Long Parishioner Poems

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Greetings everyone and I pray that each of you will overcome this coronavirus pandemic, which has impacted many communities in various ways. The Census Bureau assessment paints an image that's...

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When you and your wife visited,
you shared a question asked by a pastor
of a raped
and thereby pregnant
vulnerably young and questioning parishioner.

"If your unborn child survived
his first year
and walked back into your home
do you think you...

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A Long Limerick Planned for Poems

This is my 6,466th poem. Shooting for 6.666
for some strange reason and time and season
and only teasing.

It sure seems much easier to put
all of my poems into one poem.

Put God...

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I was giving a lesson on the Liberty Bell, as the daily Church bells went off.
Yes, you guessed it, Dragon wanted to ring them, suddenly he was aloft.
Before we could follow, he was out of...

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At my church last Sunday, I heard the word 'Shift' by two different people.                     ...

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I once read,
If I am a parishioner,
(or a student
or a child
or some other non-elite ecofeminist identity)
Then someone has power over me.

It would have been more helpful
if this "someone"
had been named,
finger-pointed outed.

I am left wondering,
Who could...

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There it was, a stranger of sorts. 
I say "It" in place of "man" as my memory supports.
A beguiling arrangement of coffee mugs,
 porcelain creamer boats,
 filled with lumps of matured cream.
 Sour and old...

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Overweight law enforcement official:
Whopper
Copper

Nickname for a rather pudgy Charles Dickens Character:
Whopper
Copper

Overweight Janitor:
Whopper 
Mopper

Big fat lie:
Whopper
Whopper

Lockjaw:
Chopper
Stopper

Highway Patrolman pulling over a Hell’s Angel:
Chopper
Stopper
 
Louis XVI banned the Guillotine and thus was nicknamed the Great and Royal:
Chopper
Stopper

Church secretary...

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Long, long ago, there lived a priest, 
Peter Gilligan by name, in an Irish village
One day, the weary priest had summons
From a destitute parishioner,
Whose husband, very old, was on his death bed.
Tired as he was,...

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"I waded out into the lake to pick you
a lily," I told the priest I was in awe of
those many years ago, as I handed him a flower
in a bowl of water.  He's 92...

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I’m not every going to be good enough,
Am I,
For what you want
And I just cant stand,
I hate myself
For not becoming your brand,
I want it to just go away,
I just want to die,
And carry my own,
Without...

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the parishioner sits on my lap.
his little legs dangle, his
beat up sandals slip.

i raise his hand with mine.
he pulls it back.
i clap.
his hands, like bookends
put a stop to that.

silently my hands in play
weave together.
my thumbs...

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Cement- mixer 

They are re-building the house across the road, 
the cement-mixer churns from early morn, a black, big dog
sat barking at it until it lost its voice and sounded
like a helpless kitten wanting milk,...

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I dressed with style in my best suit,
As off to church I went.
I knew I looked quite lovely and
My time had been well spent.
I was to read the lesson so
I sat in convenient pew
And listened...

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Now, Father McGee and Parishioner Finn
Stood out in front, by the road
Each of them holding a sign on a stick
with a message with spoke of forebode
McGee's sign said " THE END IS NEAR" 
Finn's--- "...

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Soon she won't be our great secretary
Which to all of us does seem so scary; 
As audacious, administrative assistant
Performance is persistent and consistent.

Also, forever in future we always regret
Her going away which we had to...

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Writing is a gamble

we put in our words,
pull the slot
and read back our
cherries and lemons -- 

the object is to publish
our addiction

to connect with a reader

our casinos, the clan-forums
of acceptance and rejection

The poet
(excluding the jingle...

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Find Father Farrell and Terrell

when over barrel
while incredible church is imperil
find (call) Father Farrell (Terrell)

Parish which we cherish would scream
when scalded with steam so it did see
when either having been suspectable to sterile
or fond of...

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