Owing Poems

Our Restless GenZees Winds That Scatter and Gather

...They are a generation that is disillusioned and disgruntled with the Status Quo
Ever they are faulting the old guard for running our most beloved country down
Most of them are very techno savvy and...
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Categories: owing, africa, change, conflict, future,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberCrime Does Pay

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A man who went to jail
for stealing, told the judge:
“Your Honor, I hold no grudge:
with shelter, food, and clothing,
steady work, no debts or owing,
a four year college education,
health a...
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Categories: owing, humor,
Form: Dramatic Verse


Premium MemberLost My Heart

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     I couldn't recollect ! I forgot.
     Lost you at one corner.
     My most precious gem, I had lost !
     Since then, I am loner.

     Dragging myself as lifeless log.
     Truly, coul...
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Categories: owing, lost,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberCleaning up the Soup Kitchen

...It's been 9 days since I've posted in PS because of being needed by my sister. She's progressing, but very slowly. Thank you to those who've expressed your concern and offered prayers for her reco...
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Categories: owing, community,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMy Inner Voice Told Me

...A plethora of complex verbiage clogs and clutters solemn university tombs,
gem-encrusted sequestered  vaults  impervious on  mountain peak percentage practical basis, 
when express benevolence  enj...
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Categories: owing, care, character, dedication, deep,
Form: Free verse


IF SATAN HAD SAID SORRY

...If Satan had said sorry
My hunger wouldn’t haunt me daily
I’d breathe in peace
And sleep without the weight of worry.

But pride made him defiant
He traded my hope for his ego
Now I walk throu...
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Categories: owing, 12th grade, betrayal, evil,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLetters between Child and Father

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    Dear Father,
    
     I just wanted to write to you today to tell you how much I love you.
       
    I know I spoke to you today, and so often my mind and heart are turned

    to yo...
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Categories: owing, child, father, inspirational love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPaint Me an Ugly Duck, lyrics

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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was ra...
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Categories: owing, art, conflict, death, flower,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberAn Easter Poem

...The wonderful time of rejuvination is here.
Easter is for reverencing the Holy One.
Reflect, repent, and be of good cheer.
To God we owe great gratitude for sending Christ, His Son.
Owing to our ...
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Categories: owing, easter,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSigns

...Sign from the very sign itself? They asked, from you, a sign.
Is all well with these vipers? You thought. Are there mindsets fine?
Shouldn't they be content with the sign of Prophet Jonah?
They as...
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Categories: owing, jesus,
Form: Sonnet

Premium MemberPSYCHEDELIC

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   Sudden strange strong feelings I had to sense
    during my life - long experience 
    I think, the proper adjective is psychedelic.
    Odd impact, mostly bad from loud sound  or music.
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Categories: owing, how i feel, introspection,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBONE BEACH

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    Striking beach sculpted by Nature 
    with massive drifting trees in cluster 
    that turned white bone-like gesture
    being continuous washed by salty sea water
    and exposed in stro...
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Categories: owing, appreciation, beach,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn elegy for innocence

...Our heart once pure is soiled,
by cravings of ego,
the thrust of lust unjust,
a flame wherein we burn
and now we’ve lost God’s trust.

Our heart once pure is soiled,
which happened when we swa...
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Categories: owing, innocence, introspection, sin,
Form: Monchielle Stanza

Premium MemberMusings on aversion

...averse to noise
people talking loudly
whilst yet accepting what is
we make peace with incongruity 
recognising the looming gap 
between desire and reality
yawn and then move on

averse to rel...
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Categories: owing, introspection, nonsense, silence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPracticing the pause

...resting endowed functionality
as bestowed by the universe
a stirring yet arises in the heart
to emote a melodious verse

humming pulse of innate aliveness 
cajoles us to dance on life’s stage
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Categories: owing, peace, self, silence,
Form: Rhyme

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