Get Ready
...Before the carbon dioxide, is a breath worth taking
We'd be stranded without the pointed fingers of our finest locators
But even hell frozen over would still leave me bound and shaking
You’r...
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Categories:
peacemaking, addiction, corruption, drug, heartbroken,
Form: Villanelle
With Each Morning
...Each morning dawn brushes paint across the sky,
pastel colors to herald the rise of sun's golden eye.
He warms the earth. Dew's moisture he'll dry
before the world is waking.
Reflections of pin...
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Categories:
peacemaking, hope, sun,
Form: Rhyme
With Each Morning
..."I beg You, show me Your glory," Moses said
but God snuck past, back-turned, revealing not His glorious head
Moses didn't know they had to wait for God Incarnate, instead
for God's glory -- no mis...
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Categories:
peacemaking, boat, christmas, morning, peace,
Form: Rhyme
Conflict Or Consensus Model - My Life
...Fieldwork is stellar, sexy, or strenuous and sad
Talking values, prolonging childhood
Is not for the faint hearted among S. Africa's "Coloured"
My "township" boasts about acting backward
Using wa...
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Categories:
peacemaking, abuse, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Gods For Power
...If God
and gods
and other paternal powers
resource love,
and not hate
And if we believe
that love fades
with encroaching fear
Which can overwhelm
personal
and professional
and economi...
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Categories:
peacemaking, courage, earth, god, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
War On Stage
...Sinister
And attractive is
The rising of war..
It is the story
Of separation
Dressed as glory
And sizzle..
But also as
Suffering in
The extreme..
It appears
On stage...
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Categories:
peacemaking, addiction, adventure, dream, mystery,
Form: Blank verse
Peacemaking
...Is there any kind of art where it can drop a rival while smiling?
Checked with: HMS.COM: 17 syllables
Written: July 2, 2022
THE ART OF PEACE Poetry Contest
Sponsor...
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Categories:
peacemaking, analogy, appreciation, peace, smile,
Form: Monoku
Seathed Conflicts
...Seathed Conflicts
Devastatingly ignited fire of riot for a decade,
A bundle of clean rags of thoughts catches,
Through a baptism by flames of accidental occurrence ,
In a certain place caus...
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Categories:
peacemaking, war,
Form: Free verse
Beatitudes
...Lord, please tell us how we can be blessed?
Shall I tell you who of these are blessed?
Receiving the kingdom of heaven,
the lowly, poor in spirit are blessed.
Receiving solace, comfort, those...
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Categories:
peacemaking, blessing,
Form: Ghazal
E M P a T H E T I C
...Extending the benefit of the doubt
Means well at all times, looks for the positives
Peacemaking through careful listening; being upbeat
An effort to always work toward the greater good
Trustworth...
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Categories:
peacemaking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
Addiction To Suffering Love
...So, she said,
much to everyone's BusinessAsUsual
StraightWhiteMale
surprise,
Sew,
I run into your aversion
to unpatriarchal Principles of Reversion
whenever I deeply listen
to your dark pas...
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Categories:
peacemaking, analogy, health, integrity, light,
Form: Political Verse
Peace Wonderful Purposeful Peace-
...PEACE
Peace, I awoke and flung the truce
Peace, Once I sat engaged and ordering
'PEACE!' I INSIST, 'Yes PEACE!'
I heard a War making, loud angering
PEACE
Peace, I awoke and flun...
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Categories:
peacemaking, analogy, caregiving, how i
Form: Free verse
A Showdown That Won'T Slow Down
...There’s confliction and contradiction,
opposition inside a deep collision-
Encounters that lead to arbitration,
the fear of making the wrong decision.
No rest...
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Categories:
peacemaking, analogy, conflict, confusion, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Red and Trueblue Family--4
...Dear Siblings Three,
At least three of us four
have survived this first round
of sharing our seeing Reds
and our feeling Blues.
At this point
I imagine our eldest sister
reading with inte...
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Categories:
peacemaking, christian, earth, faith, health,
Form: Political Verse
Prodigal Poets
..."And when he came to himself"
Luke 15:17
In another millennial time and Chinese/Russian place,
Taoism began as aphorisms and poetry
about political philosophy,
articulating a bicameral tension...
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Categories:
peacemaking, health, history, humanity, humor,
Form: Political Verse
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