Prayer Parallelismus Membrorum Poems

If Thou take not our hands,
and feet,
our bodies
hosting ghostly minds,
our organic inside lives
flowing out emphatic love

We will continue to fail,
to fear,
to feel tired,
retired,
weary,
untreaded,
worn.

When I try...

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If now is your time
in this final threshold
between life
and death,
then this is our passion time,
remembered past
torn from imaged future.

I cannot bear this burden
this loss
this relinquishment...

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May our minds seek integral
ethical truth
where
and when 
our bodies find serenity
in aesthetic beauty

Of minds feeling trust
when
and where
bodies receive neurosystemic 
win/win ecstasy
of naturally spiritual compassion.

May our...

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What begins 
with in
and out?

Then best ends brightest
with a cooperative
exhausted shout?

An orgasmic climax?
Or a groaning prayer
for co-infested peace?...

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Like RightBrain felt 
faith
without LeftBrain thoughtful
works

Passionate prayer
without compassionate actions
is dead on non-arrival

Monotheistic rhetorical events
however sacredly felt
without polycultural global planning
for healing EarthTribe unrest
is like praying for...

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When you and your wife visited,
you shared a question asked by a pastor
of a raped
and thereby pregnant
vulnerably young and questioning parishioner.

"If your unborn child survived
his...

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Giving thanks
for insight
outside normal space
grows more grace
than taking from fertile Earth
without gratitude
thoughtless everyday attitude.

We give thanks
gathered here today
for all God's edibles
and ornaments
surpassing even sacred platitudes,
obscure...

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My sins are covered, sang David
Joyful in Psalm 32
My transgressions forgiven, he added
Sing songs of Deliverance
Teaching Disciples (us) to pray:
Jesus did not mention "sin"
Matthews Gospel,...

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In a little public park
In the little town of Small
There's a little village square
Large enough to hold them all

And they meet there once each year
As...

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Beloved
whether you or another
or your Community of practice and positive intent,
your family, perhaps,
Beloved.

Beloved evolves alternative loving futures
of our dreams and hearts 
and rooted fantasy
with ecotherapeutic...

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