A homily of homophones
Twas daybreak as this bright morn I rose
Greeted at breakfast by my darling Rose
A brief time together as by seven I've left
Out to the garden, the street and then left
Along cobbled paths where the dogs bark
To work as the foreman, my order to bark
The abattoir workers tirelessly cut up the meat
Despite the condition, smiling at
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Categories:
homily, 5th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Homily
The homily
At the church entrance
Beggars line up when the sermon is over
The parishioners in the warm feeling of faith
Give beggars coins.
God’s work be done.
The cripple gets up and leave
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Categories:
homily, blessing, devotion, gothic,
Form: Carpe Diem
An Unsupplied Nigerian Family and Supplication
An unsupplied Nigerian family,
Often cited in advisory homily
And likened to the ones in Galilee,
Though unable to mark its Golden Jubilee,
To God began a supplication,
Veritably a formal letter application
For an easier catching of Daily Bread
That often made it see red:
The 2024 African Cup
For Nigerian Hands to lift up…
Now and again, Ear-Splitting Amen
But mostly by its men:
One
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Categories:
homily, angel, anxiety, people, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
A Vultures Homily
I am vulture
My soul case may be repugnant,
However, I have every sawbones decimal
On my speed dial
Before any croacker decrees justice
On a soul case,
They confer with me
My logbook contains a docket
Of every Golgotha and slaughterhouse on the planet
I am on first name basis
With every casket maker, mortuary Steward and proprietor
I am the fiend no
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Categories:
homily, africa, art, creation, discrimination,
Form: Personification
A Heretics Homily
What brings you here?
LOVE. HATE. FEAR
of life - death
or the interim?
Do you wish to pray?
Together
Six feet apart
What sign of peace will we offer?
A condescendingly humble glare?
A wink
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Categories:
homily, confusion, life, religion, silence,
Form: Free verse
Homily and Epistle
preacher sing me your song
deceive me not
behold,behold me
once more
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Categories:
homily, christian, writing,
Form: Verse
A Sweet Homily
A Sweet Homily
The lavender scent on the fallen dew
Treasure the moments that brought things a new
Inside we pause to reflect over the kindness inside
Soft pillows to claim the ardent fields a new
A sweet homily in search of a passing few
Perhaps we have bitten off more then we could chew
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Categories:
homily, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Zing Is the Thing - a Homily
Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder,
But Whiskey makes you frisky.
Clerihews and epigrams are fine but
Do not tell these to one lost in love
Except when you mean to cheer up one
Fevered with temporary amourous setbacks.
Gift them the gift prized by one and all
Humour - evoking laughter or perhaps a smile
Inviting a participation in the balm
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Categories:
homily, character, friendship, inspiration,
Form: Abecedarian
Fr Time's Bicameral Homily
Time echoes and resonates
without language,
successfully invests
in green ecstatic backdrop,
below misty blue sky
Spotted and splashed Earth space,
blossomed in round yellows and spindling purples
soft blues and flaming orange
Fragile
naked moments of fully fertile tone
bilateral shapes and colors
Flagrant erections
of next generation's timely hope
for full-hued health regeneration
Perennially emerging
through primal fields,
green-network enraptured
Earth-toning soil and rocks
and weathered
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Categories:
homily, earth, health, humanity, psychological,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Today's Homily
In those days, when we feared the truth
not for ignorance of it within ourselves
but for the dangers posed by speaking aloud
against the prejudices of masses too well-tutored
in lies and hatred, we kept our secrets
and hid among the crowds, assuming
their rabid colorations, spewing the same
evil venom, spreading all the same lies,
pretending that the past was
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Categories:
homily, america, anti bullying, community,
Form: Free verse
Christmas Homily
C oronation of lights
H eralding holiday rites
R inging bells guests invite
I llumined halls festivities incite
S ongs of carolers enliven dark night
T ales of Christmas ghosts by candlelight
M aterial aspirations pocketbooks slight
A ltruistic gestures to those with poorer plight
S piced nog, decorative cookies palates delight
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Categories:
homily, holiday
Form: Acrostic
Christmas Homily
Lights
Crackling embers serenade the hearth
Twinkling lights symphony to the heart
Tree
Shapely Tree signifies an organic symmetry
Burnished decorations denote a cultivated empathy
Wreaths
Embezzled twines commemorate primitive instincts
Embossed twigs celebrate a nurtured path
Spirits
Crystal glasses shelter our warmth
Spiced brandy shivers our senses
Carols
Yule tide carols enshrine distant refrains
Merry melodies embrace colloquial strains
Presents
Carefully wrapped gifts conceal
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Categories:
homily, dedication,
Form: Couplet
Christmas Tree: Fabricated Homily
A shapely Spruce or Cypress to dress
A coiffed girdle the base to caress
String of lights bristling foliage to redress
A twinkling symphony to luminesce
Pristine pine cones providing a rustic essence
Gilded ornaments to infuse decadence
Frothy snow exhibiting a natural opalescence
Silver icicles streaming a fabricated opulence
Baked Gingerbread men enshrining traditional precedence
Designer candy canes paying homage to formulated transcendence
A
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Categories:
homily, dedication,
Form: Couplet
A Seasonal Homily
The saints are wailing again
Rhapsodies too for sinful man
Since every heart is drunken with guilt
These holy fears washing the land
Swamp the drains, flood the pond
Pastor shamed indoors since yesterlight
Makes several tries at love everlasting
Which sweet friction the springs protest
In loud parody discordant
The eaves,the tiles have ears for such
Gossip sticky wet,dripping with harm
Gladly passed on down
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Categories:
homily, introspection,
Form: Free verse