Long Levite Poems

As I woke up this morning I was thinking of what should I do through COVID-19 pandemic.
I said to myself, “I want to go for a walk.”
While walking along the street, people were passing with...

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My OldSchool patriarchal Pentateuch
precedes our polycultural HolyNew Paraclete.

This Pentateuch
begins with the beginning
of theo-TribalEgo cultural correlations;
Genesis begets Exodus,
the ChosenTribe's emigration
into sacred Promised Land

Of special transparency
and divine vulnerability
for a religious Priesthood
found in Leviticus.

Levite Priests
Jesus recognized
and dismembered as...

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How tenderly you cared for me
when you found me broken on the road
did lift me up gave me your own cup
removed from me my heavy load
 
You dressed my wounds with healing balm
every injury you...

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What kind of people are in the Household of Faith?                         ...

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February 9 Scripture Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 16-20

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 16:11 And thou shalt rejoice before the LORD thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and...

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If People have a car accident
they can spend months in hospital
needing wages they depend on employers
yet companies can only afford so much

Society could do better
I'm don't like unemployment
where healthy people sit doing nothing
that is a...

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Amram is a Levite;
He takes a Levite wife.
They have a little boy;
A tyrant king seeks his
    And every young boy’s life.

When he is three months old,
And can be hid no more,
His mother...

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THE GOOD SAMARITAN

He went out from Jerusalem and as he went his way
Some thieves came by and beat him and left him there to stay.
The priest saw his condition, walked on the other side;
The Levite,...

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Excuse me Dad,

I have an urgent question.
But first let me acknowledge that my blood brother is now my brother in Christ 
Recap
The brother who had ta-toed his body with cigar burns
The one who ripped his...

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They tell me not to think too much
Not to think at all that much
For it will lead to worry and bad health
The state of mental health is wealth
But I wonder how I can see a...

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A man was going from Jerusalem to Jericho, until evil befell him as he was robbed and left in a graven state.
Both a priest, who obeys the Laws, and a Levite, the chosen people of...

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Forgive Me…  I Don’t Mean To Intrude…

Forgive me, my Christian brother… 
 I don’t mean to intrude.
I know that you’ve been pretty busy... 
 I don’t want to be rude…

You told me you’re too...

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Will You Accept Me?

Will you accept me? Just as I am?
I have a lot of problems
you may not understand.

I’m not perfect... I have a long way to go.
I sin sometimes...and does it show!

I’m probably not...

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Will you Be Like The Good Samaritan?

I have a lot of problems
you may not understand.
I’m not perfect... I have a long way to go.
I sin sometimes...and does it show!

I’m probably not what you’d
expect a Christian...

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Stumbling through school
a ‘kick me’ sign on her back
toilet paper stuck to her shoe
with superglue
Told to be silent unless spoken to
and never fight back against the
bullies putting bubblegum in her hair
Threatening to beat her 
in...

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ODE TO THE APOSTLE

Beloved friend,
Swift as the East wind,
fair and white stallion,
born to heal battalion -
Meekly and instinctively
never a victim of melancholy,
wild and gentle deer,
Levite empowered from wilderness
and out of strength 
leaps out of weakness.
Your...

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        A man to Jericho was making his way
	when robbers attacked as if him to slay;
		then stealing his gold
		and leaving him cold – 
	half-dead by the road, a...

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The Good Samaritan 

When walking from Jerusalem to Jericho..
I was stripped by robbers whom I did not know...
They beat me and left me there to lie...
Took my belongings; hoping then I would die..
I felt alone...

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re-post inspired by Brenda's contest

THE MAN'S MAN

Joseph,a levite hailing from Cyprus
Not one to distinguish between them & us

Baranabas was a his given,nick-name
Amongst the apostles he gained honour & fame

Speaking up for Paul in the council's...

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Joseph,a levite hailing from Cyprus
Not one to distinguish between them & us

Baranabas was a his given,nick-name
Amongst the apostles he gained honour & fame

Speaking up for Paul in the council's sight
Standing for justice,truth and light

A man...

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An expert in the law met Jesus, though
his question, "Who's my neighbor?" was to try
to test, and maybe trick him. Christ's reply -
to tell a parable to help him grow.
"A man walked down the road...

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With thy staff and robes came a princely Jew,
  a prophet, a Levite son in exile;
for out of the blood and sweat of sinew
  did that journey begin on the blue Nile.
Who brought...

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