The 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
The 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
Where 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
17 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
Rebirth
...*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
Monsters 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
Song 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
Big 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
The 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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