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Best Prayer Book Poems

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Pure Land Buddhist Liturgy and Prayer Book
Hi all, I have recently completed a short and easy to use Pure Land Buddhist Liturgy and Prayer Book, based on the 48 Vows of...

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Categories: prayer book, art, beauty, forgiveness, prayer,
Form: Ode



Premium Member My Prayer Book
My Prayer Of Ask
Lead us- Dear Father Guide us over great Jehovah from our barren lands
 We ask you, Lord, to lead us and keep...

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Categories: prayer book, appreciation, beauty, bible, body,
Form: Narrative
Reflection
Sapphire clouds on pink mountains
Sky of lemon 
Deeper into the inversions of my mind
Reality is this vivacious hum
Singing the blues
My prayer book of gold
Contemplation....
Eyes watching...

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Categories: prayer book, angst, break up, depression,
Form: Prose
Will Serve Bread With Wine
Will Serve Bread with Wine

Once we did find out where things begin
Have we actually found the original origin
God had used when our earth He built
Like...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prayer book, allegory, analogy, humorous, religious,
Form: Couplet
Church Vestry Meeting Horn Haiku
Church Vestry Meeting Horn Haiku

I am the vestry member in charge
of the church exterior and landscaping.
They requested a presentation from
each vestry member. This is mine...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prayer book, encouraging,
Form: Haiku



Framed In Timelessness
Six weeks have flown by
With many beautiful hours together.
This morn we sat under the awnings
Sipping hot frothy cappuccino
Watching the first monsoon showers
Overflowing from the potted...

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Categories: prayer book, appreciation, beautiful, father, money,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Love You, Daddy
I Love You, Daddy
                     ...

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Categories: prayer book, appreciation, childhood, father daughter,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Death of a Loved One
In the Church, I met a woman quite old,
Bending under the weight of years.
I wonder what made her steal my attention. 
Was it her struggle...

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Categories: prayer book, death, mother, son,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Our Broken World
Years ago when I was a young boy
The world was a nice place there was plenty of joy
I'm older now and wiser too
And I've seen...

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Categories: prayer book, violence,
Form: Rhyme
A Silence Knows the Fairest Reason
I attended three sermons in a row 
In the neighborhood church on Jackson.

Tear dropped there too, on the quran of mine, sky-blue colored
And on the...

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Categories: prayer book, april,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member What If
As I arose this morning, 
A strange thought came to me
What if this is 
The last morning I will see.

As I though, I looked around...

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Categories: prayer book, family, happiness, inspirational, passion,
Form: Verse
An Anonymious Episcopalian
An Anonymious Episcopalian 

No matter what sins you may have done
Episcopal Church always accepts anyone
And maybe you might not pay your bill
Or be an old...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prayer book, encouraging, religious, drug,
Form: Couplet
Open Mic
One thinks poetry is a couch to make the world play therapist, 
or at least take note and listen.

One thinks poetry is a prayer book,...

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Categories: prayer book, on writing and wordsprayer,
Form: Free verse
African Queen Have Sought
African Queen Have Sought

Often African Queen we have sought,
About boat in Keys that they bought,
Loved by all;
River with fall;
In ecstasy with movie we are caught

Jim...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: prayer book, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Daddy Saved These
_____Daddy Saved These______

It has been many moons since my 
Father passed.
Then came that day, I unearthed 
these lovely treasures Daddy had 
saved.

My very first pair...

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Categories: prayer book, chicago, daughter, devotion, father,
Form: List

Book: Shattered Sighs