Life Ransom Poems

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...

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Mirror, Mirror, Who Is That?

Who is that
Sleeping close enough
 To dream of kissing my nose…?
Well, almost…

Who is that who keeps inside 
Of him the man...

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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...

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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...

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"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...

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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,...

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The breath has great worth:
It is used like currency--
To purchase one's life.
...

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The breath has great worth:
It is used like currency--
To purchase one's life.
...

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A man had to be born perfect, live perfect and die perfect to pay the ransom for Adam's sin.
Jesus Christ was that man and he...

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They hold our names ransom 
as if our fathers are kings.
Put a cloth over its face and drive 
it to a destination unknown.

They hold our...

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I don't remember what I miss
Or if I left it where it is
I wasn't going anywhere
And I sure did get there fast
No matter where I...

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Yes,  He will come again in glory
The promise given by His Word, 
The King of kings in victory!
Lamb of God and Lord of lords!

With...

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Each time we're together
          we're a million miles apart.
You see me though I'm never really there.
...

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Ransom

Give her my life
 She wouldn’t live it
She took my soul
But didn’t need it

She inters my world
But she didn’t stay
And when she leaves
Steal something away

She...

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let's forget I and look at world at large
what grades were yesterday and how great is today?
is tomorrow a click or yet to be?
such has...

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