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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 3 - Advanced)
Topic: Lock and Key (08/21/14)
Edward Allen Bee

Prim and proper businessman
Was Edward Allen Bee.
Dignified with self-esteem
He lived a life worldly.

Tall and trim and blue-eyed,
Suave and debonair,
Moustache trimmed so neatly,
Charisma everywhere.

His life, a bowl of cherries,
Power at his stand,
Stature with his colleagues,
Success was in his hand.

Trophy wife with two sons,
Suburban home all new,
A Homes and Gardens showpiece
Nestled in a valley, too.

Everything was perfect
With Edward Allen Bee.
But, secret sin consumed him,
It was under lock and key.

One day the TV broke down.
The cable went awry.
It was so irritating;
They called the cable guy.

The fix-it man discerned it.
It was the connecting cable.
So, he prodded ceiling tiles
By standing on a table.

Like manna from heaven
Magazines, posters, and books
Tumbled from the rafters swiftly,
So the crowd gave Bee bad looks.

Scattered on the fancy floor
Were pretty, naked ladies,
Pictures bold and lustful
Right from the pit of Hades.

Edward’s face turned bright red.
He gave his wife a frown
For all that dirty porno
That secretly fell down.

He looked at her in shame, disgrace.
He loved pornography.
A sinful worldly pleasure
Trapped distinguished Edward Bee.

Despite the way we hide sins,
The holy Lord sees all.
He lets us go along our way
Until we blindly fall.

God rescues us from our sins
When we call upon his name.
Repent and ask forgiveness
Be freed from guilt and shame!

Forsake the sin that binds you.
Don’t live in captivity.
Don’t risk your reputation
Like Edward Allen Bee!
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Brenda Rice
08/29/14
Very nicely written with humor and truth. I like it a lot.
C D Swanson 
08/29/14
I enjoyed this piece! Good info and message.

God bless~
Toni Babcock 
08/30/14
Perhaps you will get a chance to read this at a Christian poetry slam - great use of rhyme, and great lesson here.
Shann Hall-LochmannVanBennekom 
08/31/14
This poem told an interesting story that kept me riveted the entire read. There was one point when he looked at his wife and I thought the pornography belonged to her. That would have been a brilliant twist. Most people don't think of females liking porn. I still liked the way you handled it though. You did a nice job of building the suspense about his secret. It may have been a tad weak on the topic (even though you used the topic words, I would have guessed the topic to be secrets or sins), but the message was clear and strong. We all try to hide from God sometimes, but he knows our hearts better than we do. Nicely done.