Join the Ranks.



Sparsely the nuns rolled one another into the churchyard.
Eyes earnest, they knew the saints enough
not to be moved to tears however by the homily.
Until one fateful day when they were too
old to even walk down the aisle for the eaucarist.
A small child said his first prayer at the alter..." Dear God" he directed to the priest,
for he thought the priest was "this Jesus".
" Aaaaamen!" he cried.

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Nuns soldiering on, marching to church on time.

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Written on September 09, 2021

Submitted by heathert.34240 on September 09, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDAEFG
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 420
Words 76
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

Heather Lydia Thornhill

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