Mother
...Warm your embrace and swathed with love
soft your kiss, from heaven above.
Kind your eyes, freeing adoring smile
capturing attention with finessing style.
Waking hours cradled against breast
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Categories:
respectfulness, mother,
Form: Rhyme
Ol Jacob R Mcgee
...Jacob R. McGee©
“Jake” was what they called him with respectfulness and awe
Ever’ since he came up here from down in Arkansas
Never was a bully who’d confront our family
Cause my Dad, was the b...
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Categories:
respectfulness, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
A Fall Cruise
...Could it be the manifold and magnanimous Grace of God in a myriad of ways? Is it the freedom from greed and stress and a life filled with contentment? Is it the relative good health that my wife and...
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Categories:
respectfulness, blessing, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
An Ode To My Loving Angel
...*AN ODE TO MY LOVING ANGEL*
Shout out to the super woman in you
That strong and resilient spirit human
Not many women are lucky to have been blessed with it
You're simply a lucky one amongst ma...
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Categories:
respectfulness, beautiful, beauty, care, cute
Form: ABC
Honesty Is the Whole Package
...Honesty is the whole package
Blowing the other bridges to bits
Living her truth
Loving her people
Utterly trustworthy
A well-put-together package
of respectfulness, goodness, and fair trade.
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Categories:
respectfulness, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
My Woman
...MY WOMAN
Shout out to the woman in you
That strong and resilient spirit
Not many women are lucky to have been blessed with it
You're simply a lucky one
Not just lucky but uncommon
Not just u...
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Categories:
respectfulness, care, celebration, courage, eulogy,
Form: ABC
Currency
...My mother used to say that you pay for what you get
Time is my currency
If you want my attention
Then you must buy my time
My time is too valuable
To be wasted on the young and foolhardy
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Categories:
respectfulness, allusion, blessing, friendship, giving,
Form: Free verse
The Boy King
...THE BOY KING
Oh youthful monarch of Egypt, so young to die and yet live again.
In the nether world a Pharaoh's golden death mask is lain upon
A boy king.
In silences crypt a stilled figure lies in s...
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Categories:
respectfulness, adventure, fantasy, history, imagination,
Form: Free verse