Money
...A long verse on an even longer subject
The eye of most everything is money
Their power over us is unsurpassed
Hey, got the dough? May call me “honey”
To get away, to buy me things, to have a bl...
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Categories:
ransoms, money,
Form: Rhyme
Sinister
...It takes your money and robs you of time,
Chimes for attention, and rings with crime.
Your give it the power to mold and control
Unending hours, absorbed by its hold.
An instant response is e...
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Categories:
ransoms, bullying, confusion, corruption, culture,
Form: Didactic
When I Was Fortysomething 2000s
...I saw the great con that was Y2K
I saw all the scaremongering go away
I saw in my arms a child I love so
I saw that I did not want to let him go
I saw that I was truly blessed
I saw it b...
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Categories:
ransoms, history, life,
Form: Couplet
Absurdity
...I see him working like a horse or bull or donkey or buffalo; never resting peacefully even to swallow a mouthful of the meal and as though has time to just ruminate; hurrying yet consulting his physi...
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Categories:
ransoms, vanity,
Form: Haibun
Free
...Freely You taught her, healed, saved from the tomb,
Miraculous blessings; you opened her womb
Free in Your promise to her, so enduring,
As meekly sh...
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Categories:
ransoms, forgiveness, freedom, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Easter Prayer
...Lord of love, on this day with blood did buy
this chance for all to rise from ransoms paid.
With forgiving grace that must not ever die,
whose sacrifice laid bare with shame, betrayed.
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Categories:
ransoms, easter, inspirational, prayer, religious,
Form: Sonnet
A Soldiers Prayer
...Wearily I walk this rutted road
Knowing this life led yet is mine
Due is all ransoms for my soul
To every witness I leave behind
Lift my heart to spare no love
To be a light for shadows ...
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Categories:
ransoms, inspiration, journey, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Twas the Night Before a Miracle
...Twas the night before a miracle, in a far away land
Traveled Mary and Joseph across the deserts white sand
The journey produced a mother-to-be all weary and worn
As she prays and awaits the birth...
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Categories:
ransoms, bible, birth, blessing, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
As I Write
...As I write
I think deeply as I write, even though some of the my characters may be shallow
I write with love, even though the personnages portayed may be hateful
I write joyfully even if the subje...
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Categories:
ransoms, poetry, uplifting, write,
Form: Prose Poetry
Consider Then
...News flash
Paris attacks;
Violence strikes
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Innocent deaths
Terror unveils;
Death delivers
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Madness conspires
Human debris;
Bigotry unleashed
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Categories:
ransoms, change,
Form: Haiku
Sounds of the Ghetto
...I can hear the wicked shots rangin',
Hood stars on the avenues hangin',
You hear the sounds of the ghetto
and loose change in B.U.Ms[brothers under madness]
metal cups clangin',
That poverty n...
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Categories:
ransoms, hip hop, poetry, spoken
Form: Rhyme
Heart Heart Heart
...Hoard healthy highs
End etch enough
Add apt apply
Roam rivers rough
Trendy true tries
Hope hurls healing
Etch earns ending
Art aims asking
Reap real risking
Trust truth tasking
Help...
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Categories:
ransoms, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
A Write A-101
...I knew a wayward man;
His eyes shadowed with defeat.
His sunken lips and hollow cheeks,
mapping his journey.
He cannot reach, nor walk a step,
his will has met it's match.
Lost to his own ...
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Categories:
ransoms, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Thirst of Peace
...Remove disturbing lines from the real life,
Drawn by anti peace human beings,
Who like wars and brutality,
Because these lines are disturbing,
Peaceful human beings,
Who likes peace and love….
To ...
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Categories:
ransoms, peacepeace, peace,
Form: Light Verse