Mercifully Poems

black chador

...Black Chador

The women of Alexandria wear a chador that
mercifully hides her bony body, she could have
fitted a Dior dress snugly, but she doesn't 
know this, she has walked ten miles to buy
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Categories: mercifully, abuse, adventure, africa, age,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberIn stars above

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Humming in hemlock heartbeats ~
along the shorelines
which once swallowed the sun 
in their searing shadows ~
I see those smoking seawaves
swirling upon my skin, 
as the silhouettes
of d...
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Categories: mercifully, deep, emotions, imagery, moon,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHO IS OUR REFUGE

...March 16 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 20-22 

Key Verse – Joshua 20:1-2 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, … Appoint out for you cities of refuge…
	
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Categories: mercifully, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberThe Great Yearning

...Unquenching thirst in scorching sands
With doleful steps as if once banned,
From mother home, lost paradise 
While wandering wayward days and nights.

As scorpions sting and vipers’ hiss
With b...
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Categories: mercifully, allegory,
Form: Kyrielle

Premium MemberResolution

...The old tries not 
to leave on the Eve,

rolling up its nasty sleeve,

wanting to remain -- 
creating a new year
of even greater havoc -- 

It is like that, with bad habits:

may they be p...
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Categories: mercifully, christian, faith, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse


the right to die

...The Right to Die

A new era, a law tells us the right to die
there always was a right to die
many people choose to go that way
often called suicide.
The new law doesn't target them but
old peo...
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Categories: mercifully, absence, abuse, addiction,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Lord Is Good To All - Psalm 145: 9

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Behold the Lord God magnificent
stand in holy awe at His presence
for only He is God the Great one
believing in God makes perfect sense

The Lord God is good to all
all means exactly what it ...
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Categories: mercifully, bible, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD WHO ENABLES US TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT

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April 17 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 15-17

Key Verse – 1Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing th...
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Categories: mercifully, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HEARKENS TO OUR PRAYER VOICE

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February 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 21-22

Key Verse– Numbers 21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly d...
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Categories: mercifully, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberTouched by Technology

...She sighs,
”Touch my eyes again
that I might see the light of new worlds flickering in the reaches of my mind.
Are you some magical creature who has come to ravage my soul? When your glowing digit...
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Categories: mercifully, future, imagination,
Form: Free verse

The Whirled In Between

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"The Whirled In Between"

What dreams 
in the time of 
not thinking

we spent aeons
in conversations
with the unbelieved 

deliberating 
choices towards 
our liberat...
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Categories: mercifully, dream, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberGod Questions

...When this life is over, whatever be my fate,
I have a few God questions I'd like answered at heaven's gate.
Why do some live long lives while others leave so quickly?
Why let children suffer with ...
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Categories: mercifully, god,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberDear Old Golden Rule Days

...~ Dear Old Golden Rule Days? ~ 

  The 2023 school year mercifully limps to a close
    Seems eons ago when students could afford to doze
  No more - Today they'd better stay on their toes  

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Categories: mercifully, books, change, community, culture,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAddicted To Love

...Addicted to Love

I am addicted to you 
sweet child. 
You made me laugh, 
from your first smile
to the first time
you called my name. 
Nothing from there will ever
be the same. 

I wanted ...
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Categories: mercifully, abortion, age, child, chocolate,
Form: Free verse

Grimacing Grief

...Consuming happiness to the point of no return, no return
I let the fires in my bosom burn on and on and on
Resuming on with my gladness, smiling — now, it’s your turn
To shine on like the sun in t...
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Categories: mercifully, angst, grief, growth, hope,
Form: Rhyme

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