Best Mitre Poems
Life Is Like a Chess Match
..."Life is like a chess match
To win you must be swift and able to maneuver
Yes, life and the chess match are very much the same
Once the king dies, no others continue the game" ......
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Categories:
mitre, evil, god, life, philosophy,
Form:
Free verse
Antique Store
...I took my periodic stroll through the local antique store today.
I stumbled over things and stepped 'round clutter to make my way!
I looked for clocks - found none, but saw many things I could do w......
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Categories:
mitre, funny, old, old,
Form:
Rhyme
Earth-Woman
...I am woman and I have borne the Torah on a gold cloth
over my shoulder.
I have consecrated its dust-leadened parchment,
cradling the scrolls into temple darkness...
clicked-shut the doors, saddened......
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Categories:
mitre, christian,
Form:
Free verse
The Physician
...At the end of a dry, harsh August, as
Autumn slowly descends upon Whitechapel,
I begin my vicious practice.
From Buck’s Row to Hanbury Street,
I make each house call brief.
My methods most prec......
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Categories:
mitre, abuse, crazy, gothic, murder,
Form:
Lyric
Oh Death
...Oh Death, grant me organic mirth
Return to earth ‘neath lifeless moon
Undo the tendrils that hold sway
Allow embrace of Mother’s womb
For I am now but skin and bone
Freed from the angst of mem......
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Categories:
mitre, dark, death, life,
Form:
Sonnet
The Snake Charmer
...
He dresses in robes, carefully coiffed
He enters the nave, mitre is doffed
He preaches a tale, to eager sheep
He fleeces their wool, his tithe to keep
He blesses the flock, they’......
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Categories:
mitre, allegory, satire,
Form:
Rhyme
God Meant Need His Consent
...what God may have meant
will always need my consent
give up things for Lent
(Mitre Box)
we would search and search
for place where new priest can perch
God gave us a church
when born mus......
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Categories:
mitre, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Haiku
The Epitaph of An Unbeliever
...Where would you like to be buried they asked
Well really that’s not my concern
It won’t bother me if I’m under a tree
Or stuck on a shelf in an urn
Tell me what kind of a casket you’d like
Ca......
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Categories:
mitre, funeralme, music, me, music,
Form:
Couplet
The Pompous Ceremony
...The lightly fizzing mood
I've felt all day
and fenced within a grin
is at odds
with the stoppered
solemnity of this pompous
ceremony I've had to attend
and is becoming harder
to hold, slow......
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Categories:
mitre, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Somewhere
...The mitre of us
We live, due by our own rules
Skeptical beliefs
Tender tawdry tantrums
Misty colored trifles......
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Categories:
mitre, age, allusion, dedication, wisdom,
Form:
Tanka
Old Soul
...In that we are all a vassal to age
no sceptre or mitre can set us free,
and no fealty can old time assuage
or rail against its synchronicity.
For ever decreasing circles besot
the cog......
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Categories:
mitre, age, life,
Form:
Sonnet
Murphy's Law of Government
...soundbyte politics
mitre box propaganda
angles distorted
Peter Principal vitae
all cutters from rotten cloth......
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Categories:
mitre, america, anger, betrayal, cancer,
Form:
Tanka
Spring In the Air
...Spring Is In The Air
Seasons changed as revolutions circled in the wider scheme
of matter with great things to come and wonders gone past
Summer in unforgettable rays of foam covered ocean spe......
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Categories:
mitre, beauty,
Form:
Free verse
An Atheist Shakes the Bishop's Hand
...The ring depicts a promise of fidelity.
I smile as you stand in your cloak.
That headgear is the symbol of the tongues of fire.
I smile as you receive that formal mitre,
while that pastoral staff......
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Categories:
mitre, christian, god, religion,
Form:
Free verse
I Know You Wont Believe Me, But
...Good morning my dear, are you still awake?
Yes, I know it's quite late but let me make
it quite clear its not entirely my fault,
I was caught in the rain by the Old Town Vault
and the windscre......
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Categories:
mitre, drink, humor,
Form:
Free verse