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Chaplain Poems - Poems about Chaplain

a soul less killer dies

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he didn’t blink
when the light caught his face—
just stared like a dog too long in the rain.

no prayers,
no cries,
no family on the concrete bench.

he killed for sport,
like swatting fli...
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Categories: chaplain, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMunich Massacre celebration BXO82 operation brown sugar baby powder

...I'm fondly reminded of touring Europe our housing quarters and daycare i worked were under planned attacks blessing the attack meant for women and children would strike celebration of black September...
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Categories: chaplain, allah,
Form: Quatern



Premium Member1969 Abraham Lincoln Tomb Springfield Illinois

...My first grade field trip begin Joseph Medill school of journalism Chicago my first grade class sang African American spiritual hymns performing at the Schubert theater the museum of science and indu...
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Categories: chaplain, allah,
Form: Kyrielle

Premium MemberFEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS GANG UNIT

...AFTER GIVING BIRTH TO 8 CHILDREN 
ACTUALLY DELIVERING MY GRAND SON 
IN TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL WOW WHAT 
A BLESSING ONE THING FORSURE VISITING 
HOURS AND NOT TO MENTION ALWAYS ONLY 
TWO FAMILY ME...
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Categories: chaplain,
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium MemberThe Twilight Zone

...“We may think of freedom, not as the right thing to do, but as the opportunity to do what is right.”                                         ~~Peter Marshall~~
"Need I say this was inspired by the t...
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Categories: chaplain, granddaughter, grave, prison,
Form: Narrative



Premium MemberEarthTribe Ministrations

...A green chaplain to trees
nurtures Her root systems
and dancing
prancing branches

Preaching
reaching deeply
into shared 0-soul trunks,
circling spinal enthusiastic core

Breathing 
circul...
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Categories: chaplain, health, peace, power, prayer,
Form: Political Verse

Kindness and Lament

...Kindness and Lament

Money never to be found or spare
Funny how people just sit there and stare
Honey now you know this really isn’t fair 
Sunny for those who genuinely care 
Affection for thos...
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Categories: chaplain, international,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberClerihew Traherne

...Thomas Traherne
as a chaplain did a living earn
A predictable metaphsic
of a world so platonic...
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Categories: chaplain, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Premium MemberClerihew Strode

...William Strode loved to recite aloud
a public orator so proud
Chaplain to the Bishop of Oxford
perhaps he read his poetics to his 'Lord'...
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Categories: chaplain, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew

Premium MemberThe Chief of Disbelief

...An atheistic 'Chief Chaplain' at Harvard
       The university's raison d'etre bartered

    A divinity school, founded to spread God's word
       The goal now, 'equitable neighborhoods'...
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Categories: chaplain, betrayal, bible, education, religion,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberUntil You Meet Again With Me

...Until You Meet Again With Me 
(with love to Barbara)
By Franklin Price
02/23/2022
 
On the evening when God took you, while we held you by the hand,
Your life on earth was over, was hard for me...
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Categories: chaplain, bereavement, christian, courage, death,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberCrowvember

...blowing frost on a star and gravestone 
quickening our steps like Charlie Chaplain
turning maple leaf into rubies and gold
churning flocks into wind splashed shoals
now we're hunched over like Qu...
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Categories: chaplain, seasons,
Form: Free verse

Premium Member10 Conversations In Icu Part Ii

...Number six.

"Good morning, my name is David Brown. I'm a humanist chaplain volunteer.
I like to do the rounds and have a natter."

"That's interesting, David. Do sit down. So what motivates you...
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Categories: chaplain, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Show From Death Row

...Eye for eye; tooth for tooth,
Age old key to old hitch,
Justice’s way; known from youth,
Consciences’ vexing itch.

Few know death’s row bower,
Lowly know its bare scene, 
Some escape through ...
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Categories: chaplain, corruption, discrimination, poverty, power,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe First Thanksgiving, September 3, 1578

...The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell th...
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Categories: chaplain, education, history, holiday, thanksgiving,
Form: Verse

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