Parsonage Poems

Premium MemberWhen Love Takes Flight

...Of all fond thoughts held deep within the heart			
Like strings lightly strummed fly with agile wings			
Take flight yet never from my mind depart				
Soar as wandering clouds where angels sing			...
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Categories: parsonage, celebration, god, heaven, love,
Form: Sonnet

The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

...The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior

Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy 
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the rev...
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Categories: parsonage, abuse, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse


The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Part First

...Born five score minus seven years ago
minus attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the revered Martin Luther King Junior 
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppre...
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Categories: parsonage, america, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberAn Early Morning Visitor

...A stranger came knocking at my front door
Early in the morning, quarter to five,
Asked if I believed in helping the poor
Told him at five I was barely alive,
But if he was needing help to survive...
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Categories: parsonage, anxiety, caregiving, food, giving,
Form: Dizain

The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior First Part

...Five score minus eight years ago
January eighteenth two thousand twenty one
father of civil rights movement
the revered Martin Luther King Junior honored
as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppr...
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Categories: parsonage, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse


Thomas Chatterton Translation: Excellent Ballad of Charity

...An Excelente Balade of Charitie (“An Excellent Ballad of Charity”)
by Thomas Chatterton, age 17
modernization/translation by Michael R. Burch

As wroten bie the goode Prieste
Thomas Rowley 1464
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Categories: parsonage, allegory, christian, england, faith,
Form: Ballad

Premium MemberI Found My Heart In San Francisco

...I have a great appreciation for the song,
"I left my heart in San Francisco"*, and I have
a great understanding of why one would leave
his/her heart in such a beautiful and most
enchanting city. ...
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Categories: parsonage, christian, feelings, god, love,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThank You For Saving Me

...Chelle knew she was too old to get married 
or even meet a man now
She was living at home, working as a bookkeeper for her dad. 
She would be doing this until she died, she imagined. 
An old maid...
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Categories: parsonage, love,
Form: Free verse

Struggle To Write

...prosaic prologues bewitch 
   feeble minded scribe doth undertakes 
tend toward lugubriousness ring tone 
   for goodness sake

echoing across, 
   a figurative lake woebegone, where quake
shu...
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Categories: parsonage, assonance, autumn, creation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Mongrel Mongeese

...Mongrel mongeese can fly at very high altitudes but dome headed calves cannot as they must wait until they are 672 years old. Fly fly flight then. Oh great. See how the waving whales chanting circula...
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Categories: parsonage, assonance, baseball,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberThe Christmas Stench

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There was once a minister who moved to San Francisco to pastor a little church.  The name of that little church was Emmanuel which means “God with us”.  There was an atmosphere about that little ...
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Categories: parsonage, candy, christian, christmas, family,
Form: Prose

The Widow's Voice

...There were his things, not estimating quote
the widow tracking lightly wherewithall,
his seasons, his reports, his favorite joke
and somewhere his adventures fill the wall.

The doors seem shut,...
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Categories: parsonage, age, wisdom, woman,
Form: Monorhyme

Premium MemberOne Man's Miracle

...(The Man Who Proved That God Is Real)      

You told me you just want to know God exists, 
Oh dear heart, I promise it's true, 
I just worry the person who proved it to me, 
Might not be sufficient ...
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Categories: parsonage, faith, feelings, friendship, drug,
Form: Rhyme

Bronte Inspiration 2

...PLEASE READ BRONTE INSPIRATION FIRST

Our courtship it continues at a gentle pace
Every time I see him my heart begins to race
Long walks in the country, late evenings by the fire
I really have disco...
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Categories: parsonage, love, marriage, romance,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberBronte Inspiration Part 2 By Jadazzle: Jan Allison and Darren Watson

...TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THIS POEM PLEASE READ 
BRONTE INSPIRATION - COLLABORATION BETWEEN JAN ALLISON AND DARREN WATSON


Our courtship it continues at a gentle pace
Every time I see him my heart begins ...
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Categories: parsonage, marriage, passion, romance,
Form: Rhyme

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