Long Handmaid Poems
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A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a distant, unknown land:
Once so secure, yet now compelled to roam;
Once...
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Categories:
handmaid, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form:
Iambic Pentameter
Six Faith-Tied Relatives of Mine
By virtue of faith-relationship with God
along spiritual blood line midst redemption genes
I claim that through Scripture truths
my divine heritage is beautified
through these Bible characters
regarded as blessed women.
1. EVE (Genesis 3:20 And Adam called his wife's name...
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Categories:
handmaid, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, relationship, spiritual,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Sappho Translations VII
Sappho Translations VI by Michael R. Burch
Sappho, fragment 52
translation by Michael R. Burch
Yesterday,
you came to my house
to sing for me.
Today,
I come to you
to return the favor.
Talk to me. Do.
Sweet talk,
I love the flavor!
Please send away...
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Categories:
handmaid, desire, heaven, house, love, sun, wedding, words,
Form:
Free verse
Christmas Is Special
Submitted Dec. 9, 2022
Wooed by the Spirit's Immaculate Grace,
The Blessed Virgin Mary couldn't say 'No.'
Well, she could've, but the Incarnate Embrace
let her choose to love Jesus, so...
Now thanks to her, we can know...
...Peace, from the...
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Categories:
handmaid, baby, birthday, christmas, father son, inspiration, jesus,
Form:
Quintain (English)
Lord God, You Are My Wisdom Discerner
March 25 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Samuel 13-16
Key Verse– 2Samuel 14:17 Then thine handmaid said, The word of my lord the king shall now be comfortable: for as an angel of God,...
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Categories:
handmaid, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
At One With Nature
Wandering with friends through romantic and enchanting scenery the sun shines down on us,
The day is cool and clear each step on spongy mossy ground makes us feel as light as the air,
Finding our way...
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Categories:
handmaid, nature, nature, beautiful, beautiful, nature, sun,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Mountains and Cowslips
Wandering with friends through romantic and enchanting scenery the sun shines down on us,
The day is cool and clear each step on spongy mossy ground makes us feel as light as the air,
Finding our way...
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Categories:
handmaid, nature, nature, beautiful, beautiful, nature, sun,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Mountains and Cowslips
Wandering with friends through romantic and enchanting scenery the sun shines down on us,
The day is cool and clear each step on spongy mossy ground makes us feel as light as the air,
Finding our way...
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Categories:
handmaid, nature, nature, beautiful, beautiful, nature, sun,
Form:
Prose Poetry
Woman In Chains
Woman in Chains
Inner child blinks back tears through the cheval glass
At a bruised reflection staring back,
Battered by the hand of perfection,
Wearing chains in glimmering pearls deception,
Beauty and the beast - beauty now turned...
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Categories:
handmaid, angst, beauty, health, mental illness,
Form:
Free verse
My God, Thank You For Reigning Upon My Life
March 11 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Kings 1-4
Key Verse – 1Kings 1:3 Go and get thee in unto king David, and say unto him, Didst not thou, my lord, O king, swear unto thine handmaid,...
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Categories:
handmaid, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Priscilla's News
Priscilla’s News
The Word
Threads every dawn
Dyed in blue
And
Purples hues
And walks in time
With the meter of a shuttle
A steady
Pulsing rhythm
The beat of warp and woof
Rising-falling
Falling – rising
Weaving seasons through the soul
Into new patterns
Of hope
Foretold...
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Categories:
handmaid, gospel, hope, life, woman,
Form:
Free verse
13 The Angelus
V. The angel of the Divine Lord declared unto Mary
R. And she conceive by the Eternal Holy Spirit
*
Hail Mother Mary full of grace
The Divine Lord is with you
Blessed are you among women
And Blessed is the...
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Categories:
handmaid, christian, community, devotion, god, jesus, people, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
My God, Thank You For Looking On My Affliction
February 24 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Samuel 1-4
Key Verse – 1Samuel 1:11 … O LORD of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine...
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Categories:
handmaid, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, spiritual, thanksgiving,
Form:
Rhyme
Penned
“Penned”
what happens
when it comes to this
another woman
takes your child
as her own
and red becomes
the bloody murder
penned in a pig stye,
left field left
the apple of her eye
green,
as iceberg
lettuce lies...
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Categories:
handmaid, muse,
Form:
Free verse
Blue Tattoo
Gladly the rag falls dead beside the kitchen sink,
Grey and brown with coffee grounds and spillage,
Dripping pensive ochre on the rim,
Sombrely it slipped over the brink
And stank of rape and pillage.
Handmaid of the sweat shop...
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Categories:
handmaid, allegory, life, loss, sad, time,
Form:
Verse
Functional Joyousness
Being joyfully driven by God everyday means so much to me. Thus, I am inspired by the truth, “Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say,...
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Categories:
handmaid, blessing, christian, faith, god, jesus, joy, spiritual,
Form:
Haibun
The Queen of Poop
The Queen of Poop
Some call her the Queen of Poop
but this I can report
I have got the inside scoop
from someone on her court
News from in the castle states
a porcelain throne her seat
A pen, her tool...
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Categories:
handmaid, fun, poetess,
Form:
Rhyme
Rhyme Rapp Flow Apollo
Tall tale
Inhale
Exhale
Fire-sale
Entrails
Stop watch clock
Detail
Retail
Question
Charity
Joke
Shop
Cunning Plot
Accusations
Conertation
Deviation
Meditation
Presentation
Flip Flop
Resonate
Elevate
Procrastinate
Incarcerate
Deviate
Box off
Morphine
Dopamine
Vaccine
Injection
Firework
Dynamite
Pill
Postage Stamp
Taxes
Cheque
Cash
Paper
Bitcoin
Bill
Gold
Diamond
Jewel
How much have you got
Can you afford to loose
Can you make the roundabout
spinning stop
Drain the power from the main frame
Just how many times can the handmaid
escape
Before eventually...
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Categories:
handmaid, games,
Form:
Free verse
Twelfth Handmaid
Glints of stardust drip of winter's essence
as frills of Sagittarian ornaments
ring in the birth of a cycle
flickering with the tempo
of mid-December’s equinox: she is
the twelfth month; the last goddess of angels,
kindling seraphic night passages
and...
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Categories:
handmaid, december, imagery, inspirational,
Form:
Imagism
The Coronation of the BVM
In the sky a sign appeared. A woman clothed with the sun.
The moon beneath her feet and on her crown twelve stars.
A woman to revere. Mother of God’s only Son.
Gentle Virgin, sweet, Intercessor of our...
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Categories:
handmaid, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
Patricia
Patricia is the name I always heard
From the people they called our neighbors
They said,she's a widow for almost 13 years
She's to be proud someday by her children
Because she's a mother who...
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Categories:
handmaid, mother, children, dream, children, dream,
Form:
I do not know?
Precious Heirloom
This precious heirloom from my grandma
is more than a little bit worn.
Sewn with infinitely tiny stitches,
it was much used before I was born.
She was just twenty- three when she sewed it.
Her beloved was fighting...
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Categories:
handmaid, family, nostalgiame,
Form:
Quatrain
The Assumption of the BVM
Preserved from original sin by grace given by God,
In preparation for what she would do.
She lived to give the Father all glory praise and laud,
And in her loving care the Christ Child lived and grew.
She...
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Categories:
handmaid, christian,
Form:
Rhyme
Mr. Dan Makes Things
Mr. Dan is such a happy man,
He makes wooden things with his hands.
He makes toy boats and awesome trucks,
And the best, life-like wooden ducks.
Once he made mom a pair of swans,
That she placed on our...
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Categories:
handmaid, childhood, family, children,
Form:
Couplet
Betrothed
My master gentle but not in battle ...
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Categories:
handmaid, faith
Form:
Canzone