Long Left in the lurch Poems

An Echo Poem

Original: This Much I Know – Poem by Lora Colon of PoemHunter
Reprinted here with permission.

Soon the sun will set in this valley
Where I’ve roamed for many a year, 
So many questions left unanswered,...

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Let me tell you a story, a story of woe:
a tale of a pup who got lost in the snow.
Daughter Laura, our eldest, came up to see us,
drove home in a Jeep (to rhyme, insert...

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Unquotable quotes: Leftists – XVIII

(Note: What goes for the Left can go for the Right, too. All you need to do is to interpose the words wherever possible. Don’t read ideological warfare where there is...

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To be predicted means that you’re the fruition, 
Of a rational process, effortful and determined;
We can all predict that someone will soon cure cancer, 
And so Jesus was foretold as medicine’s romancer. 

The name Jesus...

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Mohammed Afreet Takes the Heat

By Elton Camp

Mohammed Afreet is a young family man.
To live quietly he is doing all that he can.
And like just about all people do,
He thinks his own religion is true.

“I was...

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Unrelenting gale, lashed 
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"Constant chimes and chimes of a bell
Connect men with their inner self
And create a state of marvel”
By the poet


Written 7 December 2023
Bells Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Kim Rodrigues


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Feeling the spirit of rhymes moving through me,
I've been labelled as first fruits in this writing movement,
With improvements of thousands of years within this environment,
Preforming with these comments straight onto this poem submission form,
Letting you...

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Sung in the key of G,
starting on D above middle C,
all notes at or above that D,
with ^ denoting the D 1 octave up:

D-B-B-A-G-F-G-A
A-C-C-B-A#-B
C-D^-D^-C-B-C-E-A
G-F-D-B-A-G

I love to sing the sto-r-ies*
Of Jesus, come to earth
Of his great...

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The Night of Nativity

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Hear a babe in his crib who is wailing,
left there with a rash that’s got infected
From hours of sobbing, his voice is trailing . . .
What monsters left their son so neglected?

Now see a girl;...

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Truth

" 39 You search the Scriptures, for in them you think you have eternal life; 
and these are they which testify of Me."  John 5:39 NKJV

Those who really desire Truth
Cannot remain in ignorance.
The diligent...

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Going to get a “haircut” today
Actually getting all of them cut
Cutting just one would hardly be noticed
Now I'm being quite a silly nut

There's many other sayings similar to this
English is overloaded I find
Wanna hear others...

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The morn of this lovely day, so bright and brilliant with the glory of God.
I dress for church reluctantly, not knowing the real reason for feeling this way on this glorious Sunday.
Could it be that...

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Going to get a “haircut” today
Actually getting all of them cut
Cutting just one would hardly be noticed
Now I'm being a silly nut

There's many other sayings similar to this
English is overloaded I find
Wanna hear some others...

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PROLOGUE
The Flame, aflicker, licks and flays,
illuming evening’s negligees
With braided curls she swirls and sways,
and flits and floats in light ballets

           APOLOGUE
A Flame, to conquer creeping...

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Written on 3 October 2023 For:
What to Search For Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Miranda Hawley


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’Twas about eight o’clock, 
And I dreaded the knock, 
The Carollers of pure light,  
With such Christian might.

They were to be an example, 
To my atheistically driven amble,
To encourage me to sing along, 
In...

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Alabama’s Governor:  My Way or No Way

By Elton Camp

In office only for the second day,
Governor says do religion his way
The deacon in the Baptist Church
Wants us not to be left in the lurch

He says,...

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It makes me so sad
To see people afraid
But the governor called a lockdown
And it must be obeyed

I've got the COVID-19, the pandemic Coronavirus blues
And I'm getting more depressed whenever I turn on the news.

The stores...

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A year  ago could we have guessed
we could be in bad times like this?
Where we'd be tethered to our homes
and could not our grand-children kiss?

It is lonely living alone
when none are allowed to stop...

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Thank God for Dead Reverends

By Elton Camp

It was when Fred Phelps was lying dead
That the word like this was cruelly said

It was written in bold red on a large sign
And held at his funeral in...

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Car For Sale by Owner

By Elton Camp

With a used car dealer’s unsavory reputation
The ad,  “For sale by owner” is a temptation
But if you decide to go this route, take care
Remember the caution, “Let the...

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They pass my window every day
the young, the old, the tired, the grey,
the little woman going to church,
the teenage lover left in the lurch,
the silver haired lady, a faded ingénue,
the argumentative couple with children, two.
The...

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I know a place where we can go,
There, its ok to be different you know.
Don’t worry, they will let us in.
They won’t notice the colour of our skin.
Nobody will care if my skin is white,
This...

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