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Vestry Poems - Poems about Vestry

A Poem For Me

...I woke up at midnight, thinking that I would be at  another place
But reality was staring me once more in my naked face
Everyone has come and gone, leaving me stretched
thin on the dry lawn 

an...
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Categories: vestry, absence, adventure, america, beauty,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberThat Distant Space

...That Distant Space

     Shadows slide, silent, across the cold church floor
     As pallid wraiths form in the fast fading breeze
     Where no human wanders that way anymore.
     And come to ...
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Categories: vestry, halloween, night,
Form: Rhyme



cassock dance

...Cassock dance 

The heaven hangs low today, just above
the spire of the village church, which
is closed since the priest hung himself 
in the vestry.
He drank, you see
lifted his cassock and d...
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Categories: vestry, anti bullying, beach, color,
Form: Blank verse

Chasing After An Illusion

...It feels like yesterday when I just got off the plane and when I looked around, there was not a drop, sprinkle or shower of rain to be found; the earth was immensely dry and the Gods had disappeared ...
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Categories: vestry, adventure, business, community, confidence,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberMy God, Thank You For Counting Me Faithful

...November 25, 2022 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Timothy 1-2

Key Verse – 1Timothy 1:2 Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord...
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Categories: vestry, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme



Bedouin

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"Bedouin"



I stand here
holding time in my hands
for you yet you remain hidden
watching 

black sands on closing air
bedouin messages written
in code invisible to m...
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Categories: vestry, dark,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPharaoh's Godessly Light

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esMo_GMj0uw

Goddess of the sky vault of the heavens  you arch over the earth and the heavens,  
shedding your light on our strengths and delivering your powerful t...
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Categories: vestry, appreciation, meaningful,
Form: Narrative

What Is It About Garriston

...A devout choir leader from Garriston
insisted that her choir were all Christian.
     In anthem and song
     with harmonies strong
they enhanced the Parish's mission.

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Categories: vestry, christian, humorous, music,
Form: Limerick

Sad Thought Came To Brain

...Sad Thought Came To Brain

Found this sad thought on my brain;
Effort to find good priest was in vein;
We pulled off shelf;
Loves hearing self;
Listening to his sermons we refrain.

Sermons p...
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Categories: vestry, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Latest Rage Is My Poems Page By Page and More

...We have heard that the latest rage,
Is to read my poems page by page;
Profit care less,
With my mess;
Realize I am a knowledgeable sage.

Jim Horn

https://www.poetrysoup.com/poets/
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Categories: vestry, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Collated Nightmares

...Anxious, I was at the door
to the vestry, rehearsing
words, visualising movements,
roles of others, checking prompts.
I've left it behind! Have I
the time to go back? Panic.
No. 
	Before the a...
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Categories: vestry, christian, dream, humorous, religion,
Form: Free verse

Take With Grain of Salt

...Take With Grain of Salt

What we did was start praying to Our Lord,
And hardly anything could we ever afford;
On our vestry we need,
Someone was agreed;
So God sent great person for vestry boar...
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Categories: vestry, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Had Been Horn Bull

...Had Been Horn Bull

As usual had been a bunch of Horn bull;
She had her car with much food all full,
And must mention,
Was good intention;
Told her in church she had a lot of pull.

Woman is ...
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Categories: vestry, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick

Premium MemberMulticultural Vespers

..."i like muslims",

whispered in newfangled vestry

                       for Viv might anger.

(She's said they'll blow us up in Leominster.*)


They won't, though, for Leominster is small,...
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Categories: vestry, religion,
Form: Free verse

Pop

...Popplecoook met popplwwock on a jacket mending mission to a culinary planet. It was varied and various. The threads that were woven. To entice a frozen omelette to rise amidst the blackness and creat...
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Categories: vestry, arabic, baby, beach,
Form: I do not know?

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