Spring Festival
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Symbols cry in dry ice theater -
the expanse of aesthetic visa-
drawn-
from the romance of the silvery eye -
as it golden advances the lid of covenance
in dynamic enzyme.
Open faced t...
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Categories:
essene, beautiful, god, love,
Form: Epic
Yeshua
...YESHUA
His name was Yeshua, the legitimate, not immaculate,
scion of a young Jewish couple named Miriam and Yosef and surely
a brown-haired, brown-eyed Middle-Eastern man, sun-bathed and beige,
r...
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Categories:
essene, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
He Was Never a Christian
...HE WAS NEVER A CHRISTIAN!
His name was Yeshua, the legitimate, not immaculate,
scion of a young Jewish couple named Miriam and
Yosef and surely an olive-skinned, brown-haired, brown-eyed
Middl...
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Categories:
essene, philosophy, religion,
Form: Free verse
The Calming of Her Storm
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"The Calming of Her Storm"
My mother gave me solace
I fell into her deep hollows
to kiss the wisdom of her
breath chanting quietly
I still hear her
nightingale bi...
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Categories:
essene, love, mirror, muse,
Form: Free verse
Gnostic Prayer
...Assaya,
lay your holy hands upon me, enfold my shame within your robes.
Invoke the presence of the Mother, solicit those who shine in gold.
Lift up your eyes and look upon me, for I renew under th...
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Categories:
essene, magic, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 9
...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 9
Turn the other cheek kneel while kith and kin wail
Would that faithful followers step in between
Resort to arms in months when Yin blazes trail
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Categories:
essene, conflict, life, religion, truth,
Form: Villanelle
Give Me Back My Name
...tell them i’m gone
tell them i’m gone to change my name
give them any name
i’ll not give them another name
tell them i’ll not take my father’s name
no more father than i’m my own
i do not create
i’m...
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Categories:
essene, allegory, change,
Form: Dramatic Monologue