Short Absolution Poems

polishing of golden calf

with ebony hair
— wipes Christ’s feet with tears

1/26/2018...

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Born feline and left forever free to run;
Try but they’ll never be domesticated;
Feral life filled with unequivocal absolution....

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In confessionals of doubt
he chased absolution
The devil unmasked
—his penance forsworn  

(Washington Chapel: November, 2021)...

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A priest hears confessions Q.T.
And grants absolution for free
Just hearing a cop
In a doughnut shop
Scares the "Be-Jesus" out of me!...

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atop dust-covered clapboard
hanging sheets washed virgin white
wind-borne absolution encircled
she sang life's aria

distant sailor smiled


Written: 26 December 2020...

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What I have criticized in others
returns in me.
That which I despise
I am and have been.
When I stand for judgment
I ask absolution
for my humanity and mercy
for my love....

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It dims the hope.
Eying peaks of flame.
Absolution ?

Seeking moksha ?
Do not become what
you dreamed.

Blue sky and moon,
where the passion was.
Coming and going.


Satish Verma...

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Forgiveness,
Compassionate absolution,
Restores former rewards.
Pure joyful, spiritual, refinement—
Mercy

© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
February 22, 2010
Poetic form: Cinquain...

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Leftover dreams 
aimless look for resolution;
Leftover dreams 
flicker with technicolor streams;
Salvation perhaps destruction,
they beg now for absolution;
Leftover dreams....

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Heavenly music

Angels' symphony of love

Man's absolution!*







 © Demetrios Trifiatis
      20 June 2018


*Inspired by Probir's Gupta poem: Angels in The Rain...

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All encompassing
Disease intent on
Destroying our family,
It slowly
Created a chasm
Too large to amend;
Irreparable
On all accounts,
Never finding complete absolution

7/27/15...

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Absolution and Conclusion

Of sins are remission and an absolution;
What we came up with was a conclusion;
We realize, 
God defies;
God's Holy Spirit, we need a transfusion.

Jim Horn...

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Pain and Rain

On a wet, spring day
Branches drip loneliness.
Sunbeams stream gentleness
Pain and rain stain the soul.
Distance separates.
Ablutions wash winter's grime.
Absolution is near....

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My thoughts are illusions.
A life of delusion.
Searching for absolution
But having no resolution.

Despite being human
I gave no contribution.
I await my execution
In this morbid institution....

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The snow laden sky hangs heavy,
as if bowing under a burden
of unconfessed sins
it cannot discharge.

Pregnant clouds 
drag their swollen bellies
over fallow fields
that lie waiting for absolution....

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My bones will not whiten in the sun,
they will blacken with your heart.
I take new form,
reborn.

Your heart beats in reverse,
this
list
is
endless.

You speak of sanctuary,
as if it were yours to give....

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Oh, Those New Years Resolutions!
Now, must call a Priest and ask for Absolution!

As If perfection, I could ever in a year achieve!
Will be saying “Bless me Father,” on humble knees!


                  12/9/2022...

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Let’s
admit
that it’s true
we can deny
but it goes nowhere
and leads us back to truth
typos are a part of life
those misspelled words by accident
hound and haunt us to our dying days
we only hope to find absolution...

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The intrinsic beauty
  of the present moment

Exploding our consciousness
  rewriting the hymn

Outracing the words
  to an epiphany of reflection

Outpacing all time
  —absolution within

(Villanova Pennsylvania: June, 2016)...

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In My final resolution
           I must...
      First,
Go to meet God
         Thus,
Perhaps'....
  He is ready to
      Receive
Me in all
Of My inequities'
That which I do present

            Poet Author
            Gary Fields...

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you see every flaw
each of my pained transgressions
you are still with me

through life's displeasure
your indifference breaks me
absolution heals

imperfect union
overlook the little things
we try to survive


08/20/16...

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Take "me" away,,
from truths..) un-form me"
unseen to halogise with...
May my aptness be swirled
and re-involved prescience
emerge now as resolutions to
eternal resolve..Are become..!


copyright Joe Maverick 2012
in support of Brian Strands abstract me competition...

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Ignore those resolutions
You know you won't keep.
So, here's your solution
Eat more if you please.
Forget about profusion
Split seam in the jeans.
Absolution or Resolution
Have a Great Twenty-Three.

Thank You All my Souper Friends
 See you then around the Bend....

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Hanging by the skin of my teeth,
I am ready to quietly lie beneath
and confess to all my sins and lies,
Make amends ere I close my eyes;
Pray that my soul may rest in peace
where sorrows and shadows cease!


Randomling contest by Mary Oliver Rotman...

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Watching the clouds travel by,
fast moving, each one a soul
I name.  There's work to be done
up there, sweeping the sky clear
of sorrow, leaving unblemished
blue to lighten the load we carry.
They have been unburdened 
from theirs, still care for the 
absolution of the earthly....

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