Best Lion Tamer Poems

I have fought you in tears for years,
useless in our abuse, an excuse for entertainment
at the merriment of no one save we two
and we knew the outcome, always the same
the shame in the unfought defeat, fresh meat
for the masses to feed on and laugh at...

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Be it cage or court
A tamer is needed soon
Mom out of money 

The crooked lawyer
More fierce than a Lions whip
Fearless Judge needed

To rid politics
Must decide in child's behalf
Who gets the short stick?...

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Today, three years too late - almost - I read a short, insightful article by Daniel Henderson ("Holy Spirit ... Come? Or Control?" 2019(c) Daniel Henderson). I am so thrilled. I have good help in explaining New Testament theology.

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Thank you Daniel come again
Yes. For me:...

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There once was a lion Tamer named Mead
He taught his lions to cook and to read.
Taught them to bake
Broil their steak
And grow vegetable garden from seed

One took him to court on a Tuesday
Because he forgot to teach him to pray
So he sold them
To old guy...

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Given an impossible task to vigorously chase

Based on something nobody else wanted to face

With no support expectations were delivered coldly

Blindly thrown into the thick of things to navigate boldly

I’m the one who manhandled the lion down a back staircase 
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we pass through the gates
we pass the kindergarten with it's colourful play area
we pass the primary school with the din of laughter 
we pass the middle school with the hubbub of whirlwind psychosis 

we are hit with the high school building
we are hit with wild...

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