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Scourges Poems - Poems about Scourges

Premium Member The Rod and Reproof Gives Wisdom
...Such a violent world we live in Hard to know just what to do For example both my mom and dad Have slapped and spanked me too But nowadays some choose a path That may seem rather odd To discipli......

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Categories: scourges, abuse, children, hurt, parents,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Scourges
...Jessy James the scourge Of the west Not many out laws would pass this test A name like Dillon and Billy the Kid Became legends for what they did Nero an emperor the scourge of Rome Though c......

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Categories: scourges, baptism, christian, history,
Form: Rhyme



Hymn: Holding Real Hope
...To God we offer thanks for medicine and for carers, for all who've kept in touch, in prayer been burden sharers. Through all the skills and gifts by which you set us fre......

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Categories: scourges, care, christian, god, health,
Form: Verse
I Am Liberia
...I am Liberia! Though scared by scourges of allien spades, My resilience bears the fountain of heaven's grace, Piercing the pangs of all my shades! My independence, I breathed into Africa's lung......

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Categories: scourges, education, encouraging, freedom, history,
Form: Spoken Word
The Black Man
...A walk of freedom from the dark days of suffering, The yoke shattered as the sun shines on his dusty face, Once Slaved to his fellow man for integument difference. The toil of his endless slavery ......

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Categories: scourges, abuse, africa, racism,
Form: Prose



Reflecting Ripples
...I stand alone a barking tree, where silent sorrows of ripples flee, No one hears my calamity, wearing weeps of my raped reality… Branches droop to ice-cold ground, solitudes surface of ......

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Categories: scourges, abuse, conflict, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
July 25th, 1996 Tied the Gordian Knot
...July 25th, 1996 tied the Gordian knot,... (I spent noose cents) begot deux daughters, the major events both since flew cuckoo's nest, the eldest angry at papa for offense sieve behavior father......

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Categories: scourges, 12th grade, anniversary, celebration,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Astoneyhenge
...a carvery the sadistical it plough the salt on pewter it swords poles, rods, it makes that satic it means a Conan, it twilight it scourges, it raid the emcamp it ask not a baby humanity it ask not......

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Categories: scourges, allah, america, anger, appreciation,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Distinguishing Right From Wrong, Enablers, and the Enabled
...My subject is nothing new. It's been around since Adam and Eve. Like the snake and the apple. It's the enabled kid who throws a ball through a window, while the enablers, his parents, praise h......

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Categories: scourges, children, growing up, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Scales Tip Down
...Weight is held in the balance found wanting Heresy thought unorthodox behaviour drops the pearls under a great price A river of lies flows one after another devaluing family values Filled w......

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Categories: scourges, abortion, bereavement, body, care,
Form: Terza Rima
To the Gates of Chill
...Even to the realm of silence I follow. To primordial chaos The specious zany follows. Seemingly myopic, my sepulchral glare. Beware! Of conning eyes you raider of fulfilled rapture. I hou......

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Categories: scourges, anger, betrayal, love, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wondering About Tomorrow
...faceless faces that conform evil hands history's born rage of one controls all knees are bent before the fall master's whip scourges flesh tangled arms lies confess trains are filled bodi......

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Categories: scourges, abuse, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Spring Is Coming Soon
...Something wonderful is happening to Planet Earth, good things are starting to grow, Revitalised, energised, all aglow, Inspired by change to this fresh season so N<......

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Categories: scourges, nature, seasons, spring,
Form: Acrostic
Democracy
...Man tames scourges Eats distance Sends his image to his neighbours a thousand miles away. Man makes deserts bloom If he chooses. Instead, he embraces doom For his world and for his kind H......

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Categories: scourges, death, fear, power, war,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member A Progressive Shadow
...A Progressive Shadow A series of real challenges and troubling world events In our twenty-first century give us a definite reason and An urgency to pause and reflect on mankind’s situation. ......

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Categories: scourges, change, earth, history, international,
Form: Terza Rima

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