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Vestment Poems - Poems about Vestment

Premium MemberUnder the cathedral of infinity, stretched above lost dreams

...Under the cathedral of infinity, stretched above lost dreams,
I do nothing with my life but romanticize and decay in indecision,
I weave dreams from the ethereal threads of the moon and drape them ...
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Categories: vestment, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberLet your palms be the last twilight

...Let your palms be the last twilight,
Which covers my heart with the shroud of repose,
Draping the white silence, an ancestral vestment, at dusk,
Rest that descends over a world forgotten by the li...
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Categories: vestment, soulmate,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberMan on the Moon

...Can we put a man on the moon?
Just asking, hope not too soon..

We've built him a rocket
In the shape of a bed
With nice fluffy pillows
For his white fluffy head

Powered by electrickery
Wit...
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Categories: vestment, farewell, father, moon,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen Doves Cry

...Cooling off in falling months, approaching dusk.
Coordinated chill and quilting of snow, brusque.
Cooking lots of soup, beating down dough,
as the wind whoops on a weeping willow.

The sky blue ...
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Categories: vestment, death, imagery,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberAbbott Cat

...Abbott Cat

—————————————(Dedicated to our unique cat Gnash)***.         
*…..*****….*****…..
Know that Abbott Cat
Had the stride
Of the pure…placing:
Each step forward
With the slightest lif...
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Categories: vestment, allegory, character, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse



Premium MemberIntersection of Interbeing

...Could it be that two city streets meet at a portal
of awakening that leads to enlightenment?
May your next frontier be "Inter-Be" discovery.

Nearly forty years ago on July twenty-fifth,
working...
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Categories: vestment, inspirational, memory, mystery, myth,
Form: Free verse

Crushed

...beaten and broken
bruised and battered
brutalized and bare
bandaged and braised
bashed and butchered 
bold and brave
Anguished

Slayed and silenced
slaughtered and seduced
strong-armed to s...
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Categories: vestment, bereavement, bullying, change, courage,
Form: Alliteration

A Christmas Scene

...Its off to grandma's old fashion cottage we go;
past snow covered pine trees all in a row.
To her humble abode adorned in holiday charm, 
And two grey horses inside the red painted  barn. 

Insi...
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Categories: vestment, beauty, child, children, family,
Form: Rhyme

Love Each New Vestment

...Love Each New Vestment

love each new vestment
And wonder where old ones went
To God they were sent

Jim Horn

Church just received new choir vestments
here at St. James Episcopal in Shallot...
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Categories: vestment, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku

Premium MemberPedophile Wearing a Collar

...The censer clanks
the smoke rises.
An attempt is made
to hypnotize.
It wafts across
the naive
The priest like
a magician has
a trick he uses
to deceive.
The incense odor,
causes a spiritua...
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Categories: vestment, abuse, betrayal, child abuse,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberChallenges Balances

...I am glowing testament;
A testimony-bright and flowing vestment;
Shall blossom my spirit rest on this;
Glory, freedoms blemished..
Glorious freedoms accepted
Hallelujah!
Alleluia!
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Categories: vestment, analogy, appreciation, blessing, confidence,
Form: Light Verse

Premium MemberFuneral In 1963

...Funeral in 1963


Beveled dusty cracked glass shielding Mother Mary enthroned,
Amidst flying angelic devotions atop whipped clouds of icy air,
Enslaved by an antique miracle made manifest in sta...
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Categories: vestment, funeral,
Form: Free verse

Peddling Personal Particulars

...Obsession with higher returns on investment
Crushes man, separating a person from personal data
Collected through stealth, subterfuge hidden in a vestment
Free services claim to account holders fl...
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Categories: vestment, poems,
Form: Free verse

A Christmas Scene

...Off to grandmother’s cottage we go,
past snow covered pines all in a row,
to a cozy home with old fashion charm,
standing beside it the red painted barn.

Inside a crackling fire- nothing to com...
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Categories: vestment, children, christmas, family, fantasy,
Form: Narrative

Buzz Off Words To a Spider

...A silver spider spied a golden fly, 
and to it most amorously did sigh: 
"O most glorious of flies! 
What fine wings you have, what eyes! 
No earthly thing shows beauty more. 
I shall weave in s...
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Categories: vestment, allegory, identity, insect,
Form: Light Verse

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