Best Baptizing Poems

O April
how I’ve longed for your return
to breathe new life 
into this gnarled body..
for these roots to be unfettered 
from the grasping earthen frost -...

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You, are water~
fluid moods
overflowing extremes.

I dip my toes 
testing,
should I dive in..?
This time,
will  y o u  let me sink or swim?
Have you ...

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Trauma stained 
my innocence, 
before I knew 
that the sunless 
sky lost its glory
to doomed darkness,
an empathetic gaze
which roamed beneath my 
saffron skin, 
an ungodly...

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         Don't think like an ant for a tunnel to hide.
      ...

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I walked the beach and saw my footprints wash away with waves- 

smoothing the sand without a flaw, and I seemed blessed in holy clime...

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Don't worry if you're making waves simply by being yourself. The moon does it all the time. ~ Scott Stabile



Silence sings
	To the hungry soul
Baptizing night
	In...

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I thought other people into little boxes
me over here and them over there
I thought I was being oh so enlightened
forward thinking and completely aware

I thought...

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Soft fire is his eyes

                    ...

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Bleeding music into
A heart who cries
Tears so gentle, so tender
They reflect the hope
So often called to mind
By one who knows
Lost love – left behind

Breathing light...

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Light, like a morning
Dawn’s laughter
Reflecting so much joy
Sun silences the moon
Quiets the stars
Echoes brilliant hues
Of joy and insight

Light, like a whisper
Sunrise healing
Leftover darkness
Lingering fear, dread
Tears...

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When seeking to write
a poem, no need to
descend into deep, dank
mysterious wells of 
creation – after great depth
only to come upon 
one's ignitable soul-fuel

my muse,...

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I sit silently, so still
On the wooden chair in the den
Beside a window, sun raining in
Baptizing my thoughts
In warmth, blazing breaths
Of faraway wonders

The seat I...

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The old country church where I used to go,

As a boy back then, now those precious memories flow.

I remember how sweet it was when my...

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I will die intoxicated
by the poison of sweet lies
falling from your cheating lips...
ah...
how well they lie...

when they touch me whispering
and drink me slowly
stirring storms
on my...

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Dawn awakens, lets yawn red searing sigh,
summer steams sweltering sweating sunlight.
Street's hot bed of coals smolders in July,
temperatures torch with tropical smite.

Haze humid stir-frying Bronx...

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