ST FRANCIS AND ST CLARE : TWIN SOULS : PART 2
... no turning back at nineteen years of
age with bonded Love no eyes could
see or earthly arms could hold dear
into a fold of aligning human Heart
with Divine injunction none could ...
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Categories:
sufferance, allegory, allusion, character, courage,
Form: Epic
Photograph
...Some haunt me pleasantly,
Using the grains of dewy silence that speak loudly
Within the long, grey halls of history.
I recline on such images with smiles I borrow from
The penetralia of my soul a...
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Categories:
sufferance, community, memory,
Form: Free verse
beyond limit
...
these days I question more and more
my faiths and what their purposed for
while evil grows to breadths unseen
beyond, it seems, where it has been
oh grant me sense and...
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Categories:
sufferance, analogy, forgiveness, introspection,
Form: Quatrain
Sudden
...With a snap of the fingers,
The drop of a hat,
A life can be altered
And that will be that.
Though positive changes
May happen that way,
It’s mostly the bad things
That heavily weigh.
F...
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Categories:
sufferance, change, life,
Form: Rhyme
I'm a Soft-Lover Dude
... I'm a soft-lover dude, something I have never tried to hide. I have always respected your mind. thoughts, and soul way before I ever wanted your body on my side.
You are so smart, so in funny and...
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Categories:
sufferance, emotions, fantasy, feelings, how
Form: Rhyme
Revival
...Revival
We humans wept for the revival
Nothing nor time can be at arrival
Yet, the redshift of revival was horrendous
It often creeps the dream of wondrous
Sadly, shirked the throbbing dru...
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Categories:
sufferance, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Bearing of Blitheness
...
Blitheness bears itself boldly by day,
Surmounting the summit of separative sufferance.
Ridges and ranges below bow in adoring array,
Where homage is payed to the uprising utterance.
Blith...
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Categories:
sufferance, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
My Donor Daughter
...MY DONOR DAUGHTER
It was easier to give you life than
To take it back from you.
Both were unknowns.
I mean,
You could have been anyone.
You could have been someone
Unwilling to unders...
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Categories:
sufferance, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Discord and Disarray
...Hostilities
hate
& hysteria
world full
of
platitudinous
pandemonium
perceive
acute
sufferance
forbearance
...
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Categories:
sufferance, analogy, bereavement, conflict, war,
Form: Other
Persistence
...Heaven on earth seems to be so unfriendly
because of the pandemic’s subjugation!
Life is trapped in the quicksand of poverty;
unable to get up through any motion!
The rough road is trodden in dif...
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Categories:
sufferance, strength,
Form: Ottava rima
For Disney
...~ For tolerance, approved by righteous air,
such wasted breath to pray that you exist,
a bigot's faith lends reason to despair
as redolence diffuses in a mist.
Though still I pray, let suffera...
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Categories:
sufferance, america, anger,
Form: Sonnet
Stranger Than the Days We Need
...What is it that makes us human ? It's not something you can program, you can't put it into a micro chip. It's the strength of the human heart; the difference between us and machines. Terminator Salva...
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Categories:
sufferance, conflict, confusion, corruption, society,
Form: Free verse
Old Nigerian Politicians
...I fought to be at their conference,
Wanting to make out the difference
Of people of believed deference:
Men long fond of being at the top
And clearly humans one can’t just stop:
Actors we would...
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Categories:
sufferance, character, class, cry, people,
Form: Rhyme
A Slice of Paradise
...Nestled in verdant woods on a hilly terrain,
The sequestered chapel stood, tranquil was the place
With a calm drowning the hubbub around
With blooming plants adorning the encircling space
Gentl...
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Categories:
sufferance, blessing, devotion, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Songs of Angels
...Do angels, those exchequers
of heaven’s golden shores,
have hearts or humor
as they focus on us with
their greedy, eternal attention?
They must be well-acquainted
with vice and the offendi...
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Categories:
sufferance, angel, desire, forgiveness, heaven,
Form: Free verse
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