Best Temple Poems

Nearby an ornate edifice meant for the worship of God
I kneel in the clearing of a verdant woods where sun’s light streams down -
spirit-touched, as nature’s choir chants and wind whispers prayers

Written 5/6/14 by Andrea Dietrich
for nette onclaud's Sijo in a Temple Poetry Contest...

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I step into the temple
in search of painted dreams
Figures wrapped in irresistible shine 
they come to life within their fresco prisons
A kaleidoscope of painted saints
powerless to answer the prayers of mortals

I sit in my darkest hope and worry
breathing in God’s unfathomable presence
I search for calm...

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I am the void
I am the wrath
I am the undulating sun seraph
In the temple of the butterfly
The shadow is my alibi 

~moths, in rooms full of angles 
circle, languishing slow as death   
caught in webs of cold breath
rage beneath the deep shade of...

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You are my obsidian dream and I will quarry your love
In the Temples of Oblivion, reveal your secrets to me!
Let us strike a mortal bargain to smite the dull frame of night.








Michael Dom
Sijo in a temple
created 12/12/13 - resurrected 08/05/14...

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Temple of the Gods


Within the realities, unseen deified admits a parallel preen
A shielded smokescreen for their succus is made unclean
In the matriarchal machine a throne tallat for the Queen
A calumnious convene in illusions that dered and demean

The fallen Angels level in their banishing bedaubed bedevil
In...

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I am dancing
Twirling and whirling
Hands and face open to the sun
Lost in the infinite You
Draped in gauze and silks
Whirling and twirling
To the sounds of chants and drums
As the deep tones of the monks
Melt into the tender tones of nuns
   
I am dancing, dancing
Yes,...

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I always thought this was a castle when I was little
Beautiful. Magic
on a spiritual high
 We’d like to be shooting straight for heaven 
Im going there someday .. 
 my kinda place ???
Heaven on earth.

“if this isn’t your castle, then you’re not my prince”
Yep this...

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Quiz Contest question    
define God in a word
"Mom" won first prize

If Mom equals God 
why nowhere temples for Mom?
"Womb" is her temple 

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By Hitendra Mehta
April 2011

For Soup Contest 
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Earlier : 7th Place in Members Contest - Senryu for Mom by Francine Robert

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Our voyage begins holding each other 
slowly captivating space filled magic begins 
warmly with glory be sings under spells

Grace is blessed always 
with deep warm joy kissing beats 
the true love inside fails to die

A hunter's moon smiles in the Heaven's 
under the cradle of...

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I am the Temple

I am the temple
Baptized in rain
Weaned by the sun
I am the temple
A manifestation of glory	
Well-formed beyond perception
I am the temple
Capable of cored inner peace
Taught by the blossoms of the great oak 
United in matrimony to the wind
I am the temple
Mystical in origin
Halved...

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We are all children from the Heavenly garden...
Regardless of the weeping that sometimes does us pardon...

Crying in the vine when a favourite toy disappears...
Where sometimes there is no sign of life through these mirrors...

Standing in the rain...we cry and weep...
Sometimes praying for that Eternal sleep...

Trying...

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Spending the Night in a Temple

The ice rains hard upon the temple walls
As the fires within keep the visitors warm
The 2 brothers deep in a fever lie head to head
And hold hands
A girl raised above them on a cot reads sacred scriptures 
Only she can...

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Susannah Wesley’s Apron


      No pilgrimage to Israel;
      No cloistered cell;
      No holy retreat.
      Not with ten tumbling children
      rumbling through...

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When the wind blows hard, sometimes it takes possessions from you, but all of a sudden It stops and everything can be replaced.

When the sun burns for longtime, the drought ruins your crops, it takes part of you, but all of a sudden it rains...

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Demesne
at Pergamon
stirred an epiphany.
The Aqueducts, Acropolis,
propinquity, Temple Dionysus,
Trajan Temple- all so magnificent.
Persian, Greek, and Roman wonders;
some standing, most lying...
erstwhile kingdoms,
all gone.

I viewed
and imagined
robust efflorescence
that once filled this bucolic place.
Dalliance here, much too ephemeral.
Damp ruins- yellow soil stirred petrichor.
Wild grass, broken art; redolent
grave serendipity...
wars...harbinger...
of loss.

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