Long Congregants Poems

THE HURDLES: 

Explain this won't be a devour,
As all this while you considered a diva.
He'd set hurdles, Eva...
Which's breeding woes and fever.
I know you understand that's not trivial,
From the university of life, I have become...

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CONFUSED WORLD:

The world's totally confused,
If you do right you're contused.
To and fro, they go back to the magoos. 
Their systems make no amuse,
It only dismantle laid down routes;
Leading souls to grab unexpected woes in demonic...

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Midnight at Blackfriars 
  
The city spires are hidden, 
It’s getting colder fast, 
It feels as though we might have 
Some snow this month at last. 
The wind sweeps keenly through St. Giles(1) 
The...

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His silhouette lines up with his preacher stretch.
He points with avid attention to the throne of God.
Though he stands, his skinny knees are bent.
He’s in the trenches with his armament.

The congregants in the old wooden...

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THAT MOTHER MARY WAS A REAL MOTHER

They teach, they preach, and reach incongrous conclusions for their congregants
and do so with arrogance
because the preacher has a predeliction toward facing Satan toe to toe 
as he gathers...

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A teenager with the expressions of a middle age individual
is the wonder-creating characteristic of its accelerating growth.
Dwelling in a land not presented with natural gifts;
it still beat all odds to be a member of the...

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A FACT I WISH WERE FICTION

Together as a team they finally found the thirteen year old young lady at last
The insanity of uncertainty was permanently part of the past
Little Miss Lost was discovered after a...

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Submerged in a rat race, to keep the number high. 

compromised the truth of the Prince of Peace, 

imported science, liberalism and other form of philosophies. 

to obscure the simplicity of the gospel,

Biblical illiterates lulled...

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'Vanity of vanity, all is vanity... and chasing after wind'
    evokes a mood of despair, precious few grins
  Ecclesiastes is read in most synagogues on Sukkoth
    though it...

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Majestic cathedrals are erected for the worship of God,
Featuring towering spires and ostentatious facade.
Grand organs acclaim ancient hymns with clarion flourish.
Melodious choirs sing hosannas, languid souls to nourish!

Most congregants worship in less pretentious surrounds,
But the...

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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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Our choir cantata won't take place this year.
We lack the space to be six feet apart
on stage or in the choir loft, but the fear
of Covid can't crowd Christmas from ONE heart!
All congregants will sing...

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Mocking the dead,

the vampire on the hill, high
above the cityscape. Why
does his cloak wrap around?
It moves with a hissing sound,
blackened on the outside,
blue on the molten graveside.
Sharpening incisors on the crag,

but

the villagers with their worn...

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Should I see you coming from afar, 
I would swing my hands at a tick of a clock, 
You might take delight in delaying all those congregants, 
As they stay unexpectantly in shock, 
Then you...

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Counted among the congregants, the geese
flying by, two by two, at sunrise. Guitar
combines nicely with a heavenly voice.
Behind me the couple makes the Spirit flow.
Their voices, too, intertwined like Ivy.
Blessings and more blessings!

We arrive home...

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The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years;
He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears!
He had baptized hordes of kids and officiated when they married,
And comforted many...

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Host

Priest and monk eat biscuits quietly
In the garden, delighted
Sunlight on tombstones pray
The dead don’t mind
Shaded by the stone cold church

In the past, whips lashed out perfect pain 
Rained down salvation and enemy torture
Repent by fire,...

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Some evangelists lose souls 
while trying to win arguments.
Some preachers lose real goals
while trying to win compliments.

Some try to twist timeless truth
because holiness seems too hard.
Some turn the temple to a booth
where they cheapen God's...

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That Pentecost Sunday in Owo  
As worshippers assembled 
For the rain of Holy Spirit 
Men of the underworld 
Wielding the tools of their ungodly trade
Rained satanic bombs and bullets on innocent congregants
And two scores...

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We are gathered here 
    tonight 
  to worship the one 
before whom there is no pretense
One of our congregants 
has been stricken 
Therefore we must 
  direct our hearts...

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Can a person be preached to death?
My burned-out ears answer "yes."
Some church speakers use every breath
To berate those they suppose they bless.

They describe "don'ts" three pews long.
Congregants find it all but unfeasible
To live without doing...

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A dandelion sun floats in a
Ty-D-Bowl sky, and
dewy young girls with hair
like shining copper pennies
and unsalted butter
bathe beneath it.

With faith born of MTV,
they worship Ocean---
her heavy metal fury,
her power ballad calm.

But Eros interrupts,
sending her own...

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Emma saw the light on that Sunday bright.
Her hands, they were folded, and knees bent right.
     She smiles at the Pastor’s words.
     The sun through the window...

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The sparsity of congregants
reminds me of the absence 
of jestful boys schooled 
in the faux arts
of throwing hymnbooks
across the nave.

The smelters ran two shifts, 
fed us beattitudes
of paid mortgages 
and Sunday roast beef
as the school...

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The congregants were distanced,
Wearing masks, as well they should,
While hearing of the man who always
Knew just where he stood.

Three Presidents paid tribute,
Quite an honor to receive
And the Speaker of the House as well,
So many there...

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