Short Idols Poems

mother and father
teachers, guardians, idols
upbringing matters...

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bleed like the willful
line up to die for idols
pagan bringer faux...

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Idols and Trinkets
Prayed to by women of night
Crave skin sacrifice....

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when we
under dogwood
with my dear brother played
martin and lewis our old idols
just us...

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idols become gods
 leaving churches desolate
 like ancient ruins
 rising without glory
 but still reaching for heaven...

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Grand basilicas
built to papal false idols
of graven image -
to apostate relics from
pagan Rome and Babylon!...

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It didn't need to grow wings, it floats on the breeze.

Or...

If you don't believe science, you might as well pray to idols....

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He is
Eager to
Acquire a
Victory for you
Eternal love 
Never ending
Let go of the idols of this world
You are always protected by Him...

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On the zig zag zenith
we will polarize
the camps between us
who don't realize
the gullible draft
of the patient soul
complacent idols
we will leave  unwhole....

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A Greek 'god' of wisdom
Athens' patron goddess.
Acts chapter seventeen
Apostle Paul teaches
All should repent to God
And to stop worshiping 
Any man-made idols...

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Daughter, sister,
Wife, mother,
Adjectives of kinship
Are worthy of worship

Markers of purity,
Idols of sanctity,
Yet victims of atrocity!
Strange cozenage of sanctity!!...

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Once upon a golden calf
is now a raging bull

Once a saviour walked on water
now He walks on oil

Surrounded by disciples bent
on scorching fertile soil

Oligarchies drunk on power
will never have their full


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ultimate expressions
appear
   are they genuine
or
  no

perhaps
      a worship of false 
idols 
    these poems
                of my soul
once anonymous
now
     cast free
to drip
  within me
by day
      by night...

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The icons are falling
As idols are rising
Perhaps for their gifts
Being spared coming rifts

For the poets we grieve
Are of this fabric's weave
They are this tapestry
The fibre of our society

And they have marked us so indelibly...

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Praise not icons
But follow the unseen
God's larger than a portrait
That of faith and blood is what washes you clean 
So be strong and wise 
And do not make a graven image of thee
Repent and be earnest
Because great rewards await thee...

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Latter day idols 
Scrape the sky and
Stand as Monuments; 
Harboring the corruption of men.

A true monument
Stands out in the open.
The real beauty
Forgotten by the Creators.

Beneath the feet of these giants,
Lay solemn foundations of hope....

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Fight for justice is a non-ending battle 
The disillusioned public believes in false idols
Rapid heart throbs of the average person
For they fear what will become of this world 
Feeling as small as a pawn on this chessboard
The average person is terrified........

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There just below the surface,
more present than you know

A prophetic Jeremiah,
calls out to us to know

His message serves as warning,
“False idols block the light”

Our gateway through the darkness
—his vision gifting sight

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2017)...

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Eden
source paradise
of Hawaiian islands
not their idols, yet their beauty
Heaven

better
parousia
judgment comes; and too, grace
purification of the earth
restored

bye, sin
goodbye to death
hello to our Savior
Creator of magnificence
and rest
...

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Delilah's pleasures
Her head lain in Samson's lap
Blind, he grinds around

Concubines' treasures
Solomon's Playboy Mansion
Kingdom of idols

Bathsheba's gestures
Rivers and blood David stole
Hid to no prophet

Stronger have fallen
Your resistance is futile
If you compromise...

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Alluvial prayers cast in gold

Reverence capitalized

Christianity besieged

His excellency pardons

Begging paupers of virtue

Indulgence contaminates

Seeks marble idols at church

Heaps insincerity

Onto faith and religion

Purchases circle of sins


06th February 2020...

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Some hands write novels, poetry, lyrics
Some hands carve idols
Some shape statues
Some hands design buildings
Which artist greatest?
Which art noblest?
All human creations
Yet vary their value
Men destined for different fates
Someone the tip of the hat,
Someone the crust of humility....

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Feel its fury
hear it roar
Avenging Angel
 vengeance born

Apostatic
 idols vain
Bear the sentence
its will proclaims

Chants of guilt 
awaken sinners
From their dark
infected dreams

O’er the mountains
to the ocean
Heaven’s rage
—its verdict screams

(Dreamsleep: June, 2023)...

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the stearn bear
ate the bull
as meat unto idols
    (the idle mammals
              of mammon
         on fence road)
the bags of king Midas filled
 as offense rose
the comstock lode
                         dropped
bovines into stockyards
and the slaughterhouse rules
 (u.s.) Pavlovian fools...

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You're never too old to dream,
one to a hundred, just dream.
Imagine a life on a yacht,
traveling all about,
imagine being out on a stage,
where stars, and idols are made,
imagine a mansion on a hill,
with no mortgage, or other bills,
imagine any thing you please,
God gave us dreams, and they are free....

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