Short Chapter And Verse Poems

When Judy plays Doctor & Nurse
She always quotes chapter and verse
Then whacks off a tad
(The Rabbi's her dad)
And that's how young boys learn to curse...

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A man of cloth spent hours reading the Bible
of the book's thoughts he was minus a rival.
He knew chapter and verse,
was never heard to curse.
Alas, boredom defrocked his survival....

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Follow me
And ill pen you a tale
Around my mind
Chapter and verse
And you won't have to think
You can just ponder 
Where my thoughts are at
And the keys I tap
Make any sense 
Or are just innate nonsense 
Wrote by a fool
Who uses poetry as a tool
To fill the void
My restless mind
Can not ignore...

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You are a myth,
and every day
your father and I write
your mythology.

Chapter and verse it
goes on and on.
Why not? You're not real.
But in our hearts,
and hopes, and dreams.

You're a legend - don't laugh.
The lady in the lake.
Aphrodite.
The sweetest sound
who called the young sailors.

the end...

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Donald Trump tweets, "Its all a big hoax!
Dreamed up by Democrat 'Loser' folks!"
The GOP vow,
"We believe you now!"
Morticians enjoy insider jokes!

The doctor said to expect the worse
The vicar quoted chapter and verse
"Oh, no!"  said the wife
"You must save his life
Because he's the man who drives the hearse!"...

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The places I’ve been
all part of me now,
roadmaps of intention
tracking landscapes endowed

The history I’ve written
covers chapter and verse,
of promises made
and commitments diverse

The road ever widens
my scope narrows down,
the past out of focus
leaving town after town

Tomorrow unbeckoned
I search for today,
the future unreckoned
—the moment in play

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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What The World Needs Is Jesus
What the world needs is Jesus,

In trying times like these,

He's the answer to our problems,

For in Him there's peace.


There's also joy and righteousness,

That is in the Holy Ghost,

It says so in the Bible,

In book, chapter, and verse.


We need to have the Bible,

Read and taught in our hearing,

And after which obey God's word,

Until His second coming.

Vivian L. Shaw...

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Don't be mistook
Every face is a book
That tells of a story
The closer you look

Around the eyes
You can read every line
The laughter and heartbreak
Wrote out over time

A crease in the edge
At the turn of the lips
Dog-eared smile or frown
To later be read

It's all there of course
In chapter and verse
As the title suggests
From our best to our worst

All in the look
Not always understood
Telling a story
As every face is a book...

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Chasing chaos in ego's flight
 Finding only stress and strife
 With no peace of mind in sight
 Cluttered thoughts, confusion is rife

 Seeking answers that can't be found
 Asking wrong questions all the time
 Truth is blurring all around
 Lost is its meaning sublime

 Grasping at wonders from the sky
 Disconnected from chapter and verse
 Flawed notions have wings to fly
 And things seem to be getting worse
                           ---
 11-7-18...

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A man in an HOV lane
Was driving in desert terrain.
A trooper passed by
And he asked the man why
When the HOV sign was so plain.

For restrictions require that two
Must be in the car subject to view
But the driver just said
Of his passenger, dead,
“I assumed that he counted. Who knew?”

See, the man drove an occupied hearse
Yet the rules, listing chapter and verse,
Don’t say occupants must
Not have bitten the dust,
Though a corpse at the wheel would be worse!

written 7/3/19...

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