Hope Flickers in the Reeds
...Set sail in feathered ships
mis guided by shattered stars
and bent leaden sextants.
A little white rippled tempest
becomes a blackened water witch
hatched from a devil's chrysalis
sails are whi...
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Categories:
slothful, hope,
Form: Rhyme
LOST
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Lost in echoes of darkened time
dampened, dithering, dazed
wet withered witches mime a dime
fearful, I’m mazed or crazed
Calling Divinity, voicebox shut
eyelids glued, nostrils stuffed
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Categories:
slothful, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Verse
Hubs Of Heaven
...Catalytic cascade of mirror gleam relish on sleep encrusted eyes,
such sylvan surreal therapy aligned to dulcet bird lilt,
garnish to the willow weave wayfarer of iridescent poetic inkling,
verna...
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Categories:
slothful, beautiful, beauty, celebration, city,
Form: Free verse
The Unknown Fruit
...Silent waters always are said to run deep;
And looks often end up in deception
As venturesome finds do in exception
Bring forth reward to cherish and keep
A trekking crew found on an desolate...
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Categories:
slothful, life,
Form: Lyric
The Maxims
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THE MAXIMS.
Who understands the patterns of life? It is even he who from speaking rashly restrains his lips,
That man will know pe...
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Categories:
slothful, bible, deep, emotions, faith,
Form: Sonnet
The Vows of Gasoline and Forgiveness
...Truth has been backwashed with elongated shadow
polluting the masses with exaggeration and lie
They've made corruption just a bit more palatable
maintaining power, they've great lust for us to div...
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Categories:
slothful, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Blank For President
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A man or woman in the prime of life
who values her husband or he his wife.
A person of strength with a disciplined mind,
One who is courageous, respectful, and kind.
They have great int...
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Categories:
slothful, america, character, fantasy, political,
Form: Rhyme
In My Skin
...In My Skin
In my skin I know what is true
Don't lie to yourself, you know it too
Clear away all excuse and every denial
For your soul ,too, will be put on trial
Stop listening to that beguil...
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Categories:
slothful, humanity, integrity, truth,
Form: Didactic
Gildas Translations
...GILDAS TRANSLATIONS
These are modern English translations of Latin poems by the English monk Gildas Sapiens (“Gildas the Wise”).
“Alas! The nature of my complaint is the widespread destruction...
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Categories:
slothful, christian, england, evil, god,
Form: Free verse
The Diligent
...Everything is hard
For the slothful worker,
Ease for zealous peer....
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Categories:
slothful, devotion, truth, wisdom, work,
Form: Haiku
Be Responsible
...“What we really need to learn as humans is to take responsibility for ourselves” (topic quote of Miranda Hawley)
Be Responsible
Today it seems like hardly anyone
has great concern for others. ...
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Categories:
slothful, character,
Form: Rhyme
The Long Road Home
...Morning Sun calls from behind the occasional cloud above seeking those willing to rise and face the drudgery of yet another day’s fruitless effort. Uninvited rays of warmth intrude upon my slothful d...
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Categories:
slothful, emotions, endurance, perspective, work,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Be Blown Forever
...We are blown
Like a feather
Into every
Insane ether
To see
The unseen
And to brace
Or wither
At times
To float
In the river
Like a boat
Or for us
To vanish
For ever
Like a mote
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Categories:
slothful, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Eye-Enlightener
...May 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezra 8-10
Key Verse – Ezra 9: 8 And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, a...
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Categories:
slothful, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
I Wish You Would
...Does it take time for the sun to extirpate the dark night?
Or to ease its fire form to make the plight of farmers, light?
Can't a storm take the form of a tornado and revolve?
Or blow into a gentl...
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Categories:
slothful, appreciation, blessing, friend,
Form: Rhyme
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