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Best Clergy Poems

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Premium Member The Butcher Came
The butcher came for the sheep
                   the...

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Categories: clergy, angst, bullying, conflict, courage,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member We
E Pluribus Unum ~  Out Of Many, One

[Author's note: E Pluribus Unum is a traditional motto of the United 
States, but the scope of...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clergy, career, life, planet, together,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O' Wheel of Fortune
My heart shrivels dry, blackened rose in bitter anguish, ...
 Do you feel my pain? 
   Why must the flame of day dwindle...

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Categories: clergy, musicme, me,
Form: Narrative
I Shudder To Think
I SHUDDER TO  THINK 

I  shudder to think about the way 
Some  vegetables are  abused every day -
With physical  and...

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Categories: clergy, funny
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Holy Humor
Jehovah's Witness' Door Pamphlets

Pious
Fly-ahs

Catholic Church During Halloween

Scary
Mary

Scrabble Night With Missionaries

Wordy
Clergy

Preacher Owning at Dungeons & Dragons

Master
Pastor

Our Holiness the Dalai Getting a Text From His Ex

Lama
Drama

Sea Anemone...

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Categories: clergy, faith, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: Footle



Premium Member It Is a Sin
It is a sin
for Gregory to be a miser
even to himself
accumulating infinite fortune
with a half-bedroom to show for it

It is a sin
for miss Zane to...

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Categories: clergy, inspirational, life, pain, people,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hypochristians
They say to worship to get back into church
That all I need do is fall to my knees and repent
Then all this personal pain he...

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Categories: clergy, angst, death, life, people,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Quotable Quotes
Don't count your days, make your days count for lost time is never again found.
If you want to see rainbows don't stare at the ground.

When...

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© Judy Ball  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clergy, inspirational,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Ember
Oh, my Inglenook my Inglenook
a whole life time spent within thee,
my name is Ember 
I create patterns 
of dancing shadows
a need to be stoked constantly....

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Categories: clergy, senses,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Greenearth Patriots
All organic parties
committed to EarthTribe
as My HomeTeam
could become EarthPatriots
experiencing every day EarthDay;
which, of course 
we are revolving through
together,
more resiliently 
than ecopolitically polarizing
AnthroSupremacist Apartheid.

Speaking from our...

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Categories: clergy, earth day, education, green,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Write Each Day
Write each day to stay alive
this is my task with the pen
to etch mere words upon the page
an exclamation against the dread

lest the slope becomes...

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© Sean Green  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: clergy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Occult Niche
Once, inquisitors would torture a witch
and strip her naked down to the last stitch.
And fear in the people reached fever pitch
encouraged by the clergy and...

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Categories: clergy, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Pass the Trash
PASS THE TRASH

Poem sure to sound familiar,
Catholic church scandal recall.
Pedophiles bounced just everywhere,
predator list … kept  growing tall.

Clergy, priest but now teachers, are
problematic in...

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Categories: clergy, child abuse, school, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Hi Storm
In mania, the body unbinds itself.
The skeleton’s dense marrow becomes hollow,
an avian adjustment. It is accelerated evolution.
Fluttering and floating in a slew of thoughts
like nervous...

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Categories: clergy, brother, drug, forgiveness, hope,
Form: Free verse
The Day the Eagle Cried
We will never forget exactly where we were, 
	We will never forget exactly what we were doing, 
		We could never forget the loss we felt...

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Categories: clergy, day, death, friendship, lost,
Form: Epitaph

Book: Reflection on the Important Things