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Papal Poems - Poems about Papal

Premium Member 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......

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Categories: papal, abuse, anger, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
***** 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......

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Categories: papal, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



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, ......

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Categories: papal, change, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
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 ......

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Categories: papal, africa,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: papal, africa,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member 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 ......

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Categories: papal, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: papal, divorce, history, london, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: papal, conflict, history, military, political,
Form: Rispetto
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......

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Categories: papal, art, change, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
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......

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Categories: papal, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: papal, history, humor,
Form: Light Verse
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......

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Categories: papal, christian, engagement, integrity,
Form: Quatern
Premium Member 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......

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Categories: papal, anger, mother son, religion,
Form: Free verse
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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Categories: papal, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Decayed
...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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Categories: papal, betrayal, children, growing up,
Form: Free verse

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