Best Feast Day Poems

Ah for the love of our Lord. Many folks don't understand
 what is meant by the "Immaculate Conception".
    
 I too at...

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Plates break to pieces
Guests bite fingers
Hosts cry dry tears...

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Soon it will be a cold winter's day, 
hot chocolate is great for any holiday. 
I want to go out and play, 
let's go riding...

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Curl of smoky streaks
Joss stick messages;
Heaven bound

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Temple visit
Feast day moments;
Talk to the dead

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Bright Hill Temple
Where rites bring peace;
Family gathering

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Temple verandah,
Spacious prayer courtyard;
Surreal this heaven

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Closed eyes...

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As the church celebrates your feast day
known as the Immaculate Conception,
we're grateful for your intercession,
to be part of your Son's redemption.

Preserved from original sin,
a grace...

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Material life in the Material World:

Duality in every direction:
As Heaven above is,
So, the earth below:

With every delicate, red, mysterious rose,
A proverbial, wounding thorn ...


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Suburban splendor:

A...

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soft flames flickered offshore
Timucuan tribal campfires
luring Menendez’s armada

Feast Day of St. Augustine 1565
Spanish settlers rowed covertly to shore
more than 600 torches ushered in a new...

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Whenever in the company of his trusted friends
St. Paul Lafargue had always said:
"I sure hope I never get a sainthood someday
- That would be supremely...

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The blind night lay down in feet
to go outside there is no need
I walk in my deserted place
I have no rest without our grace.
The pain...

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It’s not just bricks and mortar
Nor a distant memory 
But the ground roots of our livelihood
And our future destiny. 

As this place prepares to close...

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"Jesus said, 'Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, let him renounce the
world.'"

   --- The gnostic Gospel of Thomas, Saying 110

"Jesus said, 'If...

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Saint John of Rila
Father John –
I have no bread
(short is the bread daily)
And the Lestvitsa* -
so long …
Longer than a thought
and shorter than a peal
of...

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Temple bells
Echo fond longings;
Feast day prayers

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Old room
Memories collide;
Touching time

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Brief vacation
Island paradise;
Getaway trip

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Loft sanctuary
Stillness percolates;
Quiet recluse

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Children's playbook
Tales to tell;
Fond distraction

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Sad glimpses
Earthquake disaster;
Desperate moods

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Evening escapade
Banquet feast;
Wedding celebration

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Stillness...

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There was a giraffe
living somewhere in the savannas
a nightmare was its confusing life
laughable its appearance
   Bits of its head dotted the body
the tail...

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Here is Jesus on the great feast day
the finale as He speaks to the crowd
there were those of all types and persuasions
thinking of themselves great...

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