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Best Idolatrous Poems

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An Involuntary Shudder
VII.

An involuntary shudder as I watch her 
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Categories: idolatrous, myth,
Form: Rhyme



Battle of the Gods
In Monolithic monuments are the bringers of the derelict dawn
I see many idolatrous idols, forged in ancient bibliothecal Babylon
Within worshipful winds, that carry words of...

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Categories: idolatrous, abuse, desire, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanksgiving Testimony
Lord, thank You for saving…
…my condemned life that was bound to hell
By Your grace, excelling compassionately well 
With Your redemption* so that in heaven I...

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Categories: idolatrous, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Manic Depressive Climates
Depression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair 
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by...

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Categories: idolatrous, beauty, culture, depression, health,
Form: Political Verse
Do Not Follow Me
DO NOT FOLLOW ME

Me, myself and I
Get the likes you try
Addicted to self and my
Inflate yourself a lie.

Do not follow me
I don’t pretend to be
Nothing,...

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Categories: idolatrous, anxiety, baptism, bible, christian,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Patriotism As Anti-Otherism
Paul Tillich wrote 
"nationalism hates and must always hate Judaism and prophetic Christianity."

When he spoke of nationalistic patriotism
he was thinking of fascism,
as the logical conclusion
of...

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Categories: idolatrous, earth, health, history, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Broken-Hearted Caressing Sorrow
Broken-Hearted Caressing Sorrow



Where do you bring a broken heart, damaged dreams that won’t depart?
Where do you go when things fall apart, serving silent screams a...

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Categories: idolatrous, depression, heartbroken, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Dump Trump the Demagogue Hitler Reincarnate
Countdown to Armageddon precariously hinges 
   potential apocalypse outcome, mere smattering days away
if the brazen, fierce-some dragon doth don 
   trumps...

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Categories: idolatrous, allegory, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Engaging the Family Laundry
Perhaps infertile
incomplete
unwashed memories
of elder v younger,
Goliath v David,
crusades v communion
critical, yet part of chronic, events
speak extended family disengagement truth
to powerful dirty laundry engagement failures.

That disclaimer...

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Categories: idolatrous, culture, destiny, games, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Feeling the Accountant's Rumble
Earth resounds rational
restoring harmonic faith
in an omnipotent universal
double-entry accounting and governing
ego-eco balancing system
WinLeft only to also WinRight,

And cooperatively researching
EgoYang/EcoYin positivenergy co-relations
co-incidents
co-arising WinHealth-WinWealth--
further revolving health/wealth multicultural...

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Categories: idolatrous, caregiving, health, humor, math,
Form: Political Verse
Tyrants of the Ruling Sun
Tyrants of the Ruling Sun

Let the universe swallow my slaving soul
As the sorrows surround the sinking shoal
The light lingers before it falls on my face
Edacious...

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Categories: idolatrous, depression, heartbreak, loneliness,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member You and Your Breeze
You
with your breeze
enjoying our trees.

Relationships,
even with breezes and trees,
are always political,
include a power variable, exchange
to influence behaviors and minds,
with a preference for both,
total captivity
including economic...

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Categories: idolatrous, beauty, creation, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Idolatry
An Aryan Christ under glass
Is beaming his charity down
As Emma thinks "This too shall pass.",
Regarding the heart of her frown.

Beside Him a handsome young man
Smiles...

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Categories: idolatrous, image, pain,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rights of Justice
When criminal justice
is not also decriminalizing mercy
it is also not social
or even economic justice.

When political power
is not also self with other empowering
then it is also...

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Categories: idolatrous, culture, health, political, poverty,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Greengay Advocate
When I was about twelve
I began to see my future
as a ruthlessly effective
overpoweringly sublime advocate for justice 
as global peace outcomed and measured,
As a courtroom...

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Categories: idolatrous, adventure, health, journey, life,
Form: Political Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things