Long Jailor Poems

UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: XLV - Tongue teasing epigrams

A stitch in time can save an arranged marriage and stave off a family feud, not to mention everlasting vendettas.
Still waters run deep in sleep.
When the hens begin to...

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A Rondo In 23 Verses

COVID is very inconvenient. 
Difficult to endure.
It controls my soul and my movements
It has ruined my life for sure. 

I hate masks but I wear them.
Fogging my view with each breath
They...

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Adapted from Acts 16:22-31

How long have I been a jailor here,
And from these men this is what I hear?
In the midst of their pain they sing and pray
And tell me how I must believe today.
That...

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March 11 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 16-18

Key Verse –Judges 16:28 And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray...

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The Gospel

So many feel the gospel turns them away
I hope you truly don't feel this way
The opposite is true and that's a fact
The gospel is here to bring us back

Instead of feeling condemnation's sin
Look at...

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Every day the news by best jailor
Since my hours run fast through the sweat
To put comas in the bills every month
And fill the never full belly engine
In the midst of the crowd they said
That’s why...

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When I was just seven, so small
My best friend Jacob, outdid us all
He had a pet Cobra, cool as could be
He forgot to feed it for a whole week you see

So I killed him

When I...

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What's in a name, you say
  Is a rose still a rose by any other
And isn't 'Mom' a lot more loving
  Than calling her 'Mother' 

A name is an occupation, a means to...

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I lie here in an empty freezing prison cell, 
Alone apart from the black mirror in my hands. 
How long I have been here I couldn't say,
A prisoner and jailor with the key in one.

You're...

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I am so tired of forever.
Seems there was something I left behind in another life.
I asked the mirror and the mirror said, 
“You can do better.” 

There are papers spread across my bed,
Books strewn, open...

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*title is Ralph Waldo Emerson quotation

       

Enthusiasm often is the reason
behind much-needed change and happiness.
Add zest to common sense and careful planning.
You hold the recipe to great success.

Though just...

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In here
I occupy the smallest space,
yet cultivate galaxies
to weave and web light
across an infinite sky,
or in darker moods,
conjure glaciers that grind
towards frozen seas
and numb the mind
with cold. Beyond,
I populate the unknown
with fickle gods.

In here
I pretend...

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Villanelle : Merchants of the Word make Writers write for Prizes

Merchants of the Word make writers write for prizes
Does not the failed writer pose as house editor
Great treasures of the past were weaned without judges

Prized-writers...

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I will not be held down
I rise from the pit of ignorance
No longer silent
Stronger than you
I am what you fear
No longer will I be denied 
Give me my education

Each day I will come to your...

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In an exercise of 
Psychopathology 
Students are told
To find 
A safe place
And to go in

My home, your room
In the forest
Under a tree
A hidden cave
Quickly went out

My mind 
Crippled and entered 
Stayed there
Never ever again 
Expected

Older...

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Oh say! Under a mischievous sky
 A minstrel came singing and seeing me cry
" what are you facing?" Upon seeing me vexed
My soul is afflicted and deeply perplexed
I am charged with writing but cannot lie
Both...

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in the desolate
          solitary hours
    when fear trickles down my spine

  time is my jailor
    closing me behind its...

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Smirk pouty shyne-joyfully
Like an Ancient and Childlike EmeraudeTear.

Curtsy the World clumsily but gracefully 
your face draws it nearer. 
As are Children, kindred and kin inVestige, Envisage, Heritage of
the Seer.
Drawn to you, magnetically tracing your image,...

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If you have not read my "Girl Rising" poem
please read it first. Thanks I appreciate it.



Rise up from your chair
Do not be complacent
Do you not hear your sister
She cries out for justice

Are you being raised...

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Burning Question

A life of banging my head against the wall
Searching for answers
I am plagued by instant replays

Haunting me
Taunting me

Isolation has become my companion
Dark emotions has become my jailor
I am chained to my life of despair
I...

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Sleep's the Great Healer—
Sleep's the Revealer
Of hidden meanings,
Unbidden gleanings.

When sorrow aches us,
Sleep overtakes us—
Stealing away grief,
Like a welcome thief.

Night is the coverlet
For a longing lover— yet
It's Sleep who delves
Deep into our selves,
Finding dusty dreams... on...

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