with his hoarse voice toss
And that gentle wise, who any knowledge kept,

Told to encourage me: “don’t have a loss 
By...

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Categories: in vain, fantasy, universe,
Form: Terza Rima
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Child of the King

I wondered how that I could be a child of the King.
A long lost soul, I had no goal, but to maybe act and sing.
I believed in Jesus, a man of love,
But scared to death...

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Categories: in vain, blessing, christian, depression, devotion, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
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Let It Be Written 3


“I thought about the former days, the years of long ago.” Psalms 77:5 NIV

If you saw something beautiful in a people, a place, a thing;
If you heard about something captivating and fantastic;
If you felt something...

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Categories: in vain, family,
Form: Prose Poetry

Where To Wander

Feel more than free to take a quick tour into my mind's eye
Then, you'll find that you're on my mind and I don't know why 

Dare to wonder Where to wander
Dare to wonder What I...

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Categories: in vain, deep, drug,
Form: Free verse
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Easter Origins

"Worship in spirit and truth"

With Easter approaching, many people Christian and non-Christian are exposed to this celebration and may have questions concerning the various teachings, rites, rituals and traditions that are promulgated by public worship...

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Categories: in vain, bible, christian, easter, god, gospel, jewish,
Form: Didactic
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Moderna Commedia, Second Canto, Part 2

Quelle vicende vissi fino in fondo.
Quando mi riappropriai della mia vita
Se questo è un uomo chiesi a tutto il mondo.”
Those events I lived through and through.
When I again impropriated of my life
If this is a...

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Categories: in vain, dream,
Form: Terza Rima
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Dreamtime in Dreamland

(“Dreaming Gaia”, 2020, original encaustic)

Dreamtime in Dreamland

Over the years I’ve logged a lot of time sleeping
With much of that time in dreamland.

I’ve had plenty of mundane dreams,
Years and years of them
Sometimes the dreams themselves
Even lasting...

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Categories: in vain, appreciation, creation, dream,
Form: Narrative
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The Rhine Salmon Complaint Translation of Etiemble S Complainte D Un Saumon Du Rhin By T Wignesan

The Rhine Salmon Complaint, Translation of Etiemble’s Complainte d’un salmon du Rhin

						For Yvon Belaval
(A lilting musical poem of varying line length in quatrains with a refrain and much internal
 rhyming; end-rhyme scheme: alternate rhymes in...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: in vain, nature,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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Receive By Grace Thru Faith - the Quatern Style

~ Receive  By  Grace Through Faith ~ 
(Quatern) 



God, will give you love, peace, and hope 
when with life you can't longer cope. 
He will help you to be so strong 
when everything...

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Categories: in vain, christian, faith, hope, love,
Form: Free verse
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