Best Parochial Poems
Free Falling
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"Free Falling"
You have to believe in Magic
to believe in the poetry of You
If you don’t believe in Magic
you are nothing but a black line
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Categories:
parochial, christmas, family, journey, life,
Form:
Free verse
Xenodochial
... Quote:
"Xenodochial (pronounced zeena-doh-key-ul) means to be hospitable. Making others feel at home is truly an art. When you can make your friends, family, and even strangers feel as if th......
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Categories:
parochial, analogy, appreciation, character, friendship,
Form:
Rhyme
It Don'T Matter
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Come close, come closer ...
let me bend your ear, my estranged countrymen
It don’t matter to me
if you’re a Democrat or a Republican
Your political persuasion
is of no concern of mine
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Categories:
parochial, perspective, philosophy, political, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Is There An Exclusive All-In-One Principle
...‘ In general, quantum mechanics does not predict a single definite result for an observation. Instead, it predicts a number of different possible outcomes and tells us how likely each of these is. ‘......
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Categories:
parochial, philosophy, death, art, dark,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Dead Crush
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"Dead Crush"
Oh uplift me woman
if we were to have a
conversation would
bees fly out of your mouth
or just mewling, simpering
watered-dow......
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Categories:
parochial, courage, freedom, women,
Form:
Free verse
Bloodshed In Myanmar
...The sky is red by the blood being shed
The conscience of civilized world asleep
Where in the world is humanity being lead
Here is a corpse there is a throat cut deep
Vultures are feasting, dogs devo......
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Categories:
parochial, conflict, death, faith, horror,
Form:
Rhyme
Sister Elizabeth
...Incomprehensible are the
Petty landmarks that linger in a person's life
It happened so long ago
That I'm surprised I still remember.
In St. Thomas' parochial school
When Sister Elizabeth held a......
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Categories:
parochial, lifeschool, sister, longing, school,
Form:
Narrative
No Bigger Than a Baritone Horn - Part I
...Round about nineteen 1971-2, yours truly bid adieu
to Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
(situated at crossroads – then beau
colic rural routes of Evansburg Road and Ridge Pike), where nary ......
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Categories:
parochial, growing up, hilarious, life,
Form:
Free verse
My Ode To the Netherlands
...Beneath Australia’s expansive sunlit sky, I recall the patchwork quilt, where my life began
12 provinces united, one country created; uniformity resists when anthems unite the parochial clan
From st......
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Categories:
parochial, dedication,
Form:
Couplet
What Keeps Me In the Race
...I can still recall the past,
replete with wounded memories;
questions and issues spilled over
and beyond those bounds which made me down.
They may be deep in reality
but, they taught me how to be st......
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Categories:
parochial, hope, imagination, introspection, life,
Form:
Pastoral
Osmosis
...Autopilot tired
broken wings
sore in soaring flight
fluttering, down-spiral
clouds streaming beyond fog
drowsy
then,
three barrel rolls
swirling through silver light
simulcast storm shakes black t......
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Categories:
parochial, beautiful, deep, fantasy, freedom,
Form:
Narrative
Reply From the Nonexistent
...please tell me ...
what happened?
what dire damage have i wrought?
what did i do to ruin it, that friendship, rare?
you once knew me better than most ...
my darkness didn't frighten you,......
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Categories:
parochial, friendship, loss, memory, missing,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Pesky Poppycock Payback Please Prepare
...Prevarication permits pretend perception, presenting
piquantly piqued, pimply pimping playboy, plucky
pulchritudinous previously pusillanimous, prevalently
puckish, psychic packman, pokemon playin......
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Categories:
parochial, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Haiku - Kindergarten
...gap-toothed, gray suit
lacy socks, haircut by mom
— parochial pics
6/3/2018......
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Categories:
parochial, age, kindergarten,
Form:
Haiku
Black Shepherd
...Pray, why?
Scrape them off
The "little" people - your sheep
Pied paupers of your parochial perspectives
Mud off a work boot, scraped on the sill
Washed cowardly clean by countless tears
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Categories:
parochial, analogy, child abuse, corruption,
Form:
Alliteration