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Jailer To This Dream Kurt Philip Behm	The written and the spoken word, —both jailer to this...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Lost in lust I M Babatunde	But prisoner and jailer aren't the same thing My kindness makes me...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
That Voice Who Calls Kurt Philip Behm	rise above his nature Religion a jailer —its lies...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
To Forever Amend Kurt Philip Behm	souls contraband New couplets my jailer, their sentences terse The key to their freedom, locked deep in the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
A Captive Domain Kurt Philip Behm	thrust unto you Is faith but the jailer of transcendence restrained With truth serving time —in a captive...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Statue's Lament Heather W.	Pain becoming the jailer’s horrid call Forced to suffer for the sake of peace And never see these chains release ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Advice To Believe In Christ Rees Prichard	Although the Jailer was a sinful soul - Thou Paul was, once, as sinful, on the whole - And though Manasses was...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
An Alibi Ambrose Bierce	'_Vox populi vox Dei_,' said The...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Arise You Sleeper Crystal Hedspeth	Like Peter, break away from your...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
At Beauty's Bar As I Did Stand George Gascoigne	Jealous, the jailer, bound me fast, To hear the verdict of the bill; ``George,'' quod the judge, ``now thou...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Attention Deficit disorder Courtney goldbaum	I am my own malicious...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Ball & Chain Kurt Philip Behm	and shined Greed but a jailer, freedom denied Hope in confinement —wishing a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Becoming The Messiah Kurt Philip Behm	rise above his nature religion the jailer —whose lies forestall I believe that enlightenment requires a commitment to become...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bianca's Dream - A Venetian Story Thomas Hood	Amongst more youths who had this cruel jailer, To hapless Julio—all in vain he sought With each new moon his hatter and his tailor; In vain...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Demons Joyce Carol Gibson	I wrote this while working as a...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Devil's Talk Kurt Philip Behm	hearsay The jailer and killer —of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Either Or Deception Kurt Philip Behm	truth locked deep within Its laws a jailer standing guard whose warden darkness...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Enemy Amanda Sumrall	The enemy’s walls fall away- your jailer bored from the absence of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Europe, The 72d And 73d Years Of These States Walt Whitman	Soldier, lawyer, lord, jailer, and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Everybody wants to rule the world…. Arunima pratap singh	The jailer itself is the prisoner in the castles so tall The castle made of inscrutable blunders ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Fit the Sixth ( Hunting of the Snark ) Lewis Carroll	When the jailer informed them, with tears, Such a sentence would not have the slightest effect, As the pig...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Freedom Deserts Kurt Philip Behm	opposed Pursuit once free, capture enslaves —jailer demands Clipping one wing, grounding the wish —motion...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
From Heaven Bought kurt philip behm	knees bent to the floor His silence for a jailer, his sentence now unlocked With handcuffs loose and falling —their key from heaven...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Get right Jesús R. Nara	Why do I feel like both the jailer and the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Hymn 121 Isaac Watts	When she received the word; Thus the believing jailer gave His household to the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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