Best Genuflects Poems

She dons her scarlet gown again
Still radiant from last year’s ball
She knows it will attract the men
As it glitters in hues of fall

A golden scarf ignites the flame
Of campfires in the painted hills
On this dance floor lovers came
To celebrate the autumn chills

Ever so gracefully she...

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You watched it on TV 
And you might have wondered why
Colin knelt on that football field 
What was he attempting to try? 
The narrative of his actions 
Were about America's attitude 
Towards Black men 
How they've been lynched, harassed
And murdered again, again and again 
Yes...

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"Moonspinner Seer" 

Moments we dance
you and I 
alone 

sensing 
all the words 
gone

soul naked
we spin 
sad worlds away 

bad spells 
in a small ocean 
buried, never forgotten

casting pearls 
luminescent 
into the trapping net

ghosts in the 
gloaming glistening
unravelling

unseen,
they are now
listening

reeling
them 
in

delicately 
undressed by 
moonspinner mind

inside
haunting 
all...

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For Children of War and Other Deceptions

The load of time
weigh heavy 
on the yokes of life;
the unshelled shelled.
Gone.
Innocence of children
preyed upon;
life failed to root itself.

Janus face war genuflects
craving forgiveness; 
praising its necessity....

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The Inner Workings of a Clock

My Catholic schoolgirl
Denies my shadowy persona.
Costumed in
A navy blue uniform 
A snow-white blouse,
A chest pocket embroidered
By Saint John Fisher,
Her youthful bearing ticks
Smoothly, quietly, piously.

My Catholic schoolgirl leads
The May Day procession
She crosses herself and genuflects.
Wrapped in rosary beads,
She pushes my golden...

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Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the bible belt, your minds a welt of doubt
throbbing in confusion as you try to sort things out?
Do you ever look...

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There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree 
is never a safe place for you or for me...

The vicious antihistamines attack unwary gabardines,
while hungry, snarling mezzanines will slither on...

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The soldier, he looked down at me
While I protested vociferously.
He seemed to be but twenty-five
An age that weathered eyes belied.
And as I turned to walk away,
I heard the soldier up and say:

“It seems that you don’t understand,
What it takes to protect this land.
The price we...

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Imagine 

Imagine…
A mansion among many promised mansions
On the banks of a river from blessing, 
Sparkling in the eternal sun,
A shoreline lined with trees
In the harmonic hush of glory
Their leaves of healing 
Float like sacred balm in everlasting wholeness

Imagine…
A house made of joy
Where reality genuflects to...

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She’ll be leaving soon I see
The ambulance has arrived,
Waiting for another guest 
To take a long, hard ride.   

A malicious, microscopic serpent 
Invaded blood and bones 
Leaving this sweet young lady 
Ravaged, scared and ominously alone. 
 
Looking out her window now
At the...

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genuine earth angel
she genuflects to the park
acknowledging Mother Nature’s Godliness
the flora and fauna admire her
wondering how she turned to stone...

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COLLEGIATE MANTIS

solo stick figure genuflects at the knees
leafy green, prophet-like.
                 
petitions God with a tenacious grip -
of the windshield wipers,
assiduous antennas flapping in the breeze.

holds on to the lord’s...

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I saw the old priest all in black
walking to the small town church
on a chilly late October morn, bent against the wind
the mountains a backdrop to his back

a flock of birds flew over the trees
red and gold and green
and I thought to myself, what a...

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..Dez sighed at a soft feeling when
a gentle breeze brushed past his skin,
it was the first soft thing he’d felt,
the first wind that didn’t burn him.

Far above came a subtle warmth,
comforting, not the burning kind,
a sun in a sky so brilliant
that he laughed while shielding...

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feisty flamboyant frenzied fanny
genuine genuflects to her granny
many of us yell whoa
for this means she is also
now neglecting nefarious nanny...

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