Best Protestant Poems

Challengèd courts, Christendom held in palm,
Tyranny, oppression, falsehoods contrived
On which hingèd stability and calm,
Uprooted by man’s theses ninety- five
On door are tackèd for eyes all to see.
Revealèd wisdom, from God above sent,
Reformation of courts not left to be –
Defiance heighten’d, faith in God, unspent.
Truth in...

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I'm steeped in the rage
of a bloody Red Rose

but I never sleep,
a Protestant of Arousal

condemmed to be burned
by the red rose lips 
of Lancastrian Princes 
and I cringe,

bartering blood against honeyed tongues
for scraps of faith in myself....

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