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Dearly Departing Christians
Many of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,
United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hurricaned coastal residents
Displaced by floods,
invasive mold,
voracious rot and rats,
Barren top soil,
failing electrical networks,
drought,
inhumane heat,
decimated forests
Bereft...
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substituted, america, christian, culture, environment, health, integrity, peace,
Form:
Political Verse
Giantvillism and City of the Bean People Part 5
Jake’s Two Week Stay
Jake Castle began to think about Giant and Maddy. Looking in his case he decided to write a melody for when he brings his family, which include Nefa (his wife) and his...
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substituted, appreciation, best friend, birth, business, celebration, courage,
Form:
Ballad
Riding Fast
The meeting of the "Downhill Gang" was top of Pekrul Hill,
And everyone was there with parts galore,
For they were building racing carts from planks and buggy wheels,
To challenge us and settle untold scores.
The "Pekrul Boys"...
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substituted, childhood, dad, father, giving,
Form:
Rhyme
Scales of Omnipotence
We might discern diverse scales
for describing omnipotence
of CreatorGod
in the Bible,
as elsewhere.
Genesis begins with Earth's wind and water,
and is about CreatorGod of Earth as Eden
with Her divine lights and clouded winds
coming down from sacred...
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substituted, bible, cancer, christian, earth, health, language, peace,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Letter To Ronald Hull On His Comment On Diary Notes: Lament At Dawn
LETTER to RON" Diary Notes : Lament at Dawn - A Year Ago Yet Now No Change "
Reviewed by Ronald Hull
8/19/2018
"Quite a lament! The state of Paris at dawn. Just the thought of sewage seeping...
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substituted, conflict, immigration, paris, political, race, writing,
Form:
Free verse
Recreating Organic Freedom
We created clients as consumers of education
and called this freedom to learn.
We created competitive,
ranked,
hierarchical,
professional caste-system schools
and called them freedom from unhealthy superstitions of extended families,
freedom from historic pathologies looming within mysteriously connected...
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substituted, beauty, culture, earth, health, mental illness, nature,
Form:
Political Verse
2 Timothy 3:1 For In the Last Days Perilous Times Will Come Part One
2 Timothy 3:1 "This is one thing that you should know, that in the last days perilous times will come for men will be lovers of themselves and lovers of money.not God.." paraphrase. Instead of...
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substituted, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Less Than Words Can Tell
Doctor Fell taught at University Park, like stars gather for enlightenment;
And was stern, diligent and upright, like pink cactus bloom environments.
He was dedicated to his striving students, although strict about lessons;
And there were penalties for...
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substituted, anger, change, color, fantasy, nature, student, teacher,
Form:
Couplet
Drifting Sycophant
THESE ARE OPEN(organic) VERSES using spaces&breaks without grammatical symbols, the ' open' relies upon 'the one breath limitation' (intuitive cadence)& so inherently requires the 'reader' (reciter) to input and respond thus making this enigmatic form...
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substituted, analogy, bereavement, introspection,
Form:
Verse
Letters Written In Fetters - 2
So dear son,
A man on crutches is a broken man
...
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substituted, father, father, children, father, , cute,
Form:
Free verse
Bassnectar Red Rocks '13
the m u s i c took CONTROL
our heartbeats replaced by B A S S
breathing...
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substituted, adventure, beautiful, community, happiness, love, music, travel,
Form:
Free verse
Eat, Sleep, Love, Repeat
Light, the kind that brings the faintest glimmer of hope,
appeared suddenly through a darkened wood;
like an oasis after travelling through the Sahara so parched
with thirst threatening to take my life for good.
Though death’s bony palm...
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substituted, angst, heartbreak, hope, hyperbole, love, love hurts,
Form:
Rhyme
Walking With Emmanuel: the Abused Child
I now walk with the young Emmanuel
In his gardens of trees and flowers
Out of the darkness of my lasting den
Where the two monsters kept me without end
In the house of horrors and orcs
I felt...
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substituted, child, child abuse, childhood, children, death, hope,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Once I Was a Prince - Part Three
Part Three
...swishing away with your sunshrivelled burgundy knotty arms with broad disdainful harvesting sweeps the cobras come out to water in the sweltering heat by the thatched fly-buzzed hole
your low under-the-breath warning tones...
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substituted, family, me, water, may, me, time, water,
Form:
Free verse
My Poetry Soup Blog
This is now my unofficial Poetry Soup Blog.
I know you're only supposed to post poetry here,
but as far as I can tell,
I can blog here as well
as long as my blog rhymes poetically to...
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substituted, memory, may, memory, poetry, new year,
Form:
Rhyme
King Solomon's Judgment
He was now sovereign of the land of Israel.
Following in his father David’s steps, he ruled well.
This land had never displayed so much prosperity.
No king would ever be more powerful and wealthy.
The Jerusalem palace now...
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substituted, religionfather, baby, woman, women, baby, father, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Trans-Changers
Looking through the window
Everything seems like a puzzle
His coming ought to rekindle
Instead all have dwindle
Change is all we asked
Not knowing they were masked
Although they were tasked
Everything remain the same
Three square meal
Has become dream
Off course...
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substituted, africa,
Form:
ABC
Vbt Practice 32 of 112
So far it has been fun
Mostly with past conditioning to be undone
But if we truly wish with God to be one
Our flow of awareness must be unbroken
Through waking
Dreaming
Deep sleep
Turiya where bliss seeps
And finally turiyatita
Samadhi...
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substituted, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme
A Taxpayer Speaks
A TAXPAYER SPEAKS
Years ago when filing tax forms reared its proliferating death’s head
I cursed, perspired, and thought about moving to a foreign homestead
As a low-income taxpayer I felt too unimportant to hire an accountant
So I...
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substituted, tribute,
Form:
Rhyme
A Past Renewed
Upon a time once there was a heart, a soul overthrown by fear itself, he wept
His past stood up and drew his breath from his very soul, leaving him almost dead
Challenging time to preserve the...
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substituted, artdeath, heart, time, death, heart, hope, ocean,
Form:
Personification
The Substitute Teacher
The substitute teacher comes in all grins, giggles, and smiles.
Her resume’ runs on for a thousand and six hundred miles.
She is perky and ready, and thinks it is going to be fun.
By noon she’s ready...
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substituted, humorous, teacher,
Form:
Rhyme
Hell's Hospitality
The sun cries for us, its heat fades away
snowflakes sprinkle round its orbit, yet go unmelted
it feels like evening, but its yet noon
time never changes its pace but now runs from a rifle
daylight sadly pretends,...
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substituted, africa, anger, corruption, culture, life, political, power,
Form:
Prose Poetry
The Same Seed
He had a conversation with an angel…he was seated by a stream…when he noticed she was next to him…then again he thought…it could have been a dream.
“I see you are shouldered with sadness.” The angel...
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substituted, hate, love,
Form:
Rhyme
That's Close Enough
*Image of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde poster by Wiki.
That's Close Enough
Shapeshifters, and or, shapeshifting ... preps our world always,
A speck sans a cavass, ... materializes a work of art,
At spans of reckoning, ... outlandish...
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substituted, allusion, change, character, identity, image, perspective, psychological,
Form:
Sijo
THAT OLD CROWN OF THORNS HE WORE FOR ME-
THAT OLD CROWN
OF THORNS HE WORE for ME
That crown of thorns
Set upon His head
Needled poke, pricked, bloodshed
Though the crown of thorn
Was mocked
Replace His Kingdom Crown
Evil Humanity thought
Instilled...
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Categories:
substituted, analogy, appreciation, blessing, celebration, easter, god, humanity,
Form:
Rhyme