Most read ▸
Big love
I am big
like a declaration of war
or a laugh in church
but you
must have somebody
and therefore care for
that sum of others
that I am
Poems on the topic: church
Poems on the topic “church” on Poets.by.
Back garden
business done you turn
into the garden
green and dark
asking questions of travel
answered in words of night
like a lover or a church
Lowered expectations
I miss the ordnance in hope
turn as far as the peak
and so home to church
and a ham supper
Assignations
we met nightly
in that church red with need
to free our hands of death
building only to go bust
holding on
blessed as a swan in the palace
our last words washed out
with the rain
Global positioning
cold full of doors
not so much a church as a paper chamber
I place myself in the world
among books and spoons
a box leased for my office
sin and prayers
Serv/ice
ice is at the core
of an afternoon church
I drew a sun with
as little a prayer as a top
Time keeper
church can cloy
but not a clock
and so I pray
to be true now
give them some toy
but my aim is thin
Theodicy
a black mist of pain
more than most believe
church after church seems
to hate me
Closeted
I could not go to church
except in my closet
wing of my evening
up with that cold cold eye
Crusaders
business is a holy urge
no thought or weakness
our guns went all off
and from church to church
bonfires made of prayer
End of days
church was so terrible
my wife and I slept most
of the afternoon together
preparing for ash
Hood
beer and cheer and howl
form a neighborhood
the company of kin and others
a bland plenty
but so much hurt
in an ugly mouth
that sings like a glass ruin
of the church
so hard to banish
all nonconformists
Describe a feeling — we’ll find a poem
Or try: