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Best Marys Poems

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I Held Marys Hand
I Held Mary’s Hand 

I held Mary’s hand as John covered his face,
So still,
At Peace,
Faded are the slapping sounds of the whip against his flesh,
Gone...

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Categories: marys, angel, baptism, bible, easter,
Form: Free verse



The Marys Were Picked
The Mary’s Were Picked

“It must be our lucky day, 
We’ve rolled the stone away!”...

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Categories: marys, angel, easter, jesus, mother,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Confessional
"Hail Mary full of grace"
These words you demand of me
as I sit here in this dark box
confessing 
crying
talking to your shadow
Eyes that never meet
I am...

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Categories: marys, angst, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Fang Decay
Dracula needed dentures,
That's the story I've been told
The man was getting up in age,
Nearly seven centuries old!

He refused to see a dentist,
While losing his fatal...

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Categories: marys, funny,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Bloody Mary
In the flickering of the ethereal candlelight, as the greenish blue flame
Burns dimly against the ancient mirror of reflections, the necromancer
Chants in rhythms rhythmic undertones,...

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Categories: marys, fantasy, halloween, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse



Two Little Boxes Part 2
A wedding ring and locket
Were the only things inside
Two pictures in the locket
Of a husband and his bride

Trembling hands replaced the gold
And re-tied all the...

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Categories: marys, caregivinghusband, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Policing, Post-Revolution
We called the police
  but no one came
We tried 9-1-1
  it wasn't the same

We placed a request
  for a social psychologist
Who showed...

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Categories: marys, bullying, change, death, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member An Easter Story
At the last supper He declared,
"One of you is my betrayer".
They questioned Him and each  denied
Then all joined in song and prayer.
Mount Olive was...

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Categories: marys, angel, angst, jesus,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member The Olive Tree
In this new century of our Lord
The gardener planted the young tree 
Placed in garden of Gethsemane 
An olive to the knee

Around two thousand years...

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Categories: marys, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Emptiness
A few Our Fathers
and a dozen Hail Marys
in an empty church...

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Categories: marys, christian, prayer,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 3rd Luminous Mystery
Sign of the Cross
Our Father
3 Hail Mother Marys
1st Luminous Mystery

Our Father
10 Hail Mother Mary's
Glory Be…
2nd Luminous Mystery

Our Father
10 Hail Mother Mary's
Glory Be…
3rd Luminous Mystery

Our Father
10...

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Categories: marys, christian,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Kaleidoscope
"Kaleidoscope" 

They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy 
and far removed from 
such an alien world,
would not possess the...

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Categories: marys, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Resurrection of Christ
Nailed to a wooden cross he died.
   Lord Jesus Christ was crucified.
   A crown of thorns, King of the Jews.
 ...

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Categories: marys, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sinful
SINFUL

we like spaghetti
think pope     his mouth, gown red stained
we say hail marys...

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Categories: marys, humor,
Form: Senryu
For My Deep Thinking Friend Who Is Coming To An End of Things
I came to see you at the remodeled hospital
there were bright tiles, statuary Marys, and assorted saints
"full code" was on the door.
We talked about your...

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Categories: marys, friend, friendship, sorrow,
Form: Elegy

Book: Shattered Sighs