Words of love
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My entry in a poem challenge:
“Write a poem based on three words from a song.”
I chose: 'Words of love' by the Beatles 1964”
words of love
I’m the harshest critic,
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Categories:
nonbelievers, allegory, analogy, beauty, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Everybody Talks To God
...("Eye of God", 2018, original encaustic)
Everybody Talks To God
Believers, nonbelievers
It makes no difference
Everybody talks to God
And ain’t that the truth
Since God is the totali...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
God's Body
...You see the world through his eyes
sharing his views with the masses
He sits only on chairs for the wise
dictating all of your classes
Forget all of the tales that you've heard
attached to bodie...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, body, god, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
'To Hate All The People Your Relatives Hate'
...Religion
the bullet
that loads
in your gun
Projecting
its damage
belief
zero-sum
Exclusion
delusion
its sights
center mass
To kill
nonbelievers
the infidel
class
(The New Ro...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, hate, religion,
Form: Rhyme
On the Other Side of 27
...I've made promises to survive before
To those I'd never see again
To those who couldn't keep it themselves
To those who don't know I exist
And here I am on the other side of 27
Having known th...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Visits From the Fey
...furiously frolicking fey do not visit everyone
some empaths hear their giggles
others sense their lively antics
few humans see them
the ones I know bring a fragrance with them
I am clairsentie...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Why Cant They See You Grandma
...the others were sobbing
wailing they were alone now
Shelly took grandma and her teddy bears to swing
why can’t they see you Grandma?
Death separates the nonbelievers she replied...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
To Ponder God and the Trinity
...I stand amazed when I ponder from my weak mind a power so immense that it encompasses the universe. A power beyond all understanding radiating from God’s domain of Heaven. A power
so Holy that the J...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, appreciation, christian, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Hereafter
...As our Lord was resurrected
He left behind symbols of the torture to which He was subjected
To remind us of his sacrifice
With the belief that they will suffice
What symbols are these you ask...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, christian, devotion, easter, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Eyes Have It
...Have you ever heard someone say “Your eyes are playing tricks on you”…?
We’ll it’s been my experience to take on a different view..
While some people still scoff at it today…
The ability to see be...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, allusion, analogy, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
He Came To Save the World
...He came to save the world.
Jesus? Some asked. The nonbelievers scoffed.
I was shocked. At twelve I thought we were all of the same idea.
He put the world on his back
Carried it to safety, gave ...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Six Songs
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Six Songs
Written: by Miracle Man
September 11, 2020
To the throes of death I had advanced,
but God had opted to make me whole.
Six songs simultaneously danced,
in the ears of an un...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, god, health, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
Lockdown- 40th Day
...I Pray Thee
The prayer to save all lives
Not from the specific holy place
You do not live in men made holy places, I believe
They pray for their nation, for their caste, for their Madhhab every...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
One Meaning of Christmas
...[Wishing a joyous Christmas to all the poets at Soup, and may all have a very happy, healthy and productive 2020!]
Christmas has sadly lost much of its significance. Yes, we pay lip service to it...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, allusion, appreciation, atheist, blessing,
Form: Prose
I Am From
...I am from crunchy haybales,
from John Henry's and Stop to Shop.
I am from the fire on the back patio.
Melted chocolate, crackling wood, and eyes stinging from the burning ash and smoke.
I am fr...
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Categories:
nonbelievers, daughter, depression, history, home,
Form: Free verse
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