Sundays Without Should
...Remember the Sabbath
to keep it holy
free of Shoulds.
A should-free cathedral
of intimate athleticism
romantic
exotic
ecstatic
euphoric
erotic
Exhausts this sabbath light
at long last...
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Categories:
sabbaths, earth day, happiness, health,
Form: Free verse
Pomegranate Kaleidoscope
...PUNICA GRANATUM
So you had a bad day?
Think Pomegranate; the inside universe ...
that inspired grenades, etymology, history, Jewish numerical blunders ... Roman blunders into Carthage again....
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Categories:
sabbaths, appreciation, creation, fruit, jesus,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Taste of Heaven
...Dust, sweep and mop
Run to three or four shops
Polish silver 'til it shines
Did we forget to buy wine
Countdown to Sabbath's begun
So many chores to be done
Ready or not, it's time to b...
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Categories:
sabbaths, jewish, meaningful, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
The Importance of God's Day - Ezekiel 20: 12
...God has since creation declared
that a sabbath day is for our good
for as He rested a day after creation
so by His example, we also should
As God did His work in six days
then showed to take a...
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Categories:
sabbaths, bible, day, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Origin of Christianity
...Origin of Christianity
(If you don't like religious writes don't read on)
It may surprise some that Jesus was born a Jew, his parents Joseph and Mary were Jewish, both from the tribe of Judah, ...
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Categories:
sabbaths, bible, christian, faith, history,
Form: Didactic
Awesome Grace
...I wonder what it means
we are a multicultural species
still capable of waging war,
employing ballistic terrorists,
investing in capitalism's ruthless game
of surgical monopoly
to become patriar...
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Categories:
sabbaths, culture, health, integrity, political,
Form: Political Verse
I Love Number Poems and a Number of Poets Here
...I
Twelve tribes and apostles
for Comprehensiveness
Eleven steps to Heaven
Start with The LOVE Command of Jesus
Who ALONE in the Universe fulfilled The First Ten
II
Ten, let's say it again
The...
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Categories:
sabbaths, allegory, analogy, bible, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Light and Dark Markets
...The primary political and economic metaphor for human life on Earth,
at least here in these disuniting States,
is "market,"
with a consumer and a producer face;
robust, healthy, cooperatively sel...
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Categories:
sabbaths, earth, health, light, nature,
Form: Political Verse
Speed of Enlightenment
...Routine rituals of everyday sacred Sabbaths,
beginning in hibernating Advent
of dawn's diurnal enlightenment Season,
becoming diastatic climax rhythms of interdependence
through Summer's noonday ...
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Categories:
sabbaths, birth, culture, health, light,
Form: Political Verse
Sabbath Morning Harvest
...Who am I today?
as I rise out to play
at being again
this ego I entertained yesterday
with passion plays
creation stories
epic one-day opera
folding into Northern Autumn yet again unfolding.
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Categories:
sabbaths, culture, earth, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Oceanic Sabbath
...We have no sabbath sense
deep enough
wet enough
searching baptismally enough
for Earth's oceanic atmosphere.
Sabbath is for monotheistic cities
and castled lands
we anthro-supremacist share...
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Categories:
sabbaths, addiction, earth, health, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Of Wars and Peace Everywhere
...OF WARS AND PEACE EVERYWHERE
Around the world—evil raging wars continue to be steadfastly fought
In the name of lasting peace;
The military industrial complexes have found the puppets they’ve so...
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Categories:
sabbaths, analogy, imagery, life, metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Of Wars and Peace Everywhere
...Around the world—evil, raging wars continue to be steadfastly
Fought in the name
Of lasting peace;
The military industrial complexes have found the puppets
They’ve sought
In the ruling
West ...
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Categories:
sabbaths, allegory, analogy, corruption, grief,
Form: Sonnet
Again, the Sabbath
...Wicked winds in the air
as the year
begins to draw to a close
The papers are full of murder
and mayhem
Yet we know well how to take
refuge
Again. the Sabbath
ar...
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Categories:
sabbaths, jewish,
Form: Blank verse
Cross Streets
...the heart
is
celestial
maneuvers
through galaxies,
sabbaths,
and jubilees
attributes
mysterious
four caverns
thump with
four seasons
rhythm echos an
eight count
He stands
on top of a hill
between...
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Categories:
sabbaths, life, space,
Form: Free verse
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