Redemptions Poems

Black or White

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In the Sistine chapel where frescos peep,
away from watchful devote eyes that weep,
a conclave gathers in reflection deep,
to choose a shepherd for gospels to keep.

Amidst partisan whispers, ...
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Categories: redemptions, change, prayer,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Inmate

...There is a man, locked away. Shackled.
Chilled rusty bars and barb-wrapped fences
	apart from his fellow man.
Shunned, unseen and unheard. 
	Stigmas of a world unknowing of repentance.
	Of reawa...
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Categories: redemptions, courage, forgiveness, self,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberLearning From Loss

...The hardest losses
are those too late to repair
what has been win/win time lost
to despair

Just as love
cannot co-arise
where fear grows 
fully uprisen
a prison
predicting anger's nearby
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Categories: redemptions, addiction, anger, fear, happiness,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum

Premium MemberLuminace Light Shines So Bright God's Son Shines So Bright-

...LUMINACE LIGHT SHINES SO BRIGHT;
And the so shines beautiful;;
Visage of light holy and right, so bright;
The Son shines beautiful;
O’ and the Son shines beautiful;
The Son shines beautiful;

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Categories: redemptions, analogy, devotion, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Bloodlines

...Far from educations superstition
In the barren fields they planted their tyranny 
Where the pagan made a cross of stars
In the green lands of their mysticism

Yet still by ancient tongue they ha...
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Categories: redemptions, history, life, woman, women,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberSpeak To Me of Love

...Please speak to me of love in gentle tone,
That I may recall her voice in your inflections
Never were her words shrill or monotone,

But sweet like honey-frosted confections,
She spo...
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Categories: redemptions, lost love, memory, voice,
Form: Terza Rima

Our Relatives Is Our Problems

...Our relatives is our problem
The colonial empires
Has left Africa 
So we thought that was 
The beginning of a total redemption
We rejoiced cos we thought 
It was freedom at last 
We embrace ou...
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Categories: redemptions, abuse, africa, betrayal, dedication,
Form: Epic

Premium MemberPrimordial

...Redemptions long road
promised aphrodisiacs
spark kama sutra breezes...
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Categories: redemptions, addiction, desire, fantasy, love,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberPolitical Antichrist

...With Temptations 
Is redemptions 
Here be within fear courage 
With the weakness 
Is strength
 I sense tomorrow one last war 
Lingering on Sorrows just before the evil man praises 
And follows...
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Categories: redemptions, absence, adventure, allusion, america,
Form: Free verse

A Haven Safe

...I write for the 
aberrate visitor,
that stumbles upon my words

A buried shaft
for them to mine,
a voice that can be heard

Each poem baptized
as a child,
redemptions holy source

To comf...
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Categories: redemptions, words,
Form: Rhyme

I Love You

...Shades of rufous and crimson oared between the eyes and the mind,
Vestured the feelings that rip the heart as a nagging memory
Overshadowing the pilgrim’s intentions, desires, and dreams.
The peti...
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Categories: redemptions, lost love, love, lust,
Form: Free verse

With Heart Aglow

...Tapping into redemptions dream,
I put my smaller dream aside

And reveled in its greater power,
reclaiming truth from lies

So blessed in this light ablaze,
than by candlelight unknown

In t...
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Categories: redemptions, heart,
Form: Rhyme

Human Rights

...Human Rights


We struggled more 
With these rights which are the rights of humanity 

We cried for our rights 
We cried for our rights as humans 
Our rights for education, sustainability ...
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Categories: redemptions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Bio

Premium MemberThe Great Interchange

...Jesus Christ incarnate became a man
lived on this earth thirty and three years
showed to all who and what is God
faced man's opposition and all his smears

This Jesus the God-man took on our fle...
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Categories: redemptions, christian, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThere's Blue All Around

...So many people love it blue
there's much of it all around
look up at the deep blue sky
behind that golden sun, it's found

Go swimming down at the beach
there you go in the deep blue sea
the w...
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Categories: redemptions, blue, color, life,
Form: Rhyme

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