Best Atonements Poems

There lives a woman in the West of Arira 
To whom life denied the rights to live
The woman alive, but short of living
The life, like...

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I look in the mirror,

I gaze at my eyes and see my soul,

No longer a pure shimmery white light I once had as a child,

Now...

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Additional free advice to those* who would be King from the THIRUK-KURAL with Commentary
[*like presidents, prime ministers, dictators of declining (falling or fallen) nations or...

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MY COUNTRY
bear my heart above your snare dear friend.
let us daily cluck than the daily nourishment of my church.
your works in the past have blown...

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Who remembers subway token, 
Nickel, penny, silver dollar
Man who wrote his inuner story
Was he stranger to the glory?

Moonlight dust and darkness blurry
Lipstick lost its cherry...

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Let go -  and fly
Every morning Rising Like Displaced ether 
Merging into the miracle of life
Such grandeur I cannot guess 
Why We are blessed...

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It is such a lovely thing.
Through rain and sun it will bring.
Though mildly sad when they cling.

Cling to the lost.
Deny the cost.
Sadness over what it...

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Crimson robed closed eyes
in the Holy See
	that don’t say

Upper chamber veiled deceit — 
A wizard wand wave
in the Sistine Chapel cache cave

Young boys’ virgin olive...

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Let no man take for granted, 
the next man’s patience.

In next man’s heart resides
the blade, golden like furnace

To burn to hell, in vengeance,
in atonements of...

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My heart is overwhelmed with the burden of what is to come.
Death or life non can declare,
For our hands are tight in that which we...

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*Image of Sun by A Shared Soul.

The Fifth of July
(Pondering A Newness)

A gold sovereign wakes, dimly rises
afar, a relic of sorts once revered the
world round,...

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Sun, moon, stars, and universe are captivations,
Scenes, sceneries, lands, landscapes are activations;
Like a child, at each lovely scene, I do wonder,
Today, to a certain concept,...

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Not even the shadow of its massive brick walls
Stands sentinel over the place where Ur once stood;
Gone the sound of trumpets in the banqueting halls,
Long...

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I remember places
Sunny places
On a road that never
Seemed to end
A long lost story
A radio glory
That was without
End.
And I sit and sigh, again.

Sharp remembrances
Long lost chances
A...

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Written: June 26, 2023
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The sun is alive, and all creatures are awake.
Even the green leaves seem to be breathing.
And the air is crisp, cool, and...

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