Memory Baptism Poems

I crossed over this caring bridge the sun shined 
so bright I hardly noticed the humvee at the light 
signaling green to go and what...

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5 in the morning, Why					
do you keep at it? Howl-				
ing and wail-ing, the wall				
cries out in fear as					
you press your weight 				
into it.							
Heavy, heaved breaths
as...

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Creative cerebral craftiness coaxes...

Childhood campy chimera curtain call
subsequently hinting (based on accuweather)
the approach of blizzard squall
so burrow under quilted cover y'all
until warm temperatures arrive when...

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I well recall the old farm pond
With winter ice and fernlike frond
Where I was baptized long ago,
After they scraped a drifting snow
Across the road and...

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Dark clouds rise high, gathering overhead 
a throng of gods sit in their silent, 
mysteries.

A black funeral pyre…

Darkly shedding tears, 
rainfalls cold, drifts down alone...

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Red baptism 
Crown, forehead, mouth, heart 
Were released 
Were redeemed 
I bathed in living water
White towel wore me...

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For what Baptism has left unsolved
Any Darwinian hope for the Newly Evolved?
There mustn’t be another vile scar
From a cheating on a flying car!

Vera should’ve the...

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I am walking in the garden 
of an ancient city
The walls are covered 
with climbing ivy of a delicate hue
The dews are thick after the...

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Bring on the pain
	For I have seen my misspent ways
Bring own the Rain
	So I can let it wash me away
Bring on the insane
	So As I...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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As I took my initial sip of beer
in that dusky bar on that rainy 
night in Amsterdam,
I forgot about Van Gogh 
and the canals and...

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looking through the huge black iron gates,
across the ferns and overgrown weeds,
our old family house looked at us lovingly,
like we were children coming back to...

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Butterfly wing door vestibule builds anticipation  
Shuffled, carpet muffled greetings, familiar embraces            ...

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At the alter, intent on praying away my distress, I prayed with all my heart. As I left church that Sunday, I was embraced by...

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I
Do you know more than you can say, little Baby?
Before you were born, got that first breath, where were you?
Sometimes you gaze past me, gurgle,...

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