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#501

What Doesn’t Kill You

Just hurting sometimes
This is the type of hurting where there is no relief, Perhaps only distractions that subside the worst of it all. Small moments where your ache becomes apart of you As if it’s been here the entire...

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#502

Alice

I was inspired to write this poem because I was thinking about the morals and lessons that fairy-tales try to teach us. I think that children’s stories always seem a little too perfect and...
Did Alice fall down, The rabbit hole? Did she trip or slip? Or was there something, Else at work? Did someone push? Our fairytales teach us, Many lessons. But they are not, Always what we, Think. Fairytales seem so sweet, But they never tell the, Truth.  

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#503

The Odyssey

this poem was inspired by the recent revelation of modern slavery and the tales of rescued victims
The Odyssey In a place where hope is a vague memory In that dark, dark place where Fundamental Human right is an alien concept. First with kidnappers for tour guides I move on to a prison Not even good enough to...

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#504

The end

It is about the day which you have no control of anything may be apocalypse.

To be honest nothing really put me in the situation to write "the end" I felt its words first and...

Everything is ended.     There is nothing to be defended. Sick man is wounded.     He couldn't be offended. Raise a hand stranded.     To whom feet so banded. Iceberg's so melted.     Cool...

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#505

Wipeout


I was happy,

 

Enough.

 

Or more, I was sailing on an even keel. 

Ripples broke the surface, but they did not shake me from my course

 

Until you. 

 

You and your white horses, cresting, roaring.

Adrenaline kicking, I’m pitching. 

Nose to...

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#506

Take Me Out Of The Streets

Seeing the situation in Zimbabwe, Youths have a lot of power and potential to be great people in the world but resources are not made availble to them. Thus i was inspired to wite this poem, read and...

TAKE ME OUT OF THE STREETS

 

Take me out of the street

That’s all I am asking for.

Help me to achieve my greatest heights.

I can’t continue sharing the streets with rats,

Because the postman is knocking at...

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#507

HOLY


You

God

PERFECT

Spotless

Blameless

You

God

JESUS

Established    ME

...

YET

I

   DID

Not

Know

The

POWER

...I now have...

 

 

 

Colossians1:22

“Yet, NOW

                       Has

CHRIST

(The Messiah)

  Reconciled...

      

In the Body

Of His    FLESH

Through death,

 

In order...

TO PRESENT YOU

HOLY

F A U L T L E S S

...

AND Irreproachable

In HIS

{The Father’s}

PRESENCE.”

 

Seeing...

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#508

THE WILL TO WIN

The will to win in our society is in politics, sports, the workplace, and in a multitude of arenas.  Unfortunately, the will to win is not always graceful or respectful.  I was inspired to...

    THE WILL TO WIN!                 Where the will to win settles is...

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#509

I am not perfect

pass lovers of my life


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#510

I am a child

This is dedicated to the little souls that are faced with harsh realities of life.  This was inspired by the plight of the Nigerian Girls at the hands of the Boko Haram...


I am a child

These eyes have seen things Both beauty and sadness These eyes have watered tons Yet I am still a child

Beyond my years I’ve seen plenty Things ought to have been shielded

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