Long Deacons Poems
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Doctors of Industrious Divinity
Dear Bishop Michael Cote, Doctor of Divinity
through pre-historic untold ages
through reborn renaissance stages
through industriously energetic praises
through enlightenment phases
through empowerment dysphasia
Some of us lesser health care practitioners,
good faith social workers,
teachers,
parents and grandparents,
uncles and aunts,
and ecofeminist inter-religious...
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Categories:
deacons, christian, green, health, nature, passion, power, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Magick
Magick - Enforce thy will,
By the power you hold,
For good or for ill,
Be wise in your control.
Elements - Earth, Air, Fire, Water,
A pentagram in proper fashion,
Implements to open the door,
To express your mystical passion....
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Categories:
deacons, allah, allusion, god, halloween, horror, jesus, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Who We Are
Who We Are
By: Tom Wright
7/26/99
We stand today,
products of our lives thus far.
Byproducts of environment, thoughts and acts that we cannot escape.
Each thing we've done in life has made us
the sum total of who we are...
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Categories:
deacons, christian, forgiveness, god, sin,
Form:
Free verse
The Great Catching Away part five
The very next day Ray's family returned back again to Rene's fast food restaurant's
with their adapted motto, 'quick and timely service with a smile." His father drove
his car to the middle section that his...
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Categories:
deacons, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Sophisticated Women
We met at the airport. He was on his way to a Christian conference, and I was on my way to meet a potential client.
He was tall, honey color with chiseled cheeks.
He had the intuitive...
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Categories:
deacons, change,
Form:
Narrative
The Watchmen and the Watch Women
The first time I heard the term the Watchmen on the Wall was from now deceased television evangelist Hal Lindsey. Did Hal Lindsey invent the term? No in the Old Testament of the Bible, the...
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Categories:
deacons, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Sweet Daddy Grace
When Marcelino Manuel da Graca aka Sweet Daddy Grace came to town.
At an early age, I must admit that I was excited along with the majority of the Black community of the South East...
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Categories:
deacons, feelings,
Form:
Narrative
The Deacon's Feet of Clay
The Deacon’s Feet of Clay
By Elton Camp
At the fundamentalist church, Larry is a deacon
As a truth-teller, he’s thought a shining beacon
“It is the lake of fire into which liars are thrown.
Truth I always...
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Categories:
deacons, funnycity, integrity,
Form:
Rhyme
A Call To Arms-Volume One
A call to arms has been issued and all the lyrical guns have been reissued
fierce fighting mothers handing out tissues to dab away at media blasted issues
while the news just labels and cradles out...
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Categories:
deacons, faith, imagination, inspirational, life, visionary, people, people,
Form:
Ballad
Two Queens
A mother’s two daughters transformed the bookstore the other day…
let me set the scene….
They turned our bookstore into a castle…ruled over by two queens.
In an instant the battlements and a tower were erected…and here’s a...
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Categories:
deacons, imagination,
Form:
Rhyme
Asides Within a Last Breath
Three lying deacons
swim in a handbag -
and a lone, celibate pastor
paces longingly bemused.
Michael, the Arc Angel,
poses silently,
in dusty Gabbana drag,
cursing the lipstick-painted laymen
writhing in rancid attar -
naked
and intentionally
unused.
Four wide-eyed boys...
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Categories:
deacons, introspection
Form:
Free verse
God's Forgiveness Won'T Count
GOD’S FORGIVENESS WON’T COUNT
In a rural setting in a dale,
close to the river Conchobar,
stands the village of Corella,
right at the ending of the tar.
Everybody knows each other.
They often do in country towns,
and most businesses are...
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Categories:
deacons, humor,
Form:
Rhyme
The Beautiful Lotuses
She spoke a Tale of Her yougth abot
a man and woman who wished to marry
they sought refuse at a camp. There the
deacons and nuns feed the hungry and
performed the task of marrage. They had
traveled...
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Categories:
deacons, music, romantic love,
Form:
Ballad
In the Beginning Was the Poetry
Oh! The poetry of "The power and Glory"!
I recall chant and call of that Gospel Story,
In storefront churches, all across the land.
Where heat was stirred, but not dispelled
by the waving of little cardboard fans.
As towering...
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Categories:
deacons, on writing and wordswords,
Form:
Lyric
There Are No Heroes Without the Herd
Each year
I met September
with its calico seals of Samhain
slain in a fair death
and bled by symptoms of naked hours
and loneliness.
I shivered with
a strange dread,
not of predator or prey
but the threat
of being siphoned...
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Categories:
deacons, introspection
Form:
Free verse
The Last Time That God Lost His Faith
I was there, the last time that God lost
His Faith. Admittedly, since the death
of His Son, there have been a few bad
years that could have influenced His
decision. He sent a note to...
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Categories:
deacons, bible, god,
Form:
Free verse
The Preacher Gets His Walking Papers
The Preacher Gets His Walking Papers
By Elton Camp
The deacons called in the preacher “for a chat”
And uncomfortably talked about this and that
Eventually, the oldest of the deacons spoke out
“Preacher, I’ll tell you what this is...
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Categories:
deacons, angst
Form:
Rhyme
Temptation
The pastor's sermon was quite clear on the matter of temptation.
He held our attention - no one went to sleep in that congregation!
As usual, it was an inspiring and masterful presentation,
Leaving some folks (and me)...
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Categories:
deacons, faithme,
Form:
Rhyme
The Hate Machine
The Hate Machine
The tail of a bird the bone of a man;
Warm red Blood upon the sand.
A hooded figure, a Nazi Cross.
Was there ever a man who could count the cost.
Of the Hate Machine.
A starving...
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Categories:
deacons, allegory, angst, anxiety, betrayal, brother, evil, truth,
Form:
Rhyme
Christian Hypocrites
THERE ARE SO MANY PREACHERS TRYING TO BE TEACHERS BUT INSTEAD THEY ARE LEACHERS.
LYING,CHEATING AND CREEPING AROUND LIKE A SNAKE IN THE GRASS COVERING UP HIS SLYNESS WITH SOPHISTICATION AND CLASS.
THE DEACONS ARE CREEPING ON...
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Categories:
deacons, life, religion, people, people,
Form:
Personification
Floating.....
Wish I could have taken better
Care of my body...
Wish they could have stopped
the cancer sooner...
I'm just a spirit now,
Floating over my own funeral.
If I had my way, I'd pick...
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Categories:
deacons, black african american, death, funny, life, nostalgia,
Form:
Epitaph
Bruce Jenner, Wheaties Winner
Bruce Jenner, Wheaties Winner
Can you imagine Bruce Jenner being a Wheaties winner
Becoming a women wanting to be much thinner
With quite a fine, attractive, adorable face
Wearing dress, high heels and blouse with lace.
What is world...
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Categories:
deacons, allegory, analogy,
Form:
Couplet
The Diary of a Decons Daughter
Growing up as innocent as a New Born child Knowing no Wrong About the world. I Found My self Falling..... looking for the love of in all the wrong places not a christan bone in...
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Categories:
deacons, women, me, self, love, me, self, time,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
None Denominationist
* NONE DENOMINATIONIST * ...
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Categories:
deacons, lovepeace, peace,
Form:
I do not know?
God's Holy People - Philippians 1: 1-2
The apostle Paul God's holy servant
addresses God's chosen holy people
speaking with true royal authority
looking to God from His holy steeple
God here speaks to His very own
all of those God regards as saints
draped in the shed...
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Categories:
deacons, god, people, spiritual,
Form:
Rhyme