Best Sanctuaries Poems

I dream into my Ta(0)ist
not-Universal Yang equals
not-Unitarian Yin
Sanctuary,
expecting to be greeted
by visions
of familiar spiritual apartheid.

But I am not.
Instead,
communion in this Sanctuary
looks and resounds,
feels and resonates
with multicultural communities outside,
tilting GoldenRule windmills,
bowing toward Eastern nondual rainbows,
surfing NewMoon Matriotic Myths,
but also reflecting on YangSun EcoLogos Energy.

In our religious...

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Our hearts have strings like guitars
Once passionately tuned
With melodious notes
Beautiful harmonies
Are conceived

These guitars
Instruments of bliss
Send soothing vibrations
To the universe around us

Totally energized
By these heavenly lyrics
The dervishes swiftly decide
To whirl around their hearts
Sanctuaries of love...

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Those who win the day
are those who choose love
instead of hate.
     Rev. Dr. William Barber

Those who exclude victim inclusion
disrupt everyday sanctuary
for addicted bully perpetrators,
not unlike ourselves.

Those who dream sanctuary all FullMoon night
are those who choose uniting integrity
instead of egocentric universal mendacity.

Those...

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Do you see the fractured mind?
Always solitude in any crowd.
Monologue conversation with ether friends.
Normals, gracious, to side-step confrontation.

This street nomad once had a home,
where soft cotton sheets
greeted a weary head.
Now yesterday’s man sleeps
with yesterday’s news.
Ikea packaging his castle.
McDonalds doorway his address.

Dining in suburbia; before the...

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CHURCH HOPPING CHRISTIANS MOVING FROM SANCTUARIES TO SANCTUARIES

 searching,
 churching,
 perching,
 lurching,
In my soul, searching churching ease;
Perching, lurching sanctuaries;




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be it the barstool at a favorite watering hole
or a stretch of a path trod daily in silence,
an independent movie theater whose matinees attract only the dedicated,
time spent on a park bench in the overcast afternoon,
a table at a favorite café near the window,
a gym...

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When all the business offices shut down 
And every bank in town has closed their doors 
There are two places that will welcome you in 
That’s all of the churches and the liquor stores. 

When calamity and disaster fill the streets 
And even atheists think...

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Sanctuary, a sacred place
        Holy, Holy, Holy
     where worshipers reach 
        for the heavens

     Sanctuary city, anarchy and chaos
    ...

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We are natural bodies outside
engaging spiritual souls inside

So also,
and with more significant integrity
in this domesticated 
desecrating 
lack of thriving home

We are timeless souls 
with spacious bodies

Sexual souls 
with sacred bodies

Sensational sages called 
to musing ordinations,
sensexual singing souls
communing sacred dancing bodies

Inside pleasure history's
reweaving healthy rites
outside passion...

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COVID 19: A LEVELLER

Apocalypse! Armageddon! Ragnarok!
Deadly spread of  COVID 19
Caused by human misdeeds 
Confusion. disaster cover the land
Death now becomes a reigning language
Both the cause and the cure brew conflicts
But can men stop transgressing on earth?

COVID 19 is rife 
Though born in Wuhan 
Spread...

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