easter egg frenzy
...The Easter eggs turned on the baskets in Easter Town.
Refusing to get inside, they began to throw themselves down.
What is happening? Asked a chick, a rooster, and an ugly clown.
They are going cr...
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Categories:
churchgoing, easter,
Form: Rhyme
THE EQUILIBRIUM
...In poverty's grip, we struggle to stand
Delays in church programmes, with empty hand
No money, no food, yet we accuse the night
Ignorance abounds, in futile fight
"Kill it! Die by fire!" we cry...
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Categories:
churchgoing, christian, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
The Changing Face of Shame
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So much has changed
in the past 50 years or so
one thing is the word shame
once a friend now our foe
Half a century ago it had a fear
a true fear of God was felt
among a generation back the...
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Categories:
churchgoing, change, god, memory,
Form: Rhyme
5 Decades, a Dozen Lifetimes
...Born into an ordinary, churchgoing family
No one expected Satan to reign supreme
Relapse and rehab and sobriety chips
Postpartum vacations in the psych ward’s west wing
Three decades of life, age...
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Categories:
churchgoing, life,
Form: Blank verse
A Family of Birds Praying To God
...A FAMILY OF BIRDS PRAYING TO GOD
Something flowing through my ears
I'm listening
Birds churchgoing-melodies
Whispering
Meadowlarks after dark
Nesting in the trees
Robins and sparrows hiding ...
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Categories:
churchgoing, allegory, analogy, appreciation, bird,
Form: Light Verse
Conspicuous Lice
...Some conspicuous lice met once or twice
With white follicle mites who came out at night
And an upside down tick who did magic tricks
That entertained maggots who shared roasted haggis
With pole...
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Categories:
churchgoing, insect, nonsense,
Form: Light Verse
Harridan In a Housecoat
...~Harridan in a Housecoat~
Four small children sent for care as their mother was taken so ill
No father could they reach for them so they were sent off at someone’s will
In the night ta...
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Categories:
churchgoing, people, children, father, daughter,
Form: Quatern