Short Cleric Poems

Hemispheric Ideas

He was a cleric
With ideas hemispheric;
All were world renown.

Jim Horn...

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English cleric one John Donne
oneday his poetics had just begun
A master of verse so erotic
so divine & metaphysique...

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A cleric in the Ku Klux Klan
Claims "White" must be God's "Chosen" man
But he prays with a frown
Since Jesus was brown
And the clay that made Adam was tan!...

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Totally Inept

Only those who are totally inept,
Failure never willing to accept,
And if hysteric,
Must be cleric,
Revealing secrets once well kept.

Jim Horn...

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There was a pastor named Caste
Whose habit of swearing was vast.
Some said his firing was near
But Caste cited nothing to fear
“You see, I repent too _____ fast.”...

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There was an old sailor who liked to swear.
And his rot-gut rum he was happy to share.
A cleric aimed to make him repent
But saw the sailor as wholly content.
Now the two are buddies bereft of a prayer....

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At times
I sense handfuls of warmth…
draw to face
deeply inhaling light
knowing supply infinite
and my right to breathe
all of eternity-
If I were a cleric
I might say, "It is God evident!"
But simply a poet
pleasantly finding myself
lost for lines
I transcend words
and revel in silence…....

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Insulting As it can be
New contest acRostic
To demean an arChbishop
Our arcHbishop is our spiritual 
Leader same as a raBbi or an
Eastern clerIc
Remove this conteSt
And don't judge How catholics worship
Never judge Other faiths
Tolerance Please

Archbishop Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Julia Ward
2/7/20...

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Listen to poem:

Treasures Midden
David J Walker
 
It is in the midden 
The story hidden 
In the heap 
 
The truth entwined 
With dung and grime
To keep
 
As secrets from the 
Eyes less bold
 
Where orates swear 
To the foulest air from
Truth in scripted told
 
The dung heap 
Is where the 
Cleric keeps
His gold...

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On yonder strand
In bridled land
A motley band
With vigor fanned
Across hill, lowland
With self righteous brand
Seeking brigand contraband
From each licentious hand
To forthrightly remand
Every highway spanned
Tolls, tribute to demand
Each pilfering cleric did reprimand
Then every bloated collection was 
panned
Every royal vestige scanned
Gratuitous coffers to expand...

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Druid
                                            Prophetic Intelligent
                                Teaching Philosophizing Envisioning
                                    Priest Cleric Amateur Dabbler
                                    Escaping Studying Performing
                                             Average Ordinary
                                                    Layman...

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I cannot help wondering about Vivaldi.
Antonio was a priest they say,
a cleric of the cloth.
I can’t help surmising
when as a young man
at the Ospedale della Pieta,
(a home for foundlings
and the training of musically inclined
female wards).
I wonder about all that fiddle playing
with an orchestra of young ladies
and him, the red-headed priest
with all that passion and élan.
wanting to express himself
in so many ways
with a strong and vibrant bow
and all those ladies....

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