Long Acquits Poems

Gracious
Omnipresent
Defends
Saves

Forgives
Acquits
vindicates
ordains
undertakes
Redeems

  You have granted me life and favor, and Your care has preserved my spirit. Job 10:12

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; You anoint my head with oil;...

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Sam, Sam, the drunken man
Hiccup, hiccup, stagger
Sprayed by the skunk again
Stench replaces swagger

Uncle is a rebel
Standards sinking lower
His Lust rings the death knell
Evil hands him over

Hiding in the closet
Moving from the shadows
Twist the truth to...

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Refuse to hang the innocent
While your gang acquits the guilty
In a tooth for a tooth pronouncement
You state in collusion with the mighty.

Accuse with the ruse in your news dissidents
Whipped into submission
To the coercion of incidents
Incorporated...

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In the august acclamations of weaponry
befits this uniform adorned 
and in prideful boast our livery
of arsenal upon the enemy scorned

From this distant seat shall reap dead carapace
the automata's bullet indulges no refugee
to warrant such requital...

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To wit with rhyme and meter chime                            ...

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ON BEING RIGHT

The flag that bore a holy cross or crescent
Claimed to symbolise one righteousness and truth
Yet each side had same battle cry incessant
Unique virtue moved the sacrifice of youth
Europe’s fields now bear the ends...

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Resurrection Sunday
Written: by Tom Wright
For Easter 2016

The Cross, the Tomb, the Resurrection,
Often Easter thoughts stray from these events.
But the most important message to me,
Is Easter and what this Holiday represents.

It isn’t about eggs and chocolate...

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In younger days we would watch our figure
Now hear behind the back people snicker 
    Now through many years
    Christmas treats and cheers
Behinds not in line, those bellies bigger!

I’ll...

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Barabas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Barabas by T. Wignesan

This insignia that Barabas be
Seditious and murderous
None so worthy as he can be
Bartered body for Jesus

Criminal right down to genes
To our father of all is he son
For...

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