Papal Poems - Poems about Papal

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...The colored pains are carved onto the back of my ancestors’ history.
My oppressors see my Africanness as a curse,
the rotten fruit of savagery, slavery, and the barbarity of colonization.
The blac...

PAEDOPHILES RUNNING THE SHOW

...PAEDOPHILES RUNNING THE SHOW.

It doesn’t matter where you look
Or anywhere in the world you go,
The only thing that’s guaranteed
Is there is a paedophile running the show.

From ancient times...

***** REPUBLIC

...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...

Black or White

...
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, ...

REMAINS AND DECREES

...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 ...

LUGUBRIOUS READING

...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...

Trump verses and other mild curses

...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 ...

A Crown's Desire

...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...

A Dust Bowl of Glitter

...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...

Jokers Wildfire in Hearts

...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...

Iberian Cross-Roads

...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...

Rehashing History: Galileo

......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...

NON NOBIS DOMINE

...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...

Limbus Infantum

...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...

Grace

...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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