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Defrocked Poems - Poems about Defrocked

Gloomy international waters
...Let sail this doom and gloom Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter In the morning head up the gangplank The hours till I lay down is a lifetime I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons How will......

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Categories: defrocked, addiction, depression, father son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Patty Fingers
...Sister Mary Margaret O'Malley Worked the parish of Tin Pan Alley The whole clergy was rocked When the priest was defrocked He got caught in her hidden valley......

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Categories: defrocked, humorous,
Form: Limerick



Premium Member Upon Waking
... “Upon Waking” Slumber has its upsides while the outside runs around like a split fowlyard, cacophonous pecking at each other and at the ground… Elsewhere, like d......

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Categories: defrocked, gothic, muse, poets,
Form: Narrative
Clinging to Words
..."Love you a lot." Words never said with honest hands. This devilish lip-service conducted by defrocked priests. I will not love myself until, I find you in a hole I also can jump into. ......

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Categories: defrocked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Can You Hold Onto a Peach
...In the winter of my years, stands my barren tree Its leaves stripped by autumnal winds Against hope, it had one life left to give I blew a warm breath into a lone branch Hoping against hope, I st......

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Categories: defrocked, extended metaphor, father son,
Form: Free verse



Bohemian Threnody
...Back then we could eat clouds - we were that tall, even baggy Ben (who was small for a lumpy kid), could leap over a pub door without leaving the floor. Then behind our backs a Lilliputian wo......

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Categories: defrocked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Call To Live
... A CALL TO LIVE Hands joined, strolling on quiet, lamplit, peaceful streets. We, were so joyful from our heads to the bottoms our feet. Life was sweet, soft and loving ba......

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Categories: defrocked, america, childhood, courage, encouraging,
Form: Couplet
Birthing the Vortex
... "Birthing the Vortex" the complexities of a myth borne from the birth of amorphous seat in dark matter brain storming dimensions never se......

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Categories: defrocked, desire, romance, sensual,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Protection of Their Own
...Alma Mater in denial Beckons proof of terrible sin Congregation gather to witness Defrocked disciple Endeavours to catch her and hear Flagellate in fear of the hounding. Girl on a high, this......

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Categories: defrocked, confusion,
Form: Abecedarian
Go Bang
... “Go BANG!” "Is that a gun in your pocket?" She said "Careful, I recommend you need to be undercover, and soon, call it Espionage M You’re......

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Categories: defrocked, fantasy, humorous, word play,
Form: Free verse
Grackles
...Wings monger air. A host of defrocked preachers buckle and swag. Mobs clique and crowd in clusters. Grackles, skip, jump, and plunder on. The birds pilfer, promenade, scrum, pluck, lift of......

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Categories: defrocked, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Breath, In Blue
... Now watch this video: Planet Earth: Blue Planet II https://youtu.be/2f9SItUEtJ8 "Breath, in Blue" Blueb......

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Categories: defrocked, animal, bird, earth, fish,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Saudade
...My heart felt old; I sought the cold. Canada’s land was what I planned. Among trees grand and far inland To dance my sad brand of sarabande. Yet precious moments come when joy flowers, Far brief......

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Categories: defrocked, death, flower, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Corrupt Bishops
...The Pillars of humanity felled by little boys tears Irish clover not so lucky for boys in white defrocked a new generation of holy men the cycle of sodomy sickens the soul yet the masses on ......

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Categories: defrocked, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Red Robes
...defrocked cardinals driven from the hallowed apse heresy of owls John G. Lawless ©7/26/2018......

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Categories: defrocked, wisdom,
Form: Senryu

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