Semper Fidelis
Our team lost today
lost yesterday too
the game before that
the one prior to that too
Seems they're on a losing streak
Is our team really that weak?
Or are the others too tough
and ours a creampuff?
Whatever the truth, I'm loyal still
I believe that our team surely will --
win a
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Categories:
fidelis, faith, future, moon, sports,
Form: Couplet
Semper Fidelis
Donald Trump has lost his temper
It seems his fi is not semper
His corruption trail
Caused close friends to bail
Trump failed as Trusted Exemptor
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Categories:
fidelis, political,
Form: Limerick
Semper Fidelis
For aught we know
Love sometimes plays two hearts...
There are times that
Love is ironic
We need to get hurt,
To love.
We need to lie
Just to tell the truth.
We need to feel the pain
In order to show that we really care.
We became strangers to ourselves.
When eccentric feelings
Strike
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Categories:
fidelis, abuse, age, america, angst,
Form: Free verse
Adeste Fidelis
Adeste Fidelis
confused innocents of limbo,
the unbaptized babies,
ignorant of nonbelief,
denied the Divine countenance.
What of them today? Still floating?
Explain that. Do I believe in the leader of
dark angels all muscle and teeth?
Father O’Neil and Sister Michael
say it’s a matter of faith,
a leap across clear minded
waters to the shore of
loaves of fishes, water to
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Categories:
fidelis, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
-patriae Infelici Fidelis-
PATRIAE INFELICI FIDELIS
(Dedicated to my Sister Patricia in South Africa)
“Faithful to my unhappy country”
etched to my ancestor's cress
a millennium years or so ago
in a sorrowful ravaged
war-tourned Engel-land.
How their hearts must have cried
for peace to reign
over their country
and
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Categories:
fidelis, dedication, hope,
Form: Free verse
Semper Fidelis
The Marine faced God
He had served his time in hell
"Come unto me Child"
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Categories:
fidelis, peace
Form: Haiku