Women are like Wild Honey
...They start thick—
not the polite kind you stir into tea
not the mild drizzle on breakfast toast
but the kind that runs hot
slow
dangerous
coating your tongue before you grasp
the pric...
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Categories:
sweetening, extended metaphor, fire, freedom,
Form: Lyric
Multi-Di-Minstrel Message: Revival
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KGOD presents ...
SALUTATIONS!!!
Well. Let’s just get started!
Here at the Ogden! The God den of music and soul!
So, let me introduce myself to thee,
I am DJ Multi-Di-Minstre...
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Categories:
sweetening, celebration, jesus,
Form: Spoken Word
Sweetening Life's Air
...Like flowers blooming,
let us scent the air with peace;
breezing God's sweet love:-...
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Categories:
sweetening, allegory, beauty, flower, imagery,
Form: Haiku
Life Is Change
...No eyes to see
its beauty
no nose to smell
its fragrance
opening buds
in silk elegance
nourishing bees
and butterflies
coloring day
with rainbow
and sweetening air
with fragrance
the...
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Categories:
sweetening, religion,
Form: Free verse
Then there is that star and the cradle
...The search
Names all experience:
Discomfort searching for comfort
Poverty searching for more
Death searching for life
Unsweetened searching for sweetening
The not-yet searching for ...
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Categories:
sweetening, irony, jesus, words,
Form: Light Verse
Ketchup Packet
...My worst nightmare sat down beside me
With the most angelic face
And whispered things too hard to swallow
His smile sweetening the taste
“All that’s wicked has the upper hand
“All that’s pur...
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Categories:
sweetening, angst, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
These are the Open Arms
...By Cherbo Geeplay
You woke me up when I was dead,
teaching the night stars wantonly
to obey the Atlantic; then slashed
my arteries in flight to Lake Piso,
humbling its boundaries, before
f...
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Categories:
sweetening, appreciation, love,
Form: Free verse
Only those who have not yet met truly love each other
...Only those who have not yet met truly love each other,
Those who, in the early morning horizon, imagine themselves as kings and queens without sin,
They dream in the secretive color of amethyst, hi...
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Categories:
sweetening, love,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Powerful Christ
...October 1 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 22
Key Verse – Luke 22:67-70 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe: And if I als...
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Categories:
sweetening, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Life Without End
...Just beyond the silence, a secret
Blowing, breathless, through the spirit
Sweetening moments, preparing
Laughing kisses, reassurance
That forever lives, steadily coloring
Skies and seas in hues ...
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Categories:
sweetening, appreciation, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Free verse
Steam Room View
...Sweetening is the morning due
sheets of mist enveloping two
Shower curtain our naked view
balmy gazes, we see right through
Sight to behold, her beauty true
saturat...
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Categories:
sweetening, allusion, feelings, lust,
Form: Monorhyme
Xmas
...“Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
Xmas means
the time of winter peopl...
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Categories:
sweetening, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Valentine
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In his eyes – I see the sun rise
In his smile – I can sit a while
In his life – I learned to be a wife
When I dream of forever
We are always there whatsoever
Comes into our lives...
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Categories:
sweetening, love, marriage, relationship, romance,
Form: Rhyme
The Belle of Yule
...She walked in the natural belle of Yule
lit up like the glitter upon the trees;
Holding a dove waiting for it’s release
in her arms the white bird appeared a jewel;
Harmony poured from every m...
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Categories:
sweetening, emotions, feelings, holiday, peace,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Having Blown Out the Candles
...Dear Olabosoye Oluwafunmilayo
Value the time everyone spent
To make a mark for this event
Surely be waiting to which extent
In return of THANKS that would be sent
Kiss the love that peop...
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Categories:
sweetening, age, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Other
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