Short Novices Poems

sweetest melody
sends chimney swifts cavorting~
novices confess...

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He says he won't leave office
Even if he loses, we must be cautious
Bodily if necessary
Big Macs, orange hair
Plus a spelling book for novices...

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In this day and age you've gotta be positive
To combat the negatives, it's your prerogative
Tell silly jokes
Smiles they provoke
Mission accomplished, here's to all you novices


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Great pianists play only some keys in a song, quite aware of the "others"
Only novices will hate the black or white keys, or ones they do not need
Do you know music is both sound and silence, foreground and background?...

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His workshop looked neat.
Unlike many others who prefer dusty feat
His tools are arranged in order.
Within a tool-line with a border
He took one at a time.
And placed back in a manner sublime.
Many novices around him he had
To learn from him, they were glad...
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*Image of Boys Become Buddhist Novices by The Asian Age.

The Dry Umbrella

I must recreate myself, foremost, strides hold best, I feel energized,
       totally wandering by my lonesome, amongst nature I did stray,
               abruptly, I felt perturbed, I forgot to pray, I just realized,
                       rapidly the sky, reignited, my umbrella too, not ok.

2021 August 15...

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        Hope / Faith
	Or
	Light at the End of the Tunnel
	Written: by Tom Wright
	10/19/01
	
	During trying times,
	We often search our dark lonely passageways.
	Finding scant light
	To help us through our days;
	As faith's novices,
	We often consider that sight
	With anguish, fear, and utter disdain;
	Faith, prompts us to believe the glow at subway's end,
	Is our ray of hope, not the last train?
	...

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Intellectually distinguished
master of novices –
priest loyal to the papacy,
after the Reformation rift.

He went from one catholic family 
to another –
by spies denounced
and arrested.

Convicted of treason and executed
for his links to the Holy See.
He was a catholic priest,
so his links were, as they should be.

Country which murders innocent people,
how long can you stand,
before corrupted you fall?
Nation – such terror you withstand?...

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COVID-19
A Sequel To 9-11 
Written: by Tom Wright
10/19/01- 4/3/2020

During trying times,
We often search our dark lonely passageways.
Finding scant light
To help us through our days;
As faith's novices,
We often consider that sight
With anguish, fear, and utter disdain;
Faith, prompts us to believe the glow at tunnel's end,
Is our ray of hope, not the last train?


“He who has health has hope,
And he who has hope has everything”
Arab Proverb
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Let me sneeze
if you please
on some pleas
(from their knees)
"Stop the cheese"

Akin to fleas
rampant in leas
annoying as bees
or losing keys
they - a disease

Strive to seize
with their commentaries
and narcissistic decrees
aimed to appease
ego sized trees

May have degrees
but no boundaries
one really needs
couth for these
novices writing poetries

One should freeze
before spreading fallacies
full of hypocricies
spewing out idiocracies
wheezing only sleaze...

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