Long Choristers Poems

Deck The Halls
  
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Baby birds, it's said, are born not knowing 
their notes. They learn them from their mother's 
throats in the way children learn their ABCs 
at parental knees, muh muh muh becoming mother, 
da da da,...

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Our attendance is a mere formality, a routine unconnected to the hearts 
We sing, but not to the True God,
We pray with wondering Hearts 
Even Prayers are dead, it is a mere routine of minutes...

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SAT NAM 

I am rose in sunlight breathing 
               Buddha in middle of balm bathing 
beckoning my Heart leavening lively 

I...

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As the sun rises over the hills at dawn,
Nature awakens, revealing her secrets.
She spins tales woven with morning dew,
A symphony where each leaf plays a note.

The Green Canopy 
Verdant leaves whisper ancient wisdom,
Their veins etched...

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Written: January 29, 2025
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Amidst a nostalgic winter...

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Taking a walk through the aisle,
This used to be the mass convergence of congregants.
Now here lies the solitude of the dead silence;
The quietness of the graveyard more hilarious than this.

The massive edifices of such a...

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Go home, old man, turn to your bed
and draw the covers to your eyes;
there is no papa in the skies
to hear your prayers,
were you to dare to frame them.

No spirit hovering?...to flood your mind
with golden...

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When All Hallows' Eve's curse, cast its spell, on that night,
    As the choristers sung, all in tune, church bells rung,
    And the bats, in the belfry now spooked,...

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Written: January 30, 2025

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Beneath February breath, 
a fugue of magic hues—
embers of crimson,...

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She is a beauty with her vaulted ceilings and cloisters.
Has been parading about for over a thousand years 
Showing off her English gothic architecture. 
Cathedral Church of St. Peter and the Holy and Invisible Trinity.

We...

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A Winter tale.
 oh  Winter – how you often linger long,
what windswept elements you deal;
your cold dark chamber does my spirit feel.
your shivering grip of uncheerfull thoughts is strong.
and often in your shadows I...

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Anointed angels are alluring ambassadors
They are the saintly, soaring spirits, we all adore
Sent from heaven… the hills so high and holy
God seldom send them to tell us a surprising story

They are blessed beings with wide,...

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The gospels heard ayond,  
melodious song strain,
atmosphere echoed, 
Choristers praises,
Congregation dance 
Almighty glorified!!..

Tithes to offering, thanksgiving to testimony, 
Pastor sermon, congregation hush!..

Hell realm whispers, 
Worshippers terrified, 
Voiceless voices heard, 
Phony worshippers full, 
Genuine worshippers...

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Love is life's most beautiful book
with charming and cheerful chapters;
the great God is it's alluring author,
we are the colourful characters  

Love is life's sweetest song, 
lavished with luxurious and lively lyrics,
the glorious God is...

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“What a caterwauling do you keep here !”
Sir Andrew and Sir Toby – too much beer !

Listen.  Is that a cat–er-wauling,
A piercing feline screech, a bawling ?
All our neighbourhood cats are calling !

Loud yowling...

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Colorful season for the saints; a simple sign for sinners;
Happy hearts hover; love and light unites the universe.
Righteousness received in a wicked world by winners;
Indemnity to the indebted, laugh alive oh longing losers,
Seeking the Savior...

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