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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

Premium MemberAksum 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 MemberBottoms 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 MemberHow 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 MemberA 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 MemberLeviticus 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 MemberPray For the Mistletoe

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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 MemberContagious 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 MemberLife 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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