The Prophecies of Mr Adams
...Streets are filling with needles, disease and narcissist
the airways rimmed with demands for respect
if you don't agree 100 % they'll ring your neck
and your next of kin.
people turn to plants an...
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Categories:
self centeredness, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
My Children With Our Sin Nature We Will Have Marital Storms
...Lord I don’t know what to do.
I’m in need of help, so I came to you.
Things seem not to be going well.
Today life at home a living hell.
Over little things we seem to fight.
It seems I can do no...
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Categories:
self centeredness, 11th grade, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Fight with Yourself
...Life is about fighting for the love of yourself.
Remember what you learned as a teenager
Take aim at your body and mind to fight
Follow the lessons from parents and teachers
When you have a...
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Categories:
self centeredness, age, self, truth,
Form: Rhyme
The Rope
...THE ROPE
One end anchored in faith, and
the other in the solid rock, Jesus.
Fibers of love, mercy, hope, peace
strong strands interwoven.
A guide when the storms of
life beat against the s...
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Categories:
self centeredness, god,
Form: Free verse
Recognition - revised for a missing line
...Line of Inquiry:
“Mistaken that I was this body-mind,
I succumbed to desire and fell to fear
but on choosing pathways loving and kind,
light of God in heart began to appear
and truth of my tru...
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Categories:
self centeredness, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
The Fine Art of Keeping Distance
...Into the deep- green hearted forest
far removed from man's raucous tangle
the many tacky hues of self-centeredness.
There's only herbivores and carnivores
doing their thing in primal time harmony...
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Categories:
self centeredness, life,
Form: Free verse
Paper Faith Pedestal
...The brain is an instrument of improvisation
suffocating in an ancient bone cave
with its white and gray byways
garnished in electrical blood drops
creating great works though time pressed
and pr...
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Categories:
self centeredness, beauty, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Misunderstanding
...24 June 2024 9:54 Am
What good is a written word if no one reads it?
What good is a spoken word if no one hears it?
What good is either if no one understands it?
How tight and dark the priso...
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Categories:
self centeredness, life,
Form: Rhyme
TAXING THOUGHTS
...TAXING THOUGHTS
Let us hide behind a litany of lunacy
Of gods and Gods, prophets and profits
Does it do any good to feed the hungry
When we are the cause of the hunger
To take money from t...
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Categories:
self centeredness, words,
Form: Couplet
Marital Storms
...Lord I don’t know what to do.
I’m in need of help, so I came to you.
Things seem not to be going well.
Today life at home a living hell.
Over little things we seem to fight.
It seems I can do no...
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Categories:
self centeredness, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Shame
...Proverbs 16:18 (KJV) “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
I’ve been ashamed,
Ashamed of my lack of understanding,
My lack of consideration,
My lack of care and...
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Categories:
self centeredness, character, depression, how i
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Soul Defender
...March 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 10-12
Key Verse –Judges 10:16 And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved fo...
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Categories:
self centeredness, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Life In My Land
...Life in my Land
Life in my land is not by right
With greed, we are wound around
Hardened ruiners ravaging all we have
Like raptor they kill, devour and fly
Cupidity, the spirit of avarice
Eat...
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Categories:
self centeredness, fear, grief, metaphor, murder,
Form: Elegy
Everyone Warned Her
...Everyone warned her about his intentions.
We all felt his savage side, could see how jealous he was.
There was a selfishness about him, a self-centeredness.
She had an innocence and a light
He...
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Categories:
self centeredness, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Sloth Steaming Sin
...Sloth’s Steaming Sin
Sluggishness slitters solely straightforward
Sedentary survival styles scold, strain
Self-centeredness - sloth’s shinning standard
Squandering silvers… spiritual sprain...
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Categories:
self centeredness, sin,
Form: Alliteration
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