Submissions by TIG
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Poet Introduction
I am not a poet, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express once
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
18th Apr 2019 2:08pm
18th Apr 2019 2:08pm
Easter bunny
When we think of Easter,
we think about the Bunny
But hares do not lay eggs
That's what makes it so darn funny
They have their broods in litters,
sometimes they have one or two
Sometimes they have a dozen
depending on when they're through
We go back to Festival of Eostre,
the goddess of Fertility
Thought the bunny was most adequate
for applicability.
Not every country celebrates
with 'The Bunny' as we do,
some times they celebrate foxes,
or birds they...
we think about the Bunny
But hares do not lay eggs
That's what makes it so darn funny
They have their broods in litters,
sometimes they have one or two
Sometimes they have a dozen
depending on when they're through
We go back to Festival of Eostre,
the goddess of Fertility
Thought the bunny was most adequate
for applicability.
Not every country celebrates
with 'The Bunny' as we do,
some times they celebrate foxes,
or birds they...
#funny
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4 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
6th Apr 2019 7:11pm
6th Apr 2019 7:11pm
He is Risen
One day your riding into town
On an donkey, with the crowd cheering
Representing the hope
This could be great, but its not. ( Mathew 21:1-17) Palm Sunday
Five days later
You are carrying a cross
With the crowds calling for your death
This could be sad but its not (John 19:16-42) Good Friday
Save our people ( Jeremiah 31:7)
Thinking small
Taking away the sins of the world (John 1:29)
That is beyond comprehension
Overcoming death (John 11:25-26) HAPPY EASTER
That's eternity
Matthew 28:6
On an donkey, with the crowd cheering
Representing the hope
This could be great, but its not. ( Mathew 21:1-17) Palm Sunday
Five days later
You are carrying a cross
With the crowds calling for your death
This could be sad but its not (John 19:16-42) Good Friday
Save our people ( Jeremiah 31:7)
Thinking small
Taking away the sins of the world (John 1:29)
That is beyond comprehension
Overcoming death (John 11:25-26) HAPPY EASTER
That's eternity
Matthew 28:6
#Easter
#God
#Christian
#faith
#redemption
584 reads
4 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
5th Apr 2019 11:33pm
5th Apr 2019 11:33pm
Ode to my Father
He was a marine, with a heart of gold
sometimes his language was quite bold
He tried to teach, and not to scold
I pray to be like him, as I get old
The Depression/ war, were part of his life
He loved his children, adored his wife
Raising five, can bring much strife
his humor cut us up, like a butchers knife
His gregarious laugh echoes in my ears
he put in forty, blood ,sweat and tears
finally retired, from his career
sadly to only make it, 3 more years
Thirty one years ago today
his heart gave out, he passed...
sometimes his language was quite bold
He tried to teach, and not to scold
I pray to be like him, as I get old
The Depression/ war, were part of his life
He loved his children, adored his wife
Raising five, can bring much strife
his humor cut us up, like a butchers knife
His gregarious laugh echoes in my ears
he put in forty, blood ,sweat and tears
finally retired, from his career
sadly to only make it, 3 more years
Thirty one years ago today
his heart gave out, he passed...
#love
#father
#family #heaven
#family #heaven
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3 Comments
LOVE POEM
Published
29th Mar 2019 5:04pm
29th Mar 2019 5:04pm
Came in a dream
You came to me in a dream, just the other night
it's as if you did not recognize me, it did not feel right.
You sat upon a bench, confused and looking pensive
You looked at me with eyes, appearing apprehensive
The only thing I knew to do, I bent and whispered in your ear
"I love you Mom" and backed away, I am not sure that you could hear
I felt as If the dream was ending, and I was being pulled away
I turned around, very slowly, just in time to hear you say,
"What was that you said to me?" now her spirit was breaking through
Her countenance with an...
it's as if you did not recognize me, it did not feel right.
You sat upon a bench, confused and looking pensive
You looked at me with eyes, appearing apprehensive
The only thing I knew to do, I bent and whispered in your ear
"I love you Mom" and backed away, I am not sure that you could hear
I felt as If the dream was ending, and I was being pulled away
I turned around, very slowly, just in time to hear you say,
"What was that you said to me?" now her spirit was breaking through
Her countenance with an...
#love
#death
#rhyming
765 reads
10 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
4th Mar 2019 6:05pm
4th Mar 2019 6:05pm
Good Morning Lord
A day like no other, none are the same
a day of forgiveness, for all to lay claim
This day, You have given, for us to increase
Your word on our lips, it gives us such peace
You expand our capacity, to go and love others
sharing 'Your Love', with our sisters and brothers
How much of Your wisdom could we possibly learn?
Your grace and forgiveness, there's no way to earn
Give us your eyes, so sweet be the view
make our hearts, mind and spirit, rejoice in anew
Focus our minds, and make small the distractions
encouraging people, through the...
a day of forgiveness, for all to lay claim
This day, You have given, for us to increase
Your word on our lips, it gives us such peace
You expand our capacity, to go and love others
sharing 'Your Love', with our sisters and brothers
How much of Your wisdom could we possibly learn?
Your grace and forgiveness, there's no way to earn
Give us your eyes, so sweet be the view
make our hearts, mind and spirit, rejoice in anew
Focus our minds, and make small the distractions
encouraging people, through the...
#God
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7 Comments
MISCELLANEOUS POEM
Published
17th Jan 2019 5:52pm
17th Jan 2019 5:52pm
We all have walls
Written for the "Walls" competition
If there were a wall, around my whole house,
I could regulate who comes in and goes out
Yet I use gates and fences and my borders be known,
my humble abode is mine, which i own
Criminals, trespassers, always exist,
So these barriers are only there to assist
Deterring, who that might enter unlawful,
Does not make me or my motives so awful
My family, i give this type of protection,
For love of them all, not for your rejection
Leave your door open for any to come?
Then get ripped off and...
If there were a wall, around my whole house,
I could regulate who comes in and goes out
Yet I use gates and fences and my borders be known,
my humble abode is mine, which i own
Criminals, trespassers, always exist,
So these barriers are only there to assist
Deterring, who that might enter unlawful,
Does not make me or my motives so awful
My family, i give this type of protection,
For love of them all, not for your rejection
Leave your door open for any to come?
Then get ripped off and...
#respect
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11 Comments
STORY POEM
Published
14th Jan 2019 4:58pm
14th Jan 2019 4:58pm
'B'eing
From Boston to Montana,
wearing a bright blue bandana
in a boxcar of bovine I rode
strumming my benevolent banjo
with brevity, gave a hand-show
during a brush with this noisy cargo
wearing a bright blue bandana
in a boxcar of bovine I rode
strumming my benevolent banjo
with brevity, gave a hand-show
during a brush with this noisy cargo
#funny
549 reads
13 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
11th Jan 2019 5:03pm
11th Jan 2019 5:03pm
Loving myself
Your love is without end and I am falling deeper
My mind is filled with swirling euphoric feelings
I can not resist you and want to submit myself
I do not ever remember loving like this
My trust in you is growing and profound
I want more of you and you continue to give
I feel so safe within your magnificent presence
No feeling of being abandon or betrayed exist
Letting me feel good and grand beside you
With your grace and wisdom no feelings of anxiety
Your promises are always fulfilled without hesitation
When guilt creeps in you slay it...
My mind is filled with swirling euphoric feelings
I can not resist you and want to submit myself
I do not ever remember loving like this
My trust in you is growing and profound
I want more of you and you continue to give
I feel so safe within your magnificent presence
No feeling of being abandon or betrayed exist
Letting me feel good and grand beside you
With your grace and wisdom no feelings of anxiety
Your promises are always fulfilled without hesitation
When guilt creeps in you slay it...
#love
#God
#gratitude
949 reads
6 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
10th Jan 2019 2:56pm
10th Jan 2019 2:56pm
A solders prayer
Submitted to MadameLavenders
"Through The Alphabet: Letter A" competition
Please give me forgiveness, for I can not make amends
Let me worship you in your glory, help me appease my guilt
aglow are the fiery battles of my life, extract me
And with the arched end of your anvil Lord
I pray that you shape me in your Holy image
Give me strength to avoid all sin, break our anarchy of faith
"Keep me as the apple of your eye
Hide me in the shadow of your wings "(psalm 17:8)
In April when discharged, bring me safely home to family
and not...
"Through The Alphabet: Letter A" competition
Please give me forgiveness, for I can not make amends
Let me worship you in your glory, help me appease my guilt
aglow are the fiery battles of my life, extract me
And with the arched end of your anvil Lord
I pray that you shape me in your Holy image
Give me strength to avoid all sin, break our anarchy of faith
"Keep me as the apple of your eye
Hide me in the shadow of your wings "(psalm 17:8)
In April when discharged, bring me safely home to family
and not...
#atheism
#faith
#spiritual #redemption
#spiritual #redemption
548 reads
8 Comments
SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
22nd Dec 2018 1:32pm
22nd Dec 2018 1:32pm
Who he made me to be
When I see the reflection of me staring at me
I wonder what the Creator wanted me to see
Did he want, me, to desperately make, me, look better?
Cause what He created could always be greater?
Why would he make me so in-completed?
"If I had those features", then how good I'd be treated
Those clothes they complete me, just like 'they' wear
of course my breast must be bigger or I need facial hair
for if I could speak with such deft and ease
then I'd be so popular, i think everyone agrees
Maybe bigger muscles, or beautiful long wavy hair ...
I wonder what the Creator wanted me to see
Did he want, me, to desperately make, me, look better?
Cause what He created could always be greater?
Why would he make me so in-completed?
"If I had those features", then how good I'd be treated
Those clothes they complete me, just like 'they' wear
of course my breast must be bigger or I need facial hair
for if I could speak with such deft and ease
then I'd be so popular, i think everyone agrees
Maybe bigger muscles, or beautiful long wavy hair ...
#God
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4 Comments
UPBEAT INSPIRATIONAL POEM
Published
11th Dec 2018 6:07pm
11th Dec 2018 6:07pm
I brought this on myself
Sitting here bleeding out
something good must become of this
of my own free will
I brought this on myself
The nurse looks at me with gratitude
her hands busy controlling the loss
I am not a hero I know this
people next to me in the same condition
I want my life to mean something
anonymously I may never see
At least I have my health
for how long none of us know
I will be courageous even with the pain
A little needle stick
a half a liter, I'm done, I just donated
That was not so bad,
something good must become of this
of my own free will
I brought this on myself
The nurse looks at me with gratitude
her hands busy controlling the loss
I am not a hero I know this
people next to me in the same condition
I want my life to mean something
anonymously I may never see
At least I have my health
for how long none of us know
I will be courageous even with the pain
A little needle stick
a half a liter, I'm done, I just donated
That was not so bad,
#kindness
#courage
#gratitude #healing
#gratitude #healing
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SPIRITUAL POEM
Published
20th Nov 2018 5:17pm
20th Nov 2018 5:17pm
revelations
My heart trembles when I feel you, well up inside me
what will happen now, what will you have me see
Will it be a revelation, of monumental sorts
or are you just going to love on me, and keep it very short
I may be confused, for just a moment or two
I am listening inside my head, but only want to hear from you
My own noise will soon stop and begin to fade away
Then very gently, I will start to hear, and feel what you say
A comfort and a sense of peace, my heart begins to yearn
I can sense the truth inside me, my soul, it can now learn ...
what will happen now, what will you have me see
Will it be a revelation, of monumental sorts
or are you just going to love on me, and keep it very short
I may be confused, for just a moment or two
I am listening inside my head, but only want to hear from you
My own noise will soon stop and begin to fade away
Then very gently, I will start to hear, and feel what you say
A comfort and a sense of peace, my heart begins to yearn
I can sense the truth inside me, my soul, it can now learn ...
#God
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11 Comments
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