Long Turn the other cheek Poems
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Insecure, Illuminating Ill-Tempered, Invigorating Icicle I Once WasI’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure
I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure
I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...
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turn the other cheek, appreciation, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
Was Versus NowI’m stronger than I realize,
I’m not alone
And I’m not a failure
I am focused on the prize -
God’s Kingdom today, though I’m on my own
Feeling like a Jailure
I was brave enough
Life can be quite rough
I was...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, anxiety, courage,
Form:
Rhyme
Hope For RespectMy thought for this day,
although still early,
is respect for hope.
Respect for our interdependence
and respect for our challenging differences,
important, yet hopefully not as powerful
as our interdependent love for healthy life.
Yesterday
I noticed a brown cardboard box
in the...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, bible, caregiving, culture, health, hope, integrity, usa,
Form:
Political Verse
Till I'M GoneWhen I'm gone...
You're gonna miss me over my dead body
When I'm gone...
Till I'm gone...bye-bye, love...I guess I was your nobody and love everybody, but me...
When I finally belong
You're gonna depart from me
When I...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, deep,
Form:
Lyric
Figure Me Out Part 1Verse 1: You'll never escape my mind...you're a wonderful find
You made me open my eyes when I was blind
You showed me the way to happiness
Positivity comes through me and pushes away the wretched...
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turn the other cheek, deep, emotions, hope,
Form:
Lyric
Race the Finals Spoken WordI wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a
team
And that
Because we have run
through the preliminary trials as selfish individual, goal seekers
we have barely made it to the finals,...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, africa, black african american, change, courage, freedom,
Form:
Rhyme
8[ This song will have guitars, a choir, a few back-up singers and drums with it in the near future...enjoy your read and later, a solo recording with it. :^) It's unedited and will be...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, deep, depression,
Form:
Lyric
I Taught I Taw a PuddycatExpiry date
14.
I taught...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, death, imagination, nature,
Form:
Rhyme
Let Love Create Rainbows In Your Speech Hey you
Don't let hate dominate.
Let love sate - animate
With the pain in your heart.
Set it free from the start.
Let it go, let it part.
An ugly form of art.
That don't make you look too smart.
In...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, analogy, hate, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Why I Love Negro Spirituals When the Only Way Out Was DeathWHY I LOVE NEGRO SPIRITUALS
I know why we sang those songs;
Why I LOVE NEGRO Spirituals-
I have a spiritual
connection to
those songs we sang.
We sang out messages to the universe,
and to each...
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turn the other cheek, daughter, death, emotions, funeral, grief, love,
Form:
Blank verse
Boa's Ark - Part 11. MORNING HAS BROKEN
The men, in lines, tramp two by two,
forgetting all the women who
indulged them through a night of tricks
(their lips designed with crimson sticks,
their eyes a wild mascara mix)
and think instead on...
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turn the other cheek, death, fantasy, philosophy, time, war,
Form:
Rhyme
Nothing's In My WayYou are looking bright tonight
Astonished by the dazzling sight
You brought tears to my eyes as always
You bring to me your secret stories of days in the sun rays
I'm gazing lightyears into the future
I was tracing...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, confidence, deep, endurance,
Form:
Free verse
Beyond the Mourning of BereavementBeyond the mourning of bereavement
Today marks fourth anniversary of tragic deaths
an aching breaking heart – mine
remembers four extinguished breaths.
(dashed – not while riding off
in a white horse open sleigh,
but upon learning untimely demise
regarding prosperous...
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turn the other cheek, absence, america, angel, august, bereavement, cry, farewell,
Form:
Free verse
Pet Peeves and PassionsThe future unfolds and it gets a little more clearer
We fell out of place the moment the mirror reflected our face
Your advice is not needed, so let my heart jump and let its joyousness appear
We...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, deep,
Form:
Free verse
The Legend of ContraventionTurn the cold shoulders
Turn the other cheek
I don’t care
Yeah, I don’t care
Anymore…
About anything, everyone and everything…
I’m engaging in encouraging sports in my mind’s eye
I am a confident guy, yet I act so damn shy
Reduced me...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, anger, anxiety, appreciation, grief, passion, rude, words,
Form:
Free verse
ConfessionsYour tears are beautiful,
as they fall across your face,
leading the path down,
that more are sure to take.
I hold you in my arms,
and tell you It’ll be alright,
As teardrops stain my sweater,
I promise I’ll...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, feelings, first love, heartbroken, kiss,
Form:
Free verse
War Logic 2Who cares about the lie of peace making
to cover up greedy hands dirty for oil
The arms race that has been promoted
since the discovery of the gun
just more ammunition to kill ourselves with
leaving us asking what...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, angst, confusion, history, hope, recovery from..., wardance,
Form:
Free verse
The Fruit of the TreeThe bible say's
you'll know my people
by the apples that fall from their tree
but what does that mean
The apples are, the fruit from the tree
the product that the tree produces
the fruits of religion
are sometimes creating...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, inspiration, international,
Form:
Narrative
Making It Great In 2008 (Part 9): Roll Away the Stoneto make 2008 great you need to roll away that stone
that rock that has closed you off and left you feeling all alone
Jesus had been crucified and then placed in a tomb
and on the...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, angst, confusion, introspection, life, son, god, god,
Form:
Epic
Fits the Need
"Fits the Need"
All people want
is a stable house
a place to call their "safe" home
to "LIVE"
outside of all cages -
free
live life
how "we"
were meant to feel
to have no hell
continually raising chaos
in this...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, future, humanity, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
Free Cee Come On Man Get To the JointCOME ON MAN, GET TO THE JOINT
Listen man……..
here is an indisputably effective plan
And this is the fundamental God given point
So at once dash out that flaming joint
Without hesitation
Sans equivocation
Minus mitigation
Simply inhale and initiate the following...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, angst, god, me, heart, anger, god, heart,
Form:
Free verse
Don'T Throw Me AwayYou look at me so uninviting;
I may have some missing teeth, stumble when I walk, bout' to FALL!!!
Stutter when I talk, but yet I'll still call;
Might smell like ole mothballs or mint or maybe even...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, caregiving, christian, forgiveness, grandparents,
Form:
Ballade
Political SpiderI can see them
Clouds of voracity
Covering my stars
Shadowing my reality
These civilized consciences
Have raped my protest
Have spun my web
I can no longer pacify
The tenacious circle of hate
That daily haunts me-
The deprived race
What is it I longed...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, political, universe,
Form:
Free verse
Love Will TriumphLove will Triumph
when all is lost,
and nothing is gained.
Love will Triumph;
when hearts are broken,
and friends cry upon other friend's shoulders,
as love has fleed the countrysides,
but Love will come again
to triumph over the souls that eat...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, beautiful, beauty, betrayal, blue, color, corruption, cry,
Form:
Free verse
The Day AfterThe Day After,
Day after day, I pray for our Father to give this demon peace
Adam, I want you to know he does not bother me so,
his rage is his own, not mine,
---tormented by a word,...
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Categories:
turn the other cheek, beautiful, christian, heart, love,
Form:
Epic