Paid For Words
...I
She was a prophetess
Dealing with vision, words
Then came political correctness
Some tongues are incarcerated
II
Have you paid (absurd)
For your every word
Some want you "wrong"
Others ...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, africa, america, freedom, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Rebuke Sadness With Perspective
...In sad times, I recall King’s harassment
Stabbed at a book-signing in NYC
(Did they tell us King refused prosecution?)
Now, let us not forget Bonhoeffer
Young Dietrich in Nazi Germany, forewent
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, animal, appreciation, art, black
Form: Rhyme
Happy Birthday To a Dear Son
...Happy Birthday to a dear son,
I think of all the good memories we shared.
The beautiful picnic at Whit church,
With our relatives , there was a pond, very scenic.
The years growing up and goi...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, beautiful, blessing, friendship, god,
Form: Free verse
The Great Interchange
...Jesus Christ incarnate became a man
lived on this earth thirty and three years
showed to all who and what is God
faced man's opposition and all his smears
This Jesus the God-man took on our fle...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, christian, inspiration, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Bonhoeffer
...BONHOEFFER
intense the man
who asks of God
“who am I?”
it echoes down the hall
through his lifetime
searching, pondering
he’s asked, “do you know God,”
the answer comes,
“i’m getting to ...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, christian,
Form: Free verse
A Poem For Sunday
...Sunday was my favorite day growing up,
When we were young we went to Ionview United church.
I wore a pretty dress and hat,
We would receive our bible verses,
Meet with friends at church,
Sum...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, god,
Form: Free verse
Bonhoeffer
...*Bonhoeffer*
If ever I had a role model it would be he
For he is as bold as they came
Preaching the gospel during the most turbulent times
Undermining Hitler and the Gestapo
He was a pastor
H...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, christian, mentor,
Form: Bio
Consider the Rich Man
...Consider the rich man the wise man said
How soundly he sleeps upon his bed
And dreams
Of golden ponds
And silver streams
Of stocks and bonds
And cold hard cash
And other treasured trash
To st...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, inspirational, philosophy, sympathy, visionarycry,
Form: Rhyme
No Butterflies In the Ghetto
...six million stones
a railroad car streaked red
a thousand astrodomes
swollen with dead children
the population of houston
dallas wiped out
ugly striped prison uniforms
signifying captures an...
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Categories:
bonhoeffer, death, family, history, political,
Form: Free verse