Devotion Clothes Poems

I have waited for this moment to come when the moon will dialogue with the sun, I have waited for this moment to come when...

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Disparage not our hearts-- they are God-loved, God-found
This will get mystical -- allow me to propound
Just think-- wherever we pray can be holy ground

Contemplation of...

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Sleeping through the stress
Soiled in mixed silence
Jotting every joke in justice

Like the lies of lilac
Calling itself clear
But feels like a beauty
Arranged clothes for the weeks...

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Gliding through the cement sidewalks she walks, 

leather pants, black shirt, combat boots, 
trench coat, beige lipstick, sunglasses she talks 
gliding through the cement sidewalks...

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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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This road is not mine, 
I stumbled at the precipice, 
The darts struck while i slept, 
Ten thousand enemies in ambuscade, 
with fiery arrows drawn...

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To a Louse
by Robert Burns
translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Hey! Where're you going, you crawling hair-fly?
Your impudence protects you, barely;
I can only say that you swagger...

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Gitanjali 11
by Rabindranath Tagore
loose translation/modernization by Michael R. Burch

Leave this vain chanting and singing and counting of beads:
what Entity do you seek in this lonely...

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SHE SPEAKS OF HIM
 LACKING THE DEVOTION
TO STANDOUT 
ABOVE THE CROWD
SHE SAID HIS VOICE
 DIDN'T HAVE TO BE LOUDEST
HE JUST HAD TO BE LOUD
PROUD TO...

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Designer underpants are the rage
With Hanes and Joe Boxer too
Fruit of the Loom and Calvin Klein
I can name more than just a few

How about Banana...

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Memory Quilt       “ For Auction contest “

Welcome all to today’s prestige event
Let us start the day ladies and gentlefolk
We...

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The man who lived with only clothes
was rich enough to reason.
His pants were long and tops were short
that jackets chose the season.

His underwear were never...

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He crouched among the ‘noble’ men
Of so much worth they were much to him
As seas carry creatures, he carries hope within
How much longer must he...

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She fell into familiar arms.
She cried, she screamed, she abused, she used. She explained, at length, the obvious, the previously discussed and the unspoken. She...

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A mother uses her pure, gentle touch,
She fills all with her loving care,
When the child falls she is their crutch,
She has a glow, her skin...

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