OF WE AND THEY: EVEN OF US AND THEM
...OF WE AND THEY/EVEN US AND THEM! *
In the beginning
We were the architects
Of God’s designed world;
Then came them—
The devastating forces
Of its Garden Of Eden
Decline:-
We were the...
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Categories:
crucifiers, allegory, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Swimming Against the Current
...[Note: You will see in the work below connections to other poems I have posted here. Those poems are tangents to this poem that more completely tell the tale of rise, pride, hubris, fall, and rec...
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Categories:
crucifiers, ozymandias, pride, sin,
Form: Free verse
My Symbolic House
...my symbolic house
my purple castle
invaded by red clowns
a dialogue
contradicting personal icons
denying synthesis
denying art
trespassing
poaching
unbalancing decentring crucifiers
tearing...
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Categories:
crucifiers, allegory, conflict, metaphor, symbolism,
Form: Blank verse
Mary Did You Know
...He laid down his head thankfully upon a bed of straw
Mary his mother softly caressing his head, singing him to sleep
His father Joseph eyeing the sheep, cows, and other guest there
While the sound...
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Categories:
crucifiers, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Twilight For the Gods
...Fell twilight for the gods on craven haunches,
sarcophagus tantrum slammed,
broke fingers dug in the sacred bread,
stilled mouths from sipping rough cask wine
from the vine of the freshly dam...
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Categories:
crucifiers, allegory, philosophy, social, time,
Form: Verse