Short Parish Poems

A
childhood
flashback to
a yesteryear
dream

Ekphrasis -Lusisti Statis by Parish...

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What I Always Wish

what I will always wish
surely will always cherish
my lovely parish

Jim Horn...

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In Llanbadarn-y-garreg, mid-Wales
There lives a preponderance of males
But Saint Padarn's church
Would never besmirch
Recitation of old fairy tails...

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Patrick, an old country Pastor
Who's parish was getting hard to master
He performed christenings galore.
Last month forty-four.
He wished the women ran faster....

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Thoughts We Prayed Would Parish

Gads. I am getting tired. How about
you completing this for me using
cherish, perish, wish and fish for 
a divine dish.

Jim Horn...

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Sister Mary Margaret O'Malley 

Worked the parish of Tin Pan Alley 

The whole clergy was rocked

When the priest was defrocked 

He got caught in her hidden valley...

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Water
      Written in class
      By complete mistake.

Waves swallow me whole,
Slowly suffocating I parish,
Under the sea is where my corpse rots,
Slowly decaying as predators nip at my flesh....

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Terrible and Unbearable Parable

In parish some people heard a parable,
Which was horrible and really terrible;
Did leave dismay,
Almost every day;
Weight of sins can become unbearable.

Jim Horn...

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Experts Speculated and Simulated

Had heard that some experts speculated,
Must learn how things  can be simulated;
Choir singing;
Better off being,
And parish again soon will be stimulated.

Jim Horn...

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The Vicar’s sermon 
Frank and forthright
Raised the question
Of the widows mite

Quite unnecessary
In my humble view
Because in our parish
There are only two
And I know for a fact
That they both do...

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Priest Would Enable Us To Be Capable

We knew what priest would do is enable,
His parish to have ability to be capable,
By him captured, 
Then enraptured;
From all of our be free and escapable.

Jim Horn...

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The scarecrow is stylish
with its yellow umbrella
and new bucket,
but the young man jogging past isn't impressed,
and despite future conversations
with the parish priest,
plucks an ear of corn
to carry home....

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THE FLYING CIRCUS

Autumn branches stretch to yawn…acorns bounce
on a mossy trampoline ~
acrobatic squirrels fly

10/9/2016

One Kimo – 10/7/6 syllable contest
Sponsored by: Rick Parish...

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Because of you love,
I shall not parish.
What I have started,
I know you shall finish.
You know I shall praise you, 
till I come to the end.
You shall forever love me,
And forever I shall love you,
...Even when I'm feeling blue....

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A lady in our parish asked my good and true friend, a Priest,
  "Being unmarried, aren't you lonely at the least?"
    He smiled and said, " No I'll tell you why, because,
     I'd much rather be lonely...... than wish I was!"...

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Sucked off by his vacuum cleaner 
Vicar Jefs' wiener went leaner 
His parish aghast
Told the cops, "Come fast"
The Judge called a Miss de Meanor*

(n.b.,  Baptist Jefs is now a 
Registered Sex Offender so
guard your vacuum cleaner! ...

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Had Been Apparently Abrupt

Comments made were apparently abrupt,
And eventually things would soon erupt;
Break into,
Like they do;
When done by Trump had become corrupt.

Jim Horn

So what should I be telling the new priest
about his parish?...

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Me and candle light 
In deep dark dark night
Dancing, shadow on the wall
Memory of a lost soul 
Together we share the loneliness 
With no sorrow or happiness
We may live till the morning light 
We may parish in the dark dark night 


4/3/2004
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Priest Who Would Like To Paint

We hired a priest who would want to paint;
So he had shot selfie of himself as a saint,
And then he did appear,
To be long horned steer,
When parish saw him they started to faint.

Jim Horn

Another poem for you poetry lovers....

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I come before you
to ask you this question why
must I die someday

parish the body dust
spirit takes the soul aloft
must I die someday

the promises are
at Calvary grace and love
shall set and lift me

8/02/18

written  words by James Edward Lee Sr.©2018...

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To parish would be to gain-
Freedom. Freedom
From that which haunts me.

Not to perish in a physical sense, 
No- 
That would be pointless. 

I must perish mentally.
Kill that which envelops my 
Being. Thoughts

Of a bright future, 
A better tomorrow,
A new life....

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Trump Wish Would Parish 

Hillary we love and still do cherish,
While we wish Trump would parish;
On Christmas Eve,
Episcopal Church leave;
All of us he does like to embarrish.

Jim Horn

He was actually at an Episcopal Church.

Seems like when Trump leaves, 
He had stolen all of the sheaves....

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The park moving

with the kids playing there

the pleasant chat coming back

chair back to the balcony

the cult of renewed faith

without any agony

rediscover parish

reign joy again

renew the antique rites

visit friends

So be post-pandemic life...

 living the world without strife !...

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The night falls with
a silent sigh,
Soulless are we.
The salvation for
which you pray,
Flares once, then
dies,
Swept away by a
velvet ebony
nothingness,
All hope must surely
parish,
Your soul thrives no
more,
How could you tear
us asunder?
Lost souls surround
us, crying,
We have lost our
light....

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We are free and yet in hypnotic trance
Liberation when, ego does perish 
Thought cessation ends futile indulgence 
We are free and yet in hypnotic trance
Why as dreamed, so full of self importance 
Love alone real, glowing heart our parish
We are free and yet in hypnotic trance
Liberation when, ego does perish 

07-March-2021...

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