Best Pilgrim Poems

Tom Turkey has been defrocked
Cleaned, basted and stuffed
Surrounded by pumpkin pie
Green bean casserole
Tart cranberry sauce
Come, Pilgrim,
Eat!...

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devout pilgrim lips
in discovery's journey
leave love offerings
sacred shrines of her body
devotion's recipients

Jade Celeste...

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      In me, dwells therein a pilgrim soul.
      Always on the move and on the go.
      It growls, with a very strong voice:
      “Do not...

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centered within mind caverns 
constant lightless deep
echos reverberate
into end times
of all my existence
I live for one moment 
where crack of light, 
that is that Light, 
will illuminate me
to light a trail 
that leads me out 
to a place where
darkness has gone to sleep 
and within...

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My soulmate is a pilgrim, 
He explores the zodiac’s constellations
Not always in our own Milky Way, he treks
His journeys enlighten mankind
Because he aims his bow hunting faith in Sagittarius
And swims with emotional artistry in Pisces
He judges mankind with Libran scales
As he admires beauty while visitingTaurus
By...

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Thou wayward pilgrim
Oh come rest thy weary soul  
Down by the river Jordan

Thou wayward pilgrim
Unburden thine heavy load
Rest  by the river of life 

Oh wayward pilgrim
lift your dimmed eyes toward home
Oh what happiness awaits!

Oh wayward pilgrim
in yonder distance joy waits
Jerusalem, home sweet home


Rick...

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Let me tell you a story …

Many pilgrims had passed this way before him
but had rarely stopped before trudging up the muddy path to the top of the hill 
and then disappearing out of sight forever.

But he lingered at this shady spot at the bottom...

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Villanelle : Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties

       In Memory of the late pathologist (and amateur Astronomer) 
Associate Professor CHONG Siew Meng, National University of Singapore*


Never political but spiritual the ancient Indo-Chinese pilgrim ties
Which pierce through...

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The pilgrim
Walks in the light
The firefly...

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A Pilgrim
(A song for 'Dia')

I come here at night's edge,
This parlour of hidden shadows
Questing for
Some measure of solace
From the bible black grind
Of mundane despair.

She is wearing white,
Tonight,
My Magdalene
My source of wonderment,
Thunder child
Storm raven
My crucible of momentary Eden

We are all searchers in the end
All weary marchers
Down...

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Dream Pilgrim 

Slipping past the threshold of the daystar in velvet vesper hues
My weary pilgrim heart sheds the restraints 
Of pale dawn’s blush and twilight’s silver dawning darkness dyed in ebony 
To gather starlit threads of lacy midnight raptures – 
Cobwebs of mysterious deep scars...

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There once was a lad named Cy Milgram
A regular cool and hip pilgrim --
   He saw Plymouth 'Rock'
   Said, "Fast forward the clock!" --
Played Jimi Hendrix ~ nearly killed 'em...

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I am but a pilgrim,
an adventure in my mind.
Living now from day to day,
in my journey along the way...

Going all in motion,
a master plan in place.
Much more to discover...
and I shall stake my case.

That I am just a visitor,
the timing is not mine.
A greater clock...

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In each year that passes by,
There is a thousand times to whisper
The name of our Founder whose life we recall
In the hallmark of truth and his noble works.

Beyond those races that afflict unity,
Those differences that bring no harmony;
Beyond those tears that nourish to hope
Are life...

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A Russian Mystic Outré

Mystical-Strannik  
Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
A charlatan to many
A prophet to some.

His hypnotic effect
Incomprehensible
His eyes uncanny
A saint to none.

Gary Bateman, Copyright © All Rights Reserved
July 18, 2018 (Double Dactyl)...

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