Defrocked Poems

Gloomy international waters

...Let sail this doom and gloom
Drinking gasoline with a blue lighter
In the morning head up the gangplank
The hours till I lay down is a lifetime
I’ve become a child drunk on hydrocarbons
How will...

Patty Fingers

...Sister Mary Margaret O'Malley 

Worked the parish of Tin Pan Alley 

The whole clergy was rocked

When the priest was defrocked 

He got caught in her hidden valley...

Upon Waking

...


“Upon Waking”


Slumber has its upsides 
while the outside runs around
like a split fowlyard, 
cacophonous 
pecking at each other 
and at the ground…

Elsewhere, 

like d...

Clinging to Words

..."Love you a lot."
Words never said with honest hands.

This devilish lip-service
conducted
by defrocked priests.

I will not love myself
until,
I find you in a hole
I also can jump into.

...

Can You Hold Onto a Peach

...In the winter of my years, stands my barren tree
Its leaves stripped by autumnal winds
Against hope, it had one life left to give
I blew a warm breath into a lone branch
Hoping against hope, I st...

Bohemian Threnody

...Back then we could eat clouds -
we were that tall, even baggy Ben (who
was small for a lumpy kid),
could leap over a pub door
without leaving the floor.

Then behind our backs
a Lilliputian wo...

A Call To Live

...

              A CALL TO LIVE


Hands joined, strolling on quiet, lamplit, peaceful streets.
We, were so joyful from our heads to the bottoms our feet.

Life was sweet, soft and loving ba...

Birthing the Vortex

...
"Birthing the Vortex"



the complexities of a myth
borne from the birth 
of amorphous seat 
in dark matter brain

storming dimensions never se...

Protection of Their Own

...Alma Mater in denial
Beckons proof of terrible sin
Congregation gather to witness
Defrocked disciple
Endeavours to catch her and hear 
Flagellate in fear of the hounding.

Girl on a high, this...

Go Bang

...
“Go BANG!”



"Is that a gun in your pocket?"
She said

"Careful, I recommend
you need to be undercover, 
and soon, call it Espionage M
You’re...

Grackles

...Wings monger air.
A host of defrocked preachers
buckle and swag.
Mobs clique and crowd in clusters.
Grackles, 
skip, jump, and plunder on.

The birds pilfer, promenade,
scrum, pluck,
lift of...

Breath, In Blue

...
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"Breath, in Blue"



Blueb...

Saudade

...My heart felt old; I sought the cold.
Canada’s land was what I planned.
Among trees grand and far inland
To dance my sad brand of sarabande.
Yet precious moments come when joy flowers,
Far brief...

Corrupt Bishops

...The Pillars of humanity
felled by little boys tears
Irish clover
not so lucky for boys in white
defrocked
a new generation of holy men
the cycle of sodomy
sickens the soul
yet the masses
on ...

Red Robes

...defrocked cardinals
driven from the hallowed apse
heresy of owls


John G. Lawless
©7/26/2018...

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