RightWing UnWoken
...It's not enough to say,
with however much great might,
America's Religious Right
is wrong
to flap fight wings
and even bite
against Earth's spirit natured Left.
All sacred EarthTribes
could...
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Categories:
stiff necked, america, faith, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Cupid Knocks
...Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
—William Shakespeare
Cupid Knocks
War waged with red ribbons and lights of white.
The lights pure, expansive, deep and wide;
an...
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Categories:
stiff necked, funny,
Form: Light Verse
Change my heart Lord by Suzan Satchell
...Change my heart, Lord
Change my heart oh Lord from self to thee.
I am so puffed up and full of me.
May see I am nothing without thee.
I am merely but a lump of clay and it's your breath that is...
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Categories:
stiff necked, desire,
Form: Rhyme
Spirit made it out of Jerusalem, my influence of the Jerusalem poem
...??Mark 9:1 NIV??
[1] And he said to them, “Truly I tell you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.”
??Acts 1:7-8 NIV??
[7]...
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Categories:
stiff necked, faith,
Form: Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO FILLS US WITH HIS SPIRIT
...January 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 31-32
Key Verse – Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and i...
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Categories:
stiff necked, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
The Buz
...In the low pasture
cowbirds are picking over humming cow pats.
In the high sheepfold
lambs are dropping small round blueberries
that are really not blueberries
and the whirring beetles know it...
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Categories:
stiff necked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Above My Head
...Above my head, foliage, and feathers clatter
as a hawk tangles with a squirrel.
Above my head, Russian tanks pop their tops
in boggling bubbles.
Just above a bald patch, shaggy clouds squat to ...
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Categories:
stiff necked, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Two Verdicts
...When Stephen laid his charges out,
Both devastating and severe,
His verdict then left little doubt,
Delivered boldly, without fear,
Held nothing back, his message clear:
“You stiff-necked folk...
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Categories:
stiff necked, anger, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Anacoluthon Knights
...i can never tell you how displeased readers
are by that position the singular
moment when nothing makes any sense
to them at all but only to a few brilliant pebbles
that soar across th...
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Categories:
stiff necked, allegory, identity, writing,
Form: Free verse
Kerosene Queue Worries
...Where’s the paid watcher of my Jerry can
And who the hell just bounded it off,
My face now a hotter frying pan,
Never to learn how to absorb a bluff?
Lame excuses I don’t fail a wheel chair
A...
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Categories:
stiff necked, age, cry, desire, engagement,
Form: Rhyme
The Shun
...Sometimes ya get the unction
To systematically function
In the footsteps where giants have been
Delegation, infiltration
Ruling a sovereign nation
Where time runs the gambit, again, and again
...
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Categories:
stiff necked, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Why Am I Me
...Why should the sun, like primrose, change its true color?
Why shouldn't each color have its own existence?
Why should the moon shrink holler for seasons smaller?
Why must Bluebells turn white on s...
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Categories:
stiff necked, life, philosophy, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Sacred Discourse
...My OldSchool patriarchal Pentateuch
precedes our polycultural HolyNew Paraclete.
This Pentateuch
begins with the beginning
of theo-TribalEgo cultural correlations;
Genesis begets Exodus,
the ...
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Categories:
stiff necked, god, health, inspiration, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
The Stoning of Stephen
...“You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did not persecute? They even...
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Categories:
stiff necked, christian, murder,
Form: Quatrain
Green Peace Resonance
...At first we had traumatic stress
just being born
and later shock of near death,
physical and mental,
natural and spiritual,
lack of health
and unsafe, messy wealth.
Then traumatic cultural ...
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Categories:
stiff necked, culture, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
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