Best All Saints Poems

From the everyday hubbub I have often fled
to share the stillness enjoyed by the dead.
Over chimes that mark the quarter and the hour
noisy Crows play hide and seek around the tower.
Cross beneath the arch and through the gate
to those here bearing witness to our fate.
Marked...

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Walking down to cemetery
with their pretty chrysanthemums,
the people talk their way to graves.
They hang out, if they want, all day.

With their pretty chrysanthemums,
they do make a pleasant picture -
one for Selfies if they have brought
cell phones up to cemetery.

The people talk their way to graves,
but...

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Today’s feast is All Saints day.
Do you have any friends there
With whom you’d like to pray?
Ask them to say one for you.
They will, you know.
They always do.
They know where we’re at .
They’ve been there too.
They’d love to give us a hand
And guide our way through.
Today’s...

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No more labeled by one's admission
Once a man's earthly life ends in
The place waiting for some negotiation
The creator there accepts All Saints

No one would be rejected in the end
No matter the stay by willing or causal 
His mercy still grant a chance for retreat
All saints...

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This All Saints Sunday, names were read,
The newly born, the lately dead,
The names of those who were baptized,
The names of those lives finalized.
God's blessings stamped on everyone,
Lives that are gone, lives just begun.

We must aspire to live our lives
As more than mothers, fathers, wives,
So that...

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"Alas, ancient Celtic festival of Samhain; 
When people would light bonfires; 
And wear costumes to ward off ghosts,
Yon fearsome hosts;
Halloween oh! Hallowe'en,
Also known as All halloween, 
All Hallows' Eve, 
All Saints' Eve, 
Celebration observed in several countries 
On 31 October
The eve of the Western Christian...

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Misty shadowed hosts
          ghastly wisps of fortunes past
                    moonlight from the dead...


     Halloween...

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There was a scary witch from McTeer
Who said she would skip Halloween this year
The world was scared aplenty
From this year twenty twenty
And that they'd probably run out of fear

10-7-20
Syllables :10-10-7-7-10
Contest: Halloween Inspired Limerick
Sponsor : Tania Kitchin...

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I see you have eaten my All Saints food
And destroyed my celebrating mood
We were to acknowledge all the dead
I may add you to that list instead

We were to bless the dead and martyrs
And now I have no food for starters
Then since you ate it all...

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Acolytes light the candles
As the pastor reads each name
For newly dead or new baptized,
The candle size the same.

I know some faces watching
Are glistening with tears.
For newly born or just departed,
There's a span of a hundred years.

The youngest saint with a lit candle
Has a life just...

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Dancing near the fire of the candles burning
She finds the eyes of the Lord looking in her
Angels all surround the heavenly glowing
Where the lamb and the champion as one confer
They all sing and bless her soul within her heart
Wishing that she will never go and...

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How lovely is the dwelling place
Where  saints and blessed ones rest in grace
Peace, joy and love overflowing
While we on earth here are groaning

Each one wearing a crown of glory
For vices conquered, each one has a story
Their faces shining, resplendently glowing
With angels guiding us in...

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Dia De Los Santos

On all Saints Day I’m impressed to see
Old Ford’s, cherry bombs and Chevy’s
In support of Dia De Los Santos
Together peacefully ever so tighter
Meet the Generation X Lowrider...

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Perhaps, as time goes by, I will achieve
my wishes, three of them, to be precise.
Since we have met on chilly All Saints' Eve,
my first one is a heart as cold as ice.
The second is a fire in my loins
as burning as the thirst I cannot...

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The dead-end street in front of the house
is still, and I notice leaves have fallen.
The roommate said last night no one
came here for trick or treating
and now a cold wind blows.
I just moved in here yesterday.
I’m starting my life again.
A cold wind blows and I...

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