Short Idolatry Poems

Faith often hides
an idolatry within

Statutory mandate
—harbinger of sin

(The New Room: November, 2020)...

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Tony's doting on
deals at Dollar Tree teetered
on idolatry.


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i picked a stray
stone and chiseled myself a
god; then I worshiped



~Contest: Stones
~Sponsor: Anthony Biaanco....

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Honesty is always the best policy
Too bad our leaders are sub par, biologically
It's in their genes
You know what I mean
A figment of their distorted minds idolatry...

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Honesty is always the best policy
Too bad our leaders are sub par, biologically
It's in their genes
You know what I mean
A figment of their distorted minds idolatry...

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Honesty is always the very best policy
Too bad our leaders are sub par, biologically
It's in their genes
You know what I mean
A figment of their distorted minds idolatry...

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Bedroom barriers

Radiate

Vintage idolatry


Pining protoplasms

Levitate

Wizardry


Nimble fusion peaks

Passion howls

Velvet vanity



In unison we touch

Multilateral we twine

A fluorescent collage

Lasers...

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Truth by lip service and rote

Nailed to a cross

Judgment by history; cut short

To appease the blaggard and bullies of faith

Nailed to idolatry

The future by judgment; cut short

To appease the Judas heart...

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An Aryan Christ under glass
Is beaming his charity down
As Emma thinks "This too shall pass.",
Regarding the heart of her frown.

Beside Him a handsome young man
Smiles on the same hallowed wall
The same idolatrous plan
Emma believes to be all.--

Pictures on a wall....

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She loves me? – She loves me not?
The petals pay – ripped from their stems -
tossed aside in trembling despair.
Innocents – deemed soothsayers – 
victims of love’s inquisition
sacrificed on the godless altar
of insecurity’s insouciant idolatry.


John G. Lawless
©4/22/2018...

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Too much fanaticism is idolatry 
It blurs the eyes like bigotry 
Worship not a flesh and bone 
For, one true God is just alone 

Don't give more of your attention 
To an idol with human complexion 
Watching your idol from dawn to dawn 
Makes you like a puppet and clown 

August 28, 2023...

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Whisper
When the world shouts
With exaggeration
Desperate for validation
Falsehoods infused in a sham of sound
Quiet the clamoring lies of
Idolatry - when you
Speak truth to me
Whisper

4/22/23


Writing Challenge - W Words
Sponsor: Constance La France

the syllable count was verified on howmanysyllables.com...

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Lust is like the salt of the sea. 
The artificial Ambrosia or Siren's fomented Mead.
Augmenting thirst, the more you drink. 
Forgetting the drink came first. Then came a thirst.
To be unshackled to idols in idle mutiny.
Before the fermentation of idolatry. Figureheads, 
flotsam and shipwrecks on the seven stormy seas....

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God be praised for His splendid honor
Shining by His truth of great majesty 
Affirming His holiness* showing righteous terror
Against evils of idolatry and iniquity
Amidst His sovereign plan throughout eternity. 

*Psalm 47:8 God reigneth… God sitteth upon the throne of his holiness.

March 21, 2019...

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Good news
Bad news
Radical views
Killed the Jews

Bigotry
Idolatry
Segregation
Divided a nation

Love
Passion
Legitimacy
Our Intimacy

New age
Rage
Angry hearts
Hatred starts

Respect?
Neglect
Little time
Working the grind

War torn
Forlorn
Distant land
Helping hand

Resist
Insist
Fight
Become a light...

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Reborn am I, grieve not.
As comes the dawn reborn.

Through idolatry, dichotomy, solution.
Reborn am I, grieve not.

Through afterbirth adorned,
womb of wonder formed.

Arise, alive, reborn through chaos and confusion.
Arise, alive, to a new and bold conclusion!

A clarity of love and ablution.
Reborn are we through Christ’s absolution....

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International faith
Identical for your thought 
Idolatry rejected
 
Surrender to God
Submit high morality
Safety to your heart

Light in the darkness
Largess liberality 
Last justice lawful 

All peoples message
Ably ablution to pray 
A generous soul 
  
Magnify all you
Mainly to balance your soul
Maintain your spirit

Acrostic Senryu's....

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And again surfaced that smirk
Glinting ever so alluringly in my wake
Kindling an effigy of suspense



Amidst the faces that evening
With the minutes I dissolved
As classic fairness advanced
Forsaken was I to saturate within carnality



Could such a reason exist
For such monumental idolatry?
Could such possibilities exist
For the sake of emasculating warriors?...

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DUST LOVE

Awake at once and dismissing affection 
Your adulation, my crush-delight 
Idolatry, inclination, unfettered rapture 
I’m wild for worship 
Your light lashes move me, pull me in 
Anticipation, key 
Knots of wills and kiss me please 
Omission of echoes, inhale the ocean breeze 
Masked in bliss laced with vicious 
Black steel with harsh hot thrills and the 
Two barstools, waiting idly by...

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Countless millions have
Only just enough to eat
Not all this
Selfish waste of
Precious resources and an
Idolatry of
Consumer goods
Uneeded for life,
On so-called time saving
Utliity.
Somehow, we've lost a

Conscious awareness
Of our true
Nature preferring to
Splurge into some imagined
Utopia through
Materialism leaving an
Ecological disaster from our
Rapacious
Spending to our grandchildren....

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Lithospherical clunking, zest of our navel

Tumultuous melt, fizz ridden obliquitous

Inestimably stemming, trunking, branching

Exaspergrasping for equichosis,  ecliptic apotheosis

We shimmer and charade as though dwelt in strobe

Inscribing the vitroglyph, micro slinks to macro

Then back again

I sit lotus, perfecting the interlocking polygonoids of this scape

I resonate and learn over a new sheaf

A Palm Map....

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Forget the idolatry-
mirage-making lucid hallucinogen 
Leaving a head ache quaked dust bin

Where fertile veins go
Be called in the presence of

To stand back and react
Is a twisted affair indeed

Language
Is to voice
Is to body breathing/mind dreaming

A soul on its path
To reach its hidden mission

The world show
Recedes and fades
Like shadows in the woods

Life is for the daring 
Deep sea diver
Blazoned with faith to continue on...

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You, like idolatry
clean and holy
me, like mud holding
heavy footfall, reluctant
to let go
You, like the optimistic
flame of an iron
lantern, radiating
me, like the pallid moth
trapped inside, embracing
the flame to get
it over with.
You, with footsteps
fading from my ears
as you recede into
the concrete ocean.
me, standing still
as a shipwreck watch
as leaves ebb and flow
in streams, casting
worried looks my way...

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A  is for the apple trees of Johnny Appleseed, 
    planting economic freedom 
    from sea to shining sea.
M is for mother, Madam Liberty,
    honors regrowth, the melting pot of the free.
E  is for emergence, of new thoughts, new lives, new mysteries.
R  is for the richness of cultural diversity.
I   is for a fresh idealism not false idolatry.
A   is for admiration of America¢s bold beauty.

And all that spelled America 
from sea to shining sea....

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If Pen is mightier than the sword
I am dead man walking
All of these letters,  bullets.
They rip through 
Skin and crush bone 
Words  sharp 
gnaw 
On 
Ears 
And eyes
Line after line
Cuts as paper a thousand times over
Every vowel and every consonant 
Transformed into verse
Hammers
Flesh into submission
 I will bleed 
With each allusion 
Would I have known
That in this was no healing balm
This poetry  is 
Idolatry 
And this is my suicide...

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