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Best Parson Poems

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Premium Member Soul of An Angel, Life of a Moonshiner
He served as a deacon in his church and was as pious as they come.
(But on the side, he sold whiskey from a thirty-gallon drum!)
He...

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Categories: parson, funny,
Form: Rhyme



I Shudder To Think
I SHUDDER TO  THINK 

I  shudder to think about the way 
Some  vegetables are  abused every day -
With physical  and...

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Categories: parson, funny
Form: Couplet
Seeing Is Believing
Seeing is Believing

Souls and spirits come our way
but very few will let them stay,
for most could never bear the shame
of being classified insane.

So even those...

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Categories: parson, friendship, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Normal Person In Chaos
Rounds of rockets shattered the peace, 
Bullets ricocheted from out of nowhere,
And nothing made sense in this alien world, 
Where chaos was friends with the...

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Categories: parson, care, caregiving, hope, horror,
Form: Quatrain
I Will Always Watch Over You




With every breath you take for as long as you live
for as long as you exist and have your being,   
I will be...

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Categories: parson, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse



Scratching Fanny in Cock Lane, a true tale
The year1762 a tale of murder or mystery they boast
 A teenage girl, drunken parish clerk, and maybe even a ghost
About hordes of aristocrats and...

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Categories: parson, history,
Form: Ode
When Colors Collide
I dated Mary Browne from out of town
 She was a lovely lass.
 She'd auburn hair and freckles and a perky little ass .
 The...

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© Sean Kelly  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parson, funny, green,
Form: Rhyme
Abseil Bride
It's not her style to walk down the aisle.  
Father and parson its sure to rile.  
But all of the people 
down under...

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© John Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parson, wedding,
Form: Limerick
A Morning of Don David Daewoo
(Please read "An Evening of Don David Daewoo" at www.poemhunter.com before this)

Inside a specially constructed secret closet was the Danish Daewoo's son,
(It looked like the...

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Categories: parson, funnymorning,
Form: Ballad
The Un-American
The Un-American has no say,
he/she has to put up with anyone
or anything that comes their way,
They better not fall in love with
an American girl or...

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Categories: parson, business, peace, political, prejudice,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member The Wages of Sin
There was once an old parson named Guy Flynn,

   Who ranted about the wages of sin.

      He scared...

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Categories: parson, humorous, religion, sin,
Form: Limerick
George Washington An Old Fuddy-Duddy
George Washington an Old Fuddy-Duddy?

By Elton Camp

What image of Washington comes to mind?
In with your money is the one you will find
Right there George is,...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parson, historyold, image, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Promise
They stopped the clocks at nine-oh-eight
And covered up the mirrors
Turned his pictures to the wall
And placed the bible a little nearer

They closed the curtains; turned...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: parson, bereavement, life, love,
Form: Ballad
A Christmas Scene
Off to grandmother’s cottage we go,
past snow covered pines all in a row,
to a cozy home with old fashion charm,
standing beside it the red painted...

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Categories: parson, children, christmas, family, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Sally Jane
Sally Jane hung out the clothes

As her employer did upstairs doze

It was the same every week

Sally Jane's outlook was so bleak

An orphan child found in...

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Categories: parson, character,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs