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Elegy of Divine Cross

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The bell the Town Courier want to toll
To salute the day of reckoning in Getham City
Is now on the neck of the scary-witty cat her paws like dragon
Saints, Publicans looking on at each ot...
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Categories: publicans, christian, devotion, life, symbolism,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTrip Advisory

...I chanced to look upon the world, through current
Channels..And much unfurled; I noted the various
Decades passed, wars on terror legalising grass..'
Wars on waste, the slogans did run, my mind re...
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Categories: publicans, appreciation, change, education, endurance,
Form: Free verse



Darling I Am An Theatrical Actor Dont You Know

...I lurch and crawl from 

Bar to Bar

As most of all regulars and barkeep alike 

Unfortunately can vouch and attest for

As i am well known or shall I say infamous

Far and wide in these es...
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Categories: publicans, giggle,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA King Story Page One

...And it came to pass as Jesus sat  at meat in the house
                                Behold yes I believe
        many publicans and sinners came and sat down
with him and his disciples and when...
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Categories: publicans, adventure, beauty, bible, cheer
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberTop of the Charts 2023

...*Image of Ukraine Chronicles by PJC.

Top of the Charts 2023
     1. putin was put in the hit list~~grateful dead now dead and company 
         play [14th-17th, Cancun,...
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Categories: publicans, america, angst, anxiety, international,
Form: Monoku



Premium MemberBeloved Jesus Is Alive

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Born into this world as a humble, helpless Babe
Christ increased in wisdom and stature
Grew up in favour with both God and man

Baptised publicly by John the Baptist
Tempted by the...
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Categories: publicans, easter, gospel, jesus,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Study In Bronze

...I’ve unfurled the Southern Cross tonight and put it
On the wall, and as I gazed the longest while.. I thought I heard the
dingo’s call?  It couldn’t be as all
Round me were the sounds of London go...
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Categories: publicans, endurance, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberMulticolored Houses

...I find multicultural capital investment
socially healthier
politically wealthier
than more win/lose capital competitions.

Sociologists
may call this deep social communication capital,
so why ...
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Categories: publicans, health, integrity, passion, peace,
Form: Political Verse

Publican Offenders

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Copper robbers ... penny-ante coin collectors
Duly appointed by Caesar Cersei,
deputized purse snatchers
Modern day publicans holding the money bag,
appointed bean counters
being le...
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Categories: publicans, history, money, perspective, word
Form: Alliteration

Dem New Publicans

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Light da Roman candles
for da coming Chariots of Pharaoh holiday
Dem New Publicans
be back in pyramid power
Give a Caesar Palace casino hip, hip-hooray

Happy daze are here again!
D...
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Categories: publicans, parody, perspective, political, truth,
Form: Narrative

Lip Bent Overly Yours

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Most dastardly
Executive Majesty,
we serve at your pique pleasure
obsequiously so 

Yea, Darth Lord,
we be the surreptitious, servile ones:
Leper skin publicans, publicly hiss revil...
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Categories: publicans, parody, perspective, satire, word
Form: Burlesque

20-20 Optical Illusion

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20 nods and 20 winks,
it’s all smoke-and-mirrors
me lazy bones think

Swampy eye creatures
say dey got a thousand-dollar discount 
sofa solution
And dey gon put me 
on a ten-dollar...
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Categories: publicans, corruption, humor, slam, truth,
Form: Light Verse

Lottery Tool

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You got get-rich-quick dreams
dancing in your pillow head
Put a dollar or ten into the Lepercaun winners pot,
and magically enlarge
the government coffers a whole lot
That’s right ......
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Categories: publicans, corruption, money, wisdom, word
Form: Free verse

Beloved Community

...The 'Beloved Community'
by
Rick Folker

One beloved community
in God's world
Where each soul honors
the Image of God in the other
Where neither Jew nor Greek
Woman nor Man
Delivers the 'man...
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Categories: publicans, community, courage,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberWhen God Deals Trump In Lemons

...I think I recall
way back in balmier lemon-delivery days,
which already feel Golden Ruled
and Ratioed
and Elixired
by comparison,
when the Affordable Care Act
was referred to as the Democrat A...
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Categories: publicans, caregiving, christian, culture, health,
Form: Political Verse

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