Universal Rhymes in Unitarian Time
...If Eastern co-redemption
integrates unitarian-longing bodhisattvas
perhaps
Western peace-salvation
engages universal-belonging co-messiahs.
When highly functioning just-us
CONSCIENtious organ...
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Categories:
messiahs, earth, health, integrity, muse,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Elon Musk: The Empire of the Visible
...When business dons the mask of politics,
it ceases to build — it begins to conquer.
Elon, you were an architect of the invisible —
a builder of empires no eye could fully grasp.
But now, you have...
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Categories:
messiahs, business, political, power, pride,
Form: Free verse
Silence of the West
...
Clouds of smoke billowed over ruined buildings
That once were homes safe and welcoming.
Schools where children were learning,
Hidden now from view by dust clouds billowing.
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Categories:
messiahs, anger, child, death, fear,
Form: Rhyme
When Holy Hands Drop Bombs
...What makes it okay to bomb a nation?
Kill so many who don’t have a station?
Destroy a country, cities and families?
Women, babies, children and men—all tragedies—
Who never chose this war… suffer...
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Categories:
messiahs, allah, angel, bible, conflict,
Form: Free verse
For Every Sheep in the Flock
...Grant me sunrise, cruel warden
Would you deny me that which makes us human?
What violent hatred grips your heart
To demean and dehumanize so freely and purely
How is it that you dream, violent ...
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Categories:
messiahs, anti bullying, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
Connecting the dots part sixteen 2nd Thessalonians 2:1-3 Q and A
...Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our
gathering together in Him, we ask you, not to be soon shaken of mind or
troubled, either by spirit or by word or by letter, as...
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Categories:
messiahs, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Banana Republic
...Self proclaimed prophets, living in Opulence.
Self proclaimed Disciples, living in Opulence.
How many biblical prophets lived in opulence?
Is this the Gainsaying of Korrah?
Or am I just a bit fru...
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Categories:
messiahs, angel, anger,
Form: Blank verse
In The Matter of Nothing
...Heaven could be like an infinite holiday
without grief and burden of war
without physical or emotional pain
A family reunion everyday
bathed in the purist of light
manna nibbled from crystal pl...
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Categories:
messiahs, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Messiahs and Bodhisattvas
...What do top and bottom
transcendent and immanent
above and below
lead and follow
high and low
Day and night
mountain and valley
up and down
autocracy and democracy
pole and hole
Convex ...
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Categories:
messiahs, culture, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Then There Was Midnight
...Here there was morning now
Then there was midnight madness
Murderous monsters massacaring
Many made Malcolm
And Martin martyrs mystifying
Masses methodically most memorable
Measured morning m...
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Categories:
messiahs, allusion, creation,
Form: Alliteration
New Hope
...Title: New Hope
Author: John King Ayanfe ©
Date: 29/05/2023
From the fist of democracy we seek joyous feast
Our feast of independence has been thwarted by greed's fist
To speak in hope became ...
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Categories:
messiahs, africa, change, future, leadership,
Form: Free verse
Culture
...Culture is not what was written
ten thousand years ago,
nor is it a godly dictate from
the 7th Century AD,
It is not what Buddha spoke
from under the Bodhi tree,
nor the harsh enforcements
of ...
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Categories:
messiahs, culture, devotion, god, truth,
Form: Free verse
Jesus Messiah
...I
Since Martin Luther
It's rather simple
Only One Savior
Not Mother, Angel,
W. Branham or Joanna Southcott!
Sins antidote: Jesus's Blood
II
Born in 1750, Southcott
At 64 claimed pregnancy
...
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Categories:
messiahs, africa, america, analogy, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Enigmatic Genesis
...They say there was a big bang
A second before time began
That the skies exploded with glory
Disputed only by the creation story
That traces time to a few thousands of years or so
Instead of thi...
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Categories:
messiahs, allegory,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Electric Fan Hit Itself
...Back then before upheavals upheaved,
people were gracious
but lacked a common sorrow -
it made them a little dull.
Occasionally a local danger
would excite but rejoicing
and grieving never be...
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Categories:
messiahs, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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