Long Wimple Poems

Chorus X 2
I wish you smell the cologne of my intentions
I wish you hear the piercing rhythms of my heart
I wish you see the torment of your short absence
and also to feel the weight of...

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April 26 Scripture Meditations Based on Job 37-42

Key Verse – Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR  ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS

Thank You for answering my questions with...

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Im covered in scars from head to toe
Scars of mentally and emotionally battles
Of my everyday life
Yet why don't I talk about these battle scars?

Every time I was needed for help I was there,
Even if I...

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Also & nevermore recorded,
the mind sticks, picks at scabs,
wanders away forgetting.

Thunder, you full throated seas,
thunder in the full and swollen veins.
Tell us what words hate,
tell us, be not so mute as a rabbit
fox cowered in...

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Silence morphs the call of falling dusk
Gathering under fiery skies, 
Stilled leaves in somber silence hang
Moping at the darkness that plies.

Dusty paths the home-bound cattle plod
Syrupy chirping of birds in flight, 
Smoke from the earthen...

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Out of the bath, in the mirror, check me
picture of spindly masculinity
talc on the feet, and armpits sprayed
now for the body a choice to be made
Hai Karate or Aramis
both leave the women in a state...

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They call them dragons,
winds such as Rashabbar the black
who darkly binds the unwary, or dust spewing Calima,
she who herds madness from outside-inward.
Then there is Bayamo, the tree killer,
Tebbard the sultry doctor, a fever-wind
that dispenses fire...

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Sister Mary Grace
was my third grade teacher.
Like all of the other nuns in our school,
everything but the front part of her face
was hidden by a starched, white wimple
and a black habit,
layers of robe-like cloth which...

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April's roses scent inebriates every sense
below the Gothic cathedral
cardinals doze
draping their wings over
evergreen plants
foreshadowing a cool sunset
griffins guard the bell-tower
hampering the intruders
inflicting fear on the jackals
jaundiced they hide into a jalopy
kapok is soft as cotton
ladybugs...

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A heavenly feather falls slowly and lands in free  
its a symbol of angelhood and celestial mediation
Soothingly, comfortingly, a Sensei surrounds me
and showers me with blessings as I claim  reaction
and write, for I...

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Into our classroom she flowed
Habit forming a sweeping swirl
And rosily did her face glow beneath her wimple
Pink and shining as though wafted straight  from heaven
Leaving us small kids of seven entranced
By this gift of...

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(to be read out loud)


I'll eat the nibble naggle nooky nickel
	nipple nappy mum mum mum
I'll chew your gooble gobble giggle gaggle
	gimpy grampa's gum gum gum.

I'll call the wimpy wappy wiggle waggle
	wacky wobble wum wum wum
I'll...

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