Long Puritans Poems
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Flickering Reflections-No Place Like Hume
The mind doesn't passively await impressions, no tabula rasa,
The mind is active, understanding, not just a passerby.
He had bete noire towards Christianity, a Scottish Nominalist,
David Hume, born in Edenborough, was a philosophical skeptic.
Born in 1711,...
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Categories:
puritans, philosophy,
Form:
Epic
American Thanksgiving, 1621
American Thanksgiving (1621)
Passengers in England boarded the Mayflower
To sail across the Atlantic for the New World
And escape religious persecution for their faith
In worshiping God, which they believed to be righteous,
With separation of God and king:...
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Categories:
puritans, america, autumn, culture, history, holiday, november, thanksgiving
Form:
Verse
America's Hypocrisy Or the School of Resentment
are you free, humanity, by power of love
or in chain by love of power or by lack of it?
a student of The School of Resentment asks…
back in time,
at such dominant spaces
called...
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Categories:
puritans, community, home, native american, natural disasters, power,
Form:
I do not know?
Thou Art a Witch
Thou Art a Witch!
By Elton Camp
In the 1690s, a horrible, warning example we find,
Of the danger when church and state are intertwined.
Number convicted as witches was twenty-nine
Though many more the Puritans came to malign.
Cotton...
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Categories:
puritans, historywomen, old, evil, old, women,
Form:
Rhyme
Truth Lies Open To All
It was said of old, 'Truth lies open to all', but today
perception is all; no one is perfect...
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Categories:
puritans, philosophy, life, time, together,
Form:
Free verse
I Love Africanamerican Christian Culture: Forgiving Slaveholders and Tyrants
Some serious religious sophomores claim Christ ('Witness' Bluff)
Almost like Columbus: to hit the Other, take their STUFF
Nothing Doing here; I am a Minister of Jesus' Gospel
For the same Reason they fled HERE to Native Indian...
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Categories:
puritans, africa, bible, black african american, columbus day,
Form:
Verse
The New Puritans, Part I
I was playing near a college town,
people pay money to hear my jokes,
when back-clad fools charged upon stage,
at first I thought it was a hoax.
Then they said my jokes about dating
were ‘Patriarchal Misogyny,’
everyone’s good time...
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Categories:
puritans, culture, how i feel, nonsense, political, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Witchology 101
When pilgrims first arrived upon Plymouth’s shores,
They were wary of Indian customs and things they didn’t know-
Suspect of the Indians having powers from the devil, and more,
The belief of witches inside their own colonies did...
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Categories:
puritans, character, education, fear, history, truth, , cute,
Form:
Quatrain
Unrest - a Sound of Jumbos
They punch a fist in the air
Anger written on their faces
Those deaths of their own..
Having ignited hidden fires
Rushing over each other arsonist...
Reason and civility is thrown away
Adopting hardwired survival mode
They rant chant and grow furious
Distancing...
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Categories:
puritans, anxiety, black african american, conflict, emotions, extended
Form:
Blank verse
The Uptight American: Part I
most will blame the uptight american anus
(oops, did i say “anus?”) on the fact that the empire was
formed by rich white puritans who were scared of their
own *****es & ******s so much that they hoped...
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Categories:
puritans, life, family, family,
Form:
Free verse
My Altered Vocation
Like little iron-particles getting fast attracted to,
Any bit magnet: rough or rude or smooth or old or new;
So too I got bewitched and swayed by any new action,
That in any way or form gave...
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Categories:
puritans, life, work,
Form:
Rhyme
The New Puritans, Part Ii
...It was only two days later
when the local catholic high school
was told their team name, the ‘Crusaders,’
was insensitive and uncool.
Protestors showed up to bellow slurs,
and get all up in the kids’ face,
the media scoffed and...
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Categories:
puritans, culture, how i feel, nonsense, political, satire,
Form:
Narrative
Trial of Bridget Bishop
Salem Village, Massachusetts
May 11, 1692
Of evil works in league with the devil, I am accused.
Spit upon, bolts tethered in chains, I have been abused.
People mardle I cast spells of palsie to make them twitch.
Blinded by...
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Categories:
puritans, feelings, history,
Form:
Rhyme
We the People
We the People
Will disagree
On taxation and prosperity
On liberty and duty
We the People
Are every color of Christianity
Every Jewish prayer, every song of Islam
The puritans, the atheists and the Amish
Are neighbors here
We the People
Are Jamaican and Japanese
Swedish...
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Categories:
puritans, discrimination, freedom, history, society,
Form:
Political Verse
The Devotions of Noel
Saturnalia, the pagan worship of winter solstice,
...
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Categories:
puritans, christmas, culture, funny, humor, satire,
Form:
Free verse
Ocean Drive
Zeros to tens cruisin', hustlin' and bustlin' on Ocean Drive,
Mustangs, Ferraris and Lamborghinis slowly cruise by,
humidity glistens the skin of the scantily clad,
with hedonistic intentions good and bad,
rooftop bars, rope lines and tight one way...
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Categories:
puritans, culture, life, people, senses, travel, vacation,
Form:
Rhyme
The Truth About Thanksgiving
The Truth About Thanksgiving
By Elton Camp
The Thanksgiving story taught in the school
Those ignorant of history is intended to fool
A splinter group of Puritans the Pilgrims were
To call them “fanatics” is truth, not some slur
They...
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Categories:
puritans, holiday, thanksgiving, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Thefact
Humanity-
Some say this, some say that, they analyze,
they predict, they slander, they lie
When reality sets, with the dawn,
what remains are the bones of thought that die
Is this all but entertainment for Destiny,
seed for the wealth...
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Categories:
puritans, visionary,
Form:
Verse
The American Westward Expansion
The Quakers, being religiously persecuted, set sail from expatriated England;
they were the first settlers to reach the shore of New England: a free land!
Later the Puritans came and settled in other eastern, bustling colonies
seeking the...
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Categories:
puritans, cowboy-western, family, food, history, hope, nature, people,
Form:
Quatrain
Love's Lost and Found
Strange is this land that I’ve entered,
Yet maybe I’ve been here before,
Magical artist of nightfall
Paints fingers that tap on my door.
Somehow I feel strangely centered
Both ready for fight or for flight,
Drawn still to vision, sweet...
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Categories:
puritans, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Bonfire night
5th of November
Bonfire night
Why is it we remember
Guy fawkes set it alight
5th of November
Anti establishmentarian
Parliament a burning ember
Observance of many puritans
A plot was foiled
To blow up house of Lords
Guy fawkes plan spoiled
With dynamite...
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Categories:
puritans, anxiety, celebration, corruption, courage, symbolism, sympathy,
Form:
Free verse
Hour of Shame
She heard her feet fall on the dirt.
The echo caused her heart to hurt;
and though she held her head up high,
she chose her fate for love to lie.
No shame could steal her pride away.
Stern puritans...
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Categories:
puritans, community, religion, sin, strength,
Form:
Couplet
Agents Abroad Rewritten
Agents Abroad.
Tiny rooms in basements somewhere not far from the docks,
pink light ,no air-conditions. Cartagena girls on contract going
from city to city, their best years are as short as footballers;
only the...
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Categories:
puritans, adventure, parody, satire,
Form:
Blank verse
Thanksgiving
England’s king was disobeyed
by Puritans to abandon their faith.
On the Mayflower ship they sailed
through Atlantic ocean waves.
On November 1620
a hundred two Puritans came
to the shores of America.
Two months lasted their voyage.
They set...
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Categories:
puritans, culture,
Form:
Verse
A Brief History of the Land of Opportunity
A long time ago 'twas, ships set sail
For in England and on the Continent
Certain folks were doomed sure to fail
They were Puritans, the 'wrong religion'
Or hewers of wood, down on their...
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Categories:
puritans, america, freedom, history, money, race, thanksgiving day,
Form:
Couplet