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Best Mother Superior Poems

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Premium Member Resolutions
I've made a decision, a drastic solution
So I don’t have to make a New Year’s resolution

This year I’ve decided to become a nun…
My ‘habit’ will...

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Categories: mother superior, celebration, humorous, new year,
Form: Rhyme



The Brother In- Law Part Ii
The Brother In- Law Part II

christine asked Christian - what are we going to do now?
Christian answered - I will take care of you. I...

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Categories: mother superior, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Protection of Their Own
Alma Mater in denial
Beckons proof of terrible sin
Congregation gather to witness
Defrocked disciple
Endeavours to catch her and hear 
Flagellate in fear of the hounding.

Girl on a...

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Categories: mother superior, confusion,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Sister, Sister
Mother Superior faced a daunting task,
Like no other in her forty years.
She had prayed it simply wasn’t so,
That Holy intervention might belie her fears.

But sadly,...

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Categories: mother superior, angst, confusion, drink, funny,
Form: Rhyme
And Then There Was Nun
A young Monk was feeling inferior,

and so with a motive ulterior,

        the Monk and a Nun,

  ...

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Categories: mother superior, funny,
Form: Limerick



Wham Bam Slam I Am Not Worthy
If I suffer from an affliction 
If I stutter
If my grammar is gutteral 
If the words I utter
Failed English at School
Sorry I am not cool
Pity...

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Categories: mother superior, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Fleeting Moment
A fleeting moment I possess
I tend to obsess
condense my sight to the obvious sightings
I'm beyond inferior to proposals and promise of wedding bells
unable to compete...

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Categories: mother superior, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Peanut Butter Strike
THE PEANUT BUTTER STRIKE

In my last year at school I was made a prefect,	
Why I don’t know for I was no model scholar
But thinking back...

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Categories: mother superior, humor, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Strange Ways, Here We Come
“Strange Ways, Here We Come”




the devil’s advocate
came waltzing 
through my doors

“I had no choice”
the supercilious harbinger said,
“to intervene, to parlay away

something 
not 
mine

now 
you're 
doing...

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Categories: mother superior, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Before the Firing Squad
“Before The Firing Squad”



the firing squad 
came dressed
in faux smiles

the intervention cake 
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior

to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity

she wore the...

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Categories: mother superior, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Neophyte
Neophyte
What can I say the pot plants in the yard are fed tiny rain drops 
saintly tears of a girl rejected by the abbess to...

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Categories: mother superior, anger, career, class,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member A Convent Girl
A CONVENT GIRL  

This is the girl,
Who’s in a whirl,

Who came to the, Convent,
Looking despondent.

This is the nun,
Who’s highly strung,

Who started to lecture,
In spite,...

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Categories: mother superior, school, teen,
Form: Couplet
To Be What My Lord Would Have Me Be
I don’t want to be a king 
I don’t want to be a knight 
I don’t want to be an emperor 
I don’t want to...

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Categories: mother superior, bible, life, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
A Letter To My Mother
From dusk to dawn 
Sunrise to sundown
This I will never forget 
Your kisses that always left me in a comfort 
And a bliss that no...

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Categories: mother superior, cry, death, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Dorothea Gift of God
she was only too aware that her own conception had been maculate

it had been not been a virginal birth and yet a blessed gift from...

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Categories: mother superior, abuse, allah,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things