A King's Ransom We'd Spent
Went to school, got good grades
a decent lawyer, I made
Met a girl, saved some dough
She was my bride, I her beaux
Three little
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Categories:
ransom, husband, life, meaningful, relationship,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
ransom, conflict, discrimination, perspective, prejudice,
Form: Than-Bauk
A King’s Ransom
What is the gift in your life
Is it your husband or wife
Is it your children, your lover, your pet
The notion of someone you haven’t met yet
Is it the door that you shut on the havoc
The sanctity of your four walls
Relaxing with something with lemon and ice
The chatter when family calls
What is the essence
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Categories:
ransom, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Rhyme
Ransom notes
The phrophets have ordered disdained execution of phrophecy
A cleansing
Chaos to order
Death and birth
One in the same
Crinkling elder writings
Static in sound
In vibration
The center
In the eye that weaves
At the edge
On one leg
Teetering
Balance of none
A storm
In the midst
Winds of change
Heavy
Shivering and teetering
Wobbling and shaking
The weave
Such a fine
Slippery line
Yet
Perfectly
Symmetrical
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Categories:
ransom, analogy, conflict, confusion, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Ransom of Souls
Politicians do favors for a bribe
Priests grant forgiveness for pay
Doctors will heal if money is real
God sees all of their deals
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Categories:
ransom, betrayal, corruption, introspection, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Hostages For Ransom
They were wasting the hostages,
This deftly handling in stages;
Thirty minutes another one slew,
Nor bothered they would soon be few...
For the beauty of Twelve Million;
They're not asking for A Trillion.
Twelve fine girls,nine boys handsome
And only Eight left for ransom
Captor tells captives "I love you!
Just that parents do not facts chew;
Like I do kola and bitter pill...
For
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Categories:
ransom, bullying, columbus day, death,
Form: Rhyme
On the Run
Nigerians are on the run
Refugees in search of Asylum
No more sweetness in their fatherland
Their dreams have crumbled
The giant of Africa is in shambles
With hope of her youth buried under the rubbles of
Man made insurgency
Banditry and insane killings
Evil holds sway everywhere
While goodness scamper to safety
Succor for the needy
Has been looted by
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Categories:
ransom, anger, anxiety, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Abduction Trail
Thya thya thya
Ghaat laga k thya
Zoor laga k hya
Bap bara na bhaya
Sab say bara rupaya
Paar laga do naya
Thya thya thya.
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Categories:
ransom, absence, car, evil, i
Form: Couplet
Made the Ransom Gave-
The price is paid yet never made the ransom gave
7/14/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr.© 2020
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Categories:
ransom, analogy, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Monoku
Plain Words
God’s Word is a mirror, strong proof,
a basic, factual tool which can typify mankind.
Archaic illustration from this book…
abduction, untruths, conniving and killing.
Individual, loyal to God for a long span
abruptly drops control, turning corrupt.
King David was that man with a mind for God
How did such disloyalty occur?
First a craving for that which was not his own
having
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Categories:
ransom, 11th grade, bible, mirror,
Form: Free verse
A Ransom Paid By Christ
God was making provisions for a Messiah.
The Father’s plan had already been laid.
And only His Son could cancel our debt.
There was a ransom to be paid.
God sent Jesus for those who live today,
as well as for those who came before.
The selfless, loving gift Christ offered
succeeded in opening a heavenly door.
Jesus was the sinless
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Categories:
ransom, christian, easter, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Unfair Ransom
Quiescent body but a flying mind
Crave the peak, alas feet paralyzed
Damned days darker than night
Scratch my soul sharper than knives
Burning from inside, outside only ice
Wrathful wounds with sanguinary eyes
Besieged with a legion of harms
But who fights with fragmented arms?
Crestfallen eagles surrendered to the wind
Cannot soar with broken wings
Here nightingales hunt, eagles sing
The frozen root
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Categories:
ransom, allegory, corruption, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Ransom
"Ransom"
Held to ransom
words inject your mind
pierce your skin
drawn backwards
you transcend,
you look within
a bloodied mind
the numbness melts
inconsequential ignobles
and dreary misfortune
a polar ice cap
lying cold on stony heart
rescinds
Blue blood bleeds Red
Mystery Girl
Implodes your heart
Reconnaissance transforms
on a dead even plateau
transfigures a
bipedal
head
becomes
eight legs
Tarantula reaching
You are sitting in your seat of power
Throne of
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Categories:
ransom, birth, confidence, courage, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Drak Ransom
Hope trumped last…
a prisoner of death
A final capitulation
—devil’s ransom beset
(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)
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Categories:
ransom, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Ransom Note
RANSOM NOTE
A stark white note left on the front door,
Bright red droplets of blood on the floor,
Dear God, let my niece and child be alive,
Please, please let them survive!
I am told do not to call in the police,
Lest they take revenge and their patience cease,
But I have no option, I must,
True story of this kidnap
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Categories:
ransom, children, fear, god,
Form: Rhyme
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