Long False witness Poems

(Somewhere in late 18th-century Europe a friend, Laetitia, by way of a letter warns her beloved girlfriend, Euphoria--a young, gay and unsuspecting mistress--against the almost inevitable seductions of the infamous and maundering philanderer, Melancholia.).



Dear Euphoria,

...

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Christ's Message Distilled for Dummies
(You Might Not Like It)

Christ’s message distilled is we all are born sinning,
deserving of Hell (1) (but for Grace the Cross pays for),
your pride in “your good acts” the proof of...

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No matter what you've done
 in the past
I was in Idolatry, greed, covetousness, love of money, 
I was Complaining, not loving God full of gluttony, 
High-mindedness, disobedience, lover of self, 
GOD LOVES ME

I put family,...

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Where do we come from? Where are we going? Why are we here?
Philosophers rack their brains over these questions
Saints and poets alike try to come to grips with them
  But do they concern the...

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~My Lord~ 
(Candle of Hope) 


In 
Him can 
Have it all 
He's my Savior 
Always there ready 
Just to protect 
Defend me 
All the 
Time 


Because He's our Savior 
With Him my sins are gone...

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You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and all your mind and all your strength. 

You shall love your neighbor as yourself

You shall love the Lord your...

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Humble yesterday, your intimate memories are now
bearing false witness, following our demise. 
There are scattered whispers of a residential cloud 
nine, that I called my own after the storm. 
No myth could be written guiltier....

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Isaiah 5:20-23

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for dark
ness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for
bitter.  Woe to those who are wise in...

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Hearts only grow harder
and flesh is never thin,
Some are much explicit
while others hold it in,
Dare i let it lay
on the surface of my skin,
Lest i be judged
by the color of my sin.

A man of tobacco's...

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Where are the times, I use to know
Family and friends were never foes
So much leaves me to wonder why
Jesus, hold me while I cry

Lately, life has become so busy
The world so demanding, never easy
The truth,...

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Dear God,                                 ...

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Here’s the thing ... 
needful truth of an urgent matter
Humanity has a Rubik Cube ethnic pride problem:
Dark Age Crusaders of Hate
say the right color is on the genetic wrong side
of the racial debate Holy Grail...

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MY SIN IS GREAT BUT GOD'S GRACE IS GREATER

My sin is great but
God's grace is greater
Your sin is great but
God's grace is greater
I may have been a idolater, greedy,  in covetousness, gluttony
Complaining, not loving...

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   An anti-resolvent-fume-
of-infest-chokes-out-integral-yield of humanity. 
Thick as molasses, blackstrap morass of emnity.

Blight is apathy, and apathy is blight. 
A Void, a claim farming the abyss. 
Marketing it's lie, on sale. 
Though it has...

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In a time where innocence should reign,
This little girl faced trials, her heart in pain.
Her upbringing, not necessarily the worst, I’d say,
But love and stability seemed far far away.

Naive to the world, she sought to...

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***Disclaimer: This is not so much a poem, as an exercise in stream of consciousness. I just sort of wrote what I thought about. Sorry if it makes little or no sense to anyone else....

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1st commandment "have no other god except me"
Should there be, He is impartial referee 

2nd commandment "do not make idols"
It simply makes the two seem equal

3rd commandment "take His name not in vain"
If thou shall...

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Feel the tear drops of a star, 
His long lost emotions taken to far, 
Watch him break down these bars, 
And take his misery to war, 
I don't wanna die an unholy casualty, 
Watch my...

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Roman capital punishment,
crucifixion morphed into 
another raised gravity depravity
Guillotine justice dropping down — 
off with the heads of the enemy!
Sleepy Hollow gangsters Herod-ing into town
Time pendulum swinging ... 
death sentence methods changing again
Face the firing...

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Foothills

The physics
of metaphysics …
the part I like the best

Where symbols yearn
as planets turn
—new twigs to build the nest

(Dreamsleep: December, 2023)




A Picture

Imagery and symbols
are worth a thousand words
Why poetry is lauded
but prose routinely heard

To paint each...

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I dine on your ashes
I choke on your hypocrisy  
I sit n tolerate 
This mockery 
This travesty of me
I feel my skin crawl with… 
The worms of this… 
My disease

I know how you feel
You...

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As storms rage outside your front door... I'll be your rainbow that guards your door.

When sickness tries to over takes your body and when your enemies leave you beaten and 

barely able to stand on...

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Liars
Written: by Tom Wright
9-6-2019

Mendacious people are serious,
when presenting their case.
They’re dishonest, deceitful,
always with a straight face.

They skulk in the shadows,
and others will deride.
Falsehood is a tunic,
they seem to wear with pride

Perhaps It all starts,
with an...

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There is a famous story that I could relate,
About a lady picking fruit that changed all human fate.
This was the first lady that our dear Lord did create.
She succumbed to temptation and involved her mate.

The...

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The Church On Fire

I was happy when at first I heard the words
at last here is a church on fire
but I began to question what exactly are the fruits this assembly has
and to know this...

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