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Aug.28.2016
One Quote - Poetry Contest
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"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."~...

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WRITTEN IN THE SAND

The Big Five—Africa’s pride in the vast open wild
Buffalo, Rhinoceros, Elephant, Leopard and Lion
Their prey—scattered Impala, Kudu and Waterbuck
On hardened dust… their...

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What can I say that I haven’t said before
What can I recite to tell how much more
You mean to my world
How that I’ve never felt...

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THE LAW

Yet sacrifice would cover for Love's sake
before that time, the Law was sent to guide
sin offerings appeased man's guilty state
but could not change his...

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“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death...

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In the dim-lit alley of the soul's bazaar,
Were jazz and jive spill from ajar,
We tap our feet, snap fingers, under stars,
And speak in verses, raw...

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My soul 
    is in purgatory,
settling in fading tunes
  of suppressed silence,
swerving perpetually 
amongst
   smoky quartz silhouettes;
swiveling through 
the...

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Morning has broken as it has done for many years
Day to day we continue without the fear of fears
Then out of the blue their comes...

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Today's changing times tell me 
I need to become more contemporary.
Yet these old bones of mine
Would rather remain with the familiar.
Using archaic words gives me...

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My life is very insular, I move from page to page
never straying far from words which prance upon the written stage.

like a sputtering engine my...

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The endgame 

And the cemetery was
nowhere to be found
yet was so present
in the shallow depth
the graveyard of the mind

No tombstone unturned
fragmented torn and twisted 
sorrow...

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“Precept”

Death’s reign is but a world of carnal minded concepts,
Within which illusions of it own harlot are kept,
As minds counterfeit the Sacred Hearts of the...

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“Sacred Lakes”



There is magic 
in your shaman bones
stories shaken like strange mojo 
busy under cover of autumn leaves 
turning burnished topaz gold 
idling unrushed roll...

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Explosions by the utilities number, this is no forth of July
Momentarily they catch my sight, it sounds as if their crying
There, now gone forever, such...

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