POETRY

Poems of Persecution

These are poems of persecution, economic, social, and spiritual.

Each poem has an associated comment that offers some background on it. You can view the comment when the poem is being displayed by clicking the “View Comments” link at the bottom of the page. In addition, some of the poems also have a “Listen” link where the words of the poem are spoken out loud. Finally, a few of the “Listen” poems also have a “Watch” link where a video version of the poem exists on YouTube.

Title	First Line	Comment
Covered	He covers for me at the bank	This gentle poem is very recent,
Intolerance	The social fabric will often not tolerate	Intolerance directed at those
Telling Times	These are telling times,	There will no middle ground
Simply Standing	If simply standing	One's personal beliefs
Bread and Heads	A loaf of bread, a head	This is martyrdom in the
Cluster	Cluster. Cloister.	An image of persecuted