a little vagrant sleeps under a church ladder
shares his bedding with a lame puppy and deaf adder
he has never tasted sweets or sugar scones
his usual dinner is leavings, skin and bones
one beautiful summer day right after the mass
someone spat a throat lozenge onto the grass
it shined beneath the sun like a real gem
blameless, faceted, wet from mucous phlegm
little vagrant retrieved the lozenge with trembling hand
unbelievably happy as though he’d won a big grant
but he wasn’t the only one who had reached the prize
the puppy was looking at him with pleading eyes
some people aren’t dogmatic, have never attended church
their lives can seem useless, their family’s honour besmirch
but on that day it was the lord’s supper under church ladder
little vagrant shared his first candy with lame puppy and deaf adder
by TETIANA ALEKSINA
© All rights reserved 2018
This is very moving!
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I quite agree. I think it’s one of Tati’s best!
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did your dog have a dogma-tick
a religion blood sucking bug?
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Ha! Perhaps so! 😉
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Beautiful imagery of the shared Lord’s Supper! Loved this… touched my heart.
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Thanks, Sherri. 🙂
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Only God knows why the end rhymes of the poem keeps pushing me not to stop until I digested it all. Beautiful stuff that proves Christianity is awesome (though I don’t discriminate religion). Kudos to you poet.
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Thanks for reading. 🙂
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clever and fun…a blameless throat lozenge …who thinks of that! only a poet.. blessing to you on all your discoveries… and thanks for the like big hugs from San Diego, Jeane
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Aw, thank you, Jeane. Aren’t you nice! 😀
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What a wonderful, tender-hearted story! Love the image of a throat lozenge as gem, and the big-eyed stare of the puppy. Thank you!–Nancy
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Thank you, Nancy! And thank you for reading us!
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