Neither Presumption Nor Despair
...We can’t make
all the bad things
good
Just knowing
all that didn’t
should
We can’t wish
what stays real
away
Or lie
to keep the truth
at bay
Yesterday
today
tomorrow yield
The le...
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Categories:
marcella, god,
Form: Rhyme
Marcella Can Save You People Said
...using God-given talents and empathetic insight
fair woman, Marcella showed marvelous wizardry
reviving patients that male doctors could not save
jealousy had them accusing and blaming
They hanged...
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Categories:
marcella, history,
Form: Free verse
Right After the Bell
...The Baltimore Catechism,
mornings at eight
Sister Marcella,
don’t ever be late
Its message didactic,
the devil to run
Each question, each answer,
with God zero-sum
Who and what made me,
...
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Categories:
marcella, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Condemned To Repeat
...The Pharisees vengeance,
unleashing again
To kill a ‘false’ prophet,
their fear redescends
The cross is made ready,
like ages before
The nails though still rusty,
hammer deep and secure...
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Categories:
marcella, abuse,
Form: Rhyme
P S Its Poetry Write On Write On Congrats To My Fellow Poetry Soupers Part 13
...P S its POETRY WRITE ON WRITE ON CONGRATS TO MY FELLOW POETRY SOUPERS PART 13
Many thanks to you selected poets; Of sharing your whispers from God, tho you didn’t know it; Each letters and each w...
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Categories:
marcella, analogy, poems, poets, writing,
Form: Free verse
The Lady Down the Lane
...Approximately twenty years ago
I met the lady down the lane. I’d see
her once a month, and well I got to know
this lady whom my church assigned to me.
Each woman’s duty in my church it was
to ...
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Categories:
marcella, friendship,
Form: Rhyme
Lovestruck Ladies
...I always knew how Marcella loved it when other girls amid passions wished her love
But what she nor the other ladies didn't know is that tonight, lovely Nina had a plan
Being the beautiful sex craved...
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Categories:
marcella, happiness, love, passion,
Form: Free verse