Your Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet And A Light To My Path Eber and Wein and other submissions
Your holy word, Lord Jesus, is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path. I will not hide my candle
under a bushel but I will place it on top of
a lamp stand to brighten up my hometown's
Evergreen's city of Everett Washington USA.
It is the capital city of Snohomish County
as well as
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Categories:
submissions, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Now Taking Submissions For a 'Welcome Sign' Signed By a New Mayor
Green means Stop
Red means Go
Welcome to Chicago!
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Categories:
submissions, chicago, corruption, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Rats Mine Poetic Submissions Once Again Deemed Floccinaucinihilipilification
Rats! Mine Poetic Submissions Once Again Deemed Floccinaucinihilipilification
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(floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion)
Countless declined submissions of mine,
tipping scales massive
Earth Atlas shrugged,
(he nonchalantly shouldered
1.317 × 10^25 lbs)
sends storied ambition plummeting
millstone yoked neck analogous
to bajillion pound weight
thus yours truly
doth modify expectations
absolute zero prospect
I will posthumously
attain poet laureate status
within human league,
asper dignified luminaries
comprising cognoscenti pantheon
posthumously storied authors
renown unto posterity,
yet ever since disembarking...
fashioning, finagling,
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Categories:
submissions, blue, dream, paradise, prayer,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Could It Be You
mind your submissions
peruse haiga haiku ten wrong
could it be you
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Categories:
submissions, judgement,
Form: Senryu
Hidden Submissions
hidden submissions
each eye contains an lid
hence
the
word hidden
now lips
never concealed
from
pink
peeled
hips motion in dance
kisses
to
the
center
romance
through winter months warm
summer snow storm
wrapped
in arms
as a
gift
mutual drift
forbidden admissions
worded into
i love yous
leading
hidden submissions
?
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Categories:
submissions, art,
Form: Ode
Misting Submissions
misting submissions
raining cats an dogs
casualties
in
the
distance
clouds sifting
on through the fog
misting submissions
raining cats to beat dogs
casualties
in
the
distance
memories drowning
in
fog
?
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Categories:
submissions, art,
Form: Concrete
A Butterfly Through the Storm -- Plus a Call For Submissions For Christmas Poems
Christmas poetry submissions call below poem...
A Butterfly through the Storm
By Stacy Savage
When they first dated
He treated her good,
And did all the things
That boyfriends should.
He gave her compliments
And made her grin,
With stars in her eyes
And feelings within.
She was eighteen.
He was her first love.
He was all that
She was dreaming of.
Then as time had
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Categories:
submissions, abuse, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Abstract Submissions
Snap the arms from this sculpture,
Create art;
Pin the wings of this butterfly,
Beauty preserved;
Plunge a skull in formaldehyde,
Declare genius;
Map cardiographs of heartbeats,
Pronounce life.
Must, then, my tears in their solitude
Define nothing?
And so my love in fierce impotence
Mother wasteland?
As my loins seep with futility
Staining mercy,
On the lace thong of history
Blemish secrets.
Yet for you all my travesties
Merit purpose;
And my
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Categories:
submissions, life, love, mystery, people,
Form: I do not know?