Best Likenesses Poems

Pellucid pachyderms wade across
the purpling River Manjees
and Tozzath watches from the bank, 
the seat of his maroon pantaloons soaked with mud,
his nostrils flaring with the...

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It is an unseasonable March day.
My kitchen blinds are drawn against morning sun,
their slender slats like new skin protecting the body's vital organs;
eyelids before this...

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The World in its most esteemed value is nothing without people,
A Nation is as great as its people,
A City is recognized by others for its...

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I am a wood carver by instinct and intuition;
I am not a wood carver by trade or profession.
I carve the likenesses of things into something...

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I will dwell in security
because the arms of your salvation
        have embraced me
higher than the mountains peaks
is the...

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Storms of sorrow,

Etch furrowed rows
Ingrained of sad memories past
Carved deep in brow
A mounted warrior of Ghost Dance last

Storms of sorrow,

The will, nor image could force
Stoic...

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THE AL-ANDALUS QUARTET: PART FOUR
ALMERÍA / UMM AL-MARIYA   2007 AD / 1427 AH 

The traveler who journeys to the City of Almería
arrives at...

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Sharp ivory brushes my torso
Pain, but pleasure’s persistent
A flash of boredom that coinsides
With 
Saliva and other 
Suspitions.
Answers lay just beyond
Splashes of color and
Juxtaposed likenesses
My squealing...

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Forms most enormous seen from our earth,
                 Dwarf the...

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Ducking into Nell’s Cafe’ to grab a noon-hour snack, I noticed, sitting quietly in a distant corner booth,
A little girl that checked the entire list...

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   Character matters addressed by the Kings,
   By attitude adjustment - repentance of sin,
   From heaven and earth with...

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A rift was torn throughout what was once a perfect sky, the souls of many waiting to be born... beings of light.
A different being of...

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Earth feels undone.
Not only incomplete,
but now unraveling,

Undead
but not resurrecting,
not fully alive,
not healthy enough
to listen for sacred survive
whispers, ReWind
ReGenerate
ReConnect

What Gaia has joined
ego-centers within ecosystems
must not secularize
disconnect...

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the free state is actually not free
casting my line into the many manipulations
worked by dust devils and hierophants
gambling their grunt wages on my young ass
like...

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Disorderly conduct
Conducted under construction
Destruction of emotions, feelings and likenesses.

Simply stated yet so full of complications 
Complicated likeness and complying not.

Disorderly disorganized mishap
Misshapen. Shape it. Make...

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