Long Halleluiah Poems

I Know The Truth
by Marina Tsvetaeva
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

I know the truth?abandon lesser truths!
There's no need for anyone living to struggle!
See? Evening falls, night quickly descends!
So why the useless disputes?generals, poets, lovers?

The wind...

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Upon My Bed!
 A message and A dream are heard around the heavenly and earthly worlds. So I wrote it in my heart it is written in my sleep to the real world the bed...

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I am a singular event 
Occupying a particular span of time. 
I am a concrete mystic 
And an incurable skeptic 
Seeking an approximation 
Of peace and domestic tranquility. 
I am a Slavic soul brother 
Living...

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The local Zookeeper decided that he wanted Dragons’ cute penguins back.
So he offered to help make this Easter, for them, way more special, that’s right!
He made them anchovy filled, jello colored eggs for them, to...

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The doors still creaked as they did before, age emanating from the very core;
The walls, ceiling, his arms and legs, even the floor, worn smooth and warped
From the years of trodden feet.
The smells bring back...

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holler say what
yo yo yo
all the saint over there rise on up
git on up
everybody else where
git on up hold them arms, hand and eyes up toward the heavens
things gonna git better 
(when you)
Pray
(when you)
Praise so....

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 World all praise, everybody praise...
Man worship the true and only Father
Mankind open up,
And out of your mouths
Comes language only the Farther knows
Alleluia
and out of your mouths
Let the rejoicings start
Say..Alleluia
Sing..Praise Hallelujah

SPANISH VERSE...
Mundo todo elogio
El hombre...

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Force feed me the taste of your skin

‘You will have to break my chastity belt wide open now
for I have sold myself into silent slavery to this ….our universal broken heart

even you will have to...

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Christmas at Grandma’s
over the river and the thru the woods
it’s damn cold out here even with our hoods
the horse knows the way but he tends to sway
if he drops we won’t be getting away.

next year...

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I was in my sins being seemingly without hope and saving
But God the Father granted me His son Jesus endless mercies grace
Now I am clean completely copiously more or less
quite perfectly wholly repented, renewed heavenly...

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Oh God creator of all and is
Dominator power glory righty
Fitly in awe creator
Mighty Father
Mighty Father
Come before me, before me
Lord God all mighty
Come
Creator of heavens and worlds
Creator of this earth and all dominion and power
All Father
All...

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BABU NI SHUJAA WANGU GRAND PA MY HERO- -

Grandpa’s hands were withered, they did shake;
But he held me anyway;
Grandpa’s voice crackle and breaks, but he calls me every day;

>Grandpa’s arthritic knees hurt, but he got...

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Why? Are you unhappy
Rejoice
Why? Are you so down and blue
Rejoice
Smile someone somewhere loves you
Along with Jesus, God does too
And somewhere in humanity
A brother, a sister too
Loves you
Loves you
Rejoice in the Lord
Be glad for all things
God...

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Compassions Coverings Midnight Melancholy 
Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews-

Verse 1
The moon hangs heavy in the midnight blacken sky
The streetlights flicker as the day goes night by
Feeling that old familiar unmentioned strain
Blues creeping in, like a...

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Let the rain kiss you;
Let the early morning dew fall on you;
Let the sun embrace you;
Let it rise and give you a brightest day;

I am come to mind;
This is the time, to rejoice in it;
I...

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Daniel Joshua and Jonah
            (children's song music & lyrics by Joan Donnelly 1991)
Verse 1
 Now Daniel was thrown to the Lions but he was...

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HALLELUIAH- HIGHER PRAISE YOU ARE THE HIGHEST PRAISE- 

Halleluiah higher praise;
Lord Jesus, Father God
Am I worthy to say your name?
Halleluiah higher praise;
I shall speak of it always;
O Magnify, (O Magnify)
Your name, the name;
Let us praise,...

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As they say I came from a bad family
it was rough to trust anybody
especially the mother and father
the most, they hurt us you see and didn't bother
to apologize of course, we were nothing
after all we...

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THERE'S NO DAYS LIKE TOMORROW---

There's no days like tomorrow;
There are no days like tomorrow;
There's no days like tomorrow;
There are no days like tomorrow;
One, day in the distant future;
One day the skies and lands will burn;
And...

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You may not like my words;
You say they don’t rhyme;
You say I’m wasting time;

So, so, so what wuz up
I’m a poet
An international Poet
Bet ya didn’t know it
I’m a songwriter not a singer be
And yet if...

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He is worthy of such! 
He is worthy of such! 
He is worthy of such! 
ALL the praise all of my days of all of my life
He is worthy of such! 
He is worthy of...

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I must praise on
I must praise on
And I must be strong
As I stand still
Forever, forever seeking the Lord
I will be strong
I must be ever so grateful
I must be mindful as well as careful
Rejoicing in devotion
I...

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Despair Erased (Poem entered in contest before)

The cloudy day omens a dreary week
As we count down to Easter, next Sunday.
After Lent message, we're too sad to speak.
We're seeing everything in shades of grey.

We gladly waved...

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So what's the running hubbub--hot-toot's Shangri-la?
Our fear of death's gone wacko. It’s crowding up the bar.

Let's drink to obfuscation. Annihilation’s hip.
Roll out the tequila sunrise.
Go down with the black-sail ship.

But could it be, O, could...

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We are,
We are, we are God's children;
We are, His 
I have many,
I have many different sisters and brothers;
All of the multiple colours;
We're a family;
With the same Holy Abba, Father;
Halleluiah
Alleluia
We're a family
the Whites, the Browns, the...

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