Best Orthodox Poems
Greek Orthodox Sacramental AnointmentKyrie eleison priest says
Water important and priest prays
At baptism, chants are incessant
Lord have mercy for those present
Child is beautiful, twelve months old
Godparents, traditions uphold
Undress child, it's fear transparent
Lord have mercy for those present
In font, oil added to water
Placed in water is goddaughter
Oil with...
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Categories:
orthodox, water,
Form:
Kyrielle
Eastern Orthodox Coasterssingle malt sanity, sanitized, ionized,
with a little communion salt.
sprinkle replace, sprinkle to taste,
sprinkle with haste to the holy face.
yet still ground balsa wood icons
perfectly semitrical work to preserve
lesser linoleum countertop grains.
Like in winona minnisota where the...
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Categories:
orthodox, autumn,
Form:
Blank verse
Orthodox ExperiencesI was bruised by dogmatically non-evangelical
Christ monotheistic Jehovah judgmental bad faith
of divine powers
equally entitled
to generously create love
and selfishly act out of jealousy
divine punishment for unfaithful sins
of worship omission
and secularizing commission
Prescribed and proclaimed
by the inspired
and kleptocratically negotiated
Greek
and Latin
and English transubstantiations
of AnthroSupremacist visions
monotheistically speaking
and singing
and dancing
in not-dark-female...
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Categories:
orthodox, addiction, health, integrity, nature,
Form:
Parallelismus Membrorum
In the Name of the Father, the Son and Holy SpiritIN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND HOLY SPIRIT
Born and baptised in the Greek orthodox faith,
Often went to church with my dad at the Anglican
Church, kissed the Pope’s ring when he visited
The Convent, all the way from the Vatican,
Held a key...
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Categories:
orthodox, faith, religion,
Form:
A Prison of FreedomLocked up behind iron bars
in retribution of regret.
Sinner beasts with criminal scars
in isolation of dust and sweat.
Handcuffed like a bird in cage.
in a cruel, concrete captive box.
Prison guards killing precious age
confined in shackles of orthodox.
Thank God! ..we are not...
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Categories:
orthodox, age, bird, freedom, future,
Form:
Rhyme
SAPIENTIA, after an 8th Century Latin poem
O, Sapientia, Mistress of Our Soul,
Effulgent glory of eternal light
Spin the wheel of life that you govern
Ordering all within the moonlit night.
O come, fairest Sapientia, lead us into day
With saving hand, on heaven's sacred way....
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Categories:
orthodox, bible, blessing, faith, mythology,
Form:
Rhyme
Modern RomanceModern romance
The girlfriend's father
You can plough with him...
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Categories:
orthodox, angst, anti bullying, break
Form:
Senryu