Short Apse Poems

A pushy christian

lectured me to go to church

I said  Kiss My Apse...

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defrocked cardinals
driven from the hallowed apse
heresy of owls


John G. Lawless
©7/26/2018...

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M-ake
A-ll
Y-our

A-ctions
N-eed
N.-othing

B-ut
E-thical
R-easons
N-egating
A-ny
L-apse

Topic: Birthday of May Ann Bernal (May 9) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Cardinals



I saw the cardinals today
Clad in ceremonial crimson red
Tiara tufts above their heads.

Silken sheen on satin capes,
Looking down from lofty perch
Of nest in apse of nearby church....

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B-eautiful
E-yes
V-aliantly
E-vade
R-espiratory
L-apse
Y-ielding

J-oy
U-nder
L-ovely
L-ung's
A-dvanced
R-eadiness

Topic: Birthday of Beverly M. Jullar (April 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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let me take you to that place again,
where only two may dare to tread
above the plane of mere content
beneath the apse of hopes

follow, lead, walk hand in hand
come take that leap with me
across the bounds of what has been
to what waits there to be found...

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Oddly,
blue all day. 

The sun dragged like blotting brush
across the apse of Sky; dawn apsis
to dusk apsis -
not leaving ink but life.
Not leaving marks but hues.

Blue blue blue blue blues. 
The undying beauty, the 
amaranthine found now at death of blue...
the reds. The brief bold reds. Death hue. 

Life within. 
Death without....

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L-earn from lapse in life, 
E-arly eleventh of February; 
A-dmitting your own mistake 
H-as caused no shame to your dignity. 

B-egin to learn from lapse, 
E-very blunder is a lesson; 
T-hink positive and be optimistic 
A-bout failure neath the beacon. 
N-ever turn a deaf ear, 
G-et up from your collapse; 
H-ope, faith, and love will teach, 
O-nce you learn from 
L-apse....

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