Expiate Poems

Cave canem

...the steady light of a white votive candle 	
reflected and amplified in highly polished brass
symbolises devotion	

talents never to be hidden under a bushel
but the secular world isn’t privy to ...

No God For Expiation

...No God for Expiation
By Sy Roth

Held in ungodly thrall
Their bodies wracked blasphmely dry
Loosley held together by the striped cloth.

Typhus-infested, David-starred beasts
Caricatures of h...

Ready To Go Home

...The nurse said, “ This will soothe your pain. “
My left hand was connected with Iv. 
And, I was observing how 
The blood flows through the narrow pipes
A playtime for my very own blood!

The nu...

The Devil Is In the Details

...The Devil’s watch has started and the time is consummate
A strange and tranquil calmness mocks our terrifying wait
There, just beyond our window moves like fearsome reprobates
A pair of tortuous d...

Expiate Synthetic Satisfaction

...Synthetic satisfaction derived in the shade
On the edge of the page that defies the sage stage
Where wear and tear declare war to degrade the head
That buttresses my resistance and persistence to ...

Fantasies' Favours and Flavours

...Feel the pulse of the spouse in a house
You thought you knew
Until your mouth turned into the louse
You became as fantasies ate you up anew.

Guilt on stilts divorced
Sombre sentiments in the m...

It's a Mystery To Me

...It's mystery, just fantasy,
That reader's "take" on any rhyme
Should supersede the poet's time,
The vision that he bleeds to pen,
Not set aside by mortal men,
That's hubris (without courtesy)!
...

The Denouement

...My heart weakened by its innumerable years 
continues to flutter its plangent beats. An 
ancient maple tree, its leafless naked branches calls 
for me to rest beside its protective scaly bosom, 
...

With Even One, There's a Price To Pay

...A church is beckoning to come within
There's going to be a service to expiate sin
The invisible guest who's to do this task
Is one never seen so by what means you ask
Well it goes like this -- it...

The Final Exit

...It does seem, at times, that all things make very little sense.  These are the times when a man might question his reason for living.  It is, after all, true, that in one fluid motion there is the se...

Purified

...Purge
Unburden
Refine
Improve
Free
Immaculate
Expiate
Deliver


1 John 1:9

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteo...

Brahma Iii

...Brahma III

The frivolous life lives vainly 
looking at a phantom, chasing after illusion;
men accuse one another thinking their life is real,
fight each other thinking they are existing. Today ...

Rendezvous

...Sitting under an arbor,
Broad daylight and pondering 
mind,
Cerebral thinking as of a 
maestro,
But a question still unanswered,
What makes me stick onto you?
Pardon me, did you just ask me 
that ??
...

Resurrection

...Who could have known of their watch
Who could have told of their suspicion
Who could have told
That they were the harbingers
To my resurrection?

Me, I sat there
Plummeted 
Engrossed in my ingratitud...

Deathbed Lament of An Everyday Person

...(A LIFE TIME IN A DAY)
                      I
So! This is what it’s all about,
to think that the next time I
close my eyes, will be the last
time on this pretentious earth.
I’ve often wondered...

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