Sabbaths Poems

Premium MemberSundays 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


Premium MemberA 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberOrigin 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


Premium MemberAwesome 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

Premium MemberLight 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

Premium MemberSpeed 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

Premium MemberSabbath 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

Premium MemberOceanic 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

Premium MemberOf 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

Premium MemberOf 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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