Loneliness at Christmas
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I once knew and loved you
And we stuck like glue
Until the Leviathan appeared smiling
Right up from its lair
In the deep green and blue
(C)
Copyright John Duffy
Christian theologia...
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Categories:
theologians, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Psychological Warfare
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Traitors in the midst, well, what would you know,
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Categories:
theologians, betrayal, conflict, corruption, mystery,
Form: Rhyme
Decent life
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Decent life
Pure life
I can’t do that
Psychology destroying the life
Destroys in my life
Parasite science
Plastic
Kills my life.
Why must I accept this science?
This is a mental poiso...
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Categories:
theologians, hate, life,
Form: Free verse
More Resilient Dancing Days
...Shared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more
Lovers
may also become felt
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our ...
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Categories:
theologians, extended metaphor, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Three Secrets
...One of the many secrets of life:
There is no true freedom.
Man is slave to his own ignorance
And to his own personal sense of reality.
This, in turn, leads to another secret:
The only true sin i...
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Categories:
theologians, death, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Call It Love
...I adore
every inch of you,
from your head
to your toes.
Call it love, but your sweet scent
sets my heart pounding.
What is love?
I don't claim to know;
yet, poets,
songwriters,
th...
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Categories:
theologians, emotions, feelings, how i
Form: Shadorma
What Is Love
...What is love?
I don't claim to know;
yet, poets,
songwriters,
theologians and dreamers,
all swear it exists....
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Categories:
theologians, emotions, feelings, how i
Form: Shadorma
Repressed Desire
...REPRESS: To keep under control, check, or suppress desires,
feelings, action, tears, etc., American College Dictionary
This theme has given rise to a question in my mind
that I do not recall hav...
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Categories:
theologians, desire, god, sin,
Form: Verse
Dearly Departing Christians
...Many of you live
humbly and heartily
patriotically and industriously
nutritiously and faithfully
in Western and Southern States,
United in this time of shrinking reservoirs,
dying rivers,
hu...
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Categories:
theologians, america, christian, culture, environment,
Form: Political Verse
Seeds
...Seeds
The mystery...
the very miracle of seeds
eludes me completely.
I put a small,
tiny,
round,
shape into the soil.
I water the hopeful kernel,
and it sprouts a few days later.
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Categories:
theologians, abortion, abuse, addiction, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Joyous Partner the Microwave
...the joyous partner the microwave
it has become my chef
alas not quite my mother's hand
but for its swiftness of foot
there is no other
yes i survive on the TV dinner
oh dear Lord i have shown m...
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Categories:
theologians, humor,
Form: Light Verse
Captain America
...I am an Indian, yet, of Steve Rogers, I have heard,
Though what I've heard, like fountain-pen writings timely blurred;
On legends, many talk, write and enact stories many,
Tough, of Steve Rogers,...
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Categories:
theologians, people,
Form: Rhyme
Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
...Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors t...
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Categories:
theologians, fate, history, lust, metaphor,
Form: Romanticism
Blue Tolerating Red Intolerance
...To Ecological Greens
concerned about tolerating
evangelical
monotheistic Red intolerance
of unstraight
unwhite
unmale
unhealthy
unsafe
panentheistic EarthDays
and dualdark wiki-nights
pot...
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Categories:
theologians, blue, earth day, green,
Form: Political Verse
Happy Easter
...Happy Easter to everyone on Poetry Soup
(except those of you not in the 'Christian group')
I hope that you all enjoy the holiday
and that the Easter Bunny comes your kids' way
Of course...
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Categories:
theologians, christian, happiness, holiday,
Form: Couplet
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