Best Schisms Poems

SCHISMS....

I woke up with Lennon on my brain,
I read the news in the usual way,
Turbulence and schisms over isms,
Society's deep and divisive chasms,
Why are we all such lemmings?
Bigotry and phobias ever forming--
Imagine a world of informal religions,
Peace and tolerance in our visions,
For churches we revere...

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Ah the schism, the gap...
the once electrically charged space that now,
seems to hold only hollowness
like a wicker effigy… before the offerings have been placed
before the lamb as been brought to slaughter.
The line between sanity and insanity blurrs
water on glass.

Laughter has never been a recourse
not for...

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We are winded and on the ropes. Backwater banjo boys
strum against us. Clouds feed upon a shoaling light.
A bad day for going out or staying in.
A time to be sleepless. We must live timidly,
or push deeper into a glaring daylight 
toward the drugged dreams of...

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