Long Alleluia Poems

History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...

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Was the place where we climbing down the bank
Then arrived, alpine and, for what was there
Such as, that any eyesight would be shrank.

Similar to landslide that in side bare
Before Trento the Adige just smote,
Or for...

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ENCHANT ME!
(A Contemporary Animist’s Prayer) 

To the shared breath of life:

Enchant me!
Whisper to me in the cadence and rhymes, 
the deeper susurrations of this tellurian realm
with its numinous places that already call out
my name!
Talk to...

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KING DAY
(A Retrospective Perspective)

			     David said to Solomon his son, be
			strong and of good courage, and do 
			it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the
			Lord God…will be with thee; he will
...

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G O D

God my professor who does not sit on a stool at the head of the class correcting exam papers with their columns of graphite-filled dots with each question being multiple choice and the...

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*** ENDURING ***

(A Part Two about my recent illness, following “Lunacy Loo Flies.”

Fear
Stepped into the holes of my weakness
To impede my pace to recovery, 
Absorbing the basic radiant light —

My going forth walk had previously...

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If I can say it,
but not sing it,
or even hum a resonant melody
that feels like it,
then perhaps my greater gift
is silence,
at least for now,
until toxic seeds
ripen into our healthiest
resilient,
harmonious,
fertile wealth.

So, sing to me,
divinely doctrined Missionaries
and...

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The Hypocrite


The Doubter hides behind religious guise,
Mistakes the raven for the pigeon in darkened skies.
His words beguile, twisting my skeletal fancy into a deceitful smile,
Espousing, “Darkness must be exposed by light”, all the while.
Release the...

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Five Words of Change 

There are words that make my toes curl, my skin crawl and the hair on my arms stand straight up like taking off a polyester sweater in winter crackling with static...

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O will boldly proclaim of the goodness of our GOD!
O I will boldly sing of the holiness of our GOD!
O I will boldly testify of the righteousness of 
our most high and most holy grand...

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Than sings my soul my Savior God to Thee
How Great Thou art repeat 3X

Than sings my soul of joyful peaceful melodious harmony
Unto my Lord and my Savior God unto thee, how truly
Great thou are always...

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  DEVIL GO HOME- -
Git thee behind me, Satan;
Lucifer, Demon, Beelzebub;
Whatever your name is now, get up, get out go…
Oh, oh, oh no-
Devil this place is not your home;
Go on go away this I...

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Hiroshima Poems I

Let Us Be Midwives!
by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Midnight...
the basement of a shattered building...
atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the darkness...
not a single candle between them...
the odor of blood...
the stench...

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Hiding in you, we are hiding securely in you, Lord Jesus Christ,
our blessed rock of ages we are securely hiding in you,
You have bestowed upon all of us, peaceful security,

throughout all of eternity.  We...

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O Please don't miss the boat and please don't be late
( It's all about give and take and not being late)
When God the Father tells God the Son

(It's time to come on down and go...

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Psalm of Worship and Praise one

O My beloved Lord and Holy God,
what fear I about tomorrow's pain,
suffering, heart ache's and sorrows! 

When  one day very soon all will pass 
far far far away from...

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"So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you and help you: I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."...

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OH! Thy word is a light unto my feet
And a lamp unto my hand! The Light
Of the world is Jesus Christ! His 
Candlelight shines both by day
And also into the night! Praise our Lord
And our...

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O  sweet loving  peace I leave you; my peace I leave you
O everlasting, never-ending  peace I leave you; my peace I leave you
O wondrous, wonderful peace I leave you; my peace I...

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Based upon San Diego's latest tourism video lyric,
"If your're happy and you know it, 
clap your hands." 

O If you love our Lord Jesus, why not show it?

O If you just happen to love our...

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O Let us be thankful and let us be grateful
For all of the blessings that our Heavenly
Father has freely bestowed upon us through
His most valuable and precious gift of all!
Jesus Christ gave His life what...

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"I see the lights come shining, from the west to the east
Any day now, any day now, I will be released." pop song

OH! My Lord and my God I see the coming of the Son
of...

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"OH! There is Hope for the Hill today!
OH! There is Hope for the USA today!
OH! Let us all lift our voices and praise!
OH! There is Hope for the Hill in the USA!
OH! Let us all...

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Greater is He that is in me than he that is the world
My Lord Jesus Christ is greater in me than he that
Is our world.  O Greater is the Holy Spirit residing
Inside of me...

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I walked through heaven's open doors
I enter into  heaven's open doors
What wondrous blessings were in store
Awaiting me, alas I was finally free, no
More fears nor more doubts were able
 To assail me  Alleluia...

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