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Best Compline Poems

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Nightly Compline Service
do me a favor
Jesus my mighty savior
make me become braver
And make me start watching 
nightly compline.

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku



Orpus Dei
ORPUS DEI
It is the hand in action of dei
Via et epiclesis unus mysterium fidei
The hand that makes all feels great
He is God and ever is...

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Categories: compline, faith, religion,
Form: Didactic
Poke Than Provoke and Broke
Would Poke Than Provoke Until Broke

had heard when they poke
potential was to provoke
would do until broke

we read about Jobe
was wild when he wore a robe
earing...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Sanctuary
Bird chatter echoes mutual greetings
psalms reciting Other’s praising morning light
promising their co-enrapture of return
before light fades to dusk this night.

Birds echo cathedrals of tree majestic...

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Categories: compline, bird, earth, health, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In Our Distant Circle
Once upon time's center
grows two permaculturing farmers,
multicultural mediators
of Earth's healthy polypathic remainder,

And, surrounding them,
seven elders
and their cheer leading mascot
of disabling foolery

Arriving each spring
in his wheeled...

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Categories: compline, appreciation, creation, farm, health,
Form: Political Verse



Horn Haiku Splendid Ended
Horn Haiku Splendid
Wish it had never ended
really intended

always will exhort
having to go to court
paying child support
(selling myself short)
(trip had to abort)
(taring down the fort)
(ship sank...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Horn Haiku Explanation
I like it. And thanks for that information about Haiku's

On Fri, Mar 18, 2022, 8:08 AM james horn  wrote:

like nightly compline (5)
which to me...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Horn Haiku Splendid Ended
Horn Haiku Splendid
Wish it had never ended
really intended

always will exhort
having to go to court
paying child support
(selling myself short)
(trip had to abort)
(taring down the fort)
(ship sank...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Say Thinks
your life set
never forget
you were a bum
and some
now your  ahead
have a soft bed
well school
plenty   food
so don't compline
just
SAY THINKS...

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Categories: compline, faith, hope,
Form: Light Verse
Not Feel Well In Holy Hell
My Latest Horn Rhyming Haiku

COVID in Boston
so left and went to Austin
gas much was costing

COVID has been why
emotions at all time high
patience short supply

seems like...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Summer Saturdays
On a Michigan farmer Saturday
in August,
anticipating tomorrow's evangelical Sabbath,

When late summer vacations
invoked pre-sacred house cleanings
more unusually light,

Heading outside after lunch
into this spectacularly breezy
blue billowing
discontinuously cumulus...

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Categories: compline, creation, earth, farm, health,
Form: Free verse
Super Haiku By Horn
might be meticulous
trump tried (Never true) and ridiculous
and conspicuous

can hear my compline
which I know will be so fine
God let it by mine

a traumatic match
corona virus...

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Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Church Pledge Information
We will be continuing our pledge of $50 monthly and dedicate
time for choir practice and 2d Helpings. Choir Practice was
normally from 1730 to 1930 or...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
Doves Do Things That Seem So Strange
Doves do things surely seeming so strange;
Can hear them cooing at their convenience;
Will see them waddle while seeking food;
When doing this they may be there...

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Categories: compline, allegory, analogy,
Form: Ballad

Book: Shattered Sighs