Proclaiming Poems

Premium MemberFrom The Workshop Collection: My Tree, My Friend

...I want to believe  

In that enormous green tree  

Appearing here, alive in the spring  

Foliage, decorating its thing  

Bark firm and strong  

I sit under, pondering life’s wrongs 

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Categories: proclaiming, autumn, boxing day , celebration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberCleanse Ourselves To Holiness Fearing The Living God - 2 Corinthians 7:1

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The Apostle Paul speaks here earnestly
of the importance to be cleansed
from every defilement of sin
clearing the dirt through our spiritual lens

This cleansing comes in God's power
through ...
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Categories: proclaiming, christian, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme


Liberty Bell

...I'd choose the USPS "Liberty Bell" stamp for an ekphrasis poem. Here's the poem:

In copper curves, the Liberty Bell's tale,
A symbol etched in history's hallowed gale,
On this small stamp, its l...
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Categories: proclaiming, america, history, patriotic,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberI watched as the city burned in flames, a phoenix consuming its wings in flight

...I watched as the city burned in flames, a phoenix consuming its wings in flight,
the streets transforming into rivers of fire, spirits freed from the cage of time,
politicians arrive like sorcerers...
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Categories: proclaiming, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberFAITH IN GOD WHOSE LOVINGKINDNESS IS EXCELLENT

...June 20 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 36-39

Key Verse –  Psalms 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow...
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Categories: proclaiming, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain


A Friendly Reminder For Our Nation

...Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Americans, and the world:

In the crucible of revolution, our forefathers etched their pledge—
a bold testament inscribed not solely in ink,
but in the quiet, r...
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Categories: proclaiming, america, remember, slam, society,
Form: Spoken Word

I do not miss you

...I do not miss you.
There are nights I spend mourning what I lost, losing you,
Your smile, your sass, the way you could fix me when I was torn in half,
But I didn't lose you.
I didn't lose you bec...
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Categories: proclaiming, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAnimals, lyrics

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It was a party of fleas who dropped some tea into the sea,
Created a baby that left its mommy,
Now there is an elephant and donkey in the room,
So, lets ask, who’s the bigger a--? 

A spark, a...
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Categories: proclaiming, animal, november, satire,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberMY BABY

...IT'S BEEN AWHILE PERHAPS EIGHT BEFORE THE MURDERS YOU SEATED WITH JAMAICAN JAY TOWNSEND JOHNSON HENRY ATTEMPTING TO OBSTRUCT JUSTICE IN THE 1984 CHRISTMAS DAY ARSON THAT RESULTED IN 8 ELDERLY PERSONS...
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Categories: proclaiming, allah,
Form: Naat

Premium MemberI AM IN THE SIGHT OF MY GOD

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I am alive enjoying the breath 
     endowed by the self-existent “I AM”
     fully persuaded to maximize
     existence-vitality yon survival-difficulty
     while sharing radiance of divine g...
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Categories: proclaiming, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

If they see her dying face, part one, written but never sent series

...There is another girl I know. She loves to people-watch during the time she has to waste, and when she has no time at all. There is a girl that I know who rests her feet on a bench, with her knees tu...
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Categories: proclaiming, 10th grade, child, christian,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Journal on Profundity

...So... today I begin my journal.
Where do I begin?
How do I begin?
Without, within... the confines of a page, like a prison wall the surrounds my thoughts.
"You must color within the lines" I reca...
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Categories: proclaiming, allusion, faith, journey,
Form: Free verse

The Verge of April

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Green twigs drip late into the day,
birdsongs bloom from the windblown.
Soft are the veins that leach from new leaf.
Sweet the prodigal sap that seeps.
Earthworms salt and curl in the o...
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Categories: proclaiming, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Spring's Abysmal Guile

...Spring’s Abysmal Guile
By Sy Roth

A vapor rises, rank as the charnel pit,
a corruption of a miasma vast,
as though some sepulcher, long sealed,
split its stony jaws to breathe.
Vile exhalatio...
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Categories: proclaiming, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse

The Dragon Riders Saga V

...The Dragon Riders Saga V

So many heroes had died that fated day, never again to fight
The only one to survive was standing over the Mage that night

Both had stood alone upon that once fabled b...
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Categories: proclaiming, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme

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