Best Nunc Poems

In retrospect, I wish I could take back every single regrettable sin!!
But the Sin-Take-Away-er, the Lamb, forgives so I may begin again.


(John 1:29)...

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Consciousness seeps,
the air moves.
Quickly reach!
Break forth from your tomb.
Visability blurred as my head swoons.
Instincts react! Frozen in place my eyes  roam.
What was that?! ...

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Shrinking time down
to a factor of one
The future and past
cancel out zero-sum
The moment, this instant
the only thing real
Unmasking the present
—nothing left to conceal

(St. David’s Pennsylvania:...

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All of my life,
living for today

All of tomorrow,
living for tomorrow

None of my life,
living for yesterday

Lived as today
—as today was tomorrow

(Reading ‘The Portable Einstein,’ September, 2020)

“Today...

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Day by day
hour by hour
minute by minute
the moments return
Calling me softly
calling me inward
calling my name
—calling me home

(Dreamsleep: November, 2023) 
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Men, do not give up your dreams for these girls, keep sleeping. 


My cousin had read this phrase to me in August, when my wife...

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Matris Dei caeli et terrae
Quam dulce, quam sancte, quam pulchra es
In quo mihi quotidie cupit
Veni ad me saties gratiarum
Illud etiam nunc in omnibus!


Solium tuum perstat...

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Nemesis, Confrontation And The Rejoined Battle,
Now Completed


(Nemesis) - Part One

O'lord of blight dare thee to now abide
Leaving thy abode to earthen realm ride
As punisher with...

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A missionary,with medical skill
With a gospel,fulfilling God's will,
Biographer,extraordinaire-
An historian,writer of song
Out of scripture his lyrics came from !

More @ Luke 1:29 Ave Maria ;1:46-55 Magnificat;1:68-79...

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I contemplated, but not alone,
On an ancient poet's ode,
A lover and a scribbler composed,
"Nunc scio quid est amor...." Oh,
"Now I know what true love is....."...

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Waiting for the government…
                  

Waiting for the government
				to...

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Magnus Annas

Summer's sensuality
When the new leaves are green with love
Marks the ritual's beginning
A ritual old as the unmarked time
That passed before us all,
In which we...

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Martial Translations

Coq au vin (Cook or wine)
by Martial, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

1.
Hosts always invite you to dinner, Phoebe,
but are you merely an éclair...

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