Best Vestments Poems

Rebuilding bipartisan explorations,
at least two-sided appositions,
like generously inclusive
and conservatively exclusive
worldviews of MotherEarth

Sacred polytheistic strains
and peak experiences felt
through love of life 
resilient win/win relationships
weightless

Freeing secular monopolistic brains
deeply thoughtful glad
LeftBrain speaking minds
no longer stuck
in win/lose  sad
bad
mad trauma

Born of Patriarchal-Capitalist mistrust
against Polycultural-Communion 
religious lust
for life's organic culturing
peak...

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...for the Rev Eric Shirvell-Price


A blizzard of papers blanketed his desk.
His pipe rack stood like a chess piece, 
mutely waiting to be shifted.
Sepia-toned photographs lined the mantle shelf
like soldiers standing at attention, 
and there was a smell of stale tobacco.
Volumes and manuscripts burst from a...

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Upon swollen knees 
        beg mercy... please! 

surely hail showers 
     dirty deeds 
    save only deity forgive 
     thieves of moral trust... pan liars, 
 ...

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