Best Expiation Poems

I feel myself going rigid
You don't need to tell me, darling
It's my body after all 
I feel myself going quiet
Like I've never known what is...

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Chill winds surge atop placid lake
Reflections of rapture shattered 
My hope of redemption laying in shards
Tears flow, dreams end in desolation

A tempest beats against the...

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~The Greatest Show from Hell~


A circus quietly drifted through our town,

causing everyone here to curse the ground–

where they toiled to set~up their ghastly show.

They passed...

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Visions Beyond the Horizon

The doctor incised the umbilical cord, the nurse held him by heel,
They waited; the baby cried not; the nurse nudged and he...

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Scintillating muse providing inspiration
Jettisoning convention for innovation
Scuttling old patterns without expiation
Countermanding discourse with new creation

Alternating rhythms for lofty oration
Imbuing myths with crafty animation
Ennobling verse with...

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One day's magic


One day's time and a magic wand,
Determined I am to take a firm stand,

An end to abhorrence and indignation,
All will take up self...

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It could simply be a midnight musing,  
where these ears are not! 
A life floating in NAY-Nay sound  
is also a simpering one,...

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The
hand
extended

was
our
remedy,
death

being
everyone’s
curse.
Adonai,
making
expiation,

furnishing
life
eternal,
sacrified
himself.

—————

expiation - removal of sin
Adonai - literally, ‘Lord’, one of many names for the Godhead

for the Christmas Poetry Contest
sponsored by Bobby May
written on 12/15/22...

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Hell

       sinners are destined
         for inferno domain or hell,
  ...

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You are..

The first hour of morning delight
A lonesome afterglow of twilight
A fatigued afternoon, slowly passing for only an hour.
You are..
All day round a maple leaf,...

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Synthetic satisfaction derived in the shade
On the edge of the page that defies the sage stage
Where wear and tear declare war to degrade the head
That...

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  In the shade and slip of paternal seas,
a daughter dwells, known to all,
consumed in thought by maternal deceits.
  Angel's flared bells blow...

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Still, halfhearted I see, for a blossoming may
I am an audacity, yet underneath in serenity, oddity
I shall be someday, grandiose, someone
I shall be, some day,...

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The Holy Temple came into play in a very big way
  When Rosh Hashana fell on the Sabbath Day
Nowhere else were permitted shofar blasts
...

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As you know, I am fasting today 
And fasting was never a lighter chore for me 
Craving sugars, coffee mugs, all those, all of these...

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