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Best Officiated Poems

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Premium Member Retirement Due To Health Issues
The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years;
He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears!
He had baptized...

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Categories: officiated, humorous, religious,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Game of Hockey
The Game of Hockey 

By Government decree, lacrosse
Is Canada’s national sport,
But in the hearts and minds of Canadians,
Hockey rules supreme.
Hockey is a winter sport enjoyed...

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Categories: officiated, hockey, sports,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Year 2012
With two months left to go, in the year of 2012, I must not be too complacent.
However the first ten months have brought much joy...

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Categories: officiated, wedding, wedding, beautiful, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Pains In Health Plan
Jimmy Kimmel talked about his son
who was born with a heart disease. 
Representative John Vaso voted
against Affordable Care act that
would have supported a woman
with a...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: officiated, allegory, analogy, political,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member K375 and K376 of Canto Xxxviii of the Thirukkural With Commentary
K375 and K376 of Canto XXXVIII of the THIRUKKURAL Translated with Commentary

(Biographical details of an author, especially of someone having thrived in a land given...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: officiated, fate, life, nature, people,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Wartime Wedding
You would've labeled it a shotgun wedding,
if you'd seen how we rushed it,
snagging the license on Friday morning
and exchanging vows that same evening.

No white dress,...

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© Cona Adams  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: officiated, war, wedding,
Form: Narrative
Our Wedding Vows
page turning suspense filled the vaulted sepulchral air
   ushering the veiled spouse to be
while afar off trumpets did blare
   (arranged by...

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Categories: officiated, happiness, inspirational, uplifting, men,
Form: Elegy
Our Wedding Vows
page turning suspense filled the vaulted sepulchral air
   ushering the veiled spouse to be
while afar off trumpets did blare
   (arranged by...

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Categories: officiated, happiness, inspirational, uplifting, men,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member The Story of the First Couple
Hear ye!!!  This story so amazing
That keeps my heart blazing
About love on truth-pasture’s grazing…
Authored by God Whose compassion revives midst hatred’s freezing.

This is the...

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Categories: officiated, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Contract
A piece of paper it’s true
The spirit or intention  be a shield
The meeting of the minds
Between parties  is one 
Witness and signs
And officiated...

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Categories: officiated, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Golden 2
It is undoubtedly true. At times I doubted that we would pull through.
Remember this: Although the journey is difficult, within site is destiny.

Not far from...

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Categories: officiated, family, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Commonality
As Easter approaches, a treasured memory surfaces.
While the commuter trains rolled by a few blocks away;
While the stadium of the Chicago Cubs prepped for baseball;
A...

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Categories: officiated, christian, community, jesus,
Form: Narrative
Royal Family Husband
The Meaning of the Nikah Ceremony:
The Nikah is a religious ceremony for a Muslim couple to be legally married under Islamic law. It’s a Prophetic...

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Categories: officiated, blessing, family, soulmate,
Form: Heroic Couplet
Premium Member Goodt' Mourn'Ink
let be...the pressures
of mind...
as...traces of

a yesterdays...
lateness of...even-ing
your calendar...sit

please...andt
listen...to
your mourning...as

this mornings tempo...radio
programme plays...some of
the most...relaxing

classics...written
for...the years
to come andt...gone by

that...v'welcome you
to my...morning
v'world of...a v'wakening

mind...v'what be
your thoughts of...this
officiated...

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© Sand Blown  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: officiated, absence, cheer up, future,
Form: Free verse
Upon Our Yours Truly and His Missus Exchanging Holy Matrimony Vows
Upon our (yours truly and his missus) exchanging holy matrimony vows

Ultrasound allowed, enabled
and provided obstetrician to zoom,
image courtesy sonogram
showing fledgling fetus,
thus we pledged our troth...

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Categories: officiated, adventure, age, anniversary, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

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