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Selfsame Poems - Poems about Selfsame

Autobiography of John Sidney McCain III, Sometime Senator of Arizona

...1. To Fly
My father was an admiral, and so
I joined the Navy. Back in fifty-eight
to be a pilot seemed the way to go:
ship-sailors were committed to a crate.
Scrub decks? Paint rusting gunwales?...
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Categories: selfsame, life,
Form: Rhyme

Doubt not that I love you

...DOUBT NOT THAT I LOVE YOU II.

Darling, I know that I can't be absolutely perfect; for as a mortal, I have depravities in me,
Which will always and constantly antagonize me in trying to be the bes...
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Categories: selfsame, courage, feelings, for her,
Form: Quatrain



Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HIS HAND THAT IS UPON US

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September 11 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 40-42

Key Verse – Ezekiel 40:1…In the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither. 

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Categories: selfsame, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberI am Shakespeare

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Across the years, 400 plus, my stories endlessly play out their parts.
I played not on painted stage, but I knew the human heart - 
I captured, with quill and scratch, the passions of laughter an...
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Categories: selfsame, character, history, humor, literature,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberDawn Never Dies

...I was a red-violet, sunny morning person, usually up at the crack of dawn,
When orange light poured from the east, upon revival, dewy green lawns.

With a cup of aromal coffee, I'd watch y...
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Categories: selfsame, beauty, color, fantasy, morning,
Form: Couplet



Premium MemberWhat's Behind Biden's Open Boarders and Why You Shouldn'T Support Hamas

...It should come to you as no real surprise, that the selfsame pro-choice and 
infanticide of twenty eight days to murder their newborn children, who survived 
abortion.  Most likely even if they wer...
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Categories: selfsame, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative

Virtual Trophies Wife For I

...Virtual trophies (wife for I)... 

offered, husbanded, and collected 
when winning solitaire
Nothing beats that exaltant rush of adrenaline
watching the computer generated cards
automatically r...
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Categories: selfsame, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Nude Attitre

...Genre: Poesy
Title: Nude Attire
Author: John King Ayanfe ©

Behold, attires covering secrets of nudity
Attires laying betwixt cheap and expensive costs
Thus, nudity is first an attire for all
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Categories: selfsame, allegory, death, fashion, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWay Up North

...I was talking to my solitary self again, grumbling how life held no adventure,
And my parrot, Cherry, often echoed me, as moon echoes golden splendors.

She'd ruffle her feathers and preen, as she...
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Categories: selfsame, bird, dream, fantasy, happiness,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberFor What

...For What

Fight and struggle as one can,
From growing boy into a man,
All the while not knowing the plan,
This need for life escapes me.

Make a friend or make a foe,
‘Tis how we meet that ca...
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Categories: selfsame, identity, life, love,
Form: Rhyme

Broken Heart's

...I HAVE walked that selfsame path
To your door before.
For years I've left the roses there,
Budding as before.

While I watch them bend, into the wind,
Quick hot tears begin to flow.
Strange so...
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Categories: selfsame, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Song Lyrics I

...Song Lyrics I

"We Came Together" was written as song lyrics for New Zealand composer David Hamilton.

Song Lyrics: We Came Together
by Michael R. Burch

We came together – people of two lands...
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Categories: selfsame, community, discrimination, friend, friendship,
Form: Rhyme

Art

...The selfsame page echoes wordlessly like barren lord
To write in characters of light, Oh! bucket headed bard
Understand, art-like slumber must set-the soul free
Beyond time's fabric walls, in boun...
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Categories: selfsame, art, integrity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberA Rose Passion

...Through corridors of summer, on a garden path I walk,
Along the way of the roses, in the season of spice.
As beauty crowds the senses, making heartbeats rapid,
The bushes and rose trellises appear...
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Categories: selfsame, beautiful, creation, flower, garden,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberWherest Art Thou

...Wherest the sunshine my dearest love?
Behind the hills yon, darkening skies above.
Wherest art thou dearest sweet friend?
Swept into the nights darkest end?
Whither thou goest, I shall go too,
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Categories: selfsame, bereavement, bible, death, hope,
Form: Rhyme

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