HOW DO WE LAUGH AND DANCE AND SING
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How do we find time to laugh, to dance, to sing in times as uncertain as these?
When so many men, women and children in the world live under a sword of Damocles.
For me it goes back to when I w...
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Categories:
put upon, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis - part ii
...Highlight of Goofus and Gallant
bred within the survival instinct
of hungry hordes of prey,
when Earth in the balance
against an uncomfortable truth
smug smurf like scavengers.
Pun...
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Categories:
put upon, absence, adventure, africa, america,
Form: Free verse
MON TEESA MON THE CURSE OF THE CARIBBEAN BAKERY
...RASTA MY ASSASIN MURDERED AT MY FEET RETURNED WITH A PILE OF GRAVEYARD DIRT SEARCHING FOR THE OWNERS OF THE BAKERY A BAKERY ALREADY SOLD SWINDLED FROM THE OWNER IN THE END A CURSE PUT UPON ANYONE WHO...
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Categories:
put upon, allah,
Form: Naat
I cannot play Poker
...Some people can play poker
Not me
My thoughts and feelings sit at the edge of my face
Jumping on the necks and backs of people
If you disgust me, my disgust might take a bite out of you
If I l...
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Categories:
put upon, me,
Form: Free verse
Hope For What The Future Bring
...The sun came out
It's sunny after the rain
The rainbow appear
At the background
It means it's a sign
Of good luck and goodwill
After the outpouring
There's smile put upon our face....
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Categories:
put upon, dream, faith, hope,
Form: Light Verse
LIFT EACH OTHER UP
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May we be blessed to understand
on every continent,
in every country,
city
and town…
We are put upon this Earth to lift each other up
not
to put each other down....
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Categories:
put upon, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
What the Boys Thought
...When we were just young kids hanging around
the one grocery store there was in town
drinking Yoo-Hoo and chewing Bazooka Joe
While we were joking, cussing and spitting
playing baseball, swim...
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Categories:
put upon, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Kill It Before It Grows
...Somewhere the snooty scholars of the world
quietly locked inside their dusty hall
Under the dim light of a candle’s flame
decide which label to put upon us all
I see them now with my book in th...
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Categories:
put upon, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Secret Love, Two Searching Eyes
...*Secret love, two searching eyes*
I
The early morning's languorous mild sun
Seemed jaded from a nightlong tiring jog,
And liked dawn's dew-mixed mirth nor glee of smog,
Nor some stray passin...
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Categories:
put upon, childhood, feelings, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Wake Up In the Morning
...I sleep with You
wake up with You and them
Because we don't have problem
As all of us are belonging to You.
We continue breathing because of You.
Being empowered and protected by You,
love...
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Categories:
put upon, encouraging, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
...Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis
Momma mia man date
comb the second Sunday
during month of May
can be traced back
to ancient Greeks and Romans
devotional festivals held
to honor mot...
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Categories:
put upon, absence, anniversary, appreciation, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme
Scattered
...Siblings scatter here and yon,
All that one-time nearness gone,
Though many did feel put-upon;
Still, closeness might endure.
They choose to live in different states
With different life styles...
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Categories:
put upon, brother, sister,
Form: Rhyme
Cobwebs
...Emotional cobwebs broken apart
Feelings of ghosts kept in the dark
Who guides the path of a broken heart
Waywardly distant and constantly on guard
Looking for light for the will to make it thr...
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Categories:
put upon, faith, future, god,
Form: Rhyme
Daffodil Brain
...So peculiar
It springs up its head
On late Winter’s bed.
This morning it was
That fence in my hand;
I'm pulling on her
where put upon, few see.
Smart on its petals, color vies,
Look on ...
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Categories:
put upon, daffodils, dark, deep, earth,
Form: Free verse
All Things New
...Subjected to futility,
poor Eden now must wait.
Misunderstanding deity,
she’s put upon of late.
Imagining she’s mother now,
she suffers little ones.
Her clarity won’t be restored
until again H...
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Categories:
put upon, creation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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