Best Waterless Poems

WATERLESS TEARS


Who would put vinegar on the lips
of those who cry, “We thirst.”
Pour dust into the vase of hope’s evaporating promise?
Deny the single tear shed for lack of moisture,
refuse the very earth its need to grow.
Allow the desert’s hand to clutch the young,
draining them of...

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Fasting, no caprice
Burning without cease
I kneeled
Under words of peace
God’s graced to release
Sins healed
I heard words to deice
I said words to unleash
Veil peeled 

Saints’ hands were a shield
“Praise the sun to wield
And kiss 
Light and flames to yield
To have your lost soul sealed
In this”
Sun welcomed and...

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The foolish know not the righteous way
for them, utter darkness is reserved
they are just waterless springs of waste
such folly brings judgement that's deserved

Enticed with sexual passion of the flesh
this promises freedom but ends a slave
corruption fills their hearts to the hilt
taking them downwards to the...

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The land was desolate and parched
Only sinuos marks of rivers which ran
No water found by men who searched
Rivers were squandered away by man

Sky ran obscured  asunder and ablaze 
Sly man would  plunder and raze

Taps were left running all day
Too late to be leery...

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