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Rainbow Village

...
There is a beautiful little village
Down a long rainbow coloured country lane
Known to only a few
Where  collective colourful characters reign

The residents of Rainbow Village
Are a  creativ...

The Pharisee and the Publican continued Luke 18:11-14 part two

...You that I am not like other men--extortioners, or even like this tax collector.
'I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all I possess.'  And the tax collector standing
afar off, would not so much r...

Rocking strong; its Bundalong'

...Though small in size you stood strong' and wise
In your answer to him, of your intended demise!
And that of our fair state.' In our great land.'
For right here i recount of that old 'dingo dan'

...

The Elfin War

...I told my boss this was a job I didn’t relish
Reports so far deemed this Elfin war rather hellish.
Troops had crossed the border and entered the valley.
So far we didn’t have a death or injury tal...

Out My Window

...It was hours before dawn and I could not sleep.
The gloomy fog overpowered the cold dark street.
The street lights offered patches of misty light.
Rain had glossed the pavement, in the dead of nig...

The King of Mercy

...Ten Lepers sought the Lord 
carrying their badges with a Plea 
unclean unclean was the cry 
Mercy alone was their Plea
The King of mercy heard their cries 
by his word He healed them all 
One a...

They Sit Up Here Alone With Me

...I sit alone above the fray
Await the saviors coming day
I listen not to other voices
Fraught with the trouble of their choices.

For I am sure the savior saves
The saints and fresh forgiven kna...

Beatitudes Blessings and Commentaries Part Three

...6)  Q: What is meant by the sixth Beatitude in Mathew 5:6: by "blessed are they which 
          do hunger and thirst after righteousness?"

      A: In this prime example it applies to righteous ...

The King of Mercy

...Ten Lepers sought the Lord 
carrying their badges with a Plea 
unclean unclean was the cry 
Mercy alone was their Plea
The King of mercy heard their cries 
by his word He healed them all 
One a...

Innocence

...We called Jimmy strange; we teased him in play,
most of the time he'd laugh our cheek away.
We'd dare him to play pool; always loser pay!
So we played pool for nothing each day.

One night a str...

Charlies Boarder

...I was working up Loch Valley logging for a local mill;
camping in a make-shift hut I built half way up a struggling hill.
I worked till lunchtime every Friday, then came in from the scrub,
spendin...

The Maigue Poets of Croom

...Friggity friggity!
MacRaith and O’ Tuama: 
poets incessant and
blabbering bores. 

Publican served insults – 
flibbertigibbeting.
Rhetoric ingrained dull;
flyting supreme!
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Annulment Coming Up

...I blame me brother for the likes of this predicament,
when we pub crawled up to Bunyip, and where our night was spent.
Thank God I wasn’t in the driver’s seat, ‘cause we wouldn’t be alive, 
but me...

Dear Nationalist Republicans

...I'm worried
you have over valued
your favorite deceptively entertaining 
disformed
dis-eased commodity,

DisInformation's strategic value
and disvalue
and misvalue
depreciatively revaluated
...

American Nero

...
American Nero,
showering utter disdain — 
Denigration downpour on pleb citizens
begging for pandemic crumbs
As the pestilent fire rages around 
your virally tainted kingdom

Ghastly g...

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