Best Prodigals Poems
Church Dinners, a Rumination
...Bless the deviled eggs and the preacher’s children.
Grab a piece of fried-to-perfection chicken.
Coca-cola cake or banana pudding?
~ Prodigals welcomed
January 29, 2019
Sapphic Stanz......
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Categories:
prodigals, christian, nostalgia,
Form:
Sapphic stanza
Our Bountiful God
...OUR BOUNTIFUL GOD
Our God is bountiful because…
Eternal generosity never runs out of blessing remedies
They appear when least anticipated
Popping up – leaping out – capturing the unexpected
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Categories:
prodigals, blessing, day, god, heart,
Form:
Free verse
The Emperor's New Clothes
...
"The Emperor’s New Clothes"
We write about beliefs
our prayer flags flying
like chrysallis books on a branch
of those higher deities we trust,
submerged, we are always......
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Categories:
prodigals, muse,
Form:
Narrative
One Heart, Two Homes
...ONE HEART, TWO HOMES; (was first written in December of 2011)
Belize of my birth; where my first love bloomed
You've showed me sweet freedom, to grace a second home.
But who'd forsake you? p......
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Categories:
prodigals,
Form:
Dodoitsu
Flipped Hourglass
...Flipped Hourglass
Bits of unwrinkled sand, harried ageless seconds,
Rush through a narrow neck
Pushing to birth
Moments of elegance or horror
Shoving aside other grains
Like words of regret f......
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Categories:
prodigals, dance, life, time,
Form:
Free verse
Shadowboxing
...My shoulders are well oiled axles,
my fists are cannon balls
I am an uncompromised,
uninhibited,
and unchallenged fresh breath of boldness
I am a statue of fastholding,
chiseled down from black dia......
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Categories:
prodigals, anger, conflict, courage, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
& Laughter-Songs
...'twas this sun, our noble hunter -
who gave the roar of his hoarse voice
couching before our queen, the moon
couching with many rays of songs!
& his sharp eyes did like some prodigals
beckon ......
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Categories:
prodigals, parody
Form:
Agile Bone
...Agile bone
Come over oh little in skin but giant in heart
As I make a Clarion call on that which tint the ear
Your great work is made manifest in all ages
As none can outturn that which is laid......
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Categories:
prodigals, allegory, care, deep, grief,
Form:
Ode
Prodigal Patriots
...Our sages’ pages and wages
Fading, folding and falling
… the prodigals named and shamed......
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Categories:
prodigals, people
Form:
Haiku
The River Life
...So on the topic of river life,
What can I say that has not been said?
This reckless way is oft sought by few.
Adventurous souls eager of heart,
Who started wading her bramble shore.
He......
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Categories:
prodigals, life,
Form:
Verse
Flipped Hourglass
...Flipped Hourglass
Bits of unwrinkled sand, harried ageless seconds,
Rush through a narrow neck
Pushing to birth
Moments of elegance or horror
Shoving aside other grains
Like words of regret f......
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Categories:
prodigals, dance, life, time,
Form:
Free verse
Liars
...Liars
Looking and staring
Singing and lofting
So agile and charismatic
All for the essence of the belly.
I've built mansions
And own exotic cars
But in reality a pauper
The honour is just......
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Categories:
prodigals, art, business, corruption, environment,
Form:
Villanelle
Why we need to leave left behind letters to our loved ones
...There are many Christians today, that are advocating always,
That we leave 'left behind letters,' to be read latter on, after
The harpazo of the church has both come and also gone.
Instructing ou......
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Categories:
prodigals, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Other
Simplicity
...*SIMPLICITY*
Walked on my nerves daily the heart made.
Which always get me puzzle on the step to make.
Always in silence neither of not knowing what to do,
But of the greater law which is in co......
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Categories:
prodigals, abuse, anger, art, betrayal,
Form:
Blank verse
Ichabod
...I want to make a comment to anyone who might read this poem. It caused a huge sensation when I first published it on FaceBook. I started receiving hundreds of friend requests daily. It honestly frigh......
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Categories:
prodigals, anger, care, corruption, forgiveness,
Form: