Best Rector Poems

I like Muslims,
Particularly Yemenis
And Pakistanis (in Yemen)—
With whom, as a university don,
I happened to live for six years. 

Arabic vowels render 
A Yemeni voice gruff.
So...

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What Jesus Means To Me

This poem is based on sermon by Father Dave Davis,
Rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Shallotte, NC
on March 22, 2015. Gospel...

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He
travelled
far and wide,
studied Arabic :
A famous orientalist :
An Oxford scholar and doctor of Divinity.

Here
was
a man,
the Rector
of Childrey parish,
the Reverend Edward Pococke.

He
planted
in the year
sixteen forty two,
a...

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I am a high school graduate and a former college student
I have no children
No drug or alcohol addiction
nor do I have a home
I am one...

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The sermons nearly finished, suddenly a happening befalls my eyes
Our congregation now sits silent, amidst echoing tearful cries

An old man we know as Tommy, he's...

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O Fault! 

Horrendously I believed, a man solitary, 
Was real alive stood, aftermath Tsunami. 
On top of a roof, standing overwhelming,
Looking towards wreckage and towns’...

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Author's note: This is an epic length poem that will have to be split into parts and will be serialized in successive posts.

Part 3


our subject...

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Suck blood like a vampire from a strange empire ,
Not invited but invite herself,
Pass through tiny holes and mesh of the net to 
Set her...

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You are still in my heart 
                  ...

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You failed once. You failed twice. Time for you to retest,
Even if it means that each day you have to skip recess.
   ...

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One of the four angelic messenger harbingers of doom, drew a large red line
from California, to Oregon and to Washington State. Clearly indicating the
exact boundaries...

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Dorset poet Wiilam Barnes they do say
a C of E rector in his day
Determined to de-saxonise
clothed his verse in dialectic disguise...

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Thomas Higgins was busy doctor
And spent his evenings with the rector
Who managed a nearby seminary;
He was a man loveably down-to-earth and ordinary.

He spent the hours...

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Hold the mirror to your face your the broken enemy precious is your inhabition a pathway to 
your sanity delusions lead to hollow confusion a...

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You know your fat
When
  Candy is on the top of your food pyramid
  Your spouse hits the ceiling when you lie down to...

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