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Best Heresy Poems

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My Heresy
I like my God much better than the one
who made his home up in the stratosphere
and favored us with visits now and then,
harrumphing down below...

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Categories: heresy, religion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member I Am Not Brave
How brave the amaryllis is
emerging naked from the soil,
an umber golden spear to pierce
the heresy of August air.

I am not brave like pilgrim bulbs,
though planted...

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Categories: heresy, color, flower, metaphor, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Avian Legos
...to the finessed fowl
humming by my ear      tell me
Did anyone ever tell you
just how glad they are
to have you here?

Poignant...

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Categories: heresy, animal, appreciation, beautiful, bird,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member The Poet
THE POET’S PANEGYRIC

“There’s someone I knew with talent unleashed
and a heart that had for so many relentlessly reached
This poet sought inspiration from the living and...

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Categories: heresy, life, words,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Maid of Orleans
Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace...

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Categories: heresy, christian, conflict, courage, england,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Yellow Press -
He undresses rumor to reveal lies
this is how the desperate man cries,
Extra Extra he tries to sadden ya,
a bundle of rancor rambles from the shambles...

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Categories: heresy, bullying,
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei
Often went out of his way
To explain helio-philosophy
In return he was accused of heresy. 

 
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Categories: heresy, math, philosophy,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Seed of Destruction
Father of all bombs when dropped 
five times greater than the mother 
Where a fallen angel's dance begins 
fornicating with matter darkening subjects 
through and...

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Categories: heresy, abortion, anti bullying, bereavement,
Form: Political Verse
Joan of Arc, For God and Country
Joan of Arc – For God and Country

On the feast of the Three Kings was born,
a baby girl, in 1412, under the sign of Capricorn....

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Categories: heresy, christian, courage, destiny, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc

HE speaks, and messengers appear
To innocence of one so young in year
The calling understood, she will not flee
Till France is free of English...

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Categories: heresy, faith, history,
Form: Couplet
Mending Words
Contrary let’s have a conversation  
Let’s speak to euphemisms 
And pregnant letters of anagrams 

Sentencing fixation declaring persona non grata
Heads chopped for Eskimos 
Sensing...

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Categories: heresy, words,
Form: Epitaph
Joan of Arcadia
Just a small village girl in such a big world
Feeding the animals in the quite fields
Smiling and singing, laughing too
Joan of Arcadia sang songs for...

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Categories: heresy, adventure, history, spiritual,
Form: Light Verse
Whiskey and Philosophy
One tall and gaunt with hooded eyes
The other bearded, bent, time-worn and wise
They relished unfurling their intellectual sails
To seek secrets of wisdom on ancient gales

Two...

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Categories: heresy, dedication, fun, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Sun Shines On the Righteous - For Contest
There was a cloud hung over him
a presence, an impending doom.
He seemed one lightning strike away
from enlightenment - or entombment.
Haunted by the stigma of divine...

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Categories: heresy, abuse, innocence, religion,
Form: Sonnet
The Trial of An Innocent Soul
“SHAME ON YOU
HERETIC
THIS BLASPHEMY YOU CONSPIRE 
MAKES ME SICK
YOU PLAY WITH THE DEVIL
AND DO NOT TELL ME YOU DO NO SUCH THING
YOU SUMMON DEMONIC SPIRITS...

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Categories: heresy, history, religionme, me,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs