The Sweet Life
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Jesus said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive".
Notwithstanding, a life of giving one's self sacrificially is pricy.
Indeed, a 'self-giving life' is rewarding but also costly.
The air ...
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Categories:
pricy, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
Reason To Drink
...Miss Maribel Seward had an odorous pet skunk
She developed an allergy to the way it stunk
The antidote was pricy
It was pepper and spicy
But Miss Maribel could not smell it when she w...
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Categories:
pricy, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Ultimate Sacrifice
...I run from memories, stained in enough felony
After a failed choreography to budge up new colony
To annul life, yet live the same life pieces harmony
Quick succession of bolding and evanesce jeopa...
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Categories:
pricy, analogy, celebration, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Slipshody Facady
...If you spray paint a glass ashtray,
and smash half with a crowbar.
Some tool may pay cash for that,
at your local bazaar.
Only silly witticism,
don't take it to heart.
Though the violins begi...
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Categories:
pricy, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Self and His Passion
...“Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; each to his passion; what’s in a name?” –Helen Hunt Jackson.
In this massive and energetic arena called life, there is a many spender t...
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Categories:
pricy, passion,
Form: Verse
Two Sides To the Coin
...Quite ambidextrous is this pricy sign,
Depending on which number it’s aligned.
Symbol of comfort or manifest of need?!
Held by helping hand or arms of evil greed?!
Can accumulate immeasurable we...
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Categories:
pricy, money,
Form: Rhyme
Tutorial In Dreamland
...I landed in an online dreamland with two more.
You know these fictitious men with surreal fame;
One dreamt of hunting a big phantasy fish for...
And the other went on tossing a sky-high cl...
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Categories:
pricy, dream, fantasy, surreal,
Form: Rhyme
When In a Jam I Try To Preserve Meditative Trance
...When in a jam, I try to preserve meditative trance
Synonymous with light hypnotic mode
inhaling and exhaling diffusing anger
lest mine noggin would explode
rhythmic breaths flowed
sustained me...
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Categories:
pricy, addiction, beautiful, blessing, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Contentment
...She will often disguise herself in various ways
She might even put on a mask or color her hair
I tell you, he might even rage and pick a fight
He's subtle and clever but can never be satisfied
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Categories:
pricy, christian, desire, god, happiness,
Form: Couplet
Poor Little Rich Girl
...Jolene was bored out of her mind.
Would she soon in self-pity drown?
“No more!” she cried. “I’ll head for town
and buy a purple sequined gown,
the most expensive I can find!”
Dads’ money, spe...
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Categories:
pricy, love, money,
Form: Rhyme
Places
...I have heard it said that home is where your story begins
Can it not also be that home is where your story ends?I
I tend to buck the trends and ride contrary winds that ...
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Categories:
pricy, home,
Form: Couplet
Nutty Flavors of Life
...Life is like a nut,
Differs in shape, size, color or crust,
Life is like a nut.
For some, it’s like a coconut,
Beyond the reach, safe from gust
Very important, much privileged!
Whether unripen ...
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Categories:
pricy, beautiful, change, destiny, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Disputation Disharmony
...Contention has sold me a used psyche swallowing my pride pricy;
Problem with this is disputation disharmony discords hot and spicy;
5/3/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018©...
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Categories:
pricy, anger, anxiety, depression,
Form: Free verse
Contention
...Contention has sold me a used psyche swallowing my pride pricy;
Problem with this is disputation disharmony discords hot and spicy;
5/1/18
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2010©...
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Categories:
pricy, assonance, character, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
The Price of Salvation
...Oh!!How great is Jesus’s love for a sinner
You graced me with your love and mercy
The gesture that I love to treasure
Obtained with the blood that’s costly
He was Shamed and disgraced for our...
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Categories:
pricy, art, bible, destiny, devotion,
Form: Ballade
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