The Tendrils of Evil
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Shadows linger like tendrils in my mind
Nobody escapes the fingers of death
Rooted in your soul, planted in your being
Seeing is not always believing, it's deceiving
Captured like a picture,...
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Categories:
misbehaved, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
BEBOP BLUES Dedicated verse for Shasta Simms-
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BEBOP BLUES Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews-
How do ya! Do Rebop blues
Them there, tied up shoes
Crampin’ my style rebop blues
Like a misbehaved child
While far away
Them t...
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Categories:
misbehaved, analogy, appreciation, dance, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
NEVER SHOULD WE LET GO OF THE FATHER'S HAND-
...If we have fallen down?
It’s not because we were alone.
It’s because we let go of the Father’s hand
He’s still with us even when we’re not sober and we’re shaken
Nor do we truly fal...
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Categories:
misbehaved, appreciation, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
A sinner speaks
...I am no saint
so please forgive
my soul’s taint
for I wish to live
with all my flaws
which I accept
but now heart thaws
wherein I wept
seeking to be saved
merged in God’s light
for he who...
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Categories:
misbehaved, introspection, sin, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Chapter 121 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Family's Grand Gathering and Family Rumors
...Date: June 2048
The grills were set everything was
In place. CJ informed "More
than 350 family members
Are expected to be here within
The hour." Damian said, "with 300 plus
Relatives expe...
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Categories:
misbehaved, birth, confidence, deep, devotion,
Form: Alliteration
A Big One She Craved
...A tropical fruit is nutritious
Bananas are mighty delicious
A big one she craved
So she misbehaved
How many she had is auspicious...
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Categories:
misbehaved, fruit, humorous, lust,
Form: Limerick
The Iron Lady
...Well, I remember my Mom as the Iron lady forever
I fear no more her strictest rules
I am now back on stage with this clerihew
I was a victim of the Iron lady's strictest rules
Probably herself ha...
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Categories:
misbehaved, appreciation, celebration, character, inspiration,
Form: Clerihew
Santa Confesses All
...[FLUSH = Fearless League of Unlikely Super Heroes]
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A communique received today from one Nicholas Saint
Said...
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Categories:
misbehaved, christmas, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Halloween Party 2: the Aftermath
...They came and went, they drank and ate
These chillers and killers and villains great
From a Halloween party that misbehaved
Not tricking or treating but sick and depraved
No bobbing for apples bu...
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Categories:
misbehaved, halloween, silly,
Form: Couplet
Misbehaving of Zuleika-
... Zuleika, Zuleika
The misbehaved
the wicked vindictive
woman
Lie with me tells Joseph
She is a African wife
eluding her spurned
Zuleika misbehavior wicked vindictive woman
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Categories:
misbehaved, adventure, analogy, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Tribute To My Dog
..."Who can bear to lose a tie
With a dog that is man’s best ally? .......by poet
"Here lies my dog, motionless in his kennel
unable to wag his tail as he always did.
yesterday when I sa...
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Categories:
misbehaved, angst, animal, death, dog,
Form: Free verse
Imprisoned
...Imprisoned
Im locked away
Ive been in a cage
most of my days
Wasted away my young age
All for something that
Made me a slave
Now im full of rage
And full of hate
Shame and pitty yea
Th...
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Categories:
misbehaved, absence, anger, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
A Tribute To the Unsung, Self-Published and Unpublished Poets
...This poem is a special homage to all Poets
Who never thought, behaved or misbehaved like puppets
Who never had a chance to write a poem
Who were killed by oppressors who couldn’t dream
Who could ...
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Categories:
misbehaved, emotions, hero, literature, love,
Form: Rhyme
Son of Amittai - 1 of 2
...commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”
But Jonah ran;...
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Categories:
misbehaved, bible, fish,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Mercy Enraged-
...~Substance
am I dirt and clay
surrounding My soul and My Spirit
within water and blood
shaping surrounded by mud
confession my tarnished silver cord
professing the wrongs that...
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Categories:
misbehaved, appreciation, confidence, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
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