Knight of Wands
By Michael Parker
October nineteenth. two-hundred-ninety-third day of the year. It’s Mercurii, and the waning Hunter moon sits by Orion’s stretched thigh. Hydra lifts her head out of its eastern hole (there, next to Orion’s foot), wanting to devour the cadmium-hued moon.
What explains our struggles’ centrality?
At night, we sit by the window waiting for our suffering
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Categories:
affirming, 12th grade, depression, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
My God, Thank You For Affirming To Me Your Authority
October 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 20-21
Key Verse – Luke 20:8 And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR AFFIRMING TO ME YOUR AUTHORITY
Thank You for affirming to me Your authority’s sovereignty
Above earthly rule’s territory of no certainty
Beyond powerful universal and
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Categories:
affirming, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Who Is the Affirmer Affirming
Affirmations seem popular
attempting to manifest reality
peril being of ego seeking
boon as bane causing fatality
Unless with the conscience
we be in tranquil alignment
ego borne cravings & urgings
bring suffering & discontentment
Such is the divine paradox
that whilst we may co-create
we must do so in loving surrender
detached and in stillness sedate
16-September-2020
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Categories:
affirming, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
A Tiny Grain of Sand Part 2
Water is the only visitor for us here it tickles
thunder and lightning signal their arrival drops form rivers as it trickles
The force of its power tries to shape us carves our prickles
Transformed in our way unlike the idols we surround so simple yet fickle
The invisible hand of wind sweeps, a breeze of fingers it creeps
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Categories:
affirming, spiritual, travel,
Form: Verse
To Care
To care,
A peculiar notion isn’t it?
An envelope of warmth,
A hand ghosting a shoulder
As you mutter the musical lull.
Or spit daggers to the opposing
To care,
To shred your beating heart
Into tiny bloody fragments,
Scattering them like confetti over anyone
Who dares enter the party of your mind.
To care,
To bang your fists against their walls
Until you bleed out from your
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Categories:
affirming, anger, angst, appreciation, care,
Form: I do not know?