Best Reliquary Poems

A Reliquary Musing
 
A child’s doll melded into a stone in a former Nazi Death Camp
as its chilling image haunts the collective mind of those who live 
in the so-called civilized world of today and who profess a hollow
concern for a child who’s long dead...

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Retreating into my mind, I find, 
Encased like glass, a history of my past, of
Lovers long ago, of bent and broken arrows.
Instant memories envelop me, like a familiar
Quilt, wrapping me into a mummy of guilt,
Unhappiness, pain. . . all feeling remains,
Are stored here, the bones...

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I had to learn to skin animals
but instead 
practiced on myself


after diving deep 
into the abyss of my soul,
I surfaced 
with my tri-colored eyes alight
in the illumination 
of self prophecy


fates morn’ dawned bright 
flint-ed off the horizon
the sun blazed, 
misery
and reflect in the seven seas
streaming...

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