Best Baptists Poems

...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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...If all of you out there are good Boy Scouts
Better be sure to eat your brussel sprouts
And have hog jowls along with some grits
Even if someone said Shallotte is the pits.

In church basement, B......

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...Day lilies assorted and bright
With flox flowers purple and white
Crisscrossed expanses of soft green lawn
Thus was my first April day born
Palm branches the worshippers brought
Lining staircases and......

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...Chasin’ Lighting – In Honor of the CUA Crew!
Several rickety rides held together with the faith of the ages,
Sages some might say, turnin’ pages of things old and things new, 
The chosen few, ridi......

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...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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...'Tis said that God loves all His creatures great and small.
Here are just a few of them - I can't begin to name them all!
He loves us one and all the whole world wide from A to Z!
His steadfast lo......

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...Baptists and Boy Scouts

So have you heard the latest scoop;
Baptist Church has told each scout troop
Gays aren't good for church anymore
And people about Baptists are really sore.

God said, ......

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...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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...•	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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...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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...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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...Welcome to the new millennium
Seven years in the making.
Forever forsaking.
Every year touted as the last one on earth
Yet we all know the worth
Of a dollar.
Holler if you hear someone knocking......

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...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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...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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...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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