Best Confessor Poems

I
You are far from a whisper;
surviving where echoes
fall between cracks in the floor,
where the pulse of phantom tangibles
beats only in your hands, loving
no more, no less, no one.

Witch doctors finger your spine,
and ignore your soul. Run 
from their sagacity, the lectures  
of apposition; take...

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Blow, blow, you unfeeling winter wind,
Cruel, wicked you are,
Numberless leaves you pluck so harshly,
Clothesless you make them unkindly,
As mercy is not enthroned in your heart,
Oh! How truthful you are,
You're inward alike as your outward shows,
Poisoned soul with devilish appearance,
You are not a deceiver but a...

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Consistency is character that spells what no one reads again
Habits other-centered distrusted, ridiculed, and yet sustained
Altar and cross accepted is what love requires, the sharp flame
Rinsing spirit of the flesh, humility's morning in earth's night
Ark of the soul, the lettered truth believed, let none disclaim
Conscience...

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Confessor and Predecessor

A President who is the other's predecessor
Must make her old one be a confessor
Hardest problems to tackle what they are
And going with Congress just how far.

Water running through Congress is stagnant
How can you ever obtain their consent
When over and over we have been...

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