Elevates Poems

Love of food

...Love of another person’s good,
All others, worth their while to brood,
But I fall for the love 
That lifts me up to prove:
Naught elevates like love of food--
Love yon of any doubt
Which lives ...

Love and Becoming

...Nanaya: 
“Self love - bereft of sin, beseeching and riveting in my spirit, jumps over me in the power of expression. Each twirl of my spirits dance radiates an effervescent power directed at my over...

Is It All In Vain?

...Is It All In Vain?

Experimental scientific observations inside a laboratory 
Consequential specific consecrations that combine to form a sacred story 
Monumental consternations that speak beyond...

Sanguine Patience

...

False faces and pretentious promises churn my heart,
like what the desert storm does to the dunes. 
I can’t calm down my mind’s twirling turbulence
as the friction of fury shatters the shield ...

Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon

...Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon 

Elocution lessons for the morality police 
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique 
Revolution f...

Abcedarian Poem Because it is Great Practice for Me

...aristocratic antelope alarms and annoys
blue-eyed baboon’s billy goat buster
causing confusion, consternation and crying
distressing and disturbing deliberate donkey
egg-producing egret elevates ...

Evil Dress in Suits

...The morning filled with beauty and luster creeps slowly under the mangrove tree and anchored along the tropical coast where the skies, sea and my lover frequently meet. Something unusual was going on...

Lao Tzu: English Translations I

...LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS I

An unbending tree
breaks easily.
—Lao Tzu, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Nothing is weaker or gentler than water,
yet nothing can prevai...

I know what I like

...
I like poignant writings from the heart
clever lines that hook you from the start.
I admire a tall tale if you can spin a yarn
not pedantic but nothing suited for a barn

I love hand picked wo...

The Afterglow

...A pal may lend a hand,
A friend may understand,
A brother wakes,
And undertakes,
A miracle unplanned.

A sister helps you through,
A sticky point of view,
She penetrates,
And elevates,
A vi...

Give Away

...From the beginning I was your inspiration to see,
And in no prideful way did I take it personally,
You kept my heart hidden again and again,
And I could never understand why.. not now nor then,
B...

Stone-Hearted Love

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Written: March 11, 2025

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Desert dazzling daisy,
Enchanted by the delicate dance of the wind, 
swayed gently under the warm sun. 
Its vibra...

Undergrowth with Two Figures, Van Gogh

...brushed by the blushing Fontainebleau,
   blooming with rainless foliage,
like a poem kissed by the green…
I sigh as thoughts wander
   in saffron silence,
   in the echoing warmth
of your ...

Daylight

...Daylight breaks in front of me spilling its energy all over me, a radiant light covers the place and my heart starts racing out of control and all of a sudden something elevates on top of the hill. I...

Hermann Hesse Translation of 'Stages' from 'The Glass Bead Game'

...This is my modern English translation of the poem "Stages" by the great German poet Hermann Hesse from his novel "The Glass Bead Game."


"Stages" or "Steps"
by Hermann Hesse
from his novel The ...

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