Onyx Clouds and Opal Dreams
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Written: January 30, 2025
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Beneath February breath,
a fugue of magic hues—
embers of crimson,
coppered caramel trill
as maples s...
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Categories:
choristers, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Free verse
Hazel Glow
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Written: January 29, 2025
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Amidst a nostalgic winter mist —
An enamel moon has glowing glyphs
Woven clouds and a gossamer shroud
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Categories:
choristers, appreciation, moon, nature,
Form: Free verse
SAT NAM
...SAT NAM
I am rose in sunlight breathing
Buddha in middle of balm bathing
beckoning my Heart leavening lively
I am a loop in Love cathedral of pure
passion ...
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Categories:
choristers, 12th grade, appreciation, color,
Form: Alliteration
Elements of our souls
...As the sun rises over the hills at dawn,
Nature awakens, revealing her secrets.
She spins tales woven with morning dew,
A symphony where each leaf plays a note.
The Green Canopy
Verdant leave...
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Categories:
choristers, adventure, appreciation, beauty, blessing,
Form: I do not know?
Mission Accomplished
...A vicar whose sermons were boring
Caught one of his choristers snoring
The lesson was taught
He cut sermons short
And numbers in church are now soaring!
12.01.23...
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Categories:
choristers, religion,
Form: Limerick
An Evening To Remember
...When All Hallows' Eve's curse, cast its spell, on that night,
As the choristers sung, all in tune, church bells rung,
And the bats, in the belfry now spooked, took to flight,
While the...
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Categories:
choristers, eve, grave, halloween,
Form: Sonnet
Church Setting
...The gospels heard ayond,
melodious song strain,
atmosphere echoed,
Choristers praises,
Congregation dance
Almighty glorified!!..
Tithes to offering, thanksgiving to testimony,
Pastor se...
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Categories:
choristers, christian,
Form: Free verse
Solitude of the Pandemic
...Taking a walk through the aisle,
This used to be the mass convergence of congregants.
Now here lies the solitude of the dead silence;
The quietness of the graveyard more hilarious than this.
Th...
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Categories:
choristers, absence, depression, lost, religion,
Form: Free verse
Cathedral Church of Gloucester
...She is a beauty with her vaulted ceilings and cloisters.
Has been parading about for over a thousand years
Showing off her English gothic architecture.
Cathedral Church of St. Peter and the Holy...
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Categories:
choristers, christian,
Form: Prose Poetry
Advent Song
...Fresh flakes come pirouetting down
To softly lie below
And cloak the peaceful churchyard in
A crystal bed of snow.
Young choristers in unison
Raise voices to proclaim
The dawning of redeeming...
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Categories:
choristers, christian, christmas, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
In Our Dead Church
...Our attendance is a mere formality, a routine unconnected to the hearts
We sing, but not to the True God,
We pray with wondering Hearts
Even Prayers are dead, it is a mere routine of minutes
T...
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Categories:
choristers, analogy, anxiety, death, devotion,
Form: Ballade
Subjects
...From my bathroom throne
I overlook heads of trees
men for all seasons
who sway and still
like felt and feathered burghers
dependent on his lordship’s
words.
In glowering times
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Categories:
choristers, assonance, bird, nature,
Form: Free verse
Caterwauling
...“What a caterwauling do you keep here !”
Sir Andrew and Sir Toby – too much beer !
Listen. Is that a cat–er-wauling,
A piercing feline screech, a bawling ?
All our neighbourhood cats are calli...
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Categories:
choristers, cat, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Winter Tale
...A Winter tale.
oh Winter – how you often linger long,
what windswept elements you deal;
your cold dark chamber does my spirit feel.
your shivering grip of uncheerfull thoughts is strong.
and o...
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Categories:
choristers, betrayal, change, depression, fear,
Form: ABC
Categories:
choristers, caregiving, celebration, childhood, christmas,
Form: Concrete
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