Confusion Brother Poems

In an old vineyard 
When Jesus was just a lamb 
His coat eight years old 
Working with the chaste Joseph 
His father and guide 
As...

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Once, I’d stood beside a man
Who, with heart and soul o’erwrought, 
Silently searched for answers, but answers found him not. 
His sister recently had passed...

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Massage my back and slit my throat
As I moan and squeal with warm waves
Fuel and thanks
Wash me down in an oak casket before he leaves
Preparation...

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Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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A beautiful country deliberately engulfed
In flames, by looters who once again play the apartheid games
Stealing from your brothers the colour of your own skin
Is it...

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Thus Spoke Brother Moji 
(not Zarathustra)

With all due respect,
irrespective of 
with regards to
I have no respect
for irregardless. 

July 5, 2021
Boulder, Colorado...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Lessons
The compos compels our force and direction.
But still we stop where we start.
Eternal rotating, repeating mistakes and never learning to part
Ignoring the grief in their...

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There was a lady from the Near East
Who claimed her husband was a near-beast
She went along for his rides
Until your outside and his insides
Became for...

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You micro manage our performance
Like germs under a microscope
Always watching probing controlling
We are never free but nor are you
All of us are observed from afar...

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Thief of Glory 
 
Faded flowers, 
dead on the table, 
no vase, no water, 
no blood, 
no sacrifice, 
of time, sweat, tears, 
years and fears....

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Christmas Past...

I would bake all night;
cookies, cakes, pies and the like. 
I would put things together, 
that had no instructions, 
at least in any language...
that...

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Be Sure

I have been let down before. 
Not once but many times. 
Let us be honest, 
nearly always. 

Perhaps you will be different, 
perhaps you...

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Your Sweet Face

The first thing I see
looking at me, 
are your eyes.
Like the deep of space, 
grabbing my soul, 
and sending it outward, 
beyond. 
Where...

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Rebecca

Daughter of The King. 
Your namesake blessed a nation, 
be proud. 
You began life, 
ahead of most. 
Already you were glorified, 
held high by your...

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