Herod Heard Of Jesus
...Antipas was one of many heirs of Herod the Great
Morally and civilly, he had fallen from his state.
His kingdom, a collapsed castle, he couldn't reinstate.
Sinning with brother's wife, shamelessne...
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Categories:
censures, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
The Sick And The Physician
...He was not hungry, but, he knew the hunger of each soul.
He knew, many were physically and mentally ill.
The liberation of each soul from their bonds was his goal.
In him, the poor and the downtro...
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Categories:
censures, jesus,
Form: Sonnet
Dear Respectable Enemies
...Generous praises offered by friends might mislead sometimes.
Confusing the core of friendship is beyond their thought list.
It's when, like a broken gong, the church bell faultily chimes.
Even the...
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Categories:
censures, appreciation,
Form: Sonnet
The Other Side
...My child, a baptism took place when you jumped into the river for my sake—Ringo Bing
Just like her favorite character Alice she dresses
A young girl named Cassy sits bored by a riverbank
She loo...
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Categories:
censures, character, child, childhood, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
The Prize
...The politics of religion,
its statues on fire
All martyred saints burning
in canonized pyre
As cardinals of vengeance
seek new hearts to be stoned
Inquisitors ramble,
the Creator on loan
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Categories:
censures, god,
Form: Rhyme
Sarah Unleashed
...A bevy of censures,
to hit and strike back
Each written reprisal
to ward off attack
A mother-son warning,
once truant come true
Her words now my weapons
—to kill and renew
(Beaupre: F...
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Categories:
censures, voice,
Form: Rhyme
Beware America's Democracy
...When the erstwhile Tweeter-in-Chief vents
It is "Freedom of Speech," a First Amendment Right
When Democratic Party will "fight" tyrant-efforts
Defense rests on moral equivalence, yet last night
A...
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Categories:
censures, america, betrayal, christian, community,
Form: Epigram
I Held a Snake
...I held a snake, a yellow python
to be exact
a REALLY big, REALLY long snake
banana yellow
no it wasn't a fake
one month ago
down in Mexico
skin felt just like a garden hose
only bigger and sn...
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Categories:
censures, power,
Form: Rhyme
Pang
...Pang….no more!!
Pang….suddenly, shocks me!
This unfathomable message
I didn't expect would touch me
An emotional distress..a change
Devastatingly censures me
With horrifying like ‘an abo...
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Categories:
censures, angst,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Meadow Reverse Poem
...The heat of your lips burns through my skin
The breaths hot and fast, as deep you are within
Moisture trickles between my breasts my arms enfold you tight
To be with you in your dreams, to be with yo...
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Categories:
censures, love, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Judges and Mockers
...Today, I ponder…
Paraphrasing what Jesus said,
As a man thinks…so he is…
If he criticizes, slams, knocks others, and shows scorn,
Will he become a hard-hearted, insensitive, bigot, unworthy o...
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Categories:
censures, faith, introspection, religion, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Linda-Marie the Sweetheart of P.S.
...“Sweetheart of P. S.” I am, she proclaimed.
And this she stated when her membership was new.
“Who is this poet that to us had exclaimed?”
It was time to check her profile without adieu.
This s...
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Categories:
censures, adventure, friendship, inspirational, on
Form: Sonnet
Categories:
censures, on writing and words,
Form: Epigram