the boy, padre and abbess
The boy, the padre, and the abbess.
The padre hung in the bell fry the boy didn’t know
at the time, the padre was his father; this once proud man
reduced to a pathetic shadow of himself.
The old woman, he didn’t call her mother, told him before
she died of a tragic love story.
When the abbess was young,
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Categories:
padre, 8th grade, angst, animal,
Form: ABC
The Boy, Padre and the Abbess
The boy, the padre and the abbess.
The padre hung in the bell fry the boy didn’t know
at the time, the padre was his father; this once proud man
reduced to a pathetic shadow of himself.
The old woman, he didn’t call her mother, told him before
she died of a tragic love story.
When the abbess was young,
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Categories:
padre, absence, birth, break up,
Form: Free verse
Translation of Jorge Manrique's Third Copla:Coplas a La Muerte De Su Padre By T Wignesan
COPLA UNO: This Bad Guy World - in all seriousness
[The entire sequence of 114 coplas: “This Bad Guy World”, dedicated to Jorge MANRIQUE, 1440?-1479. I give here in translation his third “copla à pied quebrado” in Arte Menor metre:
“Coplas a la muerte de su padre” (Coplas on the death of his father) -
Our
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Categories:
padre, bereavement, extended metaphor, grief,
Form: Elegy
Conjuring Phantom
Anon! The shadow chilled, mimikri and frosted with domineering dogma.
Thou wast trying escape and melt with thy magna carta.
The shadow was asking thee about crossroad and miniatur epic.
Who always doth fighting versus tyrannical peasant of lingua sacra?
Nay! The shadow given the souls and was sparkling in purgatory, but the light is so poor.
Accepted the unfathomable
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Categories:
padre, character, imagery,
Form: Qasida
Padre Has a Gun
Mary Six Pack Pistols staggers through time portals drunk
Pretending to be a priest but she is not a mister or a sister
To the old west saloon through double doors she glides
Drunker than a nun on steroids swinging rosaries from her side
Into a smoke filled room in rusty spurs and fake mustache
Presenting herself as a
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Categories:
padre, conflict, death, murder, sin,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Padre Mio
"Padre Mio"
by Giuseppi Martino Buonaiuto
My father: all he wanted was a little,
Just a little,
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Categories:
padre, angst,
Form: Prose Poetry
De Padre Ad Filius
A father sees his son, and feels
New heart of fire and eyes of steel.
Blossoming boy looks to the man,
Begins to take life in his hands.
Once soft young lad, quest now begin,
Away from hearth and to the Sun.
Blistering Sun hardens pale skin,
Taut sinews of the man begun.
To guide, to lead, to elevate,
The man helps form the
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Categories:
padre, father son, growing up,
Form: Quatrain
Padre
I'm holding in my anger
Knowing I'd die to be the strangler
Of his sour-little coward-brittle throat
I'm just mad not literal
But when your dad's a criminal
There's a minimal amount of father hope
It doesn't bother me no,
But it keeps haunting me so
I will keep wandering not knowing where to go
No Padre in my home
What an
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Categories:
padre, father, feelings, hurt, jealousy,
Form: Rhyme
The Padre of Old St Anthony
There he stood in the
garden,a gentle fellow
with glowing gown;
radiating glory.
His countenance was
that of an Angel,
The Padre of old St
Anthony.
As I approached him,he
gave me a warm.
Then he told me why he
came to the mission,the
mission in old St Anthony.
We knelt down to pray,I
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Categories:
padre, allegory, angel, christian, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Doomed Padre
The Loss of Faith
Fated priest when he walks in front of a funeral
procession his gait is often wobbly, says it is stiff
joints; smells of aftershave lotion and brandy.
Lost his faith years ago, in the night his prayer
echoes in the village church.
Thinks it his fault that god has left
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Categories:
padre, confusion, depression, devotion, faith,
Form: Blank verse
Padre Pio
St. Padre Pio
Through emmense silence amidst the swell of violence
Take Good care of those he loves;
In certain strange ways in curiosity
With human love one can learn to equate
Yet for Padre Pio's case;
He had found a love out of a devine source;
In closed minded attributes some err' to escape/
A game in life can't ever be
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Categories:
padre, adventure, angst, art, black
Form: Blank verse
Padre
He slept under the No Parking Sign, newspapers for a coat.
The doctors said he was long gone.
I believe that they misspoke.
He wandered to and fro at night for he was scared to death of sun.
They gave him electric shocks few times.
Should have given him a gun.
Never was one for a bath was partial to
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Categories:
padre, death, faith,
Form: I do not know?
Padre
Father I am here
As I have never in my exsistence have left your sight
You have tood there to my eyes unseen
And I have forgotten about You
The love You have for us all, I amaze at for it is Great
As I have been walking around with open eyes, I went on blind
Yet the reason I fell
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Categories:
padre, love,
Form: Free verse
Padre De Sera
He just laid there, ignoring us all
Hibernating like a “lost Boy”
Colorless, like the breath that used to be
He looks like no one I’ve seen
Eyes on him, judging, mocking, loving
Mine were in disbelief, cold, numb
I quit on the greatest show of all
Pup tents in my heart
Not for me, so my sibling wasn’t alone
Tear ducts, barren
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Categories:
padre, death
Form: Free verse
Categories:
padre, father, life,
Form: Free verse
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