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Sojourners Poems - Poems about Sojourners

Army BRATS Always Wanna Fly High
...Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S) Be always on the spotligh......

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Categories: sojourners, appreciation, celebration, character, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Rare and Stark is the Isolated Island
...Rare and stark is the isolated island In its heart - its bipolar mood And it stokes within the imagination A fire - a want of pursuit. Its knobby fingers reach out to a black sea - Br......

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Categories: sojourners, mountains, sea, snow,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI CONTINUES
...MY PRAYERS ARE WITH ALL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS MY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATION STEMMED FROM MY WEARING WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI BUYING WEAPONS AND DRUGS FROM JUNK SICK COPS BECAUSE ......

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Categories: sojourners, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Ivory Flakes
... In the mirrors of Moirai kismet and karma kiss adoringly, unaware of this betrayal they label as life. In the hallucination we call birth, words whisper like bitter winds, composing a metaph......

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Categories: sojourners, allusion, analogy, assonance,
Form: Didactic
Stranger
...We're just pilgrims And sojourners On this planet.......

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Categories: sojourners, destiny, life, people, truth,
Form: Than-Bauk



Premium Member Sojourner Truth House Domestic Violence Shelter 1992
...Severe night terrors after being held captive for a week during Christmas again my abusive ex brutally attacked me every Christmas since that arson murder that cold Christmas day 1984 all t......

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Categories: sojourners, allah,
Form: Than-Bauk
Premium Member I miss who I used to be
...“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” Rumi Upon my quest for quintessence. I was an amorist, positive in poetic philosophies. Elysian and empyrean effigies, enlightened i......

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Categories: sojourners, angst, emotions, how i
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Time and Tide
...In time shadows in an old windy shed are names of sojourners who've passed this way; now my wandering boot does older tread where I passed on a long forgotten day. I see their faces on wa......

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Categories: sojourners, growing up, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member To Which Image Should We Cling
...Line of inquiry: “We have been here a thousand times before Memory erased, each time we begin anew Of hands held tenderly, we’ve lost the score Each embrace virgin like fresh morning dew ......

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Categories: sojourners, god, image, life,
Form: Rhyme
All Souls Day
...All ye humble sojourners rest in peace From this tired troubled earth you’ve been set free Your souls ensconced in the heavenly home Be thou our guide as we pray with thee Before the Holy One ......

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Categories: sojourners, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Healing Systemic Trauma
...Can you make any sense of systemic racism? No more common sensory sense than too much patriarchalism-- all leftbrain-rightwing dominance oppressing sacred Earth's polyamorous win/win systems ......

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Categories: sojourners, addiction, beauty, bullying, culture,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Premium Member A Silent Voyage
..."all of us are on a journey and the answers are unspoken" Quote by _Constance La France The cause is illusory; effect too; process pursues; We sojour......

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Categories: sojourners, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Each Poem a Gateway
...Wind can be a bit pushy at times Though I would be first to admit of needing nudges in different directions inclined to linger too long under shady canopy or at the seashore gazing off i......

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Categories: sojourners, inspirational, introspection, journey, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Eternal Sacrifice
...I. I had the son for a sacrifice Proffered in faith and joined to love My covenant with him is eternal, sealed by his blood And his fire consumes what he pleases Though the waters be deep as t......

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Categories: sojourners, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Different Season
...days of fasting overlap prayers offered to fill a gap in lives surrounded by a wrap of tradition and modern seditions today, Lent and Ramadan bring times of reflection and for some, to sing f......

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Categories: sojourners, community, dedication, devotion, family,
Form: Rhyme

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