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St Thomas Poems - Poems about St Thomas

London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields, The shepherds rambling onwards, The herders with their slow-moving cat......

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Categories: st thomas, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Henry the V111
...Henry the V111 was an English king although he got Married' boys were more his thing' he destroyed the Tomb of st thomas abecket, ordering grind those bones And just go wreck it ' with tomb duly ......

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Categories: st thomas, education,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Romantic Poem
...He's the classic busiest bummed bee, Work members close enough not to swallow, Some business pursues far from his body, Their thoughts cease, naught his, she always, follow. She soar the skies ......

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Categories: st thomas, analogy, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Canterbury
...Canterbury So long ago, St Martyrs Field Road was there my home There is the huge Martyrs monument of witch burning, oh Forty-three names on the stone, mine will be the new one I am the forty......

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Categories: st thomas, fate, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dreaming the Impossible Dream
...Recently, I awoke from a very specific dream-- In which I expressed my getting-a-B.A. scheme A long-time ambition I've put on the back-burner Delayed because I'm not much of a wage-earne......

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Categories: st thomas, confidence, dream, education, prayer,
Form: Quatrain



My Dream Vacation
...I've dreamed of something special for quite some time, a vacation I've envisioned that would be simply sublime. I'll be leaving from Miami on a round-the-world cruise and I reserved a balcony room......

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Categories: st thomas, dream, vacation,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member Raining Again
...“This circus is falling…” It’s circa 1997; I’m in Charlotte, NC It’s a 13-week consulting gig, my longest ever I come home every few weeks Long days at the customer site A hostile environment;......

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Categories: st thomas, loneliness, longing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ekphrasis On House of Parliament At Sunset
...stupendous silhouette of castle piercing through hazy fog reminds me of your shadow as you come to meet me at twilight mixed hues of spectral sky reflected in dreamy water in furrowed thic......

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Categories: st thomas, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Cherished Moments Together
..."Cherish is the word I use to describe All the feeling that I have Hiding here for you inside...." --lyric from "Cherish" by The Associati......

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Categories: st thomas, romantic love, vacation, wife,
Form: Sonnet
St Thomas
...Locked in a room his friends were afeared When Jesus rose again and appeared. “My peace be with you for I'm making you new.” It was the Lord they knew and revered. But because he hadn't ......

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Categories: st thomas, bible, christian, religious,
Form: Limerick
First Poem
...One brisk Saturday morn, I left the house with glee To find myself within the woods, in perfect harmony (Rosemont Pennsylvania: May, 1959) Miss Annette’s 5th Grade Class St Thomas Of Vill......

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Categories: st thomas, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgotten Democracy In the Reign of Fools
...When the sun looks into darkness upside down cowboy's lend a hand to chaos deserters of faith rejecting lawful behaviour Persuading bodies believing something good is created from lies dece......

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Categories: st thomas, abuse, atheist, betrayal, hate,
Form: Terza Rima
Glass Houses
...Closeted belief… atheist's disguise Slings and arrows, boomerang's surprise Empty of graces, desperate to fill Shot through the heart —their spirits to kill (Noon Mass: St. Thomas o......

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Categories: st thomas, god,
Form: Rhyme
Not Dispelled
...If God and Heaven don’t exist, their facade is fine with me The simulation of a thought so pure, will satisfy my needs So take your theories and quantum math painted corners left to dwell ......

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Categories: st thomas, god, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
One Kiss
...Left just one chance to gild the night One kiss —before you leave 8th Grade Poetry Contest St Thomas Of Villanova Grade School May, 1962......

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Categories: st thomas, night,
Form: Free verse

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