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Straightening Poems - Poems about Straightening

Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO TURNS CURSES INTO BLESSINGS
...May 28 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Nehemiah 11-13 Key Verse – Nehemiah 13:2 …Howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing. FAITH IN GOD WHO TURNS CURSES INT......

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Categories: straightening, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member My Hair
... As a teenager, I was so lean and lanky. My mother worried over my physical stature. She believed that all the nutrients in my diet, were rapaciously devoured by my hair. From childhood ......

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Categories: straightening, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Other



Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO INSTRUCTS US TO ENQUIRE FROM HIS WORD
...May 15 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 18-20 Key Verse – 2Chronicles 18:4 And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Enquire, I pray thee, at the word of the LORD to day......

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Categories: straightening, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO LEADS US
...March 2 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 8-10 Key Verse – Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilder......

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Categories: straightening, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member When We Were Beautiful
...Remember the time. Remember the days. Before the weave….. After the straightening comb and fried dried perm, wig……. When we were beautiful, Oh, so black and beautiful. When the character of bla......

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Categories: straightening, black african american, change,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member The Promotion
... It was never about the suit, the charcoal stitching, the pocket square that folds itself, the red tie I swore was alive. At first, it just stood there— hooves crossed, ears like knives stab......

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Categories: straightening, analogy, art, extended metaphor,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO BE RICH TOWARD HIM
...October 27 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 12-13 Key Verse – Luke 12:21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. PRAISE BE T......

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Categories: straightening, bible, blessing, faith, god,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO HEAR HIS WORD
...September 25 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Micah 1-5 Key Verse – Micah 1:2 Hear, all ye people; hearken, O earth, and all that therein is: and let the Lord GOD be witness against y......

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Categories: straightening, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Straightening The Curls
... He is a lonesome young lad, not happy, with curly hair he thinks he looks scrappy. Dunks his head in pool with spin, cold water his nose sucks in. Tangled hair straightens, but he f......

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Categories: straightening, funny,
Form: Limerick
the shadow of the tree in the morning's garden
...The shadow of a tree has fallen on the morning garden. It moves with slow steps and leaves its trail of frost, as if it were telling the time as the day progresses. The grasses, freed from......

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Categories: straightening, bird, french, sun, weather,
Form: Free verse
Ode to the Lady
...To the lady who sees me as I am, To the lady who sees me as a book, Turning through my pages, Straightening its dog ears, Reading between the lines. To the lady to whom I stand as a mirror, R......

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Categories: straightening, emotions, poetry,
Form: Ode
Premium Member The Pharisees
...When some men of faith brought a paralytic to be healed, Opening the roof when they placed his bed before Jesus When the forgiving grace of the almighty was revealed The fault-finders placed befor......

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Categories: straightening, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Fabled
...She struts from the pages of infamy Black bold and beautiful No straightening of her Afro She owns her gorgeous Forget “The man,” She’s got things to do Not concerned with his master fet......

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Categories: straightening, beautiful, courage, fantasy, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHOM WE MUST BELIEVE
... January 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 4-6 Key Verse – Exodus 4:5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the......

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Categories: straightening, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY FELLOWSHIP’S AUTHOR
... December 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1John 1-3 Key Verse– 1John 1:3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and......

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Categories: straightening, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

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