A Door Locked Is a Gun Cocked
...A door with a strong key locked
Is a room outrightly blocked!
So, in which space had folks flocked
When darkest eleven clocked?
Not a door at which one knocked,
For stubborn key one has mocked...
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Categories:
outrightly, allusion, education, house, places,
Form: Rhyme
The Men Who Write Your Christmas Movies, Part Iii
...“If it had just been one of two messages,
I could have passed it off as an outlier,
but when it got up to forty percent…
then my own fears began rising higher.
“The clincher was the stray handf...
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Categories:
outrightly, growth, judgement, meaningful, sad,
Form: Epic
Stand Up and Be Counted Bullys
...May I have the attention of the soup please,
some flies have been tainting and
contaminating the contents,
Some think they are been infiltrated by non paying members
like myself, that actual...
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Categories:
outrightly, bullying,
Form: I do not know?
Tom Hamer
...When Tom was ten he was told,
To give up swimming, outrightly,
‘Cos it would get him nowhere,
But at 12 he swam the Channel.
He has an intellectual disability,
And is in the new class of ...
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Categories:
outrightly, strength, summer,
Form: Blank verse
My Sudden Exit
...I minced my words when asked to place,
Myself with evangelical Christians chaste,
Because i was outrightly on passions side,
Wishing to elope with my arms open wide.
They were carers, so co...
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Categories:
outrightly, books, christmas, destiny, education,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Winters Child
...Winter's Child
I was severely disabled, meaning that I needed a carer,
For most things, like dressing, eating and walking outside,
But I was not normal in my need of assistance and help,
Bec...
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Categories:
outrightly, caregiving, child, child abuse,
Form: Rhyme
Rhoda Monihan
...When I was only just school age,
My dad became very serious once,
As he was a fundamentalist Christian,
And wanted to know how I was forming my words.
When he asked how I felt about roads,...
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Categories:
outrightly, animal, beautiful, dad, father
Form: Rhyme
Last Call
...As a child and a teenager I used to attend a mission-hall,
Which had an outreach to the homeless of Edinburgh;
And every three weeks until I was about seven,
They would give the last call so tha...
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Categories:
outrightly, child, gospel, jesus, leadership,
Form: Rhyme
Whatever
...If God gave it to you
No matter what you do
He is not going to take it away
And vice versa
If He didn't give it to you
No matter what you do
You are not going to have it
So what is the lesson ...
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Categories:
outrightly, faith,
Form: Free verse
Written In the Stars
...If loving you is wrong
I don't ever want to right.
If loving you is a sin
I outrightly reject righteousness.
If loving you is disobedience
I give in to mutiny.
If loving you is folly
I swear I...
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Categories:
outrightly, friendship, love, passion,
Form: Romanticism