Too Bad About That Virgin Sacrifice

The kid in the corner looked at the priest
And fingered his pale red chest scar
A Christian or Muslim
The six wives and their husband
The Buddhist, Hindu and Jew
Add them to the queue
God wants borders
God wants light
God wants peace
God wants war
What God wants God gets God help us all

The Cardinal at the altar
Took the blade from its hook
The mother goddess in the corner
Read the ritual in the book
The hooded encircle the aura of fear
Reporting the truth can never come near
God wants blood
God wants sweat

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poem by Mason Maestro
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A Flower To Auroville Mother-68

Wax Begonia(Fibrous Begonia,
Begonia x semperflorens-cultorum)
Ruffled Yellow Begonia
(Begonia tuberosa 'Ruffled Yellow')
Hanging Basket Red Begonia
(Begonia 'Red Cascade')
Angel Wing Begonia(Scarlet begonia
Begonia coccinea)
Shimpli(Begonia phrixophylla)
Common Begonia(Begonia crenata)

You wish to tire me a lot
Coloured of so many shades
Tired of a godly how it be
As you godly here to trot

Short and sunny and velvety
Single and double waxy bright
Ruffled and vivid the yellow

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poem by Indira Renganathan
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Live

As I approach
the speed of life,
I realize
that my radiance of light
is relative,
as if it bears heavily
to my state of shine.

Whether it is god bless
or divinely undermined
its essence is found gaining progression
from stagnant silent
to a melodized
halleluiach vibration
'I am I-Light to Life.'

poem by Kevin Mireles
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My Progeny Destined To Lie In Heaven's Womb

My progeny destined to lie in heaven's womb
Never to be born, myths of one's mind
Hidden from earth, from her dirt filled tomb
Safe in heaven with seraphs of heavenly kind
Veiled by heavenly white,
Playing on a star
Ablaze with celestial light,
Loving all from afar
My progeny seest, mine heavenly love
And knowest mine heart, mine heart alone
Laid in the womb of heaven beyond and above
To heaven's delight, there thou art only known
To heaven, to heaven, O! To heavenly only be born
Never on earth, wert souls are left forlorn…..

poem by Kevin Michael Murphy
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No rogue like the godly rogue.

American proverbs
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My heavenly Father

My heavenly Father, I just want to thank you.
As the sunrise to proclaim the dawning of another day,
I lift my humble cry heavenward to you.
God, I thank you for blessing me in an unimaginable way.

My heavenly Father, I just want to thank you.
In spite of my many sins and numerous transgressions,
I must realize that I am blessed by you.
Through them, You taught me some valuable lessons.

My heavenly Father, I just want to thank you.
As the sunshine cascade down upon my awakening frame,
I just want to thank you, my heavenly Father.
One more day, I can rise to sing praises to your Name.

My heavenly Father, I just want to thank you.
I am divinely blessed to be in the land of the living.
I truly thank you, my heavenly Father.
I am blessed to be alive because my sins are forgiven.

poem by Reginald Walker
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The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it.

quote by Seneca
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I'm working my way toward divinity.

quote by Bette Midler
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Faith Has Two Eager Facets

1 Faith has two eager facets
Godly, worldly, visions vary
On the Truth of life how
Faith has two eager facets

Pray and seek to surrender
Prey and seek to share
Faith has two eager facets
Godly, worldly, visions vary

2 Faith has two eager facets
On the Truth of life how
Godly, worldly, visions vary
Faith has two eager facets

God in world, world in God
Be it any, only seek to save
On the Truth of life how
Faith has two eager facets

poem by Indira Renganathan
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Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.

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Love #3.

There is so much in us is
godlike still,
Love lifts us to heaven
that is ours.

poem by Robert Crawford
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The Ten Commandments are the divinely revealed law.

quote by Roy Moore
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Nothing is accidental in the universe - this is one of my Laws of Physics - except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.

quote by Joyce Carol Oates
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Goddess

Godly motherly
Heavenly weaponed woman
Ruling creatress
Reverberating magic
Purest Descent from His love

poem by Indira Renganathan
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To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

quote by Horace Mann
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Tonight stars do twinkle (English sonnet)

Tonight stars do twinkle with their glowing light
while the wonders from God's hand do shine
and some are dim and some are white and bright
as they display a power Godly and divine

and from the moment they did begin
every night they do find their way
as Godly beacons to a world of sin
until the very break of day

while constantly they do glow
and in the darkness do appear
as if some hidden purpose they do know,
as if to them constantly Godly power is near

as they are shining always sparkling
and to onlookers some wonder and joy they do bring

poem by Gert Strydom
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Effort To Live For God

As one would run for exercise, there is a race in order to be wise,
Not wisdom unto worldly ways, but, Godly Wisdom to His praise.
Effort on our part, we must expend, for Godliness to be our end,
As we set forth into this race, through The Spirit, by God’s Grace.

When we do run this race for Him, we run for God, in order to win,
Running the race with all our heart; longing to win right at the start.
And in The Lord we must submit, if we’re to become spiritually fit,
This as we resist the devil and flee, to pursue The God of Eternity.

We must also put off the old man, to live new life, per God’s Plan,
Replacing our old habits of sin, with Godly behavior found in Him,
As we wrestle in the Ways of God, we’ll be lead by Staff and Rod,
While learning to live a Godly life, to be a witness for Jesus Christ.

As we fix our minds and eyes, upon Christ and the Heavenly prize,
Bring to Him every captive thought, Godly thinking will be wrought.
Running this race, you rest in God, while still upon this earthly sod,
Practicing all the things we heard, as we read and live God’s Word.

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poem by Bob Gotti
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Sunday Morning - II

Why should she give her bounty to the dead?
What is divinity if it can come
Only in silent shadows and in dreams?
Shall she not find in comforts of the sun,
In pungent fruit and bright, green wings, or else
In any balm or beauty of the earth,
Things to be cherished like the thought of heaven?
Divinity must live within herself:
Passions of rain, or moods in falling snow;
Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued
Elations when the forest blooms; gusty
Emotions on wet roads on autumn nights;
All pleasures and all pains, remembering
The bough of summer and the winter branch.
These are the measures destined for her soul.

poem by Wallace Stevens
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Heaven Help Us All

Heaven help the child who never had a home,
Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall,
Heaven help us all.
Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day,
Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away,
Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl,
Heaven help us all.
Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, lord, hear our call when we call
Oh, yeah!
Heaven help the boy who wont reach twenty-one,
Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun.
Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall,
Lord, heaven help us all.
Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, lord, hear our call when we call.
Now I lay me down before I go to sleep.
In a troubled world, I pray the lord to keep, keep hatred from the mighty,
And the mighty from the small,

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song performed by Stevie Wonder
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Heaven Help Us

Heaven help the child who never had a home,
Heaven help the girl who walks the street alone
Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall,
Heaven help us all.
Heaven help the black man if he struggles one more day,
Heaven help the white man if he turns his back away,
Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl,
Heaven help us all.
Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call
Oh, yeah!
Heaven help the boy who won't reach twenty-one,
Heaven help the man who gave that boy a gun.
Heaven help the people with their backs against the wall,
Lord, Heaven help us all.
Heaven help us all, heaven help us all, heaven help us all, help us all.
Heaven help us, Lord, hear our call when we call.
Now I lay me down before I go to sleep.
In a troubled world, I pray the Lord to keep, keep hatred from the mighty,
And the mighty from the small,

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song performed by Bon Jovi
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