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Best Pontiff Poems

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Premium Member Heavenly Body - Limerick Collaboration - Bawdy
A nubile young vicar named Jude
Was seen swimming, totally nude
The bishop said WOW
Just look at you now
Your assets - they need to be viewed!

Fiction write!

07-05-17

Invited...

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Categories: pontiff, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Listen To the Scythe
Nobody listens to God anymore...
even the pontiff has an ear of salt and stone.
Cherry cheeked cherubs play frisbee with their halos
the masses display sin like...

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Categories: pontiff, analogy, god,
Form: Free verse
Presidential Prose (Alliteration of the Letter P)
potentates posture positive
pontiff punches prove powerful
protectors pretence premeditated
praetor promptly protects pride
princes' prance precede praise
princess' precious prayer prayed
progeny prose practiced perfectly
predator parades predominance
prey predestined predicament
primitive premise...

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Categories: pontiff, politicalprayer,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Translation of Eric Mottram's a Faithful Private - 7 -Excerpts From Notes On Poetics By T Wignesan
Translation of Eric Mottram’s A Faithful Private 7 with excerpts from “Notes on Poetics” by T. Wignesan

(Note: With this post, I bring to a close...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontiff, england, poetry, political, power,
Form: Free verse
The Trials of Meretrix Canto V
Here, this day, on this inglorious
Field
Thy vain struggles will count no
Valour.
All hope now abandoned,
Imminent defeat unconcealed;
Erstwhile countenance display 
Such waxen, languid pallor.
Surround by your dwindling...

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Categories: pontiff, philosophy, proposal,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Pope Means
Pope derives from the Greek "pappas" (father)
 Originally, this title was applied to bishops
Reserve the title exclusively to the Bishop of Rome,
The Supreme Pontiff

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Categories: pontiff, christian, devotion, faith, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Vatican Incident - Limerick
Vatican Incident - Limerick 

A young maiden dressed like a mannequin 
Snuck into the church at the Vatican
To curse at the pontiff 
So they called...

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Categories: pontiff, abuse, adventure, celebrity, conflict,
Form: Limerick
The New Pope, Benedict Xvi
His name is Joseph Ratzinger, the new pope Benedict XVI,
Installed as the two hundred sixty-fifth pope since foundation;
he’s a staunch defender of orthodox Catholic doctrine;
he’s...

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Categories: pontiff, dedication, faith, father, hope,
Form: Narrative
Night Vigil Candles
To my rivers of thinking needles in my heart to the haters’ smile goes to the cake love, I cannot stop lamenting to lemonade. My...

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Categories: pontiff, allusion, voyage,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Poor Pandora
We ponder Pandora as the person preordained
to unleash a plethora of plagues upon our persons.

But here's what I heard:
Pandora had two sisters,
Persephone and Proserpina.
Pandora perused...

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Categories: pontiff, allegory, humor,
Form: Light Verse
America
America
I´m here to bring you
What you don´t need
Another heartfelt poem
Another heartsick plea
Worth less than
Chewed gum
America I’m tapping
At your window
At 3 am
With a bag full of
Sour...

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Categories: pontiff, spiritual,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Before the Firing Squad
“Before The Firing Squad”



the firing squad 
came dressed
in faux smiles

the intervention cake 
was spoon fed, like honey,
by mother superior

to the lesser bee,
with self-righteous
magnanimity

she wore the...

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Categories: pontiff, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Far Afield
In this strategic somewhere
Battalions marched to nowhere
Keeping peace in face of dragons
Concealed in the foothills.
Tiger tracks in sand vanish
As though sucked into oblivion,
Wiped out by...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: pontiff, death, history, people, places,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member A Tale of Ancient Times
This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's...

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Categories: pontiff, faith, history, soldier, war,
Form: Narrative
Indian Vipers
Tulip turning. 1 2 3. Prettily pasting post in a tree. Shapeless orbs ornately decorated. And a singing bowl asleep near a fridge freezer. Radio...

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Categories: pontiff, art,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Shattered Sighs