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Premium Member Apo address somewhere in Rome 1942
...It was a crisp day October 27th 1942 that's when my pop set out for WW11 right after my grandmother Nona gave birth to my dad orders arrived his job assignment was to protect the priest arch ......

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Categories: franciscan, allah,
Form: Nazm
Premium Member Mary Rules
...O Blessed Virgin Mary, our Lord's servant-- so humble Hearing your Seven Sorrows makes my heart almost crumble I wish to imitate your loving prayers (and not mumble) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~......

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Categories: franciscan, heart, jesus, mother, prayer,
Form: Monorhyme



Premium Member Snowy Tercet
...Winters and winters ago Away at Franciscan Univ. My first Christmas snow!......

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Categories: franciscan, beauty, memory, nostalgia, simple,
Form: Tercet
Premium Member Blessed John Duns Scotus
..."Engraved on his tomb in Latin: Scotland brought me forth. England sustained me. France taught me. Cologne holds me." Blessed John Duns Scotus 1265 - 1308 _______________ ......

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Categories: franciscan, history,
Form: Bio
Premium Member John Scotus Duns
...Thinker, scholar, sophist; Duns was, yet, a humanist, His thoughts actions exhibited him as true philanthropist…! Constructing a metaphysical argument, he said, Of the existence of God, that lik......

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Categories: franciscan, faith, life, love, people,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member John Duns Scotus
...Duns Scotus was an enormously important theologian He significantly influenced Catholic theology, early on, A brilliant man of considerable influence in Scotland Doctrines we take for ......

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Categories: franciscan, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jesus Christ Is the High Priest
...Jesus Christ is the Catholic’s High Priest Jesus Christ is the Catholic’s 1st Priest Jesus Christ is a Priest according to the order of Melchizedeck Jesus Christ is Father Christ Father is used......

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Categories: franciscan, christian, god, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Frangelico
... There is a hazelnut-flavored liquor named "Frangelico" It's named after a hermit monk who lived long ago. This twenty percent alcohol spirit comes from Italy. All over the world, it has ......

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Categories: franciscan, drink,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member In Land of Cockaigne
...I once thought I could never be like them, the privileged and rich whose every whim is catered to by underlings like me-- but then last year I won the lottery! The family I’d worked for soon we......

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Categories: franciscan, work,
Form: Rhyme
Angelus Silesius the Mystical Angel
...Angelus Silesius Translations The rose merely blossoms and never asks why: heedless of her beauty, careless of every eye. -Angelus Silesius, loose translation by Michael R. Burch The rose l......

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Categories: franciscan, angel, bible, christian, devotion,
Form: Epigram
The Orphan
...The Orphan At a time a young mother and her secrets knew, that a infant boy in her life where counted days in few. A priest helped her to put the child into an orphanage he knew, a Saint Franci......

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Categories: franciscan, 12th grade, endurance, metaphor,
Form: Ballade
The Last Film Footage of Lugosi
...she's more angora since she sheared off her locks but since i've lost the key and so certain doors must remain closed as if off season for reasons that only monthly disagree so i seem to see ......

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Categories: franciscan, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Why I Lost My Virginity So Late In Life
...my pick up lines were: "if it weren't for you i'd be a Franciscan monk" "i'd spoil you like a bunch of rotten grapes" "i picked these nettles just for you" "how can i treat you li......

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Categories: franciscan, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Impromptu
...who wouldn't want to be Dr. Doolittle doing nothing or very little become a Franciscan monk wave to a ganso as she with every wing beat says goodbye......

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Categories: franciscan, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Let Her Rip
...She lived the kind of life she always wanted to like a lion out of cage fierce and always good full of laughter, she was an arrow built straight and like the ocean she poured out salty water ......

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Categories: franciscan, mom,
Form: Free verse

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