Holy Spirit
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My people the Ojibwe believe in one Holy Great Spirit, Kitchi Monitou, the
creator and source of life. Anishinaabe is our spirituality, a system of life
beliefs, blending harmony, spirits ...
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Categories:
storytellers, spiritual,
Form: Haibun
The Tale of Two Patricks
...My father was born,
Late on the eve of St. Patrick’s Day,
Inspiring nurses to insist the babe’s name be Patrick,
To which, my grandparents laughed and chose to obey.
Decades later,
When my pa...
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Categories:
storytellers, allegory, anniversary, birth, birthday,
Form: Rhyme
We were born with the gift of healing in our blood
...We were born with the gift of healing in our blood, we did not become healers along life's winding path,
We came as springs of solace, carrying the essence of healing like an ancient and sacred song...
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Categories:
storytellers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Three Sides to Every Story
...There are three sides that form every triangle
and not always are they of the same equal proportion.
There can also be three sides of many a story told,
and stitched with tenuous threads that loos...
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Categories:
storytellers, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Robert Sherriff Exploring the Legend of Billy the Kid
...Robert Sherriff, Australian Poet, Author, Singer, Actor, American Historian,
Photographer
Exploring the Legend of Billy the Kid
In the annals of the Wild West, one name that continues to capti...
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Categories:
storytellers, america, animal, boy, bullying,
Form: Bio
In the twilight of this dream world, where shadows whisper through the wind
...In the twilight of this dream world, where shadows whisper through the wind,
I wander through corridors of reflection, each turn a portal to forgotten realms,
The stars above, like ancient storytel...
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Categories:
storytellers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
In the twilight of my soul, where shadows whisper untold secrets
...In the twilight of my soul, where shadows whisper untold secrets,
Our eyes meet, and in that fleeting moment, the universe unfolds,
Filled with terrible confessions, like stars burning in a silent ...
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Categories:
storytellers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
to no one do harm
...Wiccan’s creed is
to no one do harm
to no animal, plant or human
Is it weird that male storytellers were so fearful
that a matriarchal society might come about
that they turned them into witch...
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Categories:
storytellers, history,
Form: Free verse
to no one do harm
...Wiccan’s creed is
to no one do harm
to no animal, plant or human
Is it weird that male storytellers were so fearful
that a matriarchal society might come about
that they turned them into witch...
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Categories:
storytellers, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
To be loved by a poet -2
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You ignite the
romance of my dreams.
I wish to encroach your
lips with my
tasty sandwich of perfected
rosemary teat.
I'll make your brain
immune to my soul
so you become out
of br...
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Categories:
storytellers, cute, deep, desire, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The madness of this world
...What madness
We are killing the healers and paying their killers
Bound to the pound and signed our own fate
Consuming its rot confiding in demons
looting the land and soiling the seas
The mother...
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Categories:
storytellers, anger, political,
Form: Free verse
In the quiet corridors of my mind, where memory and flickering thoughts reside
...In the quiet corridors of my mind, where memory and flickering thoughts reside,
we tell ourselves stories in order to live, to find meaning in the chaos,
seeking sermons in the despair of loss, sea...
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Categories:
storytellers, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Fishers Of Men
...Father, who entrusted me with his mission of salvation
Will provide me with labourers to realize this goal.
Pondering, he roamed around in disciple formation.
They will, like fish, gather to the k...
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Categories:
storytellers, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Pan-Africanism
...Like twins, we share markers of a common history,
Civilization, and knowledge; a call for unity.
The carcasses of slavery and the slave trade
Are lost in the dust. O black water days.
Colonizatio...
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Categories:
storytellers, africa, confidence, courage, family,
Form: Free verse
Breathe
...Breathe Again
Did I truly accumulate years of experience, or were they merely years of monotonous repetition? The echoes of my past reverberate, etching pain into the fabric of my love life and work...
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Categories:
storytellers, abuse, age, allah, allusion,
Form: Free verse
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