Heaven Haibun
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Far removed from the unrelenting hustle and bustle of quotidian existence,
There's no place I'd rather be at the moment. The air is so fresh. I find
My peace of mind here. Sometimes, all i...
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Categories:
hosannas, beauty, imagery, nature,
Form: Haibun
January 13th 2024 Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...January 13th 2024 - Happy Lxv-th birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, emi...
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Categories:
hosannas, age, appreciation, birthday, celebration,
Form: Free verse
Happy Lxiv Birthday Matthew Scott Harris
...Happy Lxiv birthday Matthew Scott Harris
date of conception:? ~ Late March – mid April 1958.
date of parturition: January xiii, mcmlix.
date of expiration:? January i, eminem.
A gangly, meas...
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Categories:
hosannas, appreciation, birthday, boy, celebrity,
Form: Rhyme
History's Greatest Miracle Play
...History’s Greatest Miracle Play
Let me tell you a story - Prologue
Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to spe...
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Categories:
hosannas, jesus,
Form: Narrative
To Whom Sweet Hosannas Ring
...To Whom Sweet Hosannas Ring
As life goes passing by
Soon we are to be judged
Thrilled must be God above
When clearly there’s no doubt
Our aim was spreading ...
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Categories:
hosannas, death, heaven, life,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Happy Birthday Matthew Scott Harris Parturition
...Yours truly an aging baby boomer
long haired pencil necked geek
trademark disheveled characteristics
whipsawed ever faster around sun.
He (best buddy and alter ego of mine)
snapped, popped, a...
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Categories:
hosannas, anniversary, birth, birthday, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Nazarene
...Two sandaled feet
Beginning a pace
That will grant salvation
To the whole human race
One foot, placed on hard sand ground
Being followed by disciples milling around
Believers clustered with J...
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Categories:
hosannas, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Field Daze For Bookworms
...Cabin Fever door closes five dollars,
a-Bag Used Book Sale
Sunday, February 23, 2020
hence less than twenty four hours
before avid readers bewail
foregoing scampering across Hillandale
vital po...
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Categories:
hosannas, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Four
...Like an allspice incensed quartet chorus,
the spirit of the living Word unveils before us.
Holy foundational page corners turn
in cardinal winds as red letters churn,
proclaiming the Gospel to ...
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Categories:
hosannas, bible, creation, deep, earth,
Form: Rhyme
A Psalm For Life
...All is copacetic...
on the green side of the grass.
Thank heavens! God is good!
There are much too many beautiful sunsets to feast eyes on
at the close of ...
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Categories:
hosannas, beauty, celebration, god, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Manger Scene I Perceive Today
...Brightening the manger scene is the awesome Christmas story…
Midst technology-apps, it is illumined with varied light’s iridescence
Enlivening the glorious, blissful and jovial prevalence
...
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Categories:
hosannas, appreciation, christian, christmas, faith,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Ain'T Feeling It
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White America is uncomfortable with moving forward,
they want their future to go back to the past
“Make America Great Again!”
A brand chiseling,
cave wall jingo retail sale slogan
...
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Categories:
hosannas, discrimination, fear, history, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
At a Distance
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Afar off you stand,
fearful of me
because of what ...
the color of my skin?
At a distance (you deem safe)
do you judge
the worth of me
As you live in gated comfort
of isolation
...
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Categories:
hosannas, discrimination, hate, society, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Borrowed Tomb
...As the spring sun rises
Revealing wispy clouds
Fog that's settled in hollows
Roosters crow, doves' coo proud
With Easter approaching
Thoughts of thousands years
Ago bubble up in
Memory...
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Categories:
hosannas, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Palms
...THE PALMS
As dawn child brings a new illumination
Among the palms are hints of gentle motion
Their fronds now stir in elegant activation
Like ladies with refinement: a devotion
Their fluent gest...
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Categories:
hosannas, beauty, nature, religion,
Form: Rhyme
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