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The Pharisee and the Publican continued Luke 18:11-14 part two
...You that I am not like other men--extortioners, or even like this tax collector. 'I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all I possess.' And the tax collector standing afar off, would not so much r......

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Categories: publican, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Rocking strong; its Bundalong'
...Though small in size you stood strong' and wise In your answer to him, of your intended demise! And that of our fair state.' In our great land.' For right here i recount of that old 'dingo dan' ......

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Categories: publican, appreciation, assonance, celebration, character,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member The Elfin War
...I told my boss this was a job I didn’t relish Reports so far deemed this Elfin war rather hellish. Troops had crossed the border and entered the valley. So far we didn’t have a death or injury tal......

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Categories: publican, war,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Out My Window
...It was hours before dawn and I could not sleep. The gloomy fog overpowered the cold dark street. The street lights offered patches of misty light. Rain had glossed the pavement, in the dead of nig......

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Categories: publican, rain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The King of Mercy
...Ten Lepers sought the Lord carrying their badges with a Plea unclean unclean was the cry Mercy alone was their Plea The King of mercy heard their cries by his word He healed them all One a......

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Categories: publican, bible, blessing, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member They Sit Up Here Alone With Me
...I sit alone above the fray Await the saviors coming day I listen not to other voices Fraught with the trouble of their choices. For I am sure the savior saves The saints and fresh forgiven kna......

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Categories: publican, irony, religion,
Form: Sonnet
Beatitudes Blessings and Commentaries Part Three
...6) Q: What is meant by the sixth Beatitude in Mathew 5:6: by "blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness?" A: In this prime example it applies to righteous ......

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Categories: publican, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The King of Mercy
...Ten Lepers sought the Lord carrying their badges with a Plea unclean unclean was the cry Mercy alone was their Plea The King of mercy heard their cries by his word He healed them all One a......

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Categories: publican, blessing, character, eulogy, gospel,
Form: Masnavi
Innocence
...We called Jimmy strange; we teased him in play, most of the time he'd laugh our cheek away. We'd dare him to play pool; always loser pay! So we played pool for nothing each day. One night a str......

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Categories: publican, bereavement, innocence,
Form: Rhyme
Charlies Boarder
...I was working up Loch Valley logging for a local mill; camping in a make-shift hut I built half way up a struggling hill. I worked till lunchtime every Friday, then came in from the scrub, spendin......

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Categories: publican, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Maigue Poets of Croom
...Friggity friggity! MacRaith and O’ Tuama: poets incessant and blabbering bores. Publican served insults – flibbertigibbeting. Rhetoric ingrained dull; flyting supreme! __________________......

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Categories: publican, friend, language, poets,
Form: Double Dactyl
Annulment Coming Up
...I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament, when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent. Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive, but me......

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Categories: publican, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dear Nationalist Republicans
...I'm worried you have over valued your favorite deceptively entertaining disformed dis-eased commodity, DisInformation's strategic value and disvalue and misvalue depreciatively revaluated ......

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Categories: publican, bullying, conflict, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
American Nero
... American Nero, showering utter disdain — Denigration downpour on pleb citizens begging for pandemic crumbs As the pestilent fire rages around your virally tainted kingdom Ghastly g......

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Categories: publican, allegory, character, fire, identity,
Form: Dramatic Verse
It Ain'T How It Should Be
... As this mad, mad world turns on a bedeviled tilt, empirical evidence suggest compassionate global warming regret has gotten the cold shoulder Scoffers with frostbitten hearts buoy iceb......

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Categories: publican, allegory, evil, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse

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