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A Most Thoughtful Balladeer, Endeared: Mr Tony Bennet Tribute
"YES! THERE ARE MANY SINGERS WITH GREAT VOICES...
JUST THEIR MERE SOUND, ALONE, TELLS US THAT THEY CAN HOLD A NOTE AND CONFIDENTLY "CARRY A TUNE!"

BUT...

WHAT ABOUT A SINGER, WHOM WHEN THEY ENTER A ROOM, OPEN...

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Categories: tb, appreciation, dedication, feelings, how i feel, in
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Legendary Teacher and Student
Born in New England in the wake of the Civil War,
Her folks fled Irish famine and landed on our shore.
At age five, she took sick, losing almost all her sight.    
At eight,...

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Categories: tb, education, hero, inspirational, school, student, teacher, teachers
Form: Rhyme
My Visit To Nirmal Hriday
Perhaps from my childhood, it had been my burning desire,
To glance Nirmal Hriday (Pure Heart) - a home I did admire;
At the thought of Kolkotta - Mother's house - my heart did churn,
To be with...

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Categories: tb, caregiving, dedication, happiness, joy, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ready Or Not
The "shocking" news gets all the pub,
while the worthwhile takes the back seat.
People are generally more concerned
about the scare that is Britney's hair 
or lack thereof.Or about the final 
resting place for Anna Nichole when...

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Categories: tb, allegory, angst, faith, hope, mystery, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Options
Mafunzo ya kupata mtoto haiitaji tution 
chukua OPTION ya kuumiza matress na cussion 
but decision isikue abortion is the OPTION

ilikua date 2 month 2 alipomuambia I love you too
so after night two ,alipata mimba na...

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Categories: tb, abortion, age, birth, community,
Form: Prose Poetry



Bazaar
BAZAAR

Can you call it a bazaar
Where only one vendor
Her face strained
'Looks' pale, apprehensive
As if caught in a snakes' chamber
Yet searching for a potential customer
Desperate to sell products unheard of
Of human species, bizarre more bizarre

The seller...

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Categories: tb, poverty,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Let Love Lead Tribute To Tb Joshua
Three things in life last forever 
 Faith, hope and love
 The greatest is love
 God is love
 He that abides in love
 Abides in God
 And God in him

Success begins in our lives
When the...

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Categories: tb, angel, care, caregiving, christian, confidence, dedication, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Farewell My Badger Friend
>I sent the following poem to my old employers.  The RSPCA A year ago as the Badger was being exterminated in certain areas.  Unfortunately, now it is in even more so I hope...

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Categories: tb, animal, conflict, crazy, death of a friend,
Form: Elegy
Something Too Many of Us Have Suffered
It's like an epidemic,
There's no immunity,
Could happen to you,
Sure happened to me...

You find, out of the blue,
Of your marriage, old or new,
You are the only one married,
Your spouse's devotion seems 
to have varied,
The lump in...

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© Tom Bell  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tb, angst, depression, husband, sad, wife, child, me,
Form: Bio
A Snowman In Africa
It fell from a grey sky
That exhibited darker clouds
From the smouldering of the earth
Over the land of the rhino

It covered all with whiteness
And turned the tone of the continent
Into emptiness
The people and the wildlife vacating...

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Categories: tb, africa, snow,
Form: Narrative
No Jobs For a Man
I was the seventh child in a family of four,
the second born, do I need to say more?
Well perhaps I should fill in a few gaps,
or you could remain confused perhaps...

Yes I was the second...

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Categories: tb, class, family, grief, jobs, life, work,
Form: Rhyme
Bazooka Joe Is Gum
WESSON
GIVES A LESSON
WITH   A   .357
DAVID SLINGS A ROCK
COP HOLSTERS A GLOCK
LIZZY BORDEN PACKS AN AXE
MAC HE PACKS THE KNIFE
BILLY BATTLES WITH A CLUB
TOMMY’S GUN IS A SUB
KELLY’S GOT ONE TOO
BAZOOKA JOE...

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Categories: tb, america, conflict, death, education, freedom, patriotic, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Boston
Millions and millions of bricks
Tons and tons of concrete
Lord only knows how many panes of glass
Granite, Marble, and cobblestone too
Build a city strong, steeped in history

The Adams, Otis, Hancock, and Revere
Tea parties, massacres and lanterns...

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Categories: tb, america, city,
Form: Free verse
Bazooka Joe Is Gum - 1000 Ways To Die
David slings a rock
Cop holsters a glock, Lizzie Borden packs an axe
Mac he packs the knife, Billy battles with a club, Tommy’s gun is a sub
Kelly’s got one too, Bazooka Joe Is Gum, Peter Gunn...

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Categories: tb, conflict, courage, death, metaphor, symbolism, violence, war,
Form: Shape
Un-Welcome To America
He welcomed them with open arms
and now their flowing in
No ID,  Health screen, Background checks
and they're bringing all their "kin"

Two to three day holding stage
then send them on their way
Give them Future Hearing dates
they...

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© Pete Yuhas  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tb, america, conflict, humanity, identity, immigration, political, world,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Uncle Chuck Is Here
When he fell, he kept going down down down down down
Unlike Jack in the nursery rhyme, Tim did not break his crown.
The light was not great here, this is what he soon found.
It was difficult...

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Categories: tb, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Uncle Chuck is Here
When he fell, he kept going down down down down down
Unlike Jack in the nursery rhyme, Tim did not break his crown.
The light was not great here, this is what he soon found.
It was difficult...

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Categories: tb, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Rhyme
A Father's Love
A little boy of eight is so surprised
to see his father at the gate of the school.
His father hands him half a crown and says
he is leaving town immeditaly.
Warns.."Do not follow me."

The little boy returns...

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Categories: tb, angst, birth, dad, death, father son, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Living God
I am serving the living God
A God like no other
The Creator of the universe 
Omnipresent 
Omniscient 
The beginning and the end
God who says what He means 
And means what He says

I am serving the living...

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Categories: tb, birth, blessing, christian, confidence, creation, devotion, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Doc Holliday Bites the Dust
Doc Holliday Bites the Dust

By Elton Camp

Doc Holliday’s depicted as a vicious killer
But his actual life was much less of a thriller
Not in the West, but in Georgia he was born
By a classical education his...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tb, cowboy-western, age, education, age, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sophie His Sister
"Inspired by  The Sick Child by Edward Munch 1907  Oils on Canvas." The Poet

Motif etched first then done in hues of green,
Light embracing her red hair to set the scene.
A sign of resignation...

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Categories: tb, sick,
Form: Ekphrasis
No God West of Ft. Smith
There is no Sunday west of St. Louis
And no God that’s west of Ft. Smith—
So says the frontier adage that’s truest
And confirms the last Old West myth.

Wild Bill Hickok had him a dead man’s hand—
They...

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© Glen Enloe  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tb, angst, cowboy-western, history, nostalgia, old, old,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Happy New Year 2014
INSPIRED BY THE PROPHETIC DECLARATION BY TB JOSHUA..".2014 has been declared as a year of crossing the bridge to Destiny"


Prevailed in the year past we have...by the reason of faith in Calvary's Cross, 
To a...

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Categories: tb, new year,
Form: Lyric
Badgered
Ignorant living in monochrome world

defenceless  just surviving in their way

safe during the day in their set curled,

they must be culled! kill them some humans say,

creatures of the night don't deserve this fate,

tarred with a...

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© Roy Pett  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tb, animal, death, money,
Form: Didactic
We Need a Miracle - Today
I know it takes money to find cures
For disease but how much more time
And money will it take for these so
Called scientist to find a cure for
Leukemia, Aids and Cancer...I think
They need to get off...

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© Bo Lanier  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: tb, encouraging, hope, miracle,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things