Long Vestry Poems

DISCLAIMER : THIS IS AN ACCOUNT OF THE MASSACRE 
IN ORADOUR-SUR-GLANE IN FRANCE WHICH TOOK PLACE
ON JUNE 1OTH  1944
TO MY READERS , " SOME LINES IN THIS POEM ARE GRAPHIC , AND
SOME MAY FIND...

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“For other answer”, told, “ I cannot lean
Than do it, because to honest question
Must follow action, with no word between”.

We dropped down the bridge with its progression
Where following it is reached the eighth bank,
Then I...

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It feels like yesterday when I just got off the plane and when I looked around, there was not a drop, sprinkle or shower of rain to be found; the earth was immensely dry and...

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Death and Dying in Dallas

Death and dying in Dallas seems to have all 
started with the death of President Kennedy.

The following is all true and actually, recently
happened in my life. The essay was written
to describe...

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November 25, 2022 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Timothy 1-2

Key Verse – 1Timothy 1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

MY GOD,...

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I excavated honest heaven for its lens of stars
And found only bright bags of burning air
I caressed the rose and got only scars
From swift thorns more pointed than my tears
And still in the vanity of...

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Goddess of the sky vault of the heavens  you arch over the earth and the heavens,  
shedding your light on our strengths and delivering your powerful touch like a muse.  
Oh Holy...

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Hypocrisy within the Village Flock

As the seasons of my life changes, glorious it may not be!!
Valley bells summons the flock to chapel.
Heavily polished Pews squeak, as Village flock take their seats.
Distant ghostly voices ring out...

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Popplecoook met popplwwock on a jacket mending mission to a culinary planet. It was varied and various. The threads that were woven. To entice a frozen omelette to rise amidst the blackness and create a...

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Church Vestry Meeting Horn Haiku

I am the vestry member in charge
of the church exterior and landscaping.
They requested a presentation from
each vestry member. This is mine so
I can print it out and also email. It
does not...

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Cobbles cooing collectively collaborating chaotically charmed churches. Steeple not a steep incline? And waltz with the vestry at noon prompt. But only when the sub sun is at a climax of a hundred. Kilowatt jewels...

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Only way I could figure out how to print out my Vestry
email letter. Jim Horn

Dear Friends,

Just a reminder of our upcoming meeting this coming Tuesday (Jan. 12th), 5:30 pm in Bliss Hall.

An agenda is shown...

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Happy Anniversary Saint James Episcopal

Was another one of those wonderful days
When we all woke up and gave God praise
And then thanked Him for His each thing
He gave and much happiness to us brings.

Like my husband...

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We write poems about our surroundings and how we see and interpret things.
I wrote this poem after attending a vestry meeting and thinking about what        had transpired in...

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What Jesus Means To Me

This poem is based on sermon by Father Dave Davis,
Rector of St. James Episcopal Church, Shallotte, NC
on March 22, 2015. Gospel for Day was John 12:20-23.
Maybe they might put my poem...

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?Time We Are Always Wasting



Do you think that I would be teasing;

God brings bright minds together for a reason

Not just to be passed up or simply ignored

But our magnificent minds be further explored.



Much more further...

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Through God's Great Gifts

Through God's great gifts I did grope
Best ones were faith, love and hope
Knowing he would grant me everyone
His desire was for kind things to be done.

After each prayer a poem God gave...

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Dedicated to Bishop Curry, Skirving and Father Davis

Why do some people have to be hurt?
By despicable person and treated like dirt
Trying to gun down everyone in sight
Either during day or else late at night.

Is it...

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God Has Prepared

God me for many things He has prepared
Be willing to give and with others shared
And in Devil's trap refuse to be caught
By making myself my central thought.
(Being egoistical to some people.)

God has to...

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Nuremburg Turmoil Part II

It seems so sad to think that final result
To all of humanity has been an insult
Lives of people being taken advantage of
Bodies into incinerators they would shove.

Bodies were destroyed and badly twisted
Many...

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"Bedouin"



I stand here
holding time in my hands
for you yet you remain hidden
watching 

black sands on closing air
bedouin messages written
in code invisible to most
it blooms you open

the envelope silently spits
words, they escape into you
you breathe what's...

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Senior Center Going


Senior Senior going is always well worth
Greatest in Brunswick County and on earth
When things you want to find a place to do
And about them curiosity grew and grew.


Many things your mind, they try...

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April 17th, 4th Day of Easter Psalm 23; Gospel: John 10:22-30
St. James Episcopal Church, Shallotte, NC.

At Church Next Sunday

There are only a few who I ever knew
Of course, none could compare with you
From heaven by...

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A Silver Spoon

In my mouth was not born with a silver spoon
So God when you take me to heaven soon
To many facts I must become resigned
Hardly anything have I ever left behind.

One is wife who...

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Another Hollywood Set

What I know about England is notoriety
So you must be member of some society
And list of them was trying to compile
For women was biscuit and men sun dial.

How about lunch of biscuits in...

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