MOST REVEREND ARCH BISHOP CARDINAL JEROME LISTEKI
OTETS THE MANY DAYS AND NIGHT YOU LENT ME YOUR
DIVINE EAR THROUGH PRAYER DURING HARDSHIP TIMES
AND ILLNESS RAISING MY GRANDDAUGHTER KEEPING HER
SAFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN WISCONSIN OUR LADY OF
MOUNT CARMEL ST THERESA SAINT JAMES SAINT MARKS
HOLY ROSARY SINGING IN THE CHIOR ALL THOSE
YEARS GOOD STEWARDSHIP VOLUNTEERING PROTECTING
SAFE
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Categories:
reverend, allah,
Form: Villanelle
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 revered Martin Luther King Junior
honored as benevolent demigod figure
to the oppressed African American population
without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination April fourth
ninety sixty eight at the hands
of a crazed
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Categories:
reverend, abuse, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Reverend Eugene Williams
When my uncle married your daughter in 1975, you became his father-in-law.
Your daughter gave birth in 1979 and that was when you became a grandpa.
You lived long enough to see your great-great-grandchild, that's a privilege that many don't receive.
You raised a family and you were a preacher, those were great things that you were able
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Categories:
reverend, birthday, death, grandfather,
Form: Rhyme
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 oppressed African American population
without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination April fourth
ninety sixty eight at the hands
of a crazed gunman (James Earl Ray),
whereby all the King's men
and all the
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Categories:
reverend, america, anniversary, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Second Part
(at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy
of sharecropper grandparents
whose objection to racial segregation
based on an affront to the will of God,
whereby the young whip smart precocious lad,
(whose impact we now memorialize)
showed his true colorful promise
when a young student at
Liberal Crozer Theological Seminary
in Chester, Pennsylvania
where the yet uncrowned
eminent king came under the
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Categories:
reverend, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Reverend Eyes
the
moon
have reverend eyes
that
take me back
through
the
Perrie planes
where the wild winds blow
back and forth
through
the
tall green switchgrass
with
a white painted
wooden church
planted firmly in the ground
and
with
her
narrow steeple
pointed up
towards
the
Kingdom of God
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Categories:
reverend, image, imagery, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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 oppressed African American population
without whose bold risks
and subsequent brutal assassination April fourth
ninety sixty eight at the hands
of a crazed gunman (James Earl Ray),
whereby all the King's men
and all the King's
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Categories:
reverend, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior Second Part
planting the seeds of ardent activism
that gave rise to
The Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC),
an initial platform
allowing, enabling and providing acclaim
hoisted up by petard
invariably only heightened
(his) posthumous status
as thee most articulate orator
spelling binding the listeners
with his metaphors about his emphatic march
to a promised land where all
men/women could be brothers/sisters
and no person will be judged
by the color of
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Categories:
reverend, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
The Reverend Listens
I spoke with Reverend Laura today.
She listened curiously
more than merely patiently,
actively
more than barely politely,
as I noticed her questions
in this sacred space
of co-empathic listening,
dialogue,
discussion,
discernment
Of where we are heading
and behinding,
progressing
and healing,
to speak with other Reverends
and Doctors
and Nurses
and Nurses Aides
and Home CareGivers,
and Mediators
and Healthy Communication System Facilitators,
and Parents
and Cooperative Healers
and Peer Ministers,
and Teachers
and Lay Leaders
and Religious Educators
and impassioned
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Categories:
reverend, community, gospel, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Reverend Dr Margret a O Neill Developmental Minister
Reverend Dr. Margret A. O'Neall Developmental Minister
Unitarian Universalist Church
situated in Cherry Hill, New Jersey,
whereat every Sunday morning, I
Matthew Scott Harris) blessedly zoom
virtually attend congregation
(recent attendee) experience
fellowship, albeit an outlier,
these two score plus one year out the womb,
glad mine eldest sister (Amelie) informed
her only brother (me) opportunity tomb
make living social occasion linkedin,
(albeit) remote from Schwenksville,
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Categories:
reverend, angel, appreciation, family, giving,
Form: Free verse
God Did Not Send the Corona Virus As Punishment
Corona Pandemic is Not’s God’s Punishment
Amid the coronavirus pandemic,
President Trump
Attended virtual Easter church services
I’ve had talks with the pastors,
We need to get back
to church so badly.”
Rev Jeffries is a great guy
I’m going to be watching on a laptop.”
Rev Jeffries said
The 9/11 attacks were God’s punishment
on
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Categories:
reverend, america, angst, anxiety, god,
Form: Free verse
The Reverend Billy Graham
Alas, we on earth are left to mourn,
The passing of The Reverend Billy Graham.
Yet, there is great rejoicing in Heaven this day,
As God with his angels embraced His beloved lamb!
He faithfully preached The Good News to all creation,
Following The Great Commission proclaimed by Him.
When he reached out to touch the face of Christ,
He said, "Welcome,
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Categories:
reverend, death,
Form: Blank verse
Reverend Moolah Green
When the moon and sun eclipse
That's when he wakes from the abyss
Then slips into black leather gloves
To hunt the neck of those he does not love
The ones who claim that it's all fake
Shall from this darkness never wake and
them that scream one final scream
Should never have doubted the existence of
The Reverend Moolah Green
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Categories:
reverend, murder, religious,
Form: I do not know?
Reverend Billythekidster, Animal Last Rights Minister
I let everyone know in my immediate vicinity,
that if you have a pet, any
whereupon euthanasia has become a necessity,
because your pet is suffering needlessly
from a condition that is destined to end terminally,
but you cannot bring yourself to undergo this most difficult deed,
Please Feel Comfortable And Free To Call On Me,
and I will bring your beloved
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Categories:
reverend, death, me, pets,
Form: Rhyme
The Right Reverend Dr King
Five decades have made his preaching prophetic, didactic
Fresh from College, he was invited to go on teaching, O Professor King!
Chiseled his own Gettysburg address, to heal divided church and State:
We honor your family that overcame threats, bombs, the Bureau's wiretapping!
Yes, you were snatched away from us in your prime
Like a few other great Americans,
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Categories:
reverend, anniversary, black african american,
Form: Quatrain
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