Religion Child Poems

I think the patron saints have all been left for dead.
The lies have all been said,
and payments been arranged.

The depositions all went down behind the...

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When I was a child, I wondered

Was deep sleep, death?

Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?

Waking up, I found the people around me...

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Jurassic Prayer

By Mark D. Stucky
We asked our preschooler to pray,
and with dinner plates before us
and our hands folded,
he paused in silence
and then roared in imitation
of...

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I confess that as a child the ruthless caused me 
crippling pain with deeply wounding words and 
bodily attacks that led me to falter through...

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Brother Daylight, Sister Darkness
Oh where do I belong
I stand alone in twilight
Like a singer, short on song
A kite devoid of string
A nickel short a dime
Unsure...

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I Ran 
Through the mists of hell 
Heaven 
Beneath my bleeding feat

History on a heartbeat
Running  on repeat 
Like your life 
Depended on it 

I...

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Like seagulls our children fly around 
            resourceful, inquisitive, and intelligent. 
With positive role...

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You are looking at Citadel:
The High School now sounding her bell
In all corners of the globe
Every child for king’s robe.

Ladder up the life-lifting zone;
Commoners for...

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Men have begun to predict
That I shall self contradict,
Next, in church my interdict,
To be not saved by Edict:
My Governor  Soldier friend’s,
Both of us Christ’s...

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[paraphrase of a Svan folk song]

Tamar's mother said, "Tamar,
You were born fully grown.
Child, I saw you in a dream
I looked into the starlit sky and...

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Safety in Hand

The raven calls my name, 
and I am afraid to answer. 
He will know all about me, 
even if I do not know...

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To a child with no direction

I have found no place that I can call mine, in these thing call life
For all that I wanted, didn’t...

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For mankind are sinners from birth
spiritually dead unable to choose
needing a saviour from iniquity
for only God can bring good news.
So God sent his begooten son
The...

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What if the incessant torture didn’t happen so many dark
times, but it’s unimaginable for you to comprehend isn’t it?

What if there wasn’t such violence against...

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A Tale of Two Nations

Under one flag
with many stars
and even more shame
two nations to choose
Guns or Roses

One opposed to death of children
and free choice for...

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