No more nor less
...Me, home and loneliness, no more no less,
Ah, oh, utter darkness, no more nor less.
In birth, life, death, equity rules the same,
Suffering there’s endless, no more nor less.
A few saline tea...
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Categories:
homilies, birth, death, life,
Form: Ghazal
The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
...The emotional, mental and spiritual fallout courtesy Colt Gray
Apalachee High School,
located in Winder, Georgia
witnessed an active shooter,
whereby the alleged lone gunman
(actually just a t...
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Categories:
homilies, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
...OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF...
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Categories:
homilies, allah,
Form: Villanelle
Nothing Like a Worzel
...From Wales or Suffolk, claims knowledge of literature,
looking at sheep is far from just being some easy cure;
ever heard of Dylan Thomas, of course - one of the best,
but you're nowhere near of p...
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Categories:
homilies, language, literature, people,
Form: Sonnet
The Cardinal and the Rose
...Within the vast cathedral’s lofty walls
A cardinal delivered his address
From proud zucchetto perched upon his head
To buckled shoes, a picture of finesse.
His scarlet cassock swayed with regal...
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Categories:
homilies, appreciation, flower,
Form: Rhyme
O Live the Life, Leave Still
...How beautiful is sky of setting dusk!
Why then the setting old age seems to tire?
Eve inspires to conclude unfinished dreams,
If so, why should the setting old age tire?
The setting sun ins...
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Categories:
homilies, age, life, old,
Form: Couplet
Your First Breath
...Your First Breath
David J Walker
Should I try
To name and number
The nameless days and
Numberless nights
I am
Another beginning
A being
The alpha and omega of
Another day spent
...
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Categories:
homilies, allegory, analogy, future,
Form: Rhyme
Land Never Mere Sand
...To either family The Land is God’s Gift:
A Divine Portion plus Trophy to lift,
All trespassers to quit making it swift,
Another day to never towards it drift …
A Land The Talk of legal document...
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Categories:
homilies, conflict, corruption, death, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Ghazal of a Tired Man
...With your teachings, tired tunes I’m tired,
Hauling its harsh import, I’m tired.
Not with my frugal fate, it’s fine,
Your rating jewels as jade, I’m tired.
By your discourse, a bit iffy,
K...
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Categories:
homilies, faith, fate, religion,
Form: Ghazal
Foresight
...The foresight
When I look back on my life, which I seldom do
I think in my writing, I should be deeper; alas, my self-mockery gets in the way.
Why should I think I`m intellectual to have any wor...
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Categories:
homilies, absence, abuse, addiction, age,
Form: Blank verse
God Wants To Save Us All
...For God Did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world
but that the world might be saved through Him. John 3:17
In this season of penance
When we focus on our sins
It’s important to...
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Categories:
homilies, christian, devotion, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Beyond Speech
...Beyond speech
Before the words
Even leave your lips
Thinking about thinking
Looking at your thoughts
I see the building blocks
Of your breaking down
It's noisy sound image
An abstract tree g...
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Categories:
homilies, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Opening of Borders
...Opening of borders
It deeply touches and bothers
When closed are a country’s borders:
Sealed, helpful channel of a trade
Of super grade.
They needlessly suffer,
Who chiefly feed from neighb...
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Categories:
homilies, africa, environment, freedom, money,
Form: Rhyme
My Little Angel
...Wrapping him in a blue blanket he hands him over to me
outside the snow is falling, as I gaze at him my hearts about to burst
all the pushing is over, now its time to receive his glee
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Categories:
homilies, baby, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
The Garments Hem
...They answer questions seldom asked
tend to the mundane, "lesser" tasks
their halos tilted scally caps
homilies of wilted raps
soulless homeless shooting craps
rattling unnumbered dice
you may w...
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Categories:
homilies, betrayal, courage, god,
Form: Rhyme
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