Best Supplicants Poems

Ghosts of the Sun Dance

1. The Path

A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through...

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To eyes that see spiritually,
prayers at their most ardent
appear like random meteors
or lightening flashes,
ascending suddenly
amidst the myriad of points of light,
creations' more common invocations.

Burgeoning in...

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born under the sea, an irresistible force
  two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
  alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
  equatorial deep-time...

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To my Sweet  Grandma

Thy love, thy sacred smiling face
I cant forget till final breath 
Thy beauteous eyes, thy charming smile 
Thou are goddess of...

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Sunlight trickles through stained glass windows.
She kneels, a little apart from her fellows
who also seek salvation in water.
Her gray hair slips from her circumspect braid,
and...

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es ist ein 'Rose' entsprungen

Just outside the city walls ringed in roses,
Rosenfriedhof, Rose Cemetery blooms,
fairest in the Fatherland.

Leaven cakes iced in concrete or royal brass
pan...

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St. Duloxetine, thee we beseech
Our chemical plaster to fill the breach

Between raw emotions and hard reality
Our primal instincts and plastic society

Give to your supplicants a...

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The shadows from his younger days shake his resolve, 
and make a mockery of time 'til time be lost 
to moments of bewilderment, ne'er to...

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Faraway images
Clearer impressions
Calico kittens
Conferring intentions...
Wistful companions
Abundantly joyous,
Singing reditions
Of Eventide's chorus.

Lastly, the supplicants
Soft eyed in questioning
Whisper endearments
With symmetry's blessing.

All of the questions
And some of the answers
Flower...

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On a throne 
                 in the depths 
 ...

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Shadows stretch, and hungrily


they gobble up the cold and homeless,


Joe and Mary shiver, searching 


street fronts for some sign of meekness.





Mary's pregnant, Joe is jobless,


faith...

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...inspired by 'The Traveller' by W.H. Auden


The shadows from his younger days shake his resolve,
and make a mockery of time 'til time be lost
to moments...

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The shadows from his younger days shake his resolve, 
and make a mockery of time 'til time be lost 
to moments of bewilderment, ne'er to...

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In a lonely garden there' s a shrine
where upon a rough hewn stone is writ:
“GOD IS LOVE.”

The devoted supplicants make wail,
water the flowers, feed with...

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Shadows stretch, and hungrily
they gobble up the cold and homeless,
Joe and Mary shiver, searching 
street fronts for some sign of meekness.

Mary's pregnant, Joe is jobless,
helplessness...

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