Long Priestly Poems
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The Dancing: the Last Dance
Was it a cruel twist of fate?
Sneering, laughing chance?
Perhaps something I ate?
A bad bout of happenstance?
It wrenched and tore at my gut,
A sickening, sober, foreboding sign.
Wretched chance it was not,
This time was by insidious design.
The...
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Categories:
priestly, allusion, analogy, angst, anxiety, dance, dark, metaphor,
Form:
Rhyme
Beloved Face, Translation of Bharathiyar's Poem Asai Mugam By T Wignesan
Translation of Mahakavi Bharathiyar’s poem: “Asai Mugam” or “Beloved Face”
...
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Categories:
priestly, religion, spiritual,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Civilizing Savages
I stumbled over Paul Tillich's translation
of the MessiahMentor's Other Great Commission.
The Great Commission we learned in Sunday School
was to go out and convert the barbarians
and savages to Christianity.
Yet this Other Great Commission feels like a...
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Categories:
priestly, bible, birth, creation, earth, history, mother, religion,
Form:
Political Verse
Motherland
"Motherland"
The “Removed”,
Charlestons across the keyboard,
fingers have a personality and a mind
of their own, don’t you agree?
the stalwart mind converses with the frivolous fingers
its stark increduality, considers All above All
they’re incorrigible, those lithe fingers,
like...
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Categories:
priestly, child abuse, dark, light,
Form:
Narrative
Goldenrule Dream Circles
I was one of ten invited
to play an ego-enrichment game,
to experience economies of mutual democratic trust
contrasted with Win/Lose politics
of privileged narcissistic lust.
Why?
I reasonably ask,
when each of these ten invited ego-systems
could be home in front of...
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Categories:
priestly, community, games, humanity, humor, integrity, love, passion,
Form:
Political Verse
A Vanilla Dove
Cypress trees like evergreen steeples
rise above rows of gravestone woes,
their shadows lie side by side like railroad ties
across writhing paths banded like snakes;
gravel birth cords sinuous
sensing the ground seeking the sun
crossroads...
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Categories:
priestly, bird, death, grief, hope, life, sorrow, spiritual,
Form:
Free verse
Revenge of the Altar Boy
"Drip, drip" said the mildew-stained stone cellar walls of St. Peter's cathedral,
Where a goblet of wine dripped into a priest dressed in robes violet and medieval.
Down into the crypts beneath the church's alter he had...
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Categories:
priestly, abuse, child abuse, corruption, encouraging, endurance, fear,
Form:
Couplet
Lipstick Girls
Lipstick Girls
By Stark Hunter and D Lee
1. “When the Lipstick Girls Walk By”
You can push and shove your way,
Past...
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Categories:
priestly, desire, myth, sexy,
Form:
Free verse
New Creation
The dance of life spins in ocean
fruitful abundance is life’s devotion
the cosmos and earth created for home
prodigious with creatures do it roam
My eyes are filled with such delight
and hearing the bellows of seals at night
forward...
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Categories:
priestly, bible, blessing, creation, devotion, truth, uplifting, visionary,
Form:
Verse
Evolutionary Letter Number Two
Day 1
I am a wheelchair warrior
It is August-Hel's rune ,Ear is here
What needs to die in the next 5 days?
That which hinders growth anyways
US sends USS Georgia to Hell's Armpit
Bad move by America, I...
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Categories:
priestly, america, anxiety,
Form:
Other
Why we should stop calling it the pre-tribulation rapture Q and A part one
Q Why does Bob Barber want us to stop calling it,"the pre-tribulation rapture?"
A "Because of the mid-tribulations, who believe the rapture won't happen until
the mid-point of the tribulation,...
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Categories:
priestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
The Book of Revelation's 144,000 Sealed From the 12 Tribes of Israel Part Three
The Lamb and the 144,000 chapter fourteen
Than I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion,
and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on
their foreheads. ...
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Categories:
priestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Narrative
How to stay safe during the pretribulation wrath of God
Our Gracious Heavenly Father does shield born again believers during
natural disasters. Even though it might result in the lose of their earthly
lives and/or properties.
He has been known to save one house belonging to...
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Categories:
priestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Additional information plus corrections part one
Q Is the Anti-Christ going to come from the priestly tribe of Levi as I have
previously stated?
A Originally, I was correct and he will come from the...
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Categories:
priestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
The Case For Traditional Values Part One
Who is really responsible for the case of traditional values? God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Trinity. Three in one blessed holy Trinity! He created the first marriage between man and...
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Categories:
priestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
The Sphnx's Rddle....Pt.1
from crude beginnings came primitive man
learning to cope with natures darkened wilderness,
wild plants,wild animals,wild environment,and
day to day uncertain productiveness...
an animal by nature,commuting the body with inferior things,
sticks and stones became weapons and tools
the processed skills,from...
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Categories:
priestly, history, mysterynature, animal, animal, nature,
Form:
Free verse
The House that Eli, the priest of the LORD, built 1 Samuel 2:12 part two NIV
1 Samuel 2:28-29 the LORD's pronounced judgement on the House of Eli
up to my alter, to burn incense, and to wear an ephod in my presence. I also gave your
father's house all of the offerings...
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Categories:
priestly, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form:
Prose
Where Are the Women of Old?
Where are the women of old, those who knew how to please God,
Not with eloquent words or impressive deeds,
But those who knew the real work was founded on bended knees,
Because they knew it was going...
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Categories:
priestly, dedication, devotion, faith, inspirational, motherwords, god, care,
Form:
I do not know?
Thick Skinned - What It Feels Like For a Girl
“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl”
When you speak
it’s as if stars cascade
out of your mouth
galaxies you produce
musical incantations
that I listen religiously to
I watch your lips
form glistening...
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Categories:
priestly, abuse, dark, muse, symbolism, violence, voice, women,
Form:
Free verse
If Ever I Had To Have a Country Victim of Pedophily:Lxxxiv
If ever I had to have a country victim of pedophily : LXXXVI
[Note: 216,000 cases of pedophily, perpetrated by the clergy, have been recorded by the Catholic Church in France since 1950.]
If ever I had to...
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Categories:
priestly, america, child abuse,
Form:
Dramatic Monologue
Stymied By Moral Transgressions
While the church of today continues to wrestle with prominent issues,
like those of leadership, moral credibility, or fidelity of her members;
society remains critical to address certain weakpoints already at hand,
those seeming endless lawsuits against the...
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Categories:
priestly, angst, faith, history, hope, life, philosophy, sad,
Form:
Narrative
A Former Slender Man Lapsed Unitarian Anorexic
A former slender man (lapsed Unitarian anorexic)...
deplores adipose tissue gain
No Holiday music can soothe savage beast
washboard abdomen weight watcher's dream fleeced
skinny bag of lovely bones permanently leased
body snatcher somewhere amidst policed
madding crowd of carolers singing,
where...
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Categories:
priestly, 7th grade, absence, age, beauty, boy, character,
Form:
Rhyme
Wedded To the Past
Wedded to the past
The iconography of childhood gives more vivid memories,
like an inward looking that draws to depth and human connections;
those relationships with family members, friends, and relations
the best of times and known to be...
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Categories:
priestly, inspirationalme, heart, heart, life, me,
Form:
Narrative
Catholic
Catholic
Stern but saintly Father Meissen
scolded the parents for not having
their baby boy baptized sooner.
It was April, 1952,
inside the stained-glassed catholic church,
ensconced on sun-split Newlin street,
avenue of pink oleanders and cracking sidewalks.
According...
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Categories:
priestly, abuse,
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I do not know?
Wedded To the Past
The iconography of childhood gives more vivid memories,
like an inward looking that draws to depth and human connections;
those relationships with family members, friends, and relations
the best of times and known to be the memorable years...
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Categories:
priestly, faith, imagination, introspection, life, philosophy, religion, me,
Form:
Narrative