Religious Poems

Music soars in glow of Sunday air,
These days, never a rare affair;
For heaven's door is ever open-
For the sinners, always hopin'!

Softly goes the scented breeze,
That welcomes gradual honeybees;
In the warm stillness of the day,
Honeyed voices and organ convey!

In raptures of...Read More

YOUR LOSS

Jesus didn’t put up any defence's when he got nailed upon the cross
He just said forgive them, for they know not what they do, their loss 

Indiana Shaw . . .  : (
...Read More

I That Because Of Your Attack, Will Never Yield.

No single tear given, nor I gift you an open field
so yes, make merry with your hatred and false face
as you pretend to be a true and great religious man,
a fraud, with...Read More

Mama says
I’m beautiful 
I’m smart
I’m loved
If this is true
Then why don’t you like me, mama?
How can you hurt me?
How can you face it with empty apologies?
“You aren’t skinny like those girls on TV”
“That shirt makes you look fat.”
“Why can’t you...Read More

 
 The Moon
(not made of cheese)
 
Space "cadet", 
what a wonderful word 
that means a student of the stars. 
I gaze up into the heavens, 
knowing God is ever close to me, 
here or there, I am still, 
with...Read More

With John Wayne snarling at me
from the television screen,
I quickly glance at my watch;
five minutes to the end 
of a year’s journey through
what the Psalmist would describe
 as the Valley of Death,
and what Dante would describe
as a descent through hell.

The...Read More

Greeted by the multi-lit display
draped over the hedges
and the railing of our front porch,
the brilliant lit Christmas tree
winks at us, welcoming us home
from the Christmas Eve Mass.

You settle comfortably in your chair
as I walk into the dining room.
Sitting down, I...Read More

While racing on the rocking horse of youth
Going nowhere closer to the sun or faster there 
When swinging pendulums from Democrat to Republican 
Age picks up the pace, in speed it keeps us in our place
Remains the same with nothing...Read More

My leftbrain deductive reason
now sadly sees 16/20,
since 2016 a patriarchal white privileged hierarchy
of orthodox RightWing religious social history,

Where I am either egomaniacally at the self-righteous top
of my competitive win/lose hierarchical game,
or I am a victim,
bottom-feeder
bleeder prey,
mortally morally wounded,
living in the...Read More

Must be the smell of dust
That triggers all this longing
Or is it the hollow musk
That left the heart with sting
Could be the busy streets
That makes me want to go
Onto the open fields
Anywhere near home
Must be the stares that kill
And drunken...Read More

When I goggle at the screen
Of wild black yonder,
O Stars! I feel a blazing avidity 
In my vital limbs

Elan eyes of the angels,
Invested in with thousand finesses,
Show your cloudless sparkle to
the ignorant world

The magnetic star adjacent the Moon
to guide the...Read More

O do not covet all U C
Materialism shun must U
Never a lover of money B
From Jesus' pattern take your Q






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1/20/2020

F F I Series 63 capqu
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Capital quatrain (capqu) our form after Keats "O Grant That Like to Peter I"

Scriptural...Read More

When life happens
I would grab a pen and starts writing
In a piece of torn paper
Or the palm of my hand
I'd feel better then
Consoled and relieved and 
Then again
Life happens
By the qadr of Allah
But this time
I'd make a quick taharah
Grab a...Read More

"It harder for a Rich man to get into heaven,
than it is, for a camel to get through 
to get through the eye of a needle"
with great wealth comes great power

God expects more of the wealthy
in a position of wealth,...Read More

One day Matthew met Jesus
as collecting taxes there he sat
Jesus called him to follow
in an instant obey he did just that

Just as Jesus accepted Matthew
so on a day, I came like Matthew too
receiving God's love from Jesus himself
and followed the...Read More

A prayer answered a fluke it's not
God has come to help he ask for nought
So give your thanks by showing you care
Become the answer to a prayer
  
This whole creation was made to work
Didn't just happen it's not a...Read More

Extricated from chains of religious fanaticism
Here am I, your dear heart*, blissfully exultant
Freely exalting the gracious Redeemer
Whose compassion reached out to your soul
Pardoning you against everlasting condemnation.

Quickened toward great revival from lukewarm fellowship
Here am I, your dear heart, triumphantly rejoicing
Adoring...Read More

 A Catholic "priest" 
          plays his role 
              too well, publicly; 
     ...Read More

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ALL THANKS TO GOD????????

From the little land of death,
When the beat of heart stopped,
And the whole diaspora fell to the whispering of lucifer- a deep sleep.

Not the crow of the cock,
Or the tap...Read More

Absorbed in Guernica’s promise Lucifer glanced at Montmatre

Settled his mind on virgins in heaven as Mona Lisa smiled on

One Last Supper tied to a suicide belt he set out to light the church

Of Our Lady and mounted Chagall’s Blue Horse...Read More

I attended a large gathering and took some time
to observe the great assortment of shoes stacked on the racks
I saw new shoes, pricey shoes, and shoes not worth a dime
and shoes that seemed to have crossed many paths and tracks.

I...Read More

Just Wonderin’

Where are you today Lord?
There are so many children cryin’…
So many mothers tears fallin’
So many babies dyin’

Is today a  heavenly Holiday?
Do Gods need a rest?
Why not just make a miracle
Put suffering to the test?

Why let suffer all the...Read More

A man whose boss forgave a large debt
charged a friend who owed him with a threat:
   “Now pay what you owe
   or to prison you go.”
The boss jailed that man till debt was met....Read More

In God's kingdom who is the greatest?
The little ones, those who are frailest.
   Jesus showed them a child
   who some would revile –
the greatest in heaven are the humblest....Read More

For fine pearls a young merchant was seeking
and found one of high value, exceeding.
   Having sold all he had,
   what he bought made him glad,
as if to heaven he was ascending....Read More

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