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Epigram f

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   Threesome
    twosome
    wantsum




 
*simply the muse friendz
  but funny y'all ;)


 ("wantsum" is my own 
  portmanteau...wanton&sum)

ORIGIN OF WANTON 1
WANTON [ won-tn ...
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Categories: tn, crazy, dance,
Form: Epigram

Premium MemberCourage

...*** COURAGE ***

To wake up.
To stand?
To step out.
Avoid thinking 
    “can’t” and “but.”
Surrender worries
     into the hands of God…
To keep hope’s flame up.

To listen.
To discern.
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Categories: tn, christian, courage, hope, inspiration,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberGod Works In Mysterious Ways

...It was time for fall break for my kids
Me and my family had planned a vacation
But I had got put on waiting list at work to be off
This year I was not able to get off work
So my wife and kids wen...
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Categories: tn, fate,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMeaningless Electrons

...meaningless
electrons
infect this text

â?? â? â?? â¤? â?¬ â?½ ǽ ȍȸ â?? â?¥ â?£

meaningless
photons
radiate from
this text

ȍ â?£È¸  â?¥â?¬  â??â?½ ǽâ?? â¤?â?? â?...
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Categories: tn, dark, humorous, nonsense, science,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTale of Three Pastors

...There once lived three devoted and wonderful pastors,
who labored diligently to build and maintain three
great churches*. 

One pastor served The First Church of The Holy Spirit
in the city of A...
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Categories: tn, christian,
Form: Verse



Summer

...
“SUMMER”



Where 
has Summer 
gone?

The world 
has lost 
Summer

Sweet 
little 
dream

missing 

all those other 
beautiful  
small dreams 

seen as toys...
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Categories: tn, abuse, child abuse,
Form: Epic

Hatcher Hollow Becomes Me

...Hatcher Hollow is old white colonizer's country
my cousin sold me this precious land property
My ancestors lived im Mc Ewen  Tn for centuries
my ancestors lived and died in Humphrey county
 my pe...
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Categories: tn, culture,
Form: Rhyme

Short and Sweet

...* Butterfly crawls
with a lonely wing
in company of ants.

* Rocks holding head high
along with sprouting leaf
Branches of spring's tree.

* Fisherman back home
In the evening hours
Maritim...
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Categories: tn, art, butterfly, devotion, humanity,
Form: Senryu

Premium MemberChicago Firsts

...In 1967, fresh out of high school at seventeen, I boarded a northbound bus to the metropolis of the mid-west. After arriving in Chicago, while waiting to be picked up by a family member, I met my fir...
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Categories: tn, chicago,
Form: Free verse

Silhouettes

..."Beware of the shadows",
my mother used to tell me.
She said they lurk in the dark
like monsters creeping inside
to bounce and grab thee.

They did not have figures
just dissolved into thin ai...
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Categories: tn, courage, inspirational, meaningful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberI'M Sorry

...For many years I have realized that our hearts are very deceptive and unreliable.  I cannot imagine how many times my heart has let me down and exposed the dark and negative aspects of it. Please per...
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Categories: tn, anger, christian, god, rude,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberFaith Blues In Royal Purple View--

...your faith is blue 
how do you
choose your love is gray
this you display
Settle yourself
Release the truth
Royal is your faith for blue is purple
This is true
Faith  blues tn royal pu...
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Categories: tn, appreciation, blessing, introspection,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMother's Sculpture

...You went to new abode in May,
left unfinished sculpture in me.
You couldn’t see how I shaped today
you went to new abode tn May
I look up to the milky way,
in a shining blue star I see
you went...
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Categories: tn, analogy, mother,
Form: Triolet

Chattanooga Heat

...When it's just too hot for comfort,
and you can't get ice cream cones,
it ain't no sin to take off your skin
and dance around in your bones.

(from my Grandmother in Chattanooga, TN)...
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Categories: tn, childhood, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

Buried In the Red Sea

...BURIED IN THE RED SEA

The armies of God’s people had left Egypt’s land,
They’d seen the mighty power of God’s outstretched hand.
But soon there on the journey they then looked behind,
Saw Pharo...
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Categories: tn, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric

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