Eclipse
...Cross all your Salem's in foreshadowed Shalom,
do the math and burn,
brightly back at Cairo, Memphis, Jericho-less nonetheless turn,
and those of paths now undaunted, not undone to aftermath of s...
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Categories:
censers, beach, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Lux Nova
...^b^
Lux Nova
(after Notre Dame)
The light at Suger's
St. Denis
precursor for mighty Notre Dame
Paints both floors in color.
Transliterated from the glass of guilds
Tracery and mul...
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Categories:
censers, beautiful, humanity,
Form: Blank verse
Beautiful Halves
...You rock me wildly
To the black rhythms of juju music from the radio;
Drinking horn in hand.
Not too drunk to tread
The course of blue, warmth
And moaning shadows behind batiste curtain.
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Categories:
censers, romance, romantic, romantic love,
Form: Free verse
The Vanishing God
...Go home, old man, turn to your bed
and draw the covers to your eyes;
there is no papa in the skies
to hear your prayers,
were you to dare to frame them.
No spirit hovering?...to flood your mind
with...
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Categories:
censers, god,
Form: Free verse
Tell Our Fathers
...They came and walked on this soil,
hands and feet shod in chains.
They marched through unending roads,
a highway of pain and sorrows.
The shackles of slavery burdened their souls.
They awoke eac...
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Categories:
censers, black-african amerchildren, cry, ,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)