if i die before i awake revamped
...if i die before i awake
do not cry as am at heavens gate,
looking at you all down below,
showing you my love will always flow,
if you need me just call my name,
believe am here and never in va...
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Categories:
revamped, angel, bible, blessing, cry,
Form: Free verse
No More Coercive Control - FICTIONAL POEM
... From the moment we met
he'd treated me like a princess
I was young and naive
flattered by his attention,
misinterpreting it as a forever love
Mum took an instant dislike to him
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Categories:
revamped, abuse, violence,
Form: Free verse
Returned to Sender
...Sent my friend a birthday card;
So it would not be late,
I mailed it more than one whole week
Before her special date.
Her birthday came and went and yet
She never got my card.
It had the rig...
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Categories:
revamped, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Unity at Sinai
...
At the foot of Sinai Israel encamped
as one man with one heart
A people once divided, revamped and unified…
Later on, to build a Tabernacle to the Lord
each man contributin...
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Categories:
revamped, giving, god, jewish, people,
Form: Rhyme
Hours of Flowers
...*The poet waits quietly to paint the unsaid*
6 million or more flowers to honor the dead
It's such a little thing-- remembrance, with flowers
a labor of love that would take many hours
Hardly...
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Categories:
revamped, art, flower, garden, holocaust,
Form: Couplet
Animals Habitats Destroyed
...forests, swamps, plains, oceans, meadows and even lakes
are being polluted, bulldozed and littered for goodness sakes
everything is being harvested or relinquished in human’s name
creatures are va...
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Categories:
revamped, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Karen's Brother
...Sky blue eyes looking
past the bounty of pork rinds
past boundless skylines
stare blankly for way too long
then to the menu
cradled in his plastic hands.
Plant-based food options
required b...
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Categories:
revamped, conflict, food,
Form: Choka
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Little Miss Muffett Or Don't Mess With PMS
...When a big hairy spider
Came and plopped down beside her
As Miss Muffett sat munchin'
A light, healthy luncheon,
She screamed, "Sir, naught could be ruder
Than an arachnid intruder!",
And proce...
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Categories:
revamped, humor,
Form: Light Verse
With You In Mind
...Walking in sailor fields amongst the nettles picking blackberries,
the brambles cut deep savage the mind. Yet the bowl to be filled
the jam to be boiled the bread of hope to be flavourful,
the inn...
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Categories:
revamped, memory,
Form: Haibun
Inventive Minds
...car fumes went upward
into the air
growing a new tree
A protective ring appeared
an environmental exhaust system revamped
by two twelve-year-old scientists...
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Categories:
revamped, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
When Light Penetrates the Fog of Fear and Darkness
...When Light Penetrates The Fog Of Fear And Darkness
When Light through the keyhole penetrates the malaise
And within that moment your soul gives sincere praise
For that divine gift that Life's sw...
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Categories:
revamped, creation, dark, deep, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Dreams Part 2
...A fairytale, commercial.
Raining onto minds window sill
An unfathomable deep.
Abominable monster on Life's seven seas.
Dreams, the valuable current sea.
A two edged sword for those sailing on...
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Categories:
revamped, adventure, allusion, birth, care,
Form: Rhyme
Thirst Verse Outburst
...First verse outburst you’ve never known worse
Be clever and disperse I’ve a nerve out to hurt
Unreserved calling on reserves
Ready to hurl at the deserved
Serve them nervous
This a hell bound ...
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Categories:
revamped, anger, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Tears of the Cross
...Three crosses stood still that faithful day
As the skies sadly wept a guilted grey
On the highest hill, they would be seen
Ruled by Roman eyes that did demean
The middle cross cover...
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Categories:
revamped, christian, easter, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
I Am a Butterfly Girl
...I am a butterfly girl
I wanna whirl the world
No no no no! No enemies
No no! No need of boundaries
I am a butterfly girl...
La la la la..Doffed my old skin
Oh! Yeah! My problem was so thin
P...
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Categories:
revamped, butterfly, power, success,
Form: Free verse
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