He Slammed the Door
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11/4/2023
He slammed his heavy door, right in friendships’ face!
She cried heavy tears into a handkerchief of dainty, lilac lace.
The silver moon r...
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Categories:
reinhold niebuhr, friendship, loss, prayer, strength,
Form: Couplet
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
...The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the rev...
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Categories:
reinhold niebuhr, abuse, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
God Grant Me Serenity
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"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference"
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Categories:
reinhold niebuhr, introspection,
Form: Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Second Part
...(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy
of sharecropper grandparents
whose objection to racial segregation
based on an affront to the will of God,
whereby the you...
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Categories:
reinhold niebuhr, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior First Part
...Five score minus eight years ago
January eighteenth two thousand twenty one
father of civil rights movement
the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored
as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppr...
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Categories:
reinhold niebuhr, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Serenity Response
...SERENITY RESPONSE
The winds of autumn blow
Creating change
The crux of the matter
Do I bend or do I break?
Willow knows the truth
She may weep besides waters deep
But she drinks in courage to fa...
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Categories:
reinhold niebuhr, allegory, faith, hope, life,
Form: Couplet