Apse Poems - Poems about Apse

They Said He'D Be Here

...They said he’d be here.
I waited
Amid the echoes
Stained glass shadows
Lurking in the apse.

Polished gold and silver
Marble columns and floors
“butt shined” wooden pews
An odor of incense
...

A Sunday Morning Clear and Fair

...A Sunday morning clear and fair
My heart with gladness filled,
I walked to yon churchyard there
The breeze was calm and stilled.
Suddenly from the tower above
The pealing of an ancie...

Word Salad

...We have come to a point in
Our history where we no longer have the ability,
Rather, the commitment to see things for what they are,
Desiring what can b...

Wind Whistling Through the Trees

...Wind whistling through the trees
Reminds me of the tiny piccolo,
High-pitched obbligatos, ranging free
Wind whistling through the trees, blow
The subtle sounds of spring’s arrival.
W...

My Dream Vacation

...My Dream Vacation

                  To return once more to Italy where the forgotten places
                    still remain in harmony, echoing, antiquities graces.

                    A priv...

Bipolar

...Staring onto the blanks of skin depths,
I might as well fake for forsake.
Bright eyed and brushy tailed,
Hidden in the mask of despair.
Abandoned quiets of youthfulness,
juggling with lives apse...

Forever Autumn

...The lust of Summer now smokes a cigarette,
replete, exhausted and spent.
Beach bums and young mums chunter and sigh,
wondering where the sun went.
As the first pinch of Autumn disturbs the dark r...

Evade Respiratory Lapse

...B-eautiful
E-yes
V-aliantly
E-vade
R-espiratory
L-apse
Y-ielding

J-oy
U-nder
L-ovely
L-ung's
A-dvanced
R-eadiness

Topic: Birthday of Beverly M. Jullar (April 05) 
Form: Vertical Mon...

A Million Ways To Say I Love You

...They say
?There are a million ways?
To say I love you

In this day and age?
I could only find
?In my computer’s brain?
The words 
to say I love you?
In 53 languages 
of the 10,000 languages...

The Mortal Delemma of Fairy Tales and Fire Flies

...THE MORTAL DILEMMA OF FAIRY TALES AND FIRE FLIES 
 

(Brandon, the world  

depends on the existence of fairy tales and fire flies, 

the simple kindness towards lesser things,	 

the magnan...

Navigating Outward Bounds of Relationships

...Volition, orientation familiarization aahing
and oohing within restrictive paradigm molding
inviolable honorable gentility -
flagrantly, desirously, clearly boyz abandoning
willfully skirting, pa...

A Lingering of Wet Dogs

...Neither mad dogs nor Englishmen
rejoice as sunlight growing thin
allows the tidal sands to shift
through moonlight’s vapor growing dim

Yet still the beasts of lolling tongue
huddle with their ...

Undyeing, Amaranthine

...Oddly,
blue all day. 

The sun dragged like blotting brush
across the apse of Sky; dawn apsis
to dusk apsis -
not leaving ink but life.
Not leaving marks but hues.

Blue blue blue blue blues...

Red Robes

...defrocked cardinals
driven from the hallowed apse
heresy of owls


John G. Lawless
©7/26/2018...

Ethical Reasons

...M-ake
A-ll
Y-our

A-ctions
N-eed
N.-othing

B-ut
E-thical
R-easons
N-egating
A-ny
L-apse

Topic: Birthday of May Ann Bernal (May 9) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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