Best Oblation Poems

Gather around the sacred fire, my children
Let the embers' glow spark your curiosity
as we begin on this journey together;
to the time of how things once...

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Conditioned since birth by customs, family, society and ego
We go about with a clustered mind 
Complicating our simple life with our thoughts and self-imposed restrictions
We...

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A Cup Runneth Over

My cup in dry abyss boils over
Condensing dewdrops in vapors of blessing
Into foaming condensed extracts
Like effervescence of divine dust
That bubbles up to...

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There are two twiddle dees,
Of the mind you see,
Who see and don’t see as a Pharisee,
And a Sadducee!

Theses Twins,
Of sin,
Crop up in life, again and...

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Pain in the prophecy of wings through sultry sky
Orchestrating vision, love, destiny
Emancipating the tongue to tattle tales taloned with grief
Triumphing in truth to tumult another...

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Exposed by Your divine glowing glance
My soul melted in carnality’s shame
Revealing hypocrisy lurking against guilt…
I earnestly repent midst judgment-balance.

Caught by Your compassionate look, never hasty
My...

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Tamas
I began in my mother's womb  where darkness clothed me
still carrying taste of death upon my tongue I suckled and kicked free
there were dancing...

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dewy, white petals,
its own oblation,
its mute gratitude,
its solemn prayer.


enigmatic epitome
of quiet beauty,
it beams, blooms,
worships the sky.


ah, sampaguita,
celestial fragrance,
eternal for the
shortest while !!...

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The Rich: 
Our lunch is so tasty and luscious 
It’s like in the mission we will see 
Hmmm….the air so cold and affectionate 
I can...

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Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes...

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January twelfth two thousand and ten
   witnessed near annihilation and destruction 
   of the Haitian nation
whereby countless/ nameless individuals 
 ...

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I immerse ...


nigh naked

in your keen and carnal insight ...

the rags of my inhibitions

strewn at my feet …

are my thoughts still my own

care and coil

or...

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for the shortest while, eternal,
     as an enigma of the epitome
          of...

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Dreaming of a pot of gold, you came to town
It was sprawling, this metropolis, you knew none around
Your earnings were scant and engagements, irregular
The overseer...

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Sampaguita...for the shortest while, eternal;

           blissful enigma, serene beauty, 

     ...

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