Indulgences Poems | Examples

Wish we could slow things down

September just around the corner
summer indulgences so quickly come and gone
~ time slips through our fingers



Wordku: 5-7-5 words

AP: 3rd place 2025

11 First Morning Offering

O my (Eternal) God
I offer You all my prayers
Works
And sufferings
In union with the Sacred Heart of Fr. Christ
For the intentions for the intentions for which He pleads
And offers Himself in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
In thanksgiving for your favors
In reparation for my offenses
And in humble supplication
For my temporal welfare
For the conversion of sinners
And for the relief of the poor souls in the purgatory

I wish to gain all indulgences
Attached to the prayers I will say
And works I will perform this day
Amen

Poetry Form: Free Verse
Date Typed: May 20, 2025
Time Typed 6:14pm

April shower

a torrential rain drenched us today
much needed some would say

now, after the chaos, settles the calm
while the sun casts its golden glow
on one and all like a warm coat of honey

and we recall how darn lucky we are
to be alive as we eagerly await
oncoming summer indulgences



AP: Honorable Mention 2025

Ghosts

Fear no ghosts, nor demons in the night,
Nor werewolves, or shadowy spirits of light.
It's men I fear, whose hatred knows no end,
Whose rage and prejudice no bounds defend.
Fear not for rakshasas or witches of the past,
Animals die where go their souls at last?
Folklores, cleverly written to tell, 
To bind generations in centuries old spell.

Indulgences were sold in the erstwhile time,
Not paying alms and tithes was deemed a crime.
To stop you from thinking, hearsay was invented,
Thus, critical thinking was strictly prevented.
Centuries old darkness continues to plays part,
Hiding the truth, spreading lies with art.
This devil resides in their mind’s deep pit,
And priests just fuels the fear to fit.

Releasing

Releasing egoism,  vanity, and idle 
  chatter destroyer of hope. What's 
  in it for you and me? Releasing 
  Unconsciously second-guessing 
  self, Overthinking situations that
  no longer serve one's purpose. Releasing 

  Why want anything pushing it away?
  Anxious thoughts hurt people, hurt people, 
 Self-indulgences, False Evidence appearing
real, Bribes and cold, cruel-hearted individuals,
failures, illusions, and oppositions. Releasing

In God's Garden of Life

I have known tender moments that have undone my soul 
felt deep sadness and touched the cornerstone of 
life's euphoria... 
I have loved and lived, years of sacrifice and indulgences
brought my body to the font of satisfaction just to return
to a hunger I never knew I possessed; 
I've experienced hate and anger, charity and mercy 
"ACCEPTANCE AND REBUTTAL" 
I have been both frugal and extravagant, 
stung by a bee saved by a horse. 
I was born wild and tamed way too soon,  
Now I am living out my remaining years as a classic rose, 
 in God's beautiful garden of love.

Time To Pay the Piper

It's time to pay the piper and to realise no one wins, 
As you face the consequences for your many mortal sins,
As you stand to face your judgement, and the scales of justice weighed,
As you rise to hear the verdict, I'm quite sure that you're afraid,
But it's time to pay the piper and there's nothing you can do,
If you're wondering how I know so much, I paid the piper too, 
For my many self indulgences I frequently embraced,
And the payment it was high when consequences they were faced,
But there's nothing that is surer for his rules must be obeyed,
And eternal's his damnation if the piper goes unpaid.

Indulgences

An indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of the temporal punishment due to sin

An indulgence is not a pardon of sin, nor a license to commit sin, and one who is in state of mortal sin cannot gain an indulgence

There are 2 kinds of Indulgenses- Plenary and Partial

A Plenary indulgence is the remission of the temporal punishment due to sin

Partial indulgence is the remission of a part of temporal punishment due to sin

The Church by means of indulgences remits the temporal punishment due to sin by applying to us the merits of Jesus Christ, and thesuperabundant satisfactions of the Blessed Virgin Mother Mary and the saints; which merits and satisfactions are its spiritual treasury

To gain indulgence we must be in the state of grace and perform the works enjoined

Keeper of the Candle

The Keeper of the candle has immortal trust.
Note anyone who has ever held the handle
on secrets - sparks in the mind all set to combust,  
the Keeper of the candle.

Without the intention of libelous scandal,
without insinuation from the upper crust,
without indulgences, I removed my sandal.

Standing on holy ground, with a heavenly thrust,
spirit/soul conquered Satan, that covert vandal.
And immortality was proved by One who's just, 
the Keeper of the Candle.

July 25, 2021

with a nod to Diane Chamberlain and her books 
on the Keeper of the Light.

Inquisitive Dreams

Leonardo da Vinci felt flying
was possible, sketching wings in detail.
And the fact that birds flew kept him trying,
even when all of his efforts would fail.

An artist and a brilliant engineer,
he designed dreams drawn by his gifted pen.
But his passion for flying was sincere,
although that goal eluded him back then.

All his life, he invented contraptions
designed to unlock the secrets of flight.
And his alterations and adaptions
haunted his inquisitive dreams at night.

Yet, despite how much one may desire it,
some indulgences fate will not permit.

Jazz Age Jottings

in the dust
       of
           butterfly wings

short stories of 
      immortalised  era, 
a
              type cast   'pigeion holed'.

a history 
         as well as an
                entertainment,written
 to realise 
               the wherewithal
           to float  longer indulgences thus
    they become 
 a truer appraisal of giftings 
     and motifs of manners
 described in the prose

Plain and Simple

Embarrassed, humiliated, disgraced
By the lack of things
I came from

Humble, my family was humble
With meager possessions
No luxuries or waste
No suffocating expense
No extravagance

I longed for brand names
Like Levi’s and Wrangler
Nike and eventually
Under armor

I can’t be sure
But now that I have the
Indulgences, the extras
Those things I wanted
So ridiculously 

I find that I’m more ashamed
Of the lavishness
I feel like I’ve squandered
Where I should have
Saved

Amenity judged harmless
Can destroy 
The one
Who
Trusts
In 
Riches

Treat yourself
To simplicity

It’s the simple things
That bring wealth
To the senses
Of one who listens
To the appeals
Of humility

Girlhood Stages--Edited

While sighs arose from dried marsh and clay, 
the girl in me embraced an amiable virtue
 born out of an affinity for our town’s revelries :
 Oh   those bouncy play with cousins
 when burnt dusk kindly taught me
 the wisdom of moon’s varied phases, fables,
 then a soul tamed through older clans’ demise

 as this ancient realm became a night keeper, 
 leading me unto stages of womanhood

Today, I am older, perhaps more dauntless…
yet nostalgia seeps into these heavy eyes
 where youth’s indulgences 
are now gone, damp, acrid...
A bushfire searing our farmstead 
like cinder on my hands bolstered my spirit 

Though parish bells knell afar,
long gazes of abode ‘s remnants tear my flesh,
mirroring portraits of youth epiphanies
 
which now mold my present life's outlook…
a kind resolute amidst triumphs and hurdles. 


Brian Strand’s Completely Your Choice 17 
~ format and spelling of ' girlhood edited
due to bad internet
9/27/2020/em>

Judgment 2

Reflexes boiled inside
more from Cumbria
they transform us every day
in ramapithecuses ...
even something on top ...
And the word Evolution
falls under the jurisdiction
of the Jungle,
who is not interested
from computers and Software.
Everyone buys indulgences
with money, bed
or the immortality of one's soul.
Why is his Soul,
when the body lives
without delights, Ferrari and Miami Beach ...
Another thing is when
she's only with lipstick,
Johnnie is very Walker,
and the beer is Amstel....
Oh, santa simplicitas!

Vettriano Musings

surreal
      fragments
from the past
visual 
          encounters
           with dark fantasies
plots
   without dialogue
small drama
with
       strangers
on the
seashore

coincidences 
chimed
     in passion
           desire
           & indulgences
in virtue&
             vice

pursued 
     by umbrellas
      &trilbies
by ladies
        of the night
in mackintoshes &
                           braces

meditations
  in
     sunshine
reflections
   in
      mirrors
of bowlers&
beaches

melancholia
       in moments
               of colour
veiled
  in the enigmatic
longings
for yesterday
                     today
in nostalgic
      roads
       to nowhere
of quietudes
in hidden
    stylistic
       wistfilled
          narratives

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