Long Ecclesiastical Poems

NO PART OF THE WORLD (Part 1)


Have you read Jesus words at John 17:16?

Referring to his disciples he said
"They are no part of THE WORLD, just as I am no part of THE WORLD"

What could...

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Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...

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Ech day me cometh tydinges thre
"Each Day Three Tidings Come to Me"
(anonymous Middle English poem, circa the 13th century AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Each day I’m plagued by three doles,
These gargantuan weights on my...

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things are happening do you believe 
is it near the end of the world
blood running yet flowing warm
down the streets hope seems hopeless
what's the use am I denying...

the sign of the times

what's why you crying...

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the wealth of norman England is poised to grow
  towns enlarge, markets exchange, a fresh fertilising sprinkled culture
  kingdoms extend with numbers reducing
  old and new empires jostle, reshaping across continents and...

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Already the month
     of August 2018,
     May never become 
     a je June'm
     (Forget-me-not)
     time...

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Here, this day, on this inglorious
Field
Thy vain struggles will count no
Valour.
All hope now abandoned,
Imminent defeat unconcealed;
Erstwhile countenance display 
Such waxen, languid pallor.
Surround by your dwindling 
Forces
Ye will but sadly find...
That the stout keep of your...

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The Maid of New Orleans


A teenage cow girl who couldn’t write
Was told by God to front the fight
the hundred Year War against the French
And cut her hair in trendy wedge
Six centuries later it became the...

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ST. PAUL’S CATHEDRAL AND THE TRAMP

Thousands, perhaps millions of wily, desperate tramps have always been,
But this one far away across the seas was an unusual scene,
Lying on a slab of stone,
He had no existing home,
Thin,...

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The Bad Priest
In Lyons (I think it was Easter, 1438),
I was a priest and somehow can recall
the dim church, the heavy clouds of frankincense
and the knights and the peasants lined up for communion.
I chanted the...

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“Saint Joan Of Arc The Maid of Orléans””
“Jehanne la Pucelle”

Joan of Arc a pious peasant farmer's daughter
In her times alone, she spent it in adoration
~
Ten year old Joan runs in joyful play
Through the field of...

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Earth is sad
Flesh is sand
Shadow is black
My skin is dark.

Black man down
White man's town
Tweets and Hashtags
Protests and Blackcards, 

But the system is Prejudiced
Jury men in white ridged caps and black cape cloaks-
take sides with the...

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an ecclesiastical exercise

meaningless
             life's like that
just chasing the wind
emptiness..plus..
              ...

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AKSuBBTh7Y

External decorations of solid gold heralding entrances of Axi Mundi creation, paintings and sculptures of another era, sacred eyes await at the forefront. 
Feel free to enter in, peace, love, understanding, mystical adoration all here....

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broken spanish under my tongue causes me to search for the root form and tell stories.      
when only the dead can understand.. 

trace back to the beginning the spinning form...

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I gulp a flame of desire
At the sight of your ecclesiastical attire
Being proxy for a pacifier
That elicits a comfort for my quagmire

Your smile, your smile 
A sun in a darkened profile
A moon that illuminates the...

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Festival of the Fools!

Festival of the Fools
in which is celebrated in different culture as different names
originally celebrated by most cultures on January first
which was first coined in Great Britain in 1861
celebrates inclusive art of busking...

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The Church is one, holy, Catholic and apostolic
Find these words from the Creed, Professed at Sunday mass
4 marks indicate the essential features of the Church
Each mark viewed as a reality and a challenge

Church is one
Bond...

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Enterprising Henry IV declares suzerainty over state
Xenophobic princes seek the royal prerogative to abate
Cautious king uses diplomacy, threats his minions to subjugate
Old rivals in Saxony Henry's consolidation with tyranny equate
Morose princes in the hinterland seek...

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Boy, Mr. Bible, congratulations
You are 400 years older today
And you come here a long, hard way
Through fires and tribulations
From diminished Latin to English tongue
From God's Spirit moving upon men
To the quilt and style of the...

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A golden ornate cup once full
 a mystical reservoir filled
 now half-emptied of love and emotions,
 as if the night would be emptied 
 of moon glow and starlight;
sipping in and savoring, bitter delight
 in...

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True Grace specifies no special face to extend God's Grace.

Religion at its finest could never define the True God of the Bible.

Understanding and loving God demand that we do likewise with others.

Ecclesiastical organizations are great...

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Once sealed tight
the eyelids of
my shrouded eye
nestled in the crumbling confines
of this teetering temporal form
auspiciously slip apart
my cradled cornea now
lugubriously leering at the
plainly demarcated peripheries
of this leery physical plane

Turquoise tellurian irises
spotted by a drop of
festive...

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Priesthood as Victimhood

Like a child; childhood
dying for its favourite toy
so it is with priesthood
dying to attain joy

irrespective of how hard
to see own flowing blood
as long as it brings sanctity
from the Most Holy Trinity

a call of...

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There is no place to hide from heat and light
No shelter from the open desert lands of day
From the exposed inquisitor, an esoteric sun
The Son of man saw to that when rising up
Each person starves...

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