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Mendicants Poems - Poems about Mendicants

Premium MemberJesus Sends His Disciples

...As fish live by water, in Jesus the disciples lived.
His life he breathed in them as Lord Yahweh did to Adam.
Demons and diseases, as though magicians, they confined.
Deeds of wonder, like Jesus, ...
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Categories: mendicants, jesus,
Form: Sonnet

To flowers once said dour thorns

...I

For long faulted as wicked causing pain,
And condemned as crooks of a cruel kind—
Old prejudice or heartless brain’s refrain, 
Repeated ad nauseam a point to grind—
An error all the same of ...
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Categories: mendicants, flower,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium MemberTo An End

...To an End
David J Walker

Carried in the wind
This lonely place
Carried to another land
Carried in the mendicants dreams
	of
The sojourn 
of sovereignty 
Nothing as it seems  
A lonely out...
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Categories: mendicants, adventure,
Form: Rhyme

Varanasi

...Pilgrims and vagrants throng its Ghats
Beggars, seers and mendicants all,
Shrill peal of bells, the chant of hymns
And waters holy do enthrall.

Shiva’s trident nudges the soul
The Dhamak Stupa...
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Categories: mendicants, life,
Form: Rhyme

We Slum Dwellers

...We slum dwellers strive through arduous thistles of hardship
We tough it out through the mere adroitness of apprenticeship
We writhe morosely, carrying the world over our shoulders
But we tussle t...
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Categories: mendicants, confidence, poverty,
Form: Rhyme



Flowers Talking To Strangers

...I came to exchange gaze with my buddy I tested bitterness in the garden of her heart full of pain and disillusionment, but since nature eager to sight happiness to prevail I decoded warm welcome. It ...
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Categories: mendicants, betrayal, daffodils, discrimination,
Form: Sonnet

False Profit

...I've been misled by my opprobrium again
Stuck in this continuum until the bitter end
Elysian fields beckon me like a moth to flame
Halcyon days gone like 15 minutes of fame
Coal black devil in a ...
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Categories: mendicants, analogy, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

Tozzath

...Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the fragrance of ombada...
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Categories: mendicants, death, fantasy, girl, magic,
Form: Free verse

A Wing and a Prayer

...Lord, bless us with a wing and a prayer,
Guardian angels to shine on Earth down here,
And on all the folk down under, my dears,
Let angels pray for mendicants at charities and welfare,
For druggi...
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Categories: mendicants, allusion, angel, blessing, christian,
Form: Free verse

Silly State

...Our silly state of paranoia,
Are leaders here to annoy ya?
Ghosts of government past,
We've had enough drivel to last!
Our systems need to improve,
Building bias, not a good groove,
Kids are bo...
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Categories: mendicants, anger, angst, leadership, political,
Form: Free verse

I Am a Raven

...Crafty, conniving, sly and stately,
I am associated with dead and lost souls,
An ominous bird of yore spawning myths and legends,
A messenger of deities in the mortal world, 
I am a wily mediator...
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Categories: mendicants, bird,
Form: Personification

Feed Me

...There is a hunger ceasing not
though worlds unite
in philanthropic ventures with a zeal
to please both cynic and the credulous
who travel down the lanes
of roads and streets of poverty,
assurin...
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Categories: mendicants, allegory, universe,
Form: Free verse

Poetic Mendicant

...by Michaelw1two

 The bard, the muse, the low versifier,
 each the times bemoan;
 stressed by compassion's grasp,
 ingrained word sown life disowns;
 individualist rare, previews minds mood,
 frigid ...
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Categories: mendicants, poets, riddle,
Form: Free verse

Agape

...Here we meet, a company
plucked randomly
from every shore to dine,
to gather from the mind's full store,
enriched, aware of all the particles, 
of spatial plain within, beyond— 
we meet as if to pull...
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Categories: mendicants, peace,
Form: Free verse

The Spry Metropolis

...Tower, buzz and scurry
Oh great resilient city
Ahoy!
Alive.  Scramble bustle earth's
 ethnicities
On lurid quests--
A pendulum of tantric turmoil and
Blessed harmony

Quixotic city--brash,
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Categories: mendicants, adventure,
Form: Blank verse

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