A message of Love and redemption
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On the cross, Jesus hung for all to see
A sacrifice for every soul, a gift to humanity
He died for Catholics, Baptists, and all in between
For every denomination, His love was the theme
He ca...
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Categories:
baptists, 9th grade, allegory, bible,
Form: Epic
Weekend Memory
...TYROL TRIP
Forty Christians from Southcourt Baptists,
Skiers,good,novice & the inactive;
On the flight from London-Heathrow,
Trusting Italy was full of snow.
Huddled in a coach past Trento,
D...
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Categories:
baptists, nostalgia, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Skiing the Trip
...Forty Christians from Southcourt Baptists,
Skiers,good,novice & the inactive;
On the flight from London-Heathrow,
Trusting Italy was full of snow.
Huddled in a coach past Trento,
Disembark in ...
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Categories:
baptists, nostalgia, vacation,
Form: Quatrain
Tyrol Takeaway
...TYROL TRIP
Forty Christians from Southcourt Baptists
skiers good,novice & the inactive
on a flight from London-Heathrow
trusting Italy was full of snow
Huddled in a coach ...
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Categories:
baptists, christian, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Many Rain Drops So Going Stops
...there are ten rain drops
Hundred Baptists to church stops
going and floor mops...
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Categories:
baptists, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
He Gave Her a Book
...She Gave Me a Bible
My mother-in-law, gave me the love of a mother.
A woman that dared to be different from any other.
She loved deeply and held every single one of us
to h...
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Categories:
baptists, books, mother,
Form: Free verse
Miss Ruth
...A God-honored teacher, Miss Ruth Vance
His gift to our town, His circumstance.
No replacing her bulging tote bag -
It was priceless, minus the Gucci tag."
and now the rest of the story....
T...
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Categories:
baptists, 11th grade, christmas, halloween,
Form: Clerihew
Eyeballing the Bar Flies
...Chet lived creepily in the back of the tavern, hidden.
No one bothered him. He lived vicariously through the others.
The pretty barflies who flitted in chatting too loudly.
Flipping their hair. H...
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Categories:
baptists, longing,
Form: Prose Poetry
Need a Drink of Water Cactus a Footle- -
...So hot this drought
actress actless
active status
campus fratus
student madness
Kansas baptists
tactile stratus
plastic, mattress
so hot, need drink
lactose liquid
fractus, c...
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Categories:
baptists, analogy, anxiety, appreciation, drink,
Form: Footle
The World Gone Haywire
...Global warming
Polar bears do not have a name for it
They have not read about it in Geographic
But they are dying anyway
Pollution of our oceans
Whales are turning up dead
Animals are swallow...
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Categories:
baptists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Control Connoisseur
...• She was a control connoisseur.
• Her hair was afraid to move.
• Church ladies called her daily to ask permission
• To move a basket of flowers
• To open the Baptists' refrigerator
• To use the...
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Categories:
baptists, humorous,
Form: List
Priest Who Uses a Pacifier
...Priest Has Great Looking Hair
Hair looked great when Priest used dryer,
He has become known as prudent pacifier;
With long feet;
Voice so sweet;
Loved choir while wearing their attire.
Choi...
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Categories:
baptists, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Dream Sanctuaries
...I dream into my Ta(0)ist
not-Universal Yang equals
not-Unitarian Yin
Sanctuary,
expecting to be greeted
by visions
of familiar spiritual apartheid.
But I am not.
Instead,
communion in this...
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Categories:
baptists, dream, earth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
Anointed
...The Church needed to be reformed
and now we have thousand denominations
of alienated Christians and many other religions.
Are they any better or just diluted
or even worse than before,
on...
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Categories:
baptists, spiritual,
Form: Verse
Catharsis, Baptised Or Not
...Ask not the place.
Electric guitars in time.
Inherit not rights.
Greasing heavens door.
Furthermore my love.
Set your hair not in a hurry.
John the Baptists neck,
Dawns break in a worry...
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Categories:
baptists, philosophy, society,
Form: I do not know?
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