Best Absolves Poems

The steadily falling cold August rains
Continue to pour upon Cheshires lanes;
Over flattening fields of soddened wheat,
Soaking the grass, splashing the feet.

Stands the Combine in the shed;
The unripened apples hanging rosy red.
Stands the caped heron all alone -
His glinting eye as cold as stone.

And in amongst...

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Choose Me.
I sit here upon this darkened sill.
Dust my meadow,cobwebs my forest.
Waiting for you to draw near.
I long for you to become my Master,
-and I your plaything.

Hold Me.
Wrap your fingers on my fiber woven flesh.
Mold me as if my body were clay.
Sculpting me to become...

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He stumbles on the subway
Initially I cringe
I'm put off by the way he smells
From alcoholic binge

He mumbles incoherent
I start to feel ashamed
I slide my hand in my front pocket
Fumbling for some change

But I don't think he's asking
And now I feel confused
Why suddenly he's deathly still
In...

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Once within our time,
SkyPrince and SunGod talk,
as usual,
endlessly actually,
sending their radiant messages
out toward mutually gravitating receivers,
no Yins allowed to pitch;
just catch integrative flow.

SkyPrince wonders if SunGod might consider turning down his heat,
and wanders aloud as Sun burns enlightened embodied minds,
"I'm worried about EarthGoddess,
she seems wilting
and...

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I have never felt more betrayed
Than when you lied to me
Never was I more dismayed
Than when I cut you free.

Love I sought, and not with guarantee
I never wanted this disaster
Then your flotsam and debris
Stole precious days of laughter.

No more happily ever after
I do truly understand
What...

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Shielded, his logic affects distrust - chill resolve
Mine scatters like dust, dissolves
His lust for my mind absolves
Allows this love to evolve....

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Barabas, Translation of Pierre Emmanuel’s Barabas by T. Wignesan

This insignia that Barabas be
Seditious and murderous
None so worthy as he can be
Bartered body for Jesus

Criminal right down to genes
To our father of all is he son
For assassinating crowd he stands
Which acquits and absolves him

Just as it...

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Silent Holy Night


In a manger in Bethlehem
Were three strangers, looking for a bed

There was a star above
Bright and holy
Guiding the three wise men
On camels they rode slowly

In a stable behind the Inn
There was that miracle that absolves all our sin

There was a star above
Bright and...

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All this long week
of early spring head colds
our National Public Radio informants
and performers,
speakers and listeners,
have been about the business of raising capital investments
preferably in their corporate direction,
to support further public broadcasting
for the benefit of our children
and their children,
and so on.

While this has often felt like...

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Ode to a canvas print

Background: a sullen sky, pale 
light at horizon. Green-water sea 
of snowcapped swells, hint of 
nightfall in the breaking waves. 

Foreground: a bivouac of logs stand 
watch, side by side like siblings, 
darkened by salt and storm, oddly
illuminated at base, as...

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Negativity ensnares you,
Whispering its deadly tune,
Caressing your doubts,
Coaxing your spirit,
Muffling the light,
Captivating your addiction 

Entranced within the melody,
Absorbed into the lyrics,
Deafened by the volume,
Feel the rhythm 

Repetition binds you,
Spreading its infectious beat,
Enticing your habits,
Exhausting your energy,
Depleting the hope,
Breaking your fortification

Entranced within the melody,
Absorbed into the...

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i have wandered the dusty back roads of my youth
      cut through cotton fields that screamed their brutal truth
           crossed the burning sticky blacktops in bare feet
   ...

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Enterprising Henry IV declares suzerainty over state
Xenophobic princes seek the royal prerogative to abate
Cautious king uses diplomacy, threats his minions to subjugate
Old rivals in Saxony Henry's consolidation with tyranny equate
Morose princes in the hinterland seek to avoid a similar fate
Manic King Henry sends his forces...

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Seashell
as I take shape
i lie here in wait 
the wind beating
upon my back
my image carved out 
by gritty sands of
life
i feel my grooves;
their hardness
i get smoothed over
by the warm sun
but  jagged edges
still remain
not as pristine as
when I began
i am swept up 
by the gentle...

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Sitting in church at night,
She wondered at her plight.
Asked God why me?
Reason I don't see.

What is the purpose of life?
Why it is full of strife?
Why are we born on earth?
Why of miseries there is no dearth?

Will death end it all?
Or will I be born again...

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