Spiritual
The Blessing
If beauty was all it really took To write our fame in the cosmic book If wealth was all important too, Kings and queens would jump the queue If the outward signs we try to keep, Mean more than physical, which sleeps
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- 650 reads
Planet Earth
Planet Earth Goddess of Moonlight, God of Sun Gaze down on what we have become We bicker and fight, we kill and maim Can things ever be the same again? You created a haven, a living place
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- 600 reads
Bob, Mama & Me
Bob, Mama & Me I meant to go to work. I was up in time and everything but when I got to the bus stop the darkness of the winter morning got inside my soul somehow and, for the third time in a fortnight, I turned back.
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Keeping the Fifth
Keeping the Fifth They say I cain eat anythang I want but I aint like the other bears in this heah alley. I think 'bout tellin' 'em I be 'shamed to meet the Lord and my belly swollen with food, but in the end I aint say nothin'. The growler in the next cell eatin' now and even through the thick walls I heah him plain - chewin', guzzlin', swallowin'. He got a steak so big it hang off the plate both sides. I seen it. Separate dishes of cream potatoes, spinach, onions an' fresh cornbread too. When he done scrape the plate fo' the las' time they gonna bring him cake but to my mind jest aint no purpose. One minute past midnight he jest as dead as me.
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WHY WEEPING
By LJJ You people, how much longer is it going to take you to understand me? Why weeping? What is it of yours you lost more than of mine? I gave you my child to stay with for all that time. Now my child I am taking home, why then crying?
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The mountain won't move
This perilous tug of war must cease My hands are burnt and weary From grasping a rope That must be relinquished I have tried to supersede An immovable mountain My back has begun to ache
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- 630 reads
The trenchant sword
So, Think you have won Today, It's just begun Launch a barrage of viscious lies To tax the heart and mind Behold through muddy rivers Flows crystal waters Pivot a man's most enduring friend
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- 764 reads