Short Commission Poems

personal * pastoral** pooled***

*John 20:21
**John 21:7 etc
***Mathew 28:20 etc...

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Noah had a mission
	Build an ark on commission
		Fill it full of animal pairs
			To square away human affairs


01/03/2021...

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Eugene Delacroix vigorous in style
straight to the point,without guile
He loved lush reds& coppery green
set-piece commission were  surely his scene...

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Dutch Rachel Ruysch tableau
a painter with 10 kids or so
So prodigious *over six decades
royal commission she obeyed


*https://www.wikiart.org/en/rachel-ruysch...

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Santa knew he had a special mission
To make sure Putin's out of commission
With his sleigh of dynamite
Disguised as presents tonight
Down Putin's chimney upon ignition...

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Mosquito with a bloody mission

Taking what's mine without permission 

      Loss of blood and a bump
      Itchy scratch with a lump

  Donation of blood, no commission...

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Valley's fine productive mission.
Native paintings, no commission.
They survive without attrition.
Field hands, herdsmen.
Place of peace and good nutrition.
Goats and sheep-pen....

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Valley's fine productive mission.
Native paintings, no commission.
They survive without attrition.
Field hands, herdsmen.
Place of peace and good nutrition.
Goats and sheep-pen....

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Our Conviction Trinity Sunday

From God, we are given a commission,
We always receive with apprehension;
Do go His way,
Night and day;
His plans must be part of our conviction.

Jim Horn...

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My granddaughter walks dogs for a living
So you'd think she'd be in control, that's a given
Was walking five at one time
A fight broke out, got intertwined
Was bitten causing blood putting her out of commission...

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"The light of the world.” 

Those who carry out the Great Commission 
Are 'oft mistaken in their hopeful persuasion 
That truth once spoken will ignite faith outright.
Yet, ‘tis the unlit candle must come to the light.

Copyright 2021 Paul Thomson...

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A Disciple puts'
           His 
Attributes' into action
     And his things'
Into a power of commission'
       But, a
Missing disciple
    A plain man
Of God persistently
Turn's to a life of omission
      And turn things' too
           And FRO

             GF...

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Looking back, 
my mistakes,
if such they were,
were of omission 
rather than commission.
My caution
and lack of nerve
leaving me
with naught but
a basket full of
might have beens.

Which is why
I must now, 
seize this day
with you.

MMII revised MMXIV...

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The want of profanity 
And the sheer dearth of warmth
Has vowed  for a whole eternity
That it shall commission rust and moth
To chew away in a colossal calamity
All the cordial bonds between man and man,
For he  has employed both knife and gun
In aid of his doom!...

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Submission
Please grant me my submission,
    for my great commission,
        of crimes in uncertain times.

I think my dear we can work it out,
  if you will think about,
      the fact I no longer act the lout.
love and kisses BG © Now, Terence Cummings Smith...

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The power of the written word
  the spoken word supreme

Ink to then commission
  what only breath can glean

Soldiers line up back to back
  letters ranked and filed

The command to march just given once
  —its war chant loud and wild

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)...

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The Super-hero swings his sword
Down clang, clang, clang,
It rang, rang, rang,
Went bang, bang, bang
On his foeman’s thick, thick skull.

The publishers commission more
Such tales, tales, tales,
(More sales, sales, sales!)
And males, males, males
Will imagine they’re Conan or Kull....

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The Super-hero swings his sword
Down clang, clang, clang,
It rang, rang, rang,
Went bang, bang, bang
On his foeman’s thick, thick skull.

The publishers commission more
Such tales, tales, tales,
(More sales, sales, sales!)
And males, males, males
Will imagine they’re Conan or Kull....

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The Super-hero swings his sword
Down clang, clang, clang,
It rang, rang, rang,
Went bang, bang, bang
On his foeman’s thick, thick skull.

The publishers commission more
Such tales, tales, tales,
(More sales, sales, sales!)
And males, males, males
Will imagine they’re Conan or Kull....

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A baby boomer, late bloomer, at times a doom and gloom er.
Eats blueberries, says Hail Mary's, believes in leprechauns and fairies.
Works on commission, has good nutrition, too impatient to ever go fishing.
Sings in C, off key but always very happily.
Never a stoic, brave and heroic. Lately feeling mesozoic....

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Santa Claus departs with his wife in fear
Not occasionally, but every year,
That he’ll slip and fall
And breaking his jaw,
Put himself out of commission, Oh dear! 

Written November 27, 2022
Submitted to "Holiday Limerick" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Tania Kitchin
10/10/5/5/10 by HMS...

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A disciple put's 
       His attributes'
Into action and
    His thing's
Into a power 
          - Of -
      Commission
           But, 
A missing disciple,
A plain man before God,
Persistently turn's to a life
                  Of omission
       And turn's things'
            To and fro

                GF...

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The headline news this morning read
Ben's tolling drones will be shut down
while workers clean the cogs in his head
He might even get turned upside down

Old Ben will be out of ringing commission
for four years there will be peace and quiet
No gongs will be ringing in noisy emission
Ben's being put on a needed silence diet...

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The Harlequins of the night
languish their last aura 
Lilly eyed clowns await
commissioners bleed into tweed
Rivillers  errantly play drums
Damsels failing in their appeal
Adventurers sent back
Running on empty
the night people slide in between

Those old sinners head for the valleys
backing their wasted years 
No prayers are said, just the orbital of silence...

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In every direction
It waits without question
Unbound by a vision
When you make a decision
Without your compliance
Its like math without science
Abundant precision
But no task to commission
What may seem divisive
Can reveal whats decisive
And don't expect an illusion
To reject your conclusion
So before you mistake it
Be prepared to forsake it
Listen to all of the voices
That remain unchose choices...

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