Long Churchgoers Poems

I.	  The Settlement

          Hickory bark bluffs
          at the blend of two 
    ...

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Preparations for 'Luau' (LOU-ow) or a Hawaiian Party-like event, for a church Luau, would be a 'Ho'ike' (hoe-'E-kay). The hunters will tie the hind legs of whatever animal will go into an 'i'mu' (E'-moo), which...

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My opinion on religion Take 1
I am in the unexpected throes of spring cleaning
Suddenly with no warning 
7 people are unexpectedly arriving in a few minutes for an Easter lunch.
Easter lunch already?
Why didn’t anyone mention...

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The massacres of our beautiful people must STOP.
It is unconscionable to destroy so many lives
For selfish and hatred reasons. God, in his archives, 
Have recorded everything, which occurred, from top
To bottom, from sunset to sunrise,...

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...His performances went for hours,
even when people drifted off,
he’d kept playing in the tavern
regardless of what others thought.

He would wind down like some old clock,
sometime playing straight through the night,
then just stand up and wander...

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Isabel was the youngest of four children, dwelling in a large old house,
Nestled under the burgeoning oak trees, in green spring, of no doubts.

Isabel's parents were devout churchgoers, insisting upon going weekly;
But, Isabel often preferred...

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I was dragged to this odd church reluctantly
Sure I had shingles that would not go away, 
But I did not believe in this kind of thing.
Under protest, my best friend brought me,
Because she did.

You can...

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There is a presence to a Sunday morning,
an ease.  People waiting on line for their
coffee seem more animated, less agitated,
friendlier….almost chatty.  The traffic seems
to get along better too.  No schedules demand
cut throat...

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Opinionated- And It’s Eyes---


I awoke and flung my mind soul in the heaven
What could there be more purely seven?
'It's that lordship,' I muttered;
And am I the nonbeliever never okaying;
I crave the divine, deponent denominationalism Why?
Death...

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I should have known
when the elderflowers failed to bloom,
Blind was I, dancing in Plato's Cave.
Then there came the day.
The cosmic disarray nor the wolves howls
Rang bells to me.
For had they,
Church bells I would have clanged
With...

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A female infant, born blind, was abandoned by her parents inside a church.  The girl grew up not knowing her real parents.  She was raised by a priest.

Many years she stayed in a...

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!0.  The dragon and atoms compress and converge.
      From Tokyo Bay, Raymond Burr sees emerge.

9.   I have no more face than the man in the moon.
 ...

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The world is a her playground,
when her eyes are watching all the players.
She believes in playing god, 
if the reason is good.

Goodness is worthwhile, she says,
but never in exchange for fun.
Changing too much for the...

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CHRISTMAS      MIRACLE



Tinsel and glittering childen’s lights mean nothing 
To the aged in shop doorways, hungry and sleeping.
Churches filled with strong believers, with smiles
For fellow worshippers, mean nothing, when for miles
Your...

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Themed distractions, affairs a boulevard,
as elbowed are divided from their minds.
Aloof, queues succeed a ship calling card,
as untrained get on, moons all exit signs.

The General Slocum, dressed to the nines
--churchgoers being passengers adorned.
Petite girls, bulky...

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It was an altar of prayer
but God didn't rise
evil entered the house in a noble disguise.
Bullets were strewn 
sanity was killed
bodies fell as corpses
blood did spill.
And hatred had the victory
on that grisly day, it seemed.

It...

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As the sun begins its return
mall parking is available
shadows pencil mark their growing length
as breezes in Canada huff and puff
the ten day forecast  leads listeners to therapy
super markets or hardware stores
rubbing salt into not...

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Spring sunshine as winter has now past
That tempestuous wild weather did not last

Pollen-covered daffodils do permeate the air with their fresh scent
What will the pious sacrifice for lent

The easter hunt did unanimously excite
A fine lamb...

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There are folk, in church or non-church family
Abounding in warmth; "Hi folks!" with charm
Least expected ... On the couch, deep memory:
Kind misdeeds, intent ignored: cut on thy palm

NOTE: a pastor may counsel successful churchgoers &...

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