Prayer Iambic Pentameter Poems

A friend of ours just passed away this year-
     a special man within our senior set.
His daughter prayed to God that...

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Corona and Covid disrupted this year.
Leaving the world confounded; paralyzed with fear.
Lives lost in droves;too much sorrow to count.
Everyone shrouded under storm clouds of doubt.
Sanitized,...

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To all the fallen of Covid 19
whose deaths were unrecorded and unseen
To those who languished in intensive care
where Fear unmasked itself to mock each prayer

To...

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Throughout the nineteen-fifties, times were neat;
full, long flared skirts and bobby socks gals wore,
while rock and roll and doo-wop moved our feet
to music slow and...

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This thing called love, oh, tell me what it means!
Is it what breathes and lives in gilded dreams?
Is it the searing burn of hungry kiss?
Or...

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One's ill respite, ne'er distantly 
the acclimation's Faith as sight
before the God of might stay free,
as justice arbitraries fight!

My land, my kin, my own insight
in...

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That bridge so named uncertainty
stands waiting ~ there appall
the risk of sure identity
to face from God , His Call!

The inches, not extremity
that size demeanor small
does...

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The conflict that I’ll never let you see
Is one that rages here inside of me
I face the day and smile away the pain
Yet deep inside...

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Christmas Mass
Dear holy child, I celebrate your birth,
and wonder at the bright and shining star,
that leads to all the joy and peace on earth
we all...

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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS
Abbreviated by an early autumn night
the summer, once tormented by a torrid sun,
relented to September, as if dying might
give reason to all things...

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While searching for my younger self one day
		(The present one was getting hard to bear),
          ...

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ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS
Abbreviated by an early autumn night
the summer, once tormented by a torrid sun,
relented to September, as if dying might
give reason to all things...

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The masked intruder burst through my front door.
	While exiting a window, I heard pops.
	He missed, but he pursued me as I fled.
	Without my cell, I...

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CHRIST'S MASS
Dear holy child,  I celebrate your birth
and wonder at the bright and shining star
that leads to all the joy and peace on earth
we...

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Like tender loving arms, they wrap around
   old monuments of stone set on the ground;
those silent sentinels that stand their guard
  ...

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