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Supplicants Poems - Poems about Supplicants

Premium MemberHis Real Name

...Didn’t take a notice where in the news today   
His real name appeared as if out of the blue 
I’m Punishment, he said, unknowingly they pray
But that’s the funny side of job I used to do  
I send...
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Categories: supplicants, irony, religion, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberThe Pottawattamie Beaver

...In the sylvan sewers of Fritchy's tombie
    the Pottawattamie beavers play
  deep beneath the verdant pastures
    where dead skunks and possum lay

  Circling skyward glowing wierdly
    jack...
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Categories: supplicants, bird, confusion, fantasy, fishing,
Form: Sonnet



Supplication

...Look at us O heavens deity! 
Look at us from Heaven Bower
Supplicants at thee are gazing
Bounties unto them thou shower
Midst of palest lights they singth
Hymns for Thee in Holy hour...
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Categories: supplicants, angel, cool, grief, light,
Form: Verse

Resurrection

...As buried seeds that germinate 
We one day from the graves will rise
All life this fear devoured our hearts 
All life we paid this scenery's price

Oh that this day thee I can find! 
Oh that Th...
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Categories: supplicants, art, death, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme

My Sweet Grandma

...To my Sweet  Grandma

Thy love, thy sacred smiling face
I cant forget till final breath 
Thy beauteous eyes, thy charming smile 
Thou are goddess of vale of Death

I often see thee in the drea...
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Categories: supplicants, angel, care, death of
Form: Rhyme



Quittance

...An empty pocket is an empty pocket
that's all Joshua can see
the tears of its hunger
a reminder of a protracted destiny
while donations to the temples
confirm the need for charity
an immoral ci...
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Categories: supplicants, destiny, god, judgement,
Form: Free verse

In a Lonely Garden

...In a lonely garden there' s a shrine
where upon a rough hewn stone is writ:
“GOD IS LOVE.”

The devoted supplicants make wail,
water the flowers, feed with crumbs
the sacramental dove.

A pri...
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Categories: supplicants, humanity, religion, sorrow,
Form: Elegy

Premium MemberIreland - a Divided Island Part One

...born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia a...
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Categories: supplicants, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative

Indigo's Child

...Indigo's child
lives in turquoise walled
creativity.
Her temple roof of cobalt glass
slashed with aquamarine
radiates peace with purpose
steel dolphin joyfulness
as sun's waves reflect
hourly...
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Categories: supplicants, color,
Form: Free verse

Exile In Ptolemy's House

...Safe, at long last,
behind closed, locked doors and windows,
behind heavy, hanging, purple drapery:
plush, pellucid, subterranean refuge.

Far from the proverbial maddening crowd,
out of sight:...
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Categories: supplicants, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry

Two Fires

...In a lonely garden is a shrine
where upon a rough hewn stone is writ:
“GOD IS LOVE.”

The devoted supplicants make wail,
water the flowers, feed with crumbs
the sacramental dove.

A priest, d...
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Categories: supplicants, religious,
Form: Elegiac Lyric

Sickened Pride

...The country is painted red
By the hand that seals our fate
The pain requires of a poet a sad poem
The hope of the supplicants
Is sickened by the festering ulcer of infamy
The absence of civility...
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Categories: supplicants, africa,
Form: Free verse

Precarious Miracle

...For all that it is worth was contained in a single droplet of thought
in symbiotic deliverance
shall pass perhaps unnoticed by a billion suns
or find it’s way in chaotic course
discover the encha...
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Categories: supplicants, mystery,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIt Is a Rose Sprung

...es ist ein 'Rose' entsprungen

Just outside the city walls ringed in roses,
Rosenfriedhof, Rose Cemetery blooms,
fairest in the Fatherland.

Leaven cakes iced in concrete or royal brass
pan th...
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Categories: supplicants, abuse, meaningful, race, religious,
Form: Free verse

Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1

...Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through t...
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Categories: supplicants, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

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