Best Augustine Poems

soft flames flickered offshore
Timucuan tribal campfires
luring Menendez’s armada

Feast Day of St. Augustine 1565
Spanish settlers rowed covertly to shore
more than 600 torches ushered in a new...

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He's


sorry


for what he's done....


he's


apologetic, but the moon


she's crumbled in my palms and drenched


in my tears.


I rub my hands across my jeans and shoot stars across...

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Bright blonde-haired girl
competitive
From the start, made a nine
Mile ride
With a spirited heart, straight
to the 
Summit of Telegraph Hill, I’ll
guess
She freewheeled back ‘just for
the thrill’

A gifted...

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Saint Augustine so eloquently stated, “Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.”

Restless heart, “Listen to the silence”
The whispers of kindness inspiring...

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Behold Beatrice, Pitcairn
the paradise sunsets lie in Tahiti
sunrise, the folly of Easter
islands, sanitoriums, deluded, denuded
limbos and purgatories, the never evermore
Polynesian metaphors transmigrate my mind
O to...

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Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years....

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 "The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."

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"Eternity is the simultaneous whole, seen all at once. This is the character of eternity, and this what the past and future are in God."...

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It was September 
Of one thousand 
Nine hundred seven
The end of summer
With apples lying thickly
Under the apple trees
And the smell of Autumn
Covering the grass
Filled with...

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Without a word - you speak to me through particles of pigmentation
For centuries held within the grip of linseed oil
Where now I gaze upon ...

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What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths 
Appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason
We believe...

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While working in Seattle for Boeing
Had duty in Florida for six weeks
Just before it was time to be going
Drove from town to town looking at...

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In the Sacrament of the altar
Lord meets us
Men and women created in God’s image and likeness
Becomes our companion along the way

In this sacrament
The Lord becomes...

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Young, we started life together but fate forked us separate ways:
Some folks continued while others dropped out at the elementary.
On and on we were done...

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Syrupy with recipe ran along brasseries 
Peiping, Mags and Oasis pricey rotisseries
Sizzling sizzlers the Peter Cat’s clamor 
Addled couples fending their pockets out of scarce....

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