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Laity Poems - Poems about Laity

The way to joy, enjoy on the way
...Slow and serene could I walk at the jheel If wore on my visage a pleasant smile, Relaxed to core, deep-set laity to feel, When weary thoughts were left behind to pile. A seed of joy within sp......

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Categories: laity, journey, joy, peace,
Form: Sonnet
Easter as interpreted by one
...Easter as interpreted by one... rebated, rebelled, rebirthed, rebooted, and rebuked courtesy one ill shod Unitarian atheist, who means NOT to affect any sacrilegious fallout nor offend devo......

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Categories: laity, adventure, bible, celebration, christian,
Form: Rhyme



Why So Straight, My Friend
...A straight line, laity, And crooked one quite weighty, In topsy-turvy A poetic metre’s world, Friend, why be such a straight bird? And why so long winding Where a crooked line softness s......

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Categories: laity, poetry, world,
Form: Tanka
Aksum of the Covenant
...Old Persian expedition of eight ships Eight hundred soldiers on board with whips Traveled and vanquished Aksumites of good gesture People of worship, peace and humane nature Aksum of ivory and ......

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Categories: laity, faith,
Form: Elegy
Premium Member Bottoms Uprising
...Nothing grows naturally or resiliently, and certainly not perfectly, from the top down or from the outside in Including pyramids and sustainable nutrition economies and healthy organic dem......

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Categories: laity, community, health, integrity, nature,
Form: Political Verse



Easter As Interpreted By One
...Easter as interpreted by one... rebated, rebirthed rebooted, and rebuked ill shod Unitarian atheist Though avast percentage of stonehenge temple piloted ghosts, harking back millennia constan......

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Categories: laity, allegory, angel, appreciation, body,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member How I Feel About the Vaccine
...say never throw away a Layman" was originally used to distinguish between non-clerical people and the clergy. It soon was used to distinguish non-professionals from professionals in a field (such as law or medicine). In a similar fashion the collective noun "laity" originally referred to non-clerical people, but came to also mean "persons not of a particular Profession. In my opinion, most of us can be considered layman so why are we so quick to a......

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Categories: laity, analogy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A Book I Read
...It is filled with cultural and geographical interests. It also depicts man's search for reason a......

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Categories: laity, bible, christian,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Leviticus His Abiding Call
...be holy for I am holy our Lords spoke to Moses of priests &the holy sacrifices& cleanliness &laity in worship orientated for all our ......

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Categories: laity, christian, people,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Pray For the Mistletoe
... Pray For The Mistletoe or In My Church? Get “Outta” Here By: Tom Wright 9/22/99 Some laity, crowd Churches, affixing themselves to pews as Mistletoe to a tree. Always there, but ba......

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Categories: laity, christian, god, prayer,
Form: Free verse
I Need No Other Heaven
...A pyramid of stones and a beam of steel Can't stand in my way, I will find a route. Guns, rigid laws and distance, Can't interrupt my search for you, I will press harder. I've been drilled ......

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Categories: laity, fantasy, for her, love,
Form: Free verse
Deity For Laity
...DEITY FOR LAITY or THE RELUCTANT ATHEIST Oh! must we talk of God? Myself I think I’d sooner look At what I perceive without a preconceived idea, prescription We could quote the words of others s......

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Categories: laity, god,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Contagious Insomnia
...I've not been sleeping well since early November, about the time Donald Trump was not just nominated by Republican Christian White Male Dominant Evangelical Christians, in some unholy alliance......

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Categories: laity, christian, games, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
The Hunt
...From hunting comes From hunting drums From hunting hums All bright stars Near and far In New York or Trafalgar Those stars in skyscrapers Those dazzling gold vapours The government shapers ......

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Categories: laity, class, conflict, confusion, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Life Is What You Make It
...Birth of an infant, a mom's victorious pain From monosyllables to phrases to sentences Speech takes the place of shouts and cries Actions replaces the moans; coos and tries From crawls to strollers,......

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Categories: laity, feelings, growing up, imagery,
Form: Verse

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