WHEN DARKNESS FALLS, HOLD ON TO HOPE
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In sorrow's dark and lonely night,
Have you lost loved ones, or labored in vain for light?
Has joy's sweet melody been shattered by life's unseen hand?
Fear not, dear heart, for hope's sweet bal...
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Categories:
repayment, allusion, engagement, inspirational, muse,
Form: Lyric
Debts And Disability
...I splat the slim cigarette's ashes onto the pavement,
Little to no care of my own psychological impairment,
While living through life with no means of any repayment.
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Categories:
repayment, mental health, mental illness,
Form: Sijo
if I was a Loan Shark
...If I was a loan shark
I would fail
some can ask exorbitant prices
I cannot ask for money at all
Some loan sharks demand thirty-percent interest
I would not even be able to ask for my initial i...
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Categories:
repayment, money,
Form: Light Verse
ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
...ODE TO MONEYLENDERS
Oh, what designs can one possess
Lending succour to those with naught
Such desperate need one must confess
And how hard one must have fought
When courtesy has no more cur...
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Categories:
repayment, anxiety, journey, sympathy,
Form: Ode
fovergiveness
...I must forgive for my Father to forgive me
I will forgive for my Father God shall also forgive me
Forgiveness is my creed
Lo, I am sorrowful, I must forgive
Forgiveness is in mine heart
He b...
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Categories:
repayment, analogy, encouraging, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
The Crow -Parody of The Raven-
...In the late evening, half past 8
I heard a noise from far away.
It was a bird, make no mistake.
I could've sworn I heard my name.
Maybe I did,
or maybe I had gone insane.
For out in the dista...
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Categories:
repayment, death,
Form: Rhyme
democracy or hypocracy?
...Misuse of services by force or labour without payment
To get over this be patient
We’re getting the repayment
No haste, just wait there are rules to follow
Article 23 forbids this so you just swa...
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Categories:
repayment, 10th grade, bible, career,
Form: Rhyme
Africa Has a New Weave
...Concrete cities of our converted land.
Currencies creeping along, Naira or rand.
This is Africa, should we take a stand?
Helping hands strip rich rocks into their bands.
Debtors demanding f...
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Categories:
repayment, africa, beauty, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Rhyme
Redemptive Economics
...Economies of cooperative redemption,
like taking turns licking
melting ice cream cones,
favorably contrast to
stingier economies of personal private
sticky and prickly ownership
Including f...
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Categories:
repayment, happiness, health, heart, humor,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Jesus Teaching: Beatitudes Lk
...(Jesus)
Said
Blessed are you who are poor
For the kingdom of God is yours
Blessed are you who are now hungry
For you will be satisfied
Blessed are you who are now weeping
For you will...
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Categories:
repayment, christian, god, jesus, people,
Form: Couplet
For the Earth
...Jayhook lived a simple life
A bit carefree, he wandered
Perhaps, somewhat detached, many folks might say
He welcomed what was offered
never thinking of the w...
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Categories:
repayment, appreciation, earth, environment, giving,
Form: Prose
The Binder
...Her child was in need
So she gave him all she had
It was not enough....
He would have to borrow from DAD
A lecture of failure
Seemed but a little to endure
For having the need met
And living...
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Categories:
repayment, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
Repayment
...The devil wants a payment, and the angels need a check.
And the world keeps saying their ain’t no cash to get
So, you reach for the savings that your people won't release
Then you look to the he...
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Categories:
repayment, business, community, environment, judgement,
Form: I do not know?
Drowning Sandcastle
...The world is festering with wounds,...
Men driling in the earth think they can tunnel a way out.
Only rot will be with you.
Reap what you sow!
A famine now soils your shores
Made in China
Its...
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Categories:
repayment, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Star Weaver
...Such powerful magic she possesses,
star-weaver spinning her celestial silk
from which, she will crochet stars
and hang them in the obsidian sky.
Artistic daughter of Orion Alnilam,
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Categories:
repayment, fairy, fantasy, poems, poetry,
Form: Prose
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