Long Anglican Poems

The First Thanksgiving (Sept. 3, 1578)

The shortest distance to Cathay 1
(Land of riches: silks, teas and spices)
Lay to the north to the South Sea. 2
Didn’t Barlow tell the King, 3
Was reserved for England.

The routes ‘round...

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Graveyard love



My love is dead, the woman too, and love is an emotion. They are lost.
My feeling of love, which lived in me until now, but was discarded a long time ago.
I was dumped, trampled,...

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“Small Addictions” 

bit by bit 
the hunger begins,
the time when everyone,
it would seem, is giving in
to those small addictions

inevitably they become
your sole purpose for living,
your entire self turned inside out,
those small addictions 
inevitably grow 

they...

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"Exegesis"



At 7 he was 
thrown to the wolves

Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets 
kept in the abbey

he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod

First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with him
like a comfort blanket
his Nicene creed and God

and on returning...

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They married in their own garden under the canopy of a Wild Date Tree

An indigenous plant standing tall for sweetness and benevolent spirits

This one untamed and miraculously withstanding droughts in the City of Gold

It gave...

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Having said that
for all of us, dear friends,
not left any other way at all
going to the worth life and prosperity
except turn to Crist	
who just partly known for some of us  as  a prophet...

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Every Wednesday he held a healing service for the sick
since Betty's cancer had spread to a point of no return 
Fr. N was the only one she followed, with faith unbroken;  
He stood at...

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For over a year quiet it lay,
the big gray stones in the walls
framing what seemed more
empty tomb than church--
the stained glass windows
did not sing out their beauty
for no one was there to hear...
well, God, as...

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We are all
with such or other way
have lead, moved himself or drifted out
from eternal Truth.

We are all
lived in Crist
or hidden of him
attracted to him
or betryed him,
escaping from his commandments
for convenient and comforting
existence in lies.
 ...

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Liberal Christians are in denial, 
About how much they validate, 
The fundamentalist church old, 
Because the same story is told. 

I know that the Queen, royalty, 
Is a liberal, but that’s irrelevant, 
Because history will...

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Grandad says that Easter isn’t funny
You won’t find him at parties
Dressed up as the Easter bunny
He’ll not be scoffing chocolate eggs
Or anything like that
He’ll be putting on his Sunday best
And dusting off his hat
For Grandad...

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In every direction that the wind blows
The bulbs of the narcissus bulge and bloom
In all of latitude doth the wind grows
Brushing its floral leaves, dost the wind groom

For acres the narcissus flowers loom
Abroad earths garden...

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I was baptized into 
The Anglican faith when I was a baby,
Therefore I have always been "saved"
Through how Yeshua (Christ)
Long ago set a magnificent 
Example of how mankind 
Should be; in harmony with both
His divine...

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Is God Jewish, keeping kosher
and laying down the Law?
[Though the Israelite name 
was unpronounceable--no vowels,
because what human can truly 
speak the name of God....] 

Is God a Roman Catholic,
with an army of saints behind him?

Or...

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dusk settles on an Anglican Shrub
vespertine is downy down upon the vertical horizon
spring like frost is unraveling
toward a sunset on its late afternoon decline

at this stage of early-black twilight
a cygar shaped delirium is seeding 
its...

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To our Christian Public:
Anglican or Catholic 
But also to The Interested Muslim
Abdullah or Taslim,
Vacancies have we for A Cleaner,
Whose Sense of Hygiene is keener,
A Customer-Friendly Waiter,
Not wishing to be tipped later,
A Vibrant Security man,
Who would...

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bells

from edges of my dreams
a morning chorus 
begins softly. 

in the forest meadow
a slow plodding rhythm
sways closer, 
brings
recognition.

cow bell’s, 
their tinny clunk made more  melodious,
all harshness trapped 
among the evergreen branches
on bedewed trees.

Hick’s cows,...

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The Organ and the Flame - St James Anglican Cathedral, Toronto

The organist, practicing, 
and I are alone; 
unseen by one other. 
The pews tremble. 
The vast volume of air vibrates with each note.
The morning sun...

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In his youth he became an Anglican deacon,
but the doubts about Protestantism beset him
and after further study,
he returned to Catholicism.

Young Jesuit priest,
arrested by priest hunters
in Anglican England 
for teaching about the Christ.

He was convicted of...

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IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON AND HOLY SPIRIT

Born and baptised in the Greek orthodox faith,  
Often went to church with my dad at the Anglican
Church, kissed the Pope’s ring when he...

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