Religious Narrative Poems

She struggled frantically as she was yanked from the bed
Hauled into the street straight to the temple, no match for her rabble size
With bare foot...

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She'd been raised to despise them, and despise them she did
  The Orthodox, be they modern or old-fashioned, and the Chassidim
She'd grown up loathing...

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The enemy says “tribalism” is a bad thing,
that it’s sow divisive

I believe “tribalism” to be universal unity:
One family tree
making root loving reap decisions
This is a...

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Has sharp eyes
And ears
He comes out of his hut
Every morning
To oversee his realm
If all is calm,
He smiles gently
And quietly returns to his musings

Love and brotherhood...

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..Nobody in that neighborhood
knew what happened to those three,
but they all scoffed in disgust
when Neal staggered high down the street.
He had been in and out...

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Luisa ran from where she’d stood
at the approach of the crowd,
they wanted no whores on their street,
and had told her so fairly loud.
Some threw metal...

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I Was So Lost

I had been raised in church but a religious church.
They did acknowledge there was a God but
His Son was pictured as dead...

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O Aphrodite,
Grecian fertility goddess
Matriarch idol of the womb,
your wise children love not reproducing
— Ancient Zion chant
heard in the echo chambers
of the caverns along the Aegean...

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O Sweet Father Christ, do these people have Your spirit?
Do they please You in acting like this?
Does it please You, when for fear of displeasing...

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Now, Who On Earth Was That?

Can you imagine being in Israel when the Son of God 
was there in human form?

How He healed a woman...

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It’s happening right now on the town square,
I just came from there,
It was a terrible sight to see,
They’re nailing some guy to a tree.

It looks...

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Was it the taunting stares
The feelings repressed
The betrayal by a friend
The weight of sacrifice
The promise of Abba

Did you give it up all
Eloi Rama.. Rama..

Was it...

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My Religious Studies School Class


At the back of the class on the seat of a wooden writing desk  
Like a thinner version of Billy...

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A couple of Sundays ago, my daughter called me stating that she wanted to go to church with us. She realized that it was getting...

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Inspired by the Bible Scripture of Habakkuk 2:3 

Sneak Preview

So thankful for the gifts from God
They are all my hopes and dreams
Those joyful Sneak Previews
Of...

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Sirens wailing, red lights flashing, muffled voices

I was numb and confused as though I was in a trance. 
My vision was limited to only blurred...

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Then Moses stood in the gate of the
camp, and said, Who is on the LORD’s
side? let him come unto me ...
Exod. 32:26


There comes a time...

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Thou, O king, hast made a decree, 
that every man that shall hear the
sound of the cornet, flute, harp,
sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, 
and all kinds...

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She was my father's aunt which made her my great aunt.              ...

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Where there is malnutrition, let us provide basic human resources, for the poor and the destitute.  Where there is insufficient: clothing, shoes, water, housing,...

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