On Bullying
...Jesus did teach us to turn the other cheek,
But never suggested we ought to be weak
In those instances of obvious wrongdoing
He sent the moneychangers gelt strewing,
And he called out...
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Categories:
moneychangers, anti bullying, bullying, perspective,
Form: Couplet
Outlaws
...The best artists are outlaws
Vandalizing our sanctity,
Our sanctimonious freight trains,
Our parsimonious neglect.
The best artists are culprits
Chiseling our school desks,
Scraping our bathr...
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Categories:
moneychangers, allusion, art, bible, extended
Form: Didactic
'twas the Night Before Christmas and Christ Was Left Out
...Twas the night before christmas
and Christ was left out,
with no peep of the Good News,
no mountainous shout.
Stockings were hung
by the chimney the same,
but no one made mention
of the ...
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Categories:
moneychangers, celebration, christmas, giving, god,
Form: Rhyme
My Bleating Heart
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Modern day scoffers say,
only the strong will survive
That the weak will be eaten alive
Only T-Rex,
cold-blooded logic will thrive
The talking serpents e-vol hiss,
instincts of comp...
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Categories:
moneychangers, religious, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Judas Sop
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Look at those leper thieves in the temple,
crooked preachers taking their crouching cut
Spotted souls standing at the pulpit,
spewing false doctrines of idol prosperity
Blind guides ...
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Categories:
moneychangers, corruption, religious, truth, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
New Moneychangers
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And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them t...
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Categories:
moneychangers, corruption, religious, spiritual, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Meltdown
...MELTDOWN
Kinda quiet guy, walked sofly, even
Refused to carry a big stick.
Just a few close friends, about eleven,
And they weren’t always a reliable pick.
Never saw him angry, except out
W...
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Categories:
moneychangers, bible,
Form: Quatrain