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Premium MemberThe dog barked a bit too much

...The dog barked a bit too much, too often
Oftentimes engendering a response from others
This annoyed the owners of the barking dogs.
In an effort to stop their dogs from barking
They petitioned th...
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Categories: petitioned, dog, irony,
Form: Free verse

Prepare for Rain

...A tale I once heard of two men of the land,
who’s lives were defined by the toil of their hands.

Each man was beholden to God for increase
so, when the time came that the precious rain ceased,
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Categories: petitioned, bible, faith, god, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme



a wary no

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Az Salome's dance
          front
         Herod
           she
With hern mitts up
        sinuous
   with seductive
      Hern firm
      Petitioned
         mine 


    I breathed ...
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Categories: petitioned, allegory,
Form: Free verse

The View From Ceres

...A big blue marble, floating in the middle of nowhere like a tiny attractive spark.
Its shimmering light penetrates the darkness of space like a candle in the dark. 
How perfectly it has been pl...
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Categories: petitioned, adventure, appreciation, birth, emotions,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Thirteenth Woman

...The memories of the Elders had grown weak as time and seasons past.  Like old pastures remembering only faint hoof marks.

	Twelve villages shared the lands from the river to the vast horizon.  All...
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Categories: petitioned, irony,
Form: Prose



Mind Vs Heart: a Conflict

...My mind and heart will never be friends.
Sworn enemies, they wrestle and box
for control of me, the battle never ends
like the tick tocking pendulums of clocks

I ask my mind when it kee...
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Categories: petitioned, conflict, heart,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhere His Love Abides

...There was a time when I was so young
I was uncertain, didn’t know which road
Was the right one, the way for me to go
The place where I’d discover wisdom and more…
	…. Peace and love, grace from a...
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Categories: petitioned, blessing, christian, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member17 Sweet Briar Road - Port of Spain

...Wistful is the heart, silent the walls
    where the gambols of youth echoed.
A return tale’s sentimental journey
  inside the gates of Sweet Briar Road

Long it behoves me my thanksgiving 
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Categories: petitioned, journey, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

All Is Signal

...you think I'm simple minded because I'm nice
when all I said was never fear knowledge
after assassinating my inner constable
to no on stage ill effect whatsoever
jury selection being finally reco...
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Categories: petitioned, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberRebirth

...*Image of Old Empty Case by Pixabay.

Rebirth

Reborn here now without baggage,
you are gifted midst distinction,
referred by divine tutelage,
ne'er stray from His homing beacon.
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Categories: petitioned, bible, birth, extended metaphor,
Form: Quatern

Premium MemberMonsters of the Sea

...A contracted seafarer...concerning no servile rank, 
kept e'er involved watch...away from menial daily tasks top deck,
while steadfast wary of...the diligent taskmaster's whip.

A dawn sw...
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Categories: petitioned, mythology,
Form: Sijo

Premium MemberSong For a Sabbath Day a Psalm

...holy haunting
            a heavenly CHORUS

all called to mind

silent supplicating
             meditations aloud
             in thanksgiving

all called to mind

acclamations
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Categories: petitioned, christian, music,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberBig Bully Raises Little Bully

...Shay was her best friend whom she wanted to save
Because she saw a horrible purple bruise.
Felt there was something wrong since she married Dave.
Went to her friend’s family; thought it would be n...
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Categories: petitioned, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

All Is Signal

...you think I'm simple minded because I'm nice
when all I said was never fear knowledge
after assassinating my inner constable
to no on stage ill effect whatsoever
jury selection being finally reco...
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Categories: petitioned, how i feel,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Wright Answer

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The Correct Wright Answer
By: Tom Wright
2-18-2008

Oh, if I could only change incidents past
Hurtful memories from my mind I’d rid
A curse, from teen years, on me was cast
A curse u...
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Categories: petitioned, god,
Form: Lyric

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