Peachy
Peachy it shall be,
Preaching beyond choirs devout,
Guide all souls to Light....
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Categories:
choirs, appreciation, beautiful, christian, encouraging,
Form: Haiku
Choirs for Tomorrow
Choirs For Tomorrow
I must feed
tough as tough semiprecious form of
quartz with banded colouring to
the backyard fungi with gills on
the bottom of
their cap, and then
mark history by
planting pitch forks around the
front lawn.
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Categories:
choirs, humor,
Form: Free verse
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock translations of German poems
“To Edward Young”
by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
translation by Michael R. Burch
Die, aged prophet: your crowning work your fulcrum;
now tears of joy
tremble on angel-lids
as heaven extends its welcome.
Why linger here? Have you not already built, great Mover,
a monument beyond the clouds?
Now over your night-thoughts, too,
the pallid free-thinkers hover,
feeling there's prophecy amid your song
as it warns of the
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Categories:
choirs, angel, death, dream, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Preaching
Guess we're born to teach,
To the choirs we preach,
God's love we all reach.
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Categories:
choirs, appreciation, beautiful, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Choirs Sang In Ardent Voice
In dawn's aura, mountains glistened with snow.
Rooster's crowing proclaimed the break of day.
December's frosty winds began to blow
as clouds shadowed a sullen shade of gray,
and serpentine ripples flowed on the bay.
Dimmed were rays of light from the sallow sun
when for a while its beams had gone astray.
Gusts of wind on this Christmas Eve were spun,
blustering
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Categories:
choirs, christmas, god, jesus,
Form: Quintain (English)
The Minatory Choirs
She’s a flower of burned dirt
with pale and bony legs
- her emaciated thighs
etched with scars.
She’s been cutting to the music
of an inner, minatory choir
- a song of spite-filled sorrow
and perpetual farewell.
Christmas in the shadows
the hopeless hollow-days
in the kind of barren places
where our savior made his way.
The angels mark your passing
and they understand
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Categories:
choirs, angel, anger, christmas, dark,
Form: Free verse
Sing This Coming Sing
Sing to This Coming Sing
Before now I was the sort to by-pass listening to any sort or cousin or trail of operatic solos especially sopranos but this year has brought a sudden discovery enlightening change coming for me with Christmas giftings of sacred or devoutly-held hymns
and carols so holy such spirit-touching
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Categories:
choirs, christmas, imagination, joy, song,
Form: Prose
Conspiracies Or Choirs
Why do we love the ones who love us least?
To prove we can obtain whom we desire?
He makes cruel comments at the wedding feast
Do not call this man a nasty beast
An animal is better than a liar
Why do we love those who love us least?
He shouts in rage because
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Categories:
choirs, 7th grade, allegory, funny,
Form: Villanelle
Choirs
rich voices sing out
from chapels each Sunday;
welsh valleys resonate
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Categories:
choirs, christian, community, hope, song,
Form: Haiku