STAND IN LINE
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It’s been 26 years since that tragic day in Colorado…April 20, 1999
when 10 students and one teacher were killed in Columbine.
I remember most of us in the country with tears flowing at the tim...
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Categories:
annunciation, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Too Young To Die
...So long ago
It was a far different world
It was safe to be a child
You could attend school
Go to your church
Or just play outside
You would feel perfectly safe
No one decided when it was time...
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Categories:
annunciation, children, death, murder,
Form: Free verse
NATURE'S SYMBOLIC TREES
...Barked with nature's firm hope,
Branches of nature's strong faith,
Sappers of nature's sweet love:-
Embers of crucufixion,
Leaves of reesurrection borne:-
Roots bearing tribulations:
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Categories:
annunciation, allegory, extended metaphor, hyperbole,
Form: Free verse
Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic
...Stretching outer limits of incredulity beyond realm of logic
In an attempt to recount how life came about on planet Earth,
thence subsequently spanning across the webbed wide world
birthed cocka...
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Categories:
annunciation, absence, adventure, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
The yeses i left unspoken
...How often have I hesitated,
poised on the brink of "perhaps,"
before unknown paths
that whispered my name.
And there, where the threshold opened
in fevered silence,
I denied the wind its wing,
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Categories:
annunciation, faith, god, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Montage, Part One of Many
...I stand
Standing upon the emerald landscape
posture stiff and still
Eyes like black holes
devouring the space around me
Glass horse galloping, prisms
exploding through the plainlands
Time pas...
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Categories:
annunciation, dream, imagery, imagination, longing,
Form: Free verse
Popping-Glad Roses
...Popping-glad roses,
lipstick red,
watered in crystal vase,
small as the ledge
of a pond.
pondering
those blossoms, yet to be lit,
with their potential flames.
ruffled sc...
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Categories:
annunciation, flower,
Form: Free verse
The Annunciation of Its Other Self
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"The Annunciation of Its Other Self"
Inside the heart
an Ocean swells
its tides take one
further out
in the still reflection
a pearl, like light, cast out
the ...
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Categories:
annunciation, i am,
Form: Free verse
Annunciation
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Annunciation
borne again – prodigy of angels
(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)
El Greco - Dark City (Los...
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Categories:
annunciation, art, culture, humanity, mystery,
Form: Monoku
Soundtrack-
...My voice covers the barriers ground
It travels through the speed of sound
So clearest you hear it resounding vibrating
The essence of the annunciation so fraughtless
So bound I speak ...
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Categories:
annunciation, analogy, voice,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Angel Whispers
...Angel Whispers
Angel whispers
Announce
The Anointed One
In fluttering wings of Annunciation
And breathe of Emmanuel alive
In secret garden alcoves
Alpha and Omega arrival
On breath of anci...
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Categories:
annunciation, angel, miracle, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
In Full Flight Her Soul Departed
...In Full Flight Her Soul Departed
To free my heart of all that haunted me
Told I, these my tidings.
... On a summer's dawn,
Fresh from our orisons, we wandered forth
To greet the waking of th...
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Categories:
annunciation, art, beauty, creation, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
I Have a Son
...I have a son
who worries
His economic vocation
requires a political vacation
from the rest of us
and perhaps even light of sun
Which hardly feels sustainable
or resonant
and certainly not...
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Categories:
annunciation, anger, fear, health, love,
Form: Political Verse
Footsteps of Midnight
...Footsteps of Midnight
Sealed in a cave
No beginning - no end,
No dawn – no dusk,
No sunrise – no sunset,-
Only the constant echoing footsteps of midnight,
Pursued – haunted -
Pushing the so...
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Categories:
annunciation, heart, life, night,
Form: Free verse
Mother and Angel
...Mother and Angel
What thoughts gather in your mind, Mary,
Eyes looking down in the morning light?
Do you still hear the sound of an angel’s voice –
Can you hear the sound of angel wings?
G...
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Categories:
annunciation, angel, christmas, mother,
Form: Free verse
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