Adorned with jewels, embroidered silks and golden staffs
Richly garbed shepherds strut in their ornate robes.
Cynical, stuffy and pretentious, these popinjays are
Holdovers of regal times, a tradition ingrained into the
Bureaucracy of the church, selling salvation like a reality show.
In today's world, there is no place for such extravagant
Superfluous displays of pompous ceremony.
Heads of the church, Archbishops need to drop the image
Of anointed Lords over their flocks, and with humility, tend to the
Poor troubled souls Jesus entrusted to their care.
(Acrostic)
02/10/2020
Archbishop Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
Categories:
archbishops, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Acrostic
An archbishop was seen by me only on TV or at the movies.
Rather an uncouth character played the part of an archbishop
Critical outlook on a respectable title but that is Hollywood for you
Hierarchy would place individuals of this caliber to being pope
Being absent to catholicism, my view is based on an edited version
I hope the proof is near for a weight of pomposity sparks curiosity
Some measured austerity by the lowly masses is an amicable need
Hope that the meek will assure their necessity to maintain focus
Only they can keep the lineage of the church as being their life origin
Popes (archbishops) will stand next to paupers on judgment day -- titleless.
2020 February 05
Archbishop Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
Categories:
archbishops, religion,
Form: Acrostic
Pope embarassed, clergy disgraced,
twenty year mission, lost in space
Angels discovered, (LGBT group with wings)
warm in the stable, cherubim sings
Turin Shroud faker, waits pearly gate,
will his deception, decide a grim fate?
NASA confounded, confused and reeling,
funding withdrawn for project supreme being
Millions starve while archbishops get fatter,
martyrs revive, to discuss the latter
TV preachers line their pockets, blaming
zion for failing rockets
Somewhere, nowhere Jehovah watches,
smiling strong at earthly botches
Sends down for men, new commandments,
guilded words without transendence
Only one instead of ten, simple words
etched out for men, read quite clear the
Meaning’s plain,
DON’T SEND UP A ROCKET AGAIN!
Categories:
archbishops, funny, god, religion,
Form: Verse