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Clergy Poems - Poems about Clergy


Wonderland
A country in Africa's kaleidoscope of culture, Unique and blessed, with natural and human riches to nurture. Roles blur, names defy convention's might, Husbands are "Baby," sons are "Daddy," in this whimsical sight. Saturdays are sacred for weddings' joyful sound, Car keys and iPhones float, pocketless, without a bound. Relatives rush to bury, but shy from business aid, A paradox of priorities,...

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Categories: clergy, abortion, africa, allegory, emotions,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member the patron saints
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 scenes. The clergy spilled the beans, but somehow the guilty never found Have you heard of Jesus? He was very wise, now he lives up in the sky. sing along, sing in spite of all the...

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Categories: clergy, child abuse, corruption, religion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Sinning Saints Once More
When I was in seminary my spiritual director advised me to notice, as had he, that there are two kinds of: Clergy Those who understand their calling as to coldly forgive and heatedly challenge all bedeviled sinners And those who feel called to mentor gods and goddesses and all transgender images in-between to warmly engage and repeatedly comfort all divinely endowed panentheistic Holy Spirited saints. Lay Leaders Those who live for a vacation from...

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Categories: clergy, community, culture, earth, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Walking the Narrow Road
Mankind The Clergy often goad Into walking The Narrow Road, The other track not for the fold As in The Parable Foretold... But - Gosh - it is a disguised load To the cycles the path rode, The walkers feat aiming to mold Into a pair at home with cold No knowledge of the Exact Yoke The package is saving a folk Like workers...

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Categories: clergy, god, people, perspective, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Lecture Given By Clergy
Lecture Given By Clergy We were given a lecture by the clergy, With much energy exhibited in liturgy, Done deal; No appeal, Who later had been accused of perjury. Jim Horn Kavanaugh was part of the clergy so he had said....

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Categories: clergy, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick



Every Clergy Is An Ox
every clergy is an ox wearing heavy yoke drawing wooden plow across the farmland of people’s vibrant sins endeavoring to weed the mess in their souls...

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Categories: clergy, satire, sin,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Clergy
Greek= kleroi=share or inheritance State of ordained men in the Church...

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Categories: clergy, christian, men, people,
Form: Couplet
Coaches and Catholic Clergy
as the kids begin to come out again to declare the violation of their innocence to the world so that finally these pompous pedophiliac pederasts can be dragged out of their lairs in order to face the world for what they are (not what they claim to be)--- the coaches twitch like the catholic clergy, presently pissing their practice pants...

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Categories: clergy, life, world,
Form: Free verse
The Closet-Clergy
whether you like it or not, your priest, your pastor, your minister, your clergyman of whom you hold the utmost regard, whose very advice you secretly tell yourself has been inspired by the lord your god & maybe even “jesus” himself, may in fact hold a very deep dark secret--- your clergyman or woman may have come to the rational conclusion, a long time ago, that what...

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Categories: clergy, life, character, fear, may,
Form: Free verse

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