Best Bishops Poems

The Pillars of humanity
felled by little boys tears
Irish clover
not so lucky for boys in white
defrocked
a new generation of holy men
the cycle of sodomy
sickens the soul
yet the masses
on their knees
sending child
like  a lamb on the cross
blood droplets
religious tears glow
ah but the Irish clap
as Saint Patrick
condemns...

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I have eaten kings and bishops
washed them down with blackened waves

I have knelt among the vines of passion
found them twined with crawling thorns

I have held the rain inside my feet
walking slow with tender grace

I have embraced friends and strangers
knowing them as unacknowledged kin

I have spoken...

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we sit as a family in a restaurant
my son turns to me and says,

"we are chess pieces now
you're the king, mum is the queen."

he tells me my two-year-old daughter
in the high chair is the bishop

and she has to walk home diagonally 
which means it'll take...

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