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Mother Superior Poems - Poems about Mother Superior

Premium Member Great Faith
... When I was in grammar school There simply wasn’t any tolerance for students talking back The religious sisters at our Catholic school were very strict (in part because they had charged over doz......

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Categories: mother superior, christian, god, jesus, mother,
Form: Free verse
A Letter To My Mother
...From dusk to dawn Sunrise to sundown This I will never forget Your kisses that always left me in a comfort And a bliss that no grief could ever secrete A mile-wide-smile and sweet That never......

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Categories: mother superior, cry, death, loss, lost
Form: Rhyme



Before the Firing Squad
... “Before The Firing Squad” the firing squad came dressed in faux smiles the intervention cake was spoon fed, like honey, by mother superior to the lesser bee, ......

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Categories: mother superior, muse, psychological, symbolism,
Form: Epic
Strange Ways, Here We Come
... “Strange Ways, Here We Come” the devil’s advocate came waltzing through my doors “I had no choice” the supercilious harbinger said, “to intervene, to parlay awa......

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Categories: mother superior, dark, death, grief, psychological,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Lose All Your Money
...[Sing to the tune of “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” sung by the Mother Superior in The Sound of Music] Lose all your money Where’re you go In ev’ry casino Vegas or Reno. Lose all your money ......

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Categories: mother superior, music, song,
Form: Lyric



Parenthood
...Parenthood My father hung in the belfry so many called him father, but the old woman in the house where I lived said he was my father. When I met Mother superior, her eyes softened for a momen......

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Categories: mother superior, age, best friend, courage,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Meet the Lightfoots
...Gorden Lightfoot sang of a sinking ship that mother superior never forgets Lori Lightfoot is mayor to a city of slayers her political bow is starting to list......

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Categories: mother superior, chicago, song,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Protection of Their Own
...Alma Mater in denial Beckons proof of terrible sin Congregation gather to witness Defrocked disciple Endeavours to catch her and hear Flagellate in fear of the hounding. Girl on a high, this......

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Categories: mother superior, confusion,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Dorothea Gift of God
...she was only too aware that her own conception had been maculate it had been not been a virginal birth and yet a blessed gift from God her mother a whore in the town’s creep joint fathe......

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Categories: mother superior, abuse, allah,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Imagination In Third Grade
...Witches and warlocks marching their truth Pouring discarded spells on poor Sister Ruth Laughing as they dance and run on her head. Showing her what will happen when she is dead. But I am a nun ......

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Categories: mother superior, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Peanut Butter Strike
...THE PEANUT BUTTER STRIKE In my last year at school I was made a prefect, Why I don’t know for I was no model scholar But thinking back and taking the time to reflect, I’m happy to have fond me......

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Categories: mother superior, humor, school,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Convent Girl
...A CONVENT GIRL This is the girl, Who’s in a whirl, Who came to the, Convent, Looking despondent. This is the nun, Who’s highly strung, Who started to lecture, In spite, of her dentu......

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Categories: mother superior, school, teen,
Form: Couplet
One Toke Over the Line
...here comes the frenzy after the movies places you want to see burning through my legacy lock horns with the coroner at the morgue sweat of my brow the faint of a cow that's how we roll let t......

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Categories: mother superior, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Flying Nun
...THE FLYING NUN Disposed to high speed, the rushing air through her covering — to the police, known as “The Flying Nun” My great, great Aunt was a lot of fun. First saw me, ......

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Categories: mother superior, family,
Form: Bio
To Be What My Lord Would Have Me Be
...I don’t want to be a king I don’t want to be a knight I don’t want to be an emperor I don’t want to be a prime minister I don’t want to be a Supreme Court judge I don’t want to be anything ......

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Categories: mother superior, bible, life, spiritual,
Form: Lyric

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