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Parishes Poems - Poems about Parishes

Eve of Deconstruction
...The Buffalo church, it is implodin' Rhetoric flarin', parishes unloadin' We're good enough to give, but have no say in votin' You don't believe in division, but what's that decree your totin' You......

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Categories: parishes, corruption, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member SPECIAL AGENT ALAN KING FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION ARLINGTON HEIGHTS ILLINOIS
...YOU ARRIVED ON CUE I SUPPOSE RIGHT AFTER THE CHRISTMAS DAY ARSONS MURDERS PROCLAIMING MY LIFE WAS IN GRAVE DANGER WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT ARSON MURDER 8 ELDERLY PERSONS PARISHES PROCLAIMED MY EX HUSBA......

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Categories: parishes, chicago, city, i love
Form: Dramatic Monologue



Premium Member Predatory Transgressor Priests
...Accept the "Holy Fathers" stains? What prideful tolerance sustains The acts by priestly "Confessors" Whose transgressions we all deplore. Their molestations cause such pain That no repentance ......

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Categories: parishes, betrayal, christian, evil, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Andrew Jackson At New Orleans
...Poor soldier Andrew Jackson who Attacked the British after peace Was signed three weeks before at Ghent. Unnecessary bravery Is no less admirable for that. He waves to patrons eating their Be......

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Categories: parishes, america, character, funeral, history,
Form: Blank verse
Sophers
...From the memoirs he smiled laughing evil might his cohorts agree an evil smile upon his burlapped face he opened his eyes to see he offered Crabgrass and Brier wreaths with ragweed pollen ......

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Categories: parishes, adventure, atheist, autumn, christian,
Form: Bio



Summer In Jamaica
...The beacons of Caribbean ray Made sunlight spins across this hot day The heat arrives again between lush trees Shedding their plump clothes leaves. With dangling fruits on the branches Bike......

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Categories: parishes, beauty, friendship love, summer,
Form: Free verse
The Bygones
...Eroding names on long-faced headstones, a small graveyard marooned on a patch of past; long rooted and confined while beside it 2022 blares unseeing past the forgotten lot. An old-fangled Ameri......

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Categories: parishes, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Xmas Tradition
...XMAS TRADITION How I longed for the Xmas tradition we celebrated when I was growing up. The Xmas tradition that still lives on; but we left behind. It is celebrated here in some parishes. Howev......

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Categories: parishes, blessing, christmas, nostalgia, thanks,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Drug Using Me
...Am I dead or dreaming? Lightfoot and scheming. My head is full, I’m not sure which persona is in charge. Have taken strong opiates, many too illegal to mention. Unleash me, woman. Give me some sor......

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Categories: parishes, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reflection On An Aging Nomad
...I finally finished retiring four years ago, a process that started in my mid-fifties due to late adopting kids with special needs, including needs for me to be home to personally walk them on, h......

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Categories: parishes, age, health, integrity, relationship,
Form: Political Verse
The Bygones
...Eroding names on long-faced headstones. Graves marooned in a patch of the past while 2019 blares unseeing around the forgotten lot. An old-fangled America tucked between gas station and str......

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Categories: parishes, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Nd- Cathedral of Fire Shall Not Burn Down-
...O’ in the laden light Sparks the fire, Its attic Cathedral of fire shall not burn down A blazed, all consuming fire; Chard concrete, statues, bricks ignite; Heavens, angels t......

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Categories: parishes, adventure, analogy, character, fire,
Form: Free verse
Flippa
... When Katrina came calling, Lady Blues brought some Miami Hurricane bad news Green Dolphin Street pain parade went Mardi Gras wind marching down to the delta swamp of Nawl ‘Leans And......

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Categories: parishes, dark, natural disasters, pain,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Universal Stories
...All of us, or nearly all, have had both spiritual experience and some religious teaching, sometimes from prophetic pulpit ScriptureSpeakers and sometimes through more maternal StoryTellers, and......

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Categories: parishes, anti bullying, birth, culture,
Form: Political Verse
Lights Out
...Lights Out When the lights are on your right here When the lights are out you disappear, Lights are back on but you are gone Why did you vanish what's going on, Where did you go Nobody......

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Categories: parishes, scary,
Form: Free verse

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