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...Black lives matter. Me too.
Not my president. Give peace a chance.
Luck runs out. I like immigrants. 
Power must be challenged by power. 

Equal and opposite reactions.
God is the answer. Love ...

Categories: niebuhr, city, death, history, peace,
Form: Free verse

He Slammed the Door

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                         11/4/2023





He slammed his heavy door, right in friendships’ face! 

She cried heavy tears into a handkerchief of dainty, lilac lace.

The silver moon r...

Categories: niebuhr, friendship, loss, prayer, strength,
Form: Couplet

The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

...The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy 
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the rev...

Categories: niebuhr, abuse, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

God Grant Me Serenity

... 
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, 
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference"

                                           ...

Categories: niebuhr, introspection,
Form: Free verse

The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Second Part

...(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy
of sharecropper grandparents
whose objection to racial segregation
based on an affront to the will of God,
whereby the you...

Categories: niebuhr, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior First Part

...Five score minus eight years ago
January eighteenth two thousand twenty one
father of civil rights movement
the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored
as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppr...

Categories: niebuhr, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse

What Have I Seen?

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Sunrise, late winter
skunk smell
turkey flock
playful otter, too.

The white heron
a great blue,
white phase,
in the abandoned beaver pond.

Purple clematis
its long-awned achenes
in...

Categories: niebuhr, allah, girl, nature, peace,
Form: Verse

The Wound That Never Heals

...Science can’t save you, neither can religion,
at least Popper and Niebuhr, philosophers and poets,
are entertainers, which is why actors and athletes
are paid so much. Thanks for the summaries.
I...

Categories: niebuhr, christian, husband, mother, music,
Form: Verse

Anomie

...Should we invite the neighbors over for dinner?
Their politics so different from ours.
All the more reason. Combat anomie!
He's worried the town's losing population
but opposes immigration. I lik...

Categories: niebuhr, conflict, faith, fire, house,
Form: Free verse

Prayer of Maturing Wisdom

...O God you who knows all things
give me serenity that's wholly true
to accept that which I can't change
bowing to your supremacy this I do

Fill me with your courage
so to change what I can
bei...

Categories: niebuhr, prayer, religious, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme

No Need For Niebuhr

...self, 
exist with the reality that things
can be
changed.

self,
gain courage, develop strength &
wisdom will come in the process of
knowing that one can never truly
know enough---
one must always be...

Categories: niebuhr, life,
Form: Free verse

Serenity Response

...SERENITY RESPONSE

The winds of autumn blow 
Creating change

The crux of the matter
Do I bend or do I break?

Willow knows the truth
She may weep besides waters deep

But she drinks in courage to fa...

Categories: niebuhr, allegory, faith, hope, life,
Form: Couplet