Best Dei Poems

ORPUS DEI
It is the hand in action of dei
Via et epiclesis unus mysterium fidei
The hand that makes all feels great
He is God and ever is he brave

He is ever seen but not familiar
We all see it verba visibilia
It is him who owns what we see
Let’s...

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With every fleeting breath,
For the rest of my life,
I simply will not forget,
Your toxin,
 My strife.
 
With a single drop you infect,
Flowing through my veins,
A sin I can’t repent,
Your touch,
My pain.
 
Without mercy you intrude,
Writhing under my skin,
A sensual interlude,
Your lyric,
My sin.
 
With shame I...

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If leaden skies above you, responsive
As brass, are mocking your anguish’d heart cries,
Repulsing all resolution efforts;
Your angels holiday, while Father God 
Seems distracted -- higher priorities
Eclipsing yours – Would this be the reason
You sit stranded on this park bench broken
Beside the path you once sojourn’d...

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[It is the spontaneous utterance of the universal conscience.
		- Elihu Burritt, “The Empire of Public Opinion”]

Remember that day, Elihu,
when you stood at your forge as the earth
shook underfoot. A steam-locomotive,
come to change the world.

Foot-traveler by choice, you walked out 
to see what was left after...

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Contemplating how and why
I search for reasons in the sky
I ponder why I'm not alone
While learning how to make a home
Her presence raises questioning
How love will bloom in early spring
Why she chose to be with me
New born life is what I see
A first for her,...

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Sometimes in Virginia when the scorching madness of xenophobia conspires 
with a fragile, violent countenance, I fall to the darkest, bitter poison.
And in that carnage, a nation learns of impending destruction.
But the sounds of heaven like an unstoppable flood, poor over New Orleans and 
comfort...

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You, Czeslaw,
like a brook of the earth,
welling up to the skies and more,
swelling up even to the sun and the stars
and all unknown, uncounted galaxies
and more, more than we can yet know
or ever will, till in timeless space
we dwell in a place where
our tears mingle...

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Twelve men in the beginning
reporting unto God
Ten Commandments to proclaim…
devotional synod

Sacred by their nature born
each man immortal bound
Divinity in every word
salvations thorny crown

Choices come and choices go
judgment waits beyond
The weight incumbent, buried deep
embedded in a psalm

Nine will cloister, locked in place
the future theirs to choose
Decisions...

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After Christmas comes Boxing Day
When mum carts the rubbish away
Like one of the boys
Dad plays with our toys
Day is done; what more can I say?...

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The Lamb of God
He came to us freely

Walked among us sinless
Taught us of God the Father

Healing the sick
Raising the dead

Setting free the tormented
Reaching out to the lost

Forgiving the sinner
Being the lamp unto our path

Showing His endless mercies
Suffered in our stead

Died to give His salvation
Rose again...

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   They say Claudine Gay resigned today
     Diversity at the university just died, we pray...

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They want our rhythm but not our blues
They envy our natural melanin yet tan too
We wear our style and they call it hood
They copy it now and say it’s all good

They want to erase our heroes and heroines 
Because there’s a power in the skin...

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They're knocking at me door
In the middle of the night
They're knocking at me door
Giving me an awful fright.

They taking me
To a camp where
Ashes fall like black snow.

I'll not be overjoyed
By goose-stepping boys 
With boots to their knees, oh hey,
And brown shirts and billy clubs
Cheese grater...

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("Niobe's Tear", 2020, original encaustic)

The Lie of Equality and Truth of Universality

The world has always been divided
Along lines of haves and have nots
In whatever way you wish
To measure the having.

The difference today is
Inequality is no longer acceptable.

But since it clearly exists - empirically
In whatever way...

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I was a woke shrink, I sadly write this verse.
My patients came in bad shape, ended up worse.

Today there was Cohen, who thought he was French.
I told him either way, his privilege gave a stench.
I told him skin color made him an oppressor.
He got so...

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