Christian Metaphor Poems

The Maker : Knit and Purl


The Maker wields the needles
 of predestination and free will,
One in each strong, talented hand. 
Knitting the yarn and thread...

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O Bipolar, harass me nevermore!
     Depart from me! For Easter Sunday's here,
     a comfort which transforms this...

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God, 
I feel the water gather 
And I pray not to fail 
 
...

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Another day, another ghostly glitch
The catholic church stained glass
shouldn’t be as grey as it was today.
More and more the molding frays
I can hear the coffins...

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Protected under this banner
Protected under this roof
Protected by a vow of silence
Protected by the truth 
Protected from the mayhem 
Protected from the law
Protected from what...

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Oh, you African!
 Of cocoa skin and black-haired 
Like your judgments 

You African!
 The lamb in the elections 
Son of the people, wandering in the...

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We don’t shine like we used to, The light in our eyes
Faded long ago, To the radioactive glow
Building our dystopian walls, If you stand there
Upon...

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Brain freeze
Cool breeze
Numb hands
White trees

Winter vibe
Outside
Summer hearts
Death slide

Super cool 
Plunge pool
Thin ice
Skating fool

Split whole
No  control
Broken hearted
Lost soul...

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I was born through that bloody door
Through my mother’s womb, I saw the gloam 
I was once two, expelled as one
I’m now on the flip...

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Politics is not partisanship...
In the delirium of these dark times, the badness of the bad
lost fear of punishment...
The kindness of good people,
lost hope...
The Good Conscious
we...

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(Author's note: Traditions of walking a labyrinth as a form of meditation go back to at least the fourth century. Labyrinths in Christian contexts usually...

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*** Life’s Growing Joy Poem Within a Poem ***

My 70’s may be the decade
For reaching my pathway’s
Ends and Epiphanies: a service of ‘Lessons and Pains’

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Tirelessly tapping the ecliptic elixir of modernity
the marionette hurls pebbles at minarets

The rot of this wretched wine vivified his rapturous pith
platting the tombs of his...

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We live in a world where magic is alive
We live with incantation and the surreal
We live with the charmed and the fay

In a world of...

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What began as a vanity-premised venture 
An antihero adventure 
Around the globe, chasing splendor 
Avenging for adolescent abstinence 

Peering behind my translucent facade 
Peacocking my...

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