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Best Deacons Poems

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Deacons and Funerals
Bringing spiritual togetherness
Congregation being the witness
Heaven’s call to soul’s come home
A place of rejoicing of an everlasting roam
The congregation giving a reflection journey
Deacons conducting the...

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Categories: deacons, bereavement, body, character, christian,
Form: Ballad



Floating.....
Wish I could have taken better 
Care of my body... 
Wish they could have stopped 
the cancer sooner... 

I'm just a spirit now, 
Floating over...

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© Dennis Lee  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deacons, black african american, death,
Form: Epitaph
The Deacon's Feet of Clay
The Deacon’s Feet of Clay  

By Elton Camp

At the fundamentalist church, Larry is a deacon
As a truth-teller, he’s thought a shining beacon
“It is the...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deacons, funnycity, integrity,
Form: Rhyme
Lets Be Civil
im awkwardly facing an officer, dont know what to expect
will we both jump the gun and start a civil unrest
will the tone of my skin...

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Categories: deacons, america, anger, change, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
The Diary of a Decons Daughter
Growing up as innocent as a New Born child Knowing no Wrong About the world. I Found My self Falling..... looking for the love of...

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Categories: deacons, women, me, self, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Bring Relief
Bring Relief

When there are so many mouths to feed 
Missionaries and Deacons we do need
With so much energy, they do express
We must try to straighten...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deacons, religious,
Form: Couplet
None Denominationist
* NONE DENOMINATIONIST *                     ...

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Categories: deacons, lovepeace, peace,
Form: I do not know?
Pass the Plate
ever wonder
who's to blame?
everybody's god, the same
honey and novocaine
everybody's god, the same

the oath rests bedded in blood
the sun sets swollen this eve
stand tall, my son
pass...

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Categories: deacons, teen,
Form: I do not know?
Cover Ups
The Cardinals Birds Will Sing

Lying to yourself about this and that
a higher power knows
About the: this and that
The makeup and the cover ups
The cardinals will...

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Categories: deacons, christian, confusion, dedication, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Christian Hypocrites
THERE ARE SO MANY PREACHERS TRYING TO BE TEACHERS BUT INSTEAD THEY ARE LEACHERS.

LYING,CHEATING AND CREEPING AROUND LIKE A SNAKE IN THE GRASS COVERING UP...

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Categories: deacons, life, religion, people, people,
Form: Personification
The Last Time That God Lost His Faith
I was there, the last time that God lost
His Faith. Admittedly, since the death 
of His Son, there have been a few bad 
years that...

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Categories: deacons, bible, god,
Form: Free verse
Red Hot Tar
Grandma told it well.
Some missionaries
Visited her dad –
He was one deacon.
Everyone listened.

He let them teach.
All about God
And the iron rod
Deacons complained

Threatened him
Their mob came
Red -hot...

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Categories: deacons, family, gospel, memory, men,
Form: Diminished Hexaverse
Asides Within a Last Breath
Three lying deacons 
swim in a handbag -
and a lone, celibate pastor 
paces longingly bemused.
Michael, the Arc Angel, 
poses silently,
in dusty Gabbana drag,
cursing the lipstick-painted...

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© John Heck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: deacons, introspection
Form: Free verse
There Are No Heroes Without the Herd
Each year
I met September
with its calico seals of Samhain
slain in a fair death 
and bled by symptoms of naked hours
and loneliness.

I shivered with
a strange dread,...

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Categories: deacons, introspection
Form: Free verse
Bruce Jenner, Wheaties Winner
Bruce Jenner, Wheaties Winner

Can you imagine Bruce Jenner being a Wheaties winner
Becoming a women wanting to be much thinner
With quite a fine, attractive, adorable face
Wearing...

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

Book: Reflection on the Important Things