Best Nunnery Poems

A Chinese girl I took to a nunnery

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I led her
Her silent leg-irons cutting into my shins
That day when the air stood still
Dry as the day...

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'Twas God's cradle, not a stork, that carried her to earth
A babe nestled in God's loving hands prepared for birth
Still enraptured by heaven's spirit, feeling...

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NUN FUN IN THE SUN

There was in hot Tashkent in the orient
A religious uprising - a  convent dissent.
Army was ordered in with gunnery,
The soldiers...

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Sister Josephine, our neighborhood nun.

No longer fit for ministry; 
although she’s quit the nunnery,
she sits at our day camp nursery.
Go Jo uses every amp of...

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R and R

Fan those palm fronds a little faster, boys
As I recline here in dignified poise

I’m Cleopatra, your Egyptian queen
I require the most sumptuous cuisine

Not...

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"In the 1840s, two sisters fall in love with the same man.
             ...

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At Tintagel
by Michael R. Burch

That night, 
at Tintagel, 
there was darkness such as man had never seen...
darkness and treachery, 
and the unholy thundering of the...

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Costa Rica 

In Puerto Lemon I met a girl, back then there were 
many girls in Puerto Lemon, only she wasn’t of them,
she was the...

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What's a matta Rick?
Get tired or sick
Bored of your board?
The chore you adored

Now left for a ghost
No more here to post
Left for all but dead
Did...

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The days of the year has quickly flown by
collecting aspects of serenity in the clouds, 
for passing storms to stir the tremulous sky, 
and try...

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As a lactose intolerant
     cow whirring lion eye zing
dual (Banjo playing) Manichean
     ("FAKE") keen man womanizing,
faux nymphomaniac...

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A world that’s filled with anger,
corruption, hate, and poverty,
sometimes in the midst of this
there is one heart warming story.
It’s usually where there’s sadness,
and when the...

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They were all screeching about the robbery
as if it were important, some kind of stupid catastrophe 
Their screams and whines and wails began to trickle...

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Not so dear DT:

Many voices have avoided asking you
obviously challenging questions,

Like, "Why?"

I have a different
but related choice question:

Ten years from 2020 revision,
would you rather be...

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(to the tune of "Joy To The World")

For "A Christmas Carol Contest"
12/17/21

And here's the thing,
Set aside your bling.
Make life the worth of it all.
And tell...

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