a crow’s command
...
I be a common salty once
no captain's bars, did bear
yet blessed was I to venture
where few a skipper dared
from crow's nest high aloft I saw
those br...
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Categories:
warning bell, analogy, history, sea,
Form: Rhyme
Does Our Survival Depend On Getting Off Our Planet
...In the vast expanse of cosmic grace,
Our tiny world spins, a fragile embrace.
Mankind, a speck on this celestial stage,
Contemplates its destiny with hope and rage.
Do we look to the heavens wi...
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Categories:
warning bell, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
What a Borrower Saw In Lenders Eyes
...At first, Henry did not grasp a thing:
The look in Sam’s eyes at that moment.
Was it trying to some warning bell ring
And its stark rebuff reward with ailment?
In it Henry sensed, at last, full d...
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Categories:
warning bell, analogy, business, fear, money,
Form: Rhyme
Our Gossipy Lips Have a Zip
...Our gossipy lips
Have a shutting zip:
The flying words we quip
We can their wings clip
And the speeches we hasten
On some muteness fasten …
Come the killing desire to gossip
Find some divert...
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Categories:
warning bell, character, image, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme
Toilet Humor-Collab- Newest Additions
...Limricks prompted by a comment made by someone today
It's a fact, and no longer just a rumor
Some soup people barf at toilet humor
Have you sniffed your own butt
It stinks so...
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Categories:
warning bell, humor,
Form: Limerick
Something Old Something New
...Original Poem
Without the comfort of your hand to hold
Aimlessly, I wander about in the dark
No hint of warning had been foretold
I am a dying ember without a spark
Forbearance...
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Categories:
warning bell, faith,
Form: Rhyme
We Won'T Be Taken Alive
...Promises sweet promises of the melancholy
Swaying too and fro back and forth aboard a rocking chair
In tandem and in tune to the rhythm of the wind blowing through the chimes
From the fron...
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Categories:
warning bell, child,
Form: Free verse
A Perfect Love
...Blessed are we, who live in His Majesty,
As death comes, and vivid leaves fallen,
And we rise to His glory-once again!
Blessed are we, descendants of nobility,
When darkest night enters on sati...
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Categories:
warning bell, christian, christmas, death, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Prophets Are Born To Be Heard
...A prophet is no longer recognized, in his or her own time.
So many ring the warning bell; it’s unheard by preoccupied ears.
Prophecies fulfilled are too late to control; doom cannot ...
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Categories:
warning bell, people, poems, poetry, visionary,
Form: Sijo
A Movement
...I woke up it was a sunny day
'Come for breakfast' mom would say,
I freshened up, then made my bed
Put away the books that I had read,
Just another day at school
My ride was here, my friends carp...
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Categories:
warning bell, abuse, dark, horror, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Move On, Sweetheart
...Sweetheart, don’t continue to weep
Although challenges hijack your pesky trip
For hours on end sorrow and pain won’t let you sleep
Fact is that you have so much to give
With much power your o...
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Categories:
warning bell, poems,
Form: Free verse
Love of Our Life
...LOVE Of Our Life
Life’s journey swim links 2 defined moments - birth & death.
To survive its stretch we swim different strokes,
Delivered inner strength combats heavy tides & puncture pokes,
Hi...
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Categories:
warning bell, desire, emotions, god, love,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Nuremburg Notation
...
When ruling orders are given,
subordinates must make it so
If they are evil decisions,
then lesser ranks should not yield their integrity
They should have enough moral fortitude to say n...
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Categories:
warning bell, evil, history, judgement, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Battle
...Make way, make way,
for the coming day.
Arise, and bring thy chariot...
it is time!
Prepare ye, the way,
for the coming day.
Deception is at hand...
in all the land.
War is coming soon,
...
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Categories:
warning bell, fate, future, gospel, mystery,
Form: Classicism
In the Red Desert of the Rising Sun
...In the red desert of the rising sun
In the surrealness of its silence
The sky turned grey and ominous
Amidst the blackened rain
As the suns fell into the morning sky
Beneath the trem...
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Categories:
warning bell,
Form: ABC
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