The Incarnation
...How elegant was the world you had made, God, my Father
The sun, the moon, and the stars, as fully alive, functioned.
Herbs, shrubs, plants, trees, flies, birds, beasts, and humans had their honor
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Categories:
torchbearers, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Tomb
...Serene silence, its salient feature
The sapped bodies snug in solitude.
Not a mound of sand and cement.
A structure to showcase our reverence and regard and
Keep them alive through our thoughts, ...
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Categories:
torchbearers, grave, tribute,
Form: Free verse
Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
...Taking Today's Tumblerful Tea Time
This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teachi...
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Categories:
torchbearers, 12th grade, adventure, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Torchbearers
...And then somewhere,
As days passed to years,
It was lost.
We had become the elder guard,
The keepers of tales old
And wisdom new.
No longer the hunters of Snipe,
Our youth, long since left beh...
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Categories:
torchbearers, family, old,
Form: Free verse
The Un Rides On Human Skeletons
...The UN Rides on Human Skeletons
By
Muhammad Nasrullah Khan
The UN’s representatives
Suited in beautiful attire
Torchbearers of justice
War...
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Categories:
torchbearers, beauty, corruption, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse
Torchbearers
...The Moon and stars are celestial sharers
Illuminating the skies as faithful torchbearers
Luna trades places with the sun, who sleeps
until the morrow when o'er earth it sweeps
How p...
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Categories:
torchbearers, light, moon, sun,
Form: Rhyme
My Trip To the Lake
...Hounds prowl beneath a cold-blooded moon.
Torchbearers cross the levee in unions of two,
Each boasting of the mischief he’ll do.
Ghosts follow hard in Lucifer’s tracks.
Hell’s dignitaries, slippi...
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Categories:
torchbearers, allegory, halloween,
Form: Lyric
America: Land of Glory
...My burdened country, tis of thee
Still beautiful are its halcyon skies
America! Free of woes we long to be.
God, shed Your grace upon blind eyes.
Unite us with love and brotherhood
Enlighten our...
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Categories:
torchbearers, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Hidden Swastikas
...I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme
Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems
Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions, different schisms
Joining the dots to...
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Categories:
torchbearers, allusion, corruption, how i
Form: Rhyme
Taking Todays Tumblerful Tea Time
...This teetotaler turns to tea
torquing temptation
towards tippling
thankfully, though
that tremendous tugging
teasing tendency thirst trumped,
thru teaching this totally tubular
toothless tit...
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Categories:
torchbearers, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
The One Mightier
...Who do you deem to be stronger?
Be it God or the Devil?
Simple!
Should you wish to know the answer
Why, just see to what extent do you wish the world to be ill
Yes, God did make us, the torchb...
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Categories:
torchbearers, evil, god, visionary,
Form: Free verse
Waiting For Spring
...Bring me back , not to the past,
but present oracles done and sung
come now, gardenias
parade among giant trees
while torchbearers gather to kneel
upon the ground that stamps
this mad maiden...
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Categories:
torchbearers, longing, seasons,
Form: Light Verse
Medieval Ages Work Still In Progress
...I'll write to you of medieval ages,
Foreign lands,knights and of many sages.
Medieval verse,and versification
With ancient meter I shall imitate,
To flesh out this age's animation.
And stories fictio...
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Categories:
torchbearers, africa, allegory, city, faith,
Form: Epic
Inadequacy
...A silence speaks up at ungreen
age for an unknown, finding
dark matter in hiddenness
of sleazy light.
A dove in the valley of tulips
stops a flight for a wayfarer.
Wha...
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Categories:
torchbearers, art,
Form: ABC