Long Loaves and fishes Poems

He doesn’t have to prove anything to me. The Holy Spirit, that is. I’ve always known He’s there, from childhood on, even if I ignored Him for many years. But like others growing older, I...

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I say unto you, when the olive branch is brought to the tax collector, let not those who are without mercy be sent forth from the well to offer comfort to the thirst of the...

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Upon the sands of time, there walked a man of great worth
Whose words would echo through the ages, across the breadth of the earth
In Galilee, he taught with parables of depth and meaning
The Son of...

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Rita was visiting. She pointed off the road. Let’s go there. So we did. It was the CIA - Culinary Institute of America. Like Auntie Mame, my aunt was a world traveler, an adventurer. My...

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THE FRAGMENT

It was just a fragment--a crumb left in the way,
Left from loaves and fishes people ate that day.
Birds could well have had it, no one would have cared;
Everyone had eaten, it was now left...

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He was born in a Bethlehem stable, a modest carpenter's son,
Who did wondrous things ere His work on earth was done.
Despite His humble birth, He rose to become the King of Kings!
Along His perilous bourne...

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What if… you had been there...
When He was born in Bethlehem that night?
What if… you had seen the star,
And heard the angels singing by it’s light?
Would you have knelt there and worshipped him
At that humble...

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ONE PAIR OF HANDS
"Make it your ambition...to work with your hands".  1 Thessalonians 4:11

My dad was a coal miner,
Worked with his hands all day.
As evening came, he took time,
To fold those hands and pray.

A...

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Father Of Lights...            
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To blind ones and those cursed with leprosy -
the outcast souls who knew not man's compassion -
he touched and healed, that they might feel and see
his power from above, in humble fashion.

Five thousand hungry souls...

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Dear Lord this year to save time being lost
remind me- Turkey, Christmas Eve- defrost.
And when it's in the oven, leave no doubt
that I forgot to take the giblets out.
Five loaves, two fishes you fed five...

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The road to freedom is dark and long. 
To go the distance, I’ll need a song; 
Something easy and strong, 
Like an old-time Shaker hymn,
Simple Gifts or Willow Tree. 
Let the spirit carry me.

The early...

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Thank you for your still laboring pains.
Thanks for the amnesia of suffering
the bedpan and the bible,
the sunny window
that ran with a watery blood
wherever the flying ducks
rushed toward your gun.

Fingertips tingle, the daily callus is softening,
becoming...

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I Saw God Rob the Poor Box


I saw God rob the poor box
take a beggar out to eat

two burgers and a coffee
a loaves and fishes feast.

I saw God in the alley
drape his coat around a...

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Adeste Fidelis

confused innocents of limbo,
the unbaptized babies,
ignorant of nonbelief,
denied the Divine countenance. 
What of them today?  Still floating?

Explain that.  Do I believe in the leader of
dark angels all muscle and teeth?
Father O’Neil and...

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I saw God rob the poor box
take a beggar out to eat

two burgers and a coffee
a loaves and fishes feast.

I saw God in the alley
drape his coat around a bum

watched him walking slowly
on dark streets...

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I saw God rob the poor box
take a beggar out to eat

two burgers and a coffee
a loaves and fishes feast.

I saw God in the alley
drape his coat around a bum

watched him walking slowly
on dark streets...

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