Short Orthodox Poems

Modern romance 
The girlfriend's father 
You can plough with him...

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stasis
     covered
veneratons
   pictorially
      preserved
in
allegory
orthodox
& unusual
    idealized
imagery
...

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A Greek flag torn
Flailing in the warm winds

From the Orthodox dome
Church bells toll

A roadside lizard pauses
By the bins...

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SUPREMISTA malevich mondrian
a fifth dimension
 white
 upon white
hyper orthodox
pure&
   absolute
in vigorous
   peculiarity...

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Blessed by Russia's orthodox church
a new radar system's rehearsed
they won't be left long in the lurch
unless Mother Russia is cursed?...

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[paraphrase of a Svan folksong]


I, I am Queen Tamar
I raised myself to Heaven
I dug up a barren mountain
I left only a deep hole
I put the sword to Constantinople
I drove them into the sea
I made their lands my lands....

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black

white

democrat

republican

right wing

left wing

bipolar

catholic

protestant

reform

orthodox

sunni

shiite

western

eastern

bipolar

love 

hate

truth

lies

happy

sad

smiles

cries

bipolar....

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Do not let your heart be troubled, my friend, as to when
Christ is resurrected 

Since

He is resurrected each time we feel love in our hearts
for one another!







© Demetrios Trfiatis
       15 April 2023
-
HAPPY EASTER TO ALL MY
ORTHODOX BROTHERS AND SISTERS
-...

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Russian balls 

Russian 

Glass 

Atop 

Spires 

 

Orthodox 

Spine 

Tingling 

Last 

Breath 

 

Car 

Exhaust 

Counting 

Change 

Pink 

Carpet 

Gold 

Entrusted 

Box 

Open 

And 

Dark 

 

One more onion in the broth 

Make the sign of the cross...

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I know my Lord Goddess is orthodox
But we're in the world full of paradox
Still I revere and honour thy version
For thine is a true opinion
Whatever you do has a meaning cool
And it carries an aura full
May thy glance be on me
So I become verses spree
Want to complete verses many
Extolling thee with my euphony..!!...

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Dates, figs... apricots...
  
    Pomegranates too... a lot...

      ~ Tabernacle time




  _________________________
  Sukkoth, Israel's Harvest Fest-
  ival, begins Sunday night, 
  October 16 and runs for 7 
  nights and 7 days. Orthodox 
  Jews, from financier to farmer,
  live in tabernacles (booths)
  during this joyous festival....

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Weren’t you lucky, up to time of your blood thirsty war,
Russian sports, especially gymnasts and ballet at the fore,
Gave your presidency of Russia somewhat of a credit,
Hopefully with Western sanctions you’ll swim in debit
And, as for the Patriarch of your Russian Orthodox Church
Strange bedfellows you are, so odd,
You Putin, and your puppet Patriarch, will one day face God....

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power, police and prudence,
the mainstream monsters of mimicry,
like patels of a flower playing far from the fulcrum,
their power derived from dismal points interior,
of state sustainance and centres,
assistants arrayed according,
to authority anchored beyond,
to pry prudence on paupers,
thus pour power like powder,
on supra-orthodox options,
and security sanity perforates without....

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some orthodox crews (I've heard)
make love to their wives through
a hole in a sheet
and 
that's OK,no problem, it isn't my
business anyhow

but the other day I got to thinking
how big is the sheet and the hole,
is it near the head or the feet?

are they made to special order, 
or off the shelf, so to speak?

perhaps the answer to this riddle
is to wear a long coat and black hat 
in the night?...

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COPLA 103 RESOLUTION : This Bad Guy World

Roughly speaking hindus are Indians
North Americans protestant :
Give or take some

Most catholics invest Europeans
Plus the South American continent :
Save Brit Kingdom

Almost all the Malay world’s muslim
Likewise Maghreb and the Middle-East :
Africa mixed

Buddhist tour à tour East Asian
Chinese orthodox Slavs communist :
Rest animist

© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2014...

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There are rabbis and there are rabbis 
Some are Orthodox, Hasidic, New Age, Conservative - what have you 
Some are liberal, some more conservative 
I am writing about my Jewish heritage now 
The fact that I am a Middle Earth "nut" and a former Marvel Comics "nut" 
doesn't deter me from that 
Verse can be enjoyable whatever creed you subscribe to 
or whatever religion you were born into 
I don't eat pork chops
Am I a hypocrite or what?...

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 I'm a Catholic,You're a Muslim

I'm an Orthodox ,You're a Protestant

I'm a Hindhuist,You're a Buddhist

You're an Atheist,and I am a Mormon too.

You're an African,I'm American

You're an Asian,I'm a European

You're a Mexican, I'm an Indian

You're an Arab,I'm a Jew

But prior to all our distinct differences

I'm a Mother ,I'm a Father

I'm a Sister,I'm a Brother

I'm a Son,I am a Daughter

and I'm Human just like you....

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Faith in the wrong orthodox teachings
By the  old generation
Made me submit to the wrongs 
Done to me by the elders
During my young age.
But as the years gone
And I became older
And educated
Gradually I discarded 
Those wrong teachings 
But  cannot discard
The adverse impacts created by them
In my personality.
There might be  many people like me.
Yet  many old orthodox 
Uneducated  people
Believed in those wrong teachings
Throughout their lives.
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Mop Woman


Near dwarf this woman. 
Foreign born. Minsk,
perhaps. Nose 

a fist. Hair
a whisk broom
only black. Her back

an Orthodox cupola, 
her arms braids of gym rope
lowered to the floor.

Orangutans could climb 
those ropes, hand
over hand, no rose

no purple 
doughnuts 
on their hinds.

Near dwarf this woman.
Foreign born. Minsk,
perhaps.

Her hands, all gristle, 
hang an inch, no more,
above her shining floor.


Donal Mahoney...

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Fall has come 
   and with it the march of the NY Giants 
Dangerous game!
    But the players do it 
for the glory (and the not inconsequential financial rewards)
I will watch the game Sunday 
   on TV
    I have good friends that 
don't like the game 
   But I get thrilled when 
the NY Giants win 
  My uncle met Tiki Barber(of the Giants)
I remember going to an 
   Orthodox shul 
I went to as a youth 
           Someone said "What's the score?" with a smile 
Autumn has arrived...

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