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Cassocks Poems - Poems about Cassocks

A Story

...A story

Hundreds of years ago, plagues cast their black shadows upon this, once great land.
Soon the cassocks, and the habits began to infiltrate, dominate, separate, lent a hand

to the coloni...

Categories: cassocks, hope,
Form: Rhyme

Country Church

...Some pondered ways
to pep-up the pulpit and pew,
but disinterest and ennui won the day.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thunder and sleet
cracked stone, spir...

Categories: cassocks, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The In-Between

...
"The In-Between"

I ripped the pages of 
that tired old story 
from the heart, a body of work

buried the misdiagnosed slanders
then wiped their mouths
with the back of ...

Categories: cassocks, imagery, life, muse, poets,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Old Country Church

...Some pondered ways
to pep-up the pulpit and pew,
but disinterest and ennui won the day.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thunder and sleet
cracked stone, spir...

Categories: cassocks, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Unleash

..."Bring forth the witch! Bind her to the stake!
It has been my wish, to trample evil for God's sake."
Teztelian verbalism, another veiled devil's play,
Actors in cassocks, in God's name harvesting ...

Categories: cassocks, conflict, earth,
Form: Ballad

Old English Church

...Ways to pep up the pulpit and pew,
gave way to ennui.
The clergy went away to get help
and never came back.

Eventually, thundering sky's cracked 
stone, spire, and gable;
neglect and cold win...

Categories: cassocks, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

John the Baptist

...In the river Jordan
you baptized the people,
some were brood of vipers:
pharisees, sadducees -

hey sanna hosanna,
king Herod you opposed.
You were his prisoner -
his servants cut your head.
...

Categories: cassocks, religion,
Form: Free verse

Football

...Football

Football, football what are you in this world?
A piece of bull- hide inflated with hot air
Be not proud, you are inflated with hot lies
Tortured for the pleasure of the powerful

Tem...

Categories: cassocks, addiction, allegory, betrayal, feelings,
Form: Sonnet

Red Summer

...It was a summer of indifference
Billionaire Nazis who preach ethnic cleansing
And powerful ladies clad in iron
Play tug of war
With the hearts and souls of the people
While governors deceive the...

Categories: cassocks, abortion, america, black african
Form: Free verse

Our Saviour

...Lacy tablecloths
Sweet music
Red ornamental vestments
Gold tapers flickering
Red bound book
A sip of wine
White cowl on red
Bowed heads, folded hands
Ruby wine sipped from chalice
Folded whi...

Categories: cassocks, allegory, devotion, faith, inspirational,
Form: Blank verse

Midnight Mass

...There was a warmth in the snow at Christmas time
Earlier we had finished our last class
Steve asked if we were serving during the holidays
I told him I’d see him at Midnight Mass

About a half-h...

Categories: cassocks, childhood, holidaychristmas, christmas,
Form: Narrative