Short Clerical Poems

Short Clerical Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Clerical by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Clerical by length and keyword.


Premium Member Clerical Celibacy

oh god is this choice 
                       ~
      taking a huge leap of faith 
              only to abstain 


By
David Kavanagh
Form: Senryu


A Great Friend

It's the morning dew
              a tender friend...
             In the clerical dawns
             or hell, always
             cries with me...

Morning Dew

It's the morning dew
              a significant friend...
             in the clerical dawns
             or infernal, always
             cries with me...
Form: Epigram

Premium Member Clerical Error

Patrick, an old country Pastor
Who's parish was getting hard to master
He performed christenings galore.
Last month forty-four.
He wished the women ran faster.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member John Donne with typo edit

John Donne, English poet innovator and scholar
finished life wearing a clerical collar.
Most famous for sermons and love poetry, 
a wife and twelve children also had he.
Form: Clerihew


Evidently Error

Evidently Error

Evidently Error ended up being clerical;
No one laughed or became hysterical;
More notes took;
Wrote a book;
Thoughts were horizontal and vertical.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Limerick

Haiku maxim for everyday life

HAIKU MAXIMS FOR EVERYDAY OFFICE AND FIELD WORKS

Clerical errors
Must be on the part of clerk
Unless you’re the boss 

Hastiness leads to
Unproductiveness of work
Thus, leads to disgrace

Never say “I can’t”
For doing it is your call
Thoughtless man says it
Form: Haiku

Justice of the Peace

I return parted clerical error to a hall
In justice no frame
Nor corrective temp
Time as half 
The titled days conveigning 
That's my Monday morning appearance 
This shall never be spoken freely


A civil right to act
Fine liberty
Next date, poor
Still due process 
In accurate measure of published

Writing

— Untitled —

Defining, refining, and timing the rhyming
And hours of thought to perfect the fine line-ing

Clerical, lyrical, sometimes, a miracle
To get a line right could feel a bit spiritual 

Hoping, not doping, and a lot oh “oh nope-ing!”
But when you are through, there will be no more moping 

~J.D. Cromwell
fun
Form:

The Sermon

The Stumble and Rise Poetry Contest
Back in my military days I was at chapel one Sunday morning and the Chaplain was really getting into his sermon, true story.

THE SERMON

The preacher preached with such passion, 
his words he just didn't ration, 
he exclaimed that's no s***,
upon realizing it, 
recovered in clerical fashion!
Form: Limerick

Premium Member E

Sunny is the day for the miracle
History's type set of it just clerical
The current lack of faith hysterical
My bonds with love given are symmetrical
May Grace's light shine even and identical
From the Atheist to Evangelical
Accepted were faithless and pontifical
For the Risen cared not, nor was asymmetrical
The life given for all, forever spherical
Form: Monorhyme

As In the Requisition the Proceedings

Directly Drafting Article in Daylight 


As a result, neither side is willing to give an inch in the standoff, now the fifth-longest shutdown in the country's history

A single edit and we exist.

Clerical pennies.

Regression lines the mold 

First articulate article in origin of Congress 
To congressional act
Currency becomes framers opening

You first?

Summer

You'll regret this summer
As children's bodies hang from branches
Childkill meets all too popular now
Teenage girls kiss their friends and say
I'm going to die/hell now
The mincers are out in clubs
And hell on earth
Seems the clerical assumation
Last I heard they're organising
Murder squads to kill worthless people
Like me.
Come on over sometime.
This is England now.

An Unknown Alone

He works alone
in cavernous stockrooms,
or as a night watchman
guarding unwanted things.
He is never behind the counter.

He is the man
who has the social skills
to fill racks.
Occasionally he is found
as a clerical error,
still at work in a defunct depot
long since depleted
of function.

A yellowing Rolodex
may yet yield a contact number
like a mythical footprint.
Someone may need to call him,
but what shall we call him?

Sasquatch

He works alone
in cavernous stockrooms,
or as a night watchman
guarding unwanted things.
He is never behind the counter.

He is the man
who has the social skills
to fill racks.
Occasionally he is found
as a clerical error,
still at work in a defunct depot
long since depleted
of function.

A yellowing Rolodex
may yet yield a contact number
like a mythical footprint.
Someone may need to call him,
but what shall we call him?

Christ's Body For Sale

The Body of Christ has been mutilated,
Placed on scale balances for bidders, 
His blood used yet still in profanity-
Drunk by freemasons and the guilty.

The devil has seized it, in it he bathes and laughs!
Why not? why not?
Our Holy Lord has been desecrated
By clerical cupidity and nominal indiferences.

Look ahead son, look over there!
beneath that roof where congregates
menfolk and clerics
The Body of Christ 
is being weighed for the buyers.
© NGT NGT  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Ballade

Quacksalver

The quacksalver’s quicksilver cure--
slathering a salt salve or quaffing mercury--
might sound like quatsch, a bad wine
of qually quality, but remember a time
when faith aligned with alchemy,
before the querical became the enemy 
of the clerical, the quisquous nature
of faith mirrored that viscous commodity;
when quiddities were not quisby oddities
and to quop and quob before mysteries
did not portend holy querimony
but recognition of the quintessence divine.
© Ben Throne  Create an image from this poem.

Dreaming of Emily Dickinson

What a dream
it was that done
in silk or organdy
as light as the wind ...
What a shower of poetry
had you to rain,
when you inebriated
in clerical verses ...
when you painted the
soul of the pages in
white and pallor
 borrowed from the moon...?
Why didn't you come in
in my world with
the ethereal clothing that
I gave you ...?
Not linen or voile,
but dream silk ...
didn't you realize
who loved you?
oh! I still love you
girl ... how do you
I still love ...!

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