Best Plenary Poems

Onward Christian Soldiers
(Chivalry Dead)

God’s crusade upon them laid
a stubborn suit of mail brocade.

Knights Templar, Teutonic thugs
Mercenaries out for blood.

In guarantee of resurrection. 
Skull bludgeoning insurrection.

For...

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As if the house had landed on a witch’s vavavavoom,
the door’s ajar, and my boy had alerted me…

surely tornadoes increase the velocity of speed
of a...

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You, looking at me
             Come and let me look closely
   ...

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I'm Mephistopheles, you, my Faust
I'm to your mind what a fluorescent bulb is...
To a fly. I take perverse pleasure
In trapping you in my undertow

I'm a...

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The only genius I ever met was me
Why is it so hard for others not to see?
I try so hard to teach everything I know
And...

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If only I can rise up and go there
There to market place of Mercy
That I meet generous Charity, 
The wealthy merchant that she is
The hidden...

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This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's...

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I canceled my death for you
a postponement on the inevitable 
the choice had come 
I could have walked away
but all things considered
and considering how much...

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pulled from the mouth of self-destruction,
demons threatening to swallow him 
head to toe by plenary 
surrender to power
greater than himself;
now transformed by
faith in God
he is
free



Date...

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Honey did not leave me,
Just robbed me of my sweetness.
While scarlet desires still emanate from the evergreen memories,
Under the moonlit sky,
I mourn over the ascetic...

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Tonight we’ll share the heavens;
Souls knitted into one,
Fly together we, the ochre moontrails,
on gossamer wings.

The decanter overflows with nectar;
its sweetness permeates the ethereal void,
like ephemerous...

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Molest, mark
a hazardous notation
a plenary indulgence
imparting a linkage
with or without symbolism...

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Spare me passenger, for when in the mind's eye thy sojourn,
Retire terra firma, and all indubitable shall adjourn,

Light lies in a lucent litany, now look...

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Funeral in 1963


Beveled dusty cracked glass shielding Mother Mary enthroned,
Amidst flying angelic devotions atop whipped clouds of icy air,
Enslaved by an antique miracle made manifest...

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Concerto D'amor

Whenever I'm with you, 
Other things are amnesia. 
Every single moment with you, 
Suits decades in a catatonia. 

If you were Bermuda triangle, 
I'd...

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