Best Homily Poems

In those days, when we feared the truth

not for ignorance of it within ourselves

but for the dangers posed by speaking aloud
 
against the prejudices of masses too well-tutored

in lies and hatred, we kept our secrets

and hid among the crowds, assuming

their rabid colorations, spewing the same

evil...

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Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But Whiskey makes you frisky.
Clerihews and epigrams are fine but
Do not tell these to one lost in love
Except when you mean to cheer up one
Fevered with temporary  amourous setbacks.
Gift them the gift prized by one and all
Humour - evoking...

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I am vulture
My soul case may be repugnant,
However, I have every sawbones decimal
On my speed dial
Before any croacker decrees justice
On a soul case,
They confer with me

My logbook contains a docket
Of every Golgotha and slaughterhouse on the planet
I am on first name basis 
With every casket...

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Time echoes and resonates 
without language,
successfully invests 
in green ecstatic backdrop,
below misty blue sky

Spotted and splashed Earth space,
blossomed in round yellows and spindling purples
soft blues and flaming orange

Fragile
naked moments of fully fertile tone
bilateral shapes and colors

Flagrant erections 
of next generation's timely hope
for full-hued health regeneration

Perennially...

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A Sweet Homily 

The lavender scent on the fallen dew
 Treasure the moments that brought things a new
 Inside we pause to reflect over the kindness inside
 Soft pillows to claim the ardent fields a new
 A sweet homily in search of a passing few
...

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C oronation of lights
H eralding holiday rites
R inging bells guests invite
I llumined halls festivities incite
S ongs of carolers enliven dark night
T ales of Christmas ghosts by candlelight
M aterial aspirations pocketbooks slight
A ltruistic gestures to those with poorer plight
S piced nog, decorative cookies palates delight...

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The saints are wailing again
Rhapsodies too for sinful man
Since every heart is drunken with guilt
These holy fears washing the land
Swamp the drains, flood the pond
Pastor shamed indoors since yesterlight
Makes several tries at love everlasting
Which sweet friction the springs protest
In loud parody discordant
The eaves,the tiles have...

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Lights
Crackling embers serenade the hearth
Twinkling lights symphony to the heart

   Tree
Shapely Tree signifies an organic symmetry
Burnished decorations denote a cultivated empathy

   Wreaths
Embezzled twines commemorate primitive instincts
Embossed twigs celebrate a nurtured path

    Spirits   
Crystal glasses shelter our warmth
Spiced brandy shivers our senses

   Carols
Yule tide carols enshrine...

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A shapely Spruce or Cypress to dress 
A coiffed girdle the base to caress

String of lights bristling foliage to redress
A twinkling symphony to luminesce

Pristine pine cones providing a rustic essence
Gilded ornaments to infuse decadence

Frothy snow exhibiting a natural opalescence
Silver icicles streaming a fabricated opulence

Baked Gingerbread men...

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The homily

At the church entrance
Beggars line up when the sermon is over
The parishioners in the warm feeling of faith
Give beggars coins.
God’s work be done. 
The cripple gets up and leave...

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Twas daybreak as this bright morn I rose
Greeted at breakfast by my darling Rose
A brief time together as by seven I've left
Out to the garden, the street and then left
Along cobbled paths where the dogs bark
To work as the foreman, my order to bark
The abattoir...

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preacher sing me your song
          deceive me not    
           behold,behold me
            ...

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What brings you here?
LOVE.  HATE.  FEAR
of life - death
or the interim?

Do you wish to pray?
Together
             Six        feet       apart

What...

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An unsupplied Nigerian family,
Often cited in advisory homily
And likened to the ones in Galilee,
Though unable to mark its Golden Jubilee,
To God began a supplication,
Veritably a formal letter application
For an easier catching of Daily Bread
That often made it see red:
The 2024 African Cup
For Nigerian Hands to...

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