Please Generalize People
...All blondes wear diamond rings and drive Mercedes so old.
All brunettes wear green straw hats and plant marigolds.
All tall people play golf on Saturdays and are Methodists winkers.
All Americans ...
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Categories:
methodists, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
All the Same
...All The Same
David J Walker
My neighborhood
Was filled with children
All the same
Every freckle every name and
Every game we played on the
Playground after school
We were all the same
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Categories:
methodists, america,
Form: Rhyme
Miss Ruth
...A God-honored teacher, Miss Ruth Vance
His gift to our town, His circumstance.
No replacing her bulging tote bag -
It was priceless, minus the Gucci tag."
and now the rest of the story....
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Categories:
methodists, 11th grade, christmas, halloween,
Form: Clerihew
Eternal Wonderings 2
...When I was little I sang in the choir
There were Quakers and Methodists
Catholic school friends, there were Jewish
Friends and dinners and the chanting
of Buddhist monks. Om Shanti. my own
Pr...
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Categories:
methodists, universe,
Form: Free verse
A Walk To St Mary's Church
...A restless night, another hum-drum day,
Resolve to take a pleasurable walk;
I make my way towards St Mary’s church.
Across the street, a sixteenth century home –
Maltravers Manor, testament to ti...
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Categories:
methodists, history, journey, travel,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Dream Sanctuaries
...I dream into my Ta(0)ist
not-Universal Yang equals
not-Unitarian Yin
Sanctuary,
expecting to be greeted
by visions
of familiar spiritual apartheid.
But I am not.
Instead,
communion in this...
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Categories:
methodists, dream, earth, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
Brexit Is Icumen In, May's Gone Cuckoo
...Brexit Is Icumenn In, May's gone cuckoo!
No shame is poverty, if the heart by gay !
As Chaucer's Wife of Bath was wont to say;
Is this the tale that's told by May?
For Theresa's plan is surely ...
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Categories:
methodists, political,
Form: Political Verse
Apostrophe To Dad
...I think of how it was ten years ago
just after you departed.
All your close friends spoke
of your "complexity"
and we knew what it meant.
I look far back to childhood when
those small-town midwest M...
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Categories:
methodists, tribute, time,
Form: Free verse
God Loves 'Em One and All
...'Tis said that God loves all His creatures great and small.
Here are just a few of them - I can't begin to name them all!
He loves us one and all the whole world wide from A to Z!
His steadfast lo...
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Categories:
methodists, funnylove, , atheist,
Form: Rhyme
Moving On Singing a Song
...She read one of her poems on TV.
For all the world to hear and see.
She also spoke softly of all her pain,
To show all the world what she had gained.
To the magazines she told her story,
To show the...
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Categories:
methodists, dedication, depression, devotion, family,
Form: Rhyme