Best Parishes Poems

You will begin to see yourself as spiritual support for all the
Good work being done 
Through your parish if you can stay away from the...

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Am I dead or dreaming? Lightfoot and scheming.
My head is full, I’m not sure which persona is in charge.
Have taken strong opiates, many too illegal...

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All of us,
or nearly all,
have had both spiritual experience
and some religious teaching,
sometimes from prophetic pulpit ScriptureSpeakers
and sometimes through more maternal StoryTellers,
and all immersed in prodigal...

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When Katrina came calling,
Lady Blues brought some 
Miami Hurricane bad news
Green Dolphin Street pain parade
went Mardi Gras wind marching
down to the delta swamp of Nawl...

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XMAS TRADITION

How I longed for the Xmas tradition we celebrated when I was growing up.  The Xmas tradition that still lives on; but we...

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The beacons of Caribbean ray
Made sunlight spins across this hot day 
The heat arrives again between lush trees 
Shedding their plump clothes leaves.
 
With dangling...

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I finally finished retiring four years ago,
a process that started in my mid-fifties
due to late adopting kids with special needs,
including needs for me to be...

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As the climate for liturgical celebrations
evokes the sacredness of the most High,
God, who is the author of life and love,
enables everyone to give worship to...

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Lights Out


When the lights are on your right here
When the lights are out you disappear,

Lights are back on  but you are gone
Why did you...

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Poor soldier Andrew Jackson who
Attacked the British after peace 
Was signed three weeks before at Ghent.
Unnecessary bravery 
Is no less admirable for that.
He waves to...

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O’ in the laden light
Sparks the fire,
Its attic
Cathedral of fire shall not burn down
A blazed, all consuming fire;
Chard concrete, statues, bricks ignite;
Heavens, angels tear cry...

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Blank faces all around
People posed smiles before  but it’s no more around
Everything I hear are just wicked laughs
Sinister laughs when brothers stabbing one another...

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From the memoirs
he smiled
laughing evil
might his cohorts
agree
an evil smile
upon his burlapped
face he opened
his eyes to see
he offered
Crabgrass and Brier wreaths
with ragweed pollen as gifts
I am...

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Eroding names 
on long-faced headstones.
Graves marooned
in a patch of the past
while 2019 blares unseeing
around the forgotten lot.

An old-fangled America
tucked between gas station and strip mall,
a...

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Eroding names on long-faced headstones,
a small graveyard marooned on a patch of past;
long rooted and confined while beside it
2022 blares unseeing past the forgotten lot.

An...

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