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Accumulating Anger: My Love Was Serpentine
My love was serpentine to the touch
I can't quite explain it...the love of mine
Had gone away from my sight and such
I can quiz my mind to say otherwise, my bittersweet sugar wine…

Why am I extremely...

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Categories: like a son, angst, longing, lost love, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme



Unprecedented Life - Chapter 2 - a Nod of Approval
I’ve let everyone down to be exact…
I am a proven-guilty fact (a false fact)
Optimism and pessimism sure have its arms around me at all times
I wish I had a black and white checkered pirate ship...

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Categories: like a son, deep, words,
Form: Free verse
Skeletons In the Closet
We all got those things that disturb us so
We all got those wild days when we fall low
We all have those demons that mess with us
We all got thrown below the bus...below the bus...

All I...

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Categories: like a son, angst,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego
Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego:
These may not be three names you know,
But have a seat and I will tell
How they survived a fiery hell
As servants of their God, Most High,
Praised no false gods, would rather die
Than bow...

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Categories: like a son, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Saved By His Creator, Part III
“But we realized, decades on back,
how consciousness burns out machines,
we are not gods when we create,
there are hard limits to our dreams.

“And the same questions you have asked,
why create what must quickly die,
haunted humans for...

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Categories: like a son, death, future, humanity, life, meaningful, science fiction,
Form: Narrative



The Book of Revelation the Three Angels Chapter 14 Part Eight
The Three Angels Revelation chapter 14

Than I saw another angel flying in midair, and he had the eternal gospel to
proclaim to those who live on the earth--to every nation, tribe, language and
people.  He said...

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Categories: like a son, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Narrative
Who Is the Antichrist and the Ancient of Days Part Three
..."After that in my vision at night I looked, and there before me was a fourth beast--terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had long iron teeth; it crushed and devoured
and trampled under foot what...

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Categories: like a son, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 2nd
Form: Narrative
Something To Look Forward To, Part V
...For the remainder of the war
he kept to himself, since he knew
making friends set you up for pain,
there was naught to look forward too.

The months passed and Lee surrendered,
the war came to its brutal end,
Emmet...

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Categories: like a son, courage, death, life, loss, lost, love, war,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Dragon and Santa
Christmas roses are red, and violets are so very blue…
Dear Santa. We love our dear Dragon and hope you do, too.
Nightly, visions of colors dance round and round his big bed. 
As delusions of grandeur…...

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Categories: like a son, adventure, christmas, fun, funny, happiness, happy, imagination,
Form: Clerihew
My Lovely Sunshine -Chapter 1-
In the desert of desolation,
I feel this all-to-familiar frustration
Get the hell away from me…negativity…
Flee from me, unsatisfied soul of envy 

I yearn for something more
You’re the one I adore
You’re the one I adore

You deserted me...

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Categories: like a son, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Deep Moon Cave
In the deepest river caverns, in the furtherest chambers of my soul,
       There are secrets hidden there that can ne'er be told.
Secrets of another life, another way, another time.
...

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Categories: like a son, mysterybeautiful, beautiful, me, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Crimson Rose
Crimson Rose 

Against all odds, your destiny, 
To live and grow, your history...
You grew and bloomed with all your might 
With drops of rain and harsh sunlight 
Through crack in earth you came to be....

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Categories: like a son, allegory, art, mythology, rose,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member UPLIFTED LEGACY
There is a train coming for President Jimmy Carter
On his way home to the Kingdom of Heaven
While living, President Carter’s life was always on the move
His heart and generosity to the American people President carter...

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Categories: like a son, america, appreciation, bereavement, character, christian, funeral, god,
Form: Free verse
Carry On
Carry on,
Carrion, lonely heart of mine
Till the dawn
Is against the dusk so fine

When dawn arrives undone,
I wonder where you have gone
Are you having fun in the sun? 
Sorry for acting like a son of a...

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Categories: like a son, betrayal, emotions, grief,
Form: Lyric
Gnome
Gnome on my lawn, I see you're creeping on my home. 
Where you belong, it's the ocean deep. 
Leagues under the sea, you'll leave me alone. 
At last, I'll have my peace, and be able...

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Categories: like a son, imagination, mystery, me, me,
Form: I do not know?
When the Bottle Lets You Down
Can I ask a question of you my friend?
   Have you started drinking from the bottle again?
You look so down it’s clear to see.
   What you really need is to be...

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Categories: like a son, friendship, hope, love, care, care, me, trust,
Form: Narrative
Catastrophe Cuts Deep
Cold blood drips on the bathroom floor
You were the one that I adore to the core
You were a shimmering shore at the beach
Your pleasant, outlandish words I beseech

You've taken advantage of me
You want, but don't...

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Categories: like a son, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Why
"My pen drips of sorrow and on this paper, I write each tear."
                      ...

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Categories: like a son, brother, death, faith, men,
Form: Rhyme
The Snow
The snow fell down.
It covered the ground,
in a blanket of white.
What a beautiful sight.
Children grinned from ear to ear.
As they saw the heavenly snow appear.
There were thoughts of playing in the snow.
Building a snowman, with...

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Categories: like a son, childhood, snow, fun, love, snow,
Form: Free verse
My Tree
A beautiful tree
Grew
It faced the sun
Every day
New leaves revealed
Such magic
Has begun

I watched it grow
Over the years
I talked with it too
Just like a son
That I had come to know

Strong and true
It grew
And grew
Such beautiful branches and...

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Categories: like a son, lifebeautiful, beautiful,
Form: Verse
My Tree
A beautiful tree
Grew
It faced the sun
Every day
New leaves revealed
Such magic
Has begun

I watched it grow
Over the years
I talked with it too
Just like a son
That I had come to know

Strong and true
It grew
And grew
Such beautiful branches and...

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Categories: like a son, death, faith, fantasy, imagination, life, nature, visionary,
Form: Ballad
Glory of God
His prayer...
He will hear
He has held me dear
He held me dear without a fear
That will give us cheer

Wondrous as ever
He drowns out fear
Don’t say whatever
Let’s hold us near

Hopefulness and helpfulness
Distress and dreamful dutifulness
Will disappear in...

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Categories: like a son, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Real Beauty
The most beautiful people on Earth are sometimes the ugliest
They indulge in evil and sin best

Though beautiful on the appearance
They hardly deserve that we do cast them a glance

Inside, they have nothing, no values, no...

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Categories: like a son, beautiful, beauty, introspection, mystery,
Form: Couplet
I Am
imagin a place where
open opens
start starts
begin begins
spin spins
stop stops
knowing knows
growing grows
ending ends
imagin having touched
the very being of God
where mystery is no mystery
it is only a journey
from the beginning to the end
and infinity ask the questions
which...

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Categories: like a son, fantasygod, freedom, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Love, From Santa's Girl

What the Dickens! Santa ain't wearing knickers 
well his pants got caught inside the chimney 
now here's the kicker...
Little Joe woke up in the middle of the night 
and gave Santa such a jolly fright...

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Categories: like a son, analogy, christmas, home, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

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