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I'm just a Christian country boy from Swansea Mass.

  November 2023     10 hours ago

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Still the children cry.

Still, the children cry. 

I can hear the children crying in the middle of the night. They whisper in my ears the things I fear and never want to hear. They're here from the past to ask me to help them at last. Furthermore, They all told me a...

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Time.

Time. 

Put out the sun. Pull the stars from the sky. The universe has ended. My soul has died. The pain in my heart forever will stay. I longed for your love. You walked away. But I will always love you at the end of every day....

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The diamond pendant.

The diamond pendant.

I gazed at the diamond necklace around your pretty neck and gave little thought to what I bought. As I lay on the couch in a vacant mood, my inward eye could see your beauty and ruby-red lips, which made me Bliss with...

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The little boy in school.

I was old schooled.

I thought I was cool when I left school. I never learned the golden rule. Then I said to myself, What a fool! Why did you leave school? So I played it cool and took some of the tools I needed to survive. That is the only...

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The poet and the painter.

The poet and the painter.

As i watch as you write your poem's it's like watching a painter; only the painter uses a brush and paper. It still remains the same, sooner or later. Isn't the word teardrop and the painted picture of a teardrop drop...

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mine you have to run and hide it's all drugs and guns.

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My problem is sometimes my past creeps into my poems. I like your style better. Thanks for the vote.

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My poems turn into half stories. Sometimes you have to get them out.

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I don't have the beat thing you do. Lol

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I want to know about Paris. I hear it's a romantic place is this true?

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I'll take this one.

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you either have it or you don't. But I can see you have it.

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Beautiful piece of work. You should get a mug with her name on it. Thanks again for the vote.

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Thank you for the vote.

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I love the way you rhyme. That's one thing I'm not good at.

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I'm just sitting here thinking,

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my life is not a pretty one that's why I can write these poems.

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Beautiful piece of work.

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there was a real steel door but it wasn't in the woods.

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most of my poems are true it's about my real life.

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