Papal Poems - Poems about Papal

...They captured and tortured my humanity. They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness. Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration, To become yet......

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... In the Sistine chapel where frescos peep, away from watchful devote eyes that weep, a conclave gathers in reflection deep, to choose a shepherd for gospels to keep. Amidst partisan whispers, ......

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...I crossed the archives as one walks through a field of ruins. Decrees were bones, dogmas were nails. Kings signed treaties in ink darker than darkness, a pact forged in daggers. Papal bulls oozed ......

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...I have read the Code Noir. I have read the papal bull of Nicholas V. I have read the charter of imperialism. I have read the Indigenous Code I have read the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran. I ha......

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...All for the price of a dozen eggs, America stands on shaky legs. Globally, the claim is heard ~ "The US ~ laughingstock of the world," as daily, we star in our very own theater of ......

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...In power's shadowed halls, where destinies lie, Two titans faced off, ambition held high. Henry, the monarch, resolute and strong, Clement, the Pontiff, with justice lifelong. Henry, a Tud......

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...A blessed soul has won a role, The Prince of Peace, Of noble birth, a novice born a blue-blood, Pontificate average those brevities, Stemmed full of thorns wrangled beneath his rosebud. Won The......

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...hollow the words seem when said to a wall, bounce back with fear and anger to keep, papal silence for the thrall to burrow asleep, worms of thoughts weep by sunrise to fall. skills of a magistr......

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...We drive breakneck over hot roads. Churches, big as cathedrals, rocket from pocket villages. Castillo's cast their campanile on the baking earth. The Great Mosque of Cordoba, the green Alhambr......

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......or What's science got to do with it? Galileo looked through a lens one day And, boy, was he astounded. The Earth wasn't flat as he'd been told, It was, in fact, quite rounded. Pope Urban VI......

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...NON NOBIS DOMINE Significant, back in the day Was the Knight Templar cross pattee Red and stout with its flattened ends A different message that it sends Papal directives to obey Significan......

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...My brother went to limbo Stillborn and unbaptized Faultless but Original Sin Status unknown A soul in liminal space Lost between heaven and hell Damnation spared Salvation denied Consigned......

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...The farther I get from religion the closer I get to God Clouds blown free—new imagery a seed in Heaven’s pod The farther I get from the papal bull the closer His voice I hear Grace so blessed......

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...Sadly, The truths they claimed Would set me free Rotted In the souls of twisted vines And broken branches. Decay Spreading from stagnant soil Through the roots And twisted bramble To the to......

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...Sister Josefina Javelina packed her bag in Argentina To go flying off to Rome to see the Pope. Her desire was to become More than just a simple nun. She had asked her local priest, And he said, ......

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