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  November 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 7 total

Maya Angelou

May we always be graced with your thoughts, As you have now left such things go. Yesterday was our time with you, And now we all travel well feed from your repast of life...

by Nelson Jacobsen

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America is Freedom

We awoke to a live bad movie on TV and then the scream, another one just hit! I was getting my first cup of joe. What was that and how did it happen? Is anyone alright? Back in front of the screen the whole family staring then crying at the scenes...

by Nelson Jacobsen

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Pulpit to Soapbox

When did religious leaders step down from their pulpits
to get up on the soapbox?
Will they now allow elected leaders to speak
from the holiest of holies to pronounce economic...

by Nelson Jacobsen

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Hero before Victim

We cannot know anything that they felt before, during, and ever after. How could anyone?

Beyond fright, flight, and terror comes a few to answer a call. This is not a dream or a movie They are...

by Nelson Jacobsen

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As Goes the Angels

There was a bright star that burned first light because an Angel
was reborn into light.

For we that are left to see the results of your acts,
and for we that were
left who choose to see that you...

by Nelson Jacobsen

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Who wrote the poem 'My Shadow'?
A Sylvia Plath
B Robert Louis Stevenson
C Edgar Allan Poe
D Maya Angelou