Father Essence Poems

Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. Her verse — replete with nods, winks, double entendres and sexual innuendo — was shocking to...

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Poetry
is my father and my mother
my intimacy and my belief,
my existence and my prospect...
Poetry is love, love is God
I am son of poetry and love...
God...

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The oyster shell 

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His Presence
I can sense the new day dawning
As my love slowly peels off my night’s covering-
 	the blanket of comfort and rest.
My love is gentle,...

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 Spirit O so Holy
The embodiment of a righteous God
All power
All Glory
I pray that God, 
the source of hope, 
My Holy Father will fill us completely
He...

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Raise my hand beyond your prowess, 
A beautiful harmstrong of the running hill. 
In a watch I saw him coming to trespass, 
Of which his...

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Born in the Goshen ghetto,
bound by an Ashkenaz forged umbilical chain
Beloved mother was Jim Crow lynch poor,
adored father was the Uncle Sam same
Third-generation slaves,
pauper freed...

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A father sits. 
Wrench in hand;
To fasten a wheel. 
The wagon now shiny red. 
A gift for her. 
To tote a doll promised to share....

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"The Essence of your Love"



    When I was just a little girl, my mother told me the classic fairytale about a handsome...

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If time would let me change the past,
I’d live a perfect life.
No matter how I messed it up.
I’d tidy up the strife.

But sequence has a...

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Joy was the music within my heart,
That once was there and now depart.
Blowing a prayer into the wind,
To bring it back somewhere within.

And then I'll...

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Oh father hear my plea hear my cry,ive lost my true essence i wont deny
return me to that time when angels use to whisper tender...

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