Folker Poems - Poems about Folker

...Scare-City by Rick Folker Here on these mean streets... The palpable lack of love Threads through the alleyways of brutal loss and unanswered prayers; The anguished cries of despair rise......

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...It's Not My Job by Rick Folker It's not my job to teach you of love; to pull you, pry you from your place of hate. It's not my job to lift you from willful ignorance when you elect a pr......

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...Phantom Lovers Rick Folker Seek the meek In bars discreet Where men hold men longing to be complete the disco days the haze, the craze before we ever dreamed there could be a party cr......

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...Sit Transit Gloria Mundi Rick Folker Our current consumptive culture Salivates over "Tech" and "Cell" and "Screen" That transmits the lurid, pornographic Apocalyptic scenes. We long for th......

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...Advent by Rick Folker December, 2017 "... you know the time; it is the hour now for you to awake ... the night is advanced, the day is at hand. Let us throw off the works of darkness and put on......

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...Mimshak* by Rick Folker As the Lord lives, it must be the Lord himself who will strike him, whether the time comes for him to die, or he goes out and perishes in battle. But the Lord forbid that......

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...That Which IS (for Julian of Norwich) by Rick Folker I came across it in a bookstore As if you were standing right there and smiling, "Now do you understand? It IS enough." You, in ......

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...The Ethical Self by Rick Folker If there is evil here, it is complacency, and it is collective. - Courtney Martin/columnist for On Being The Moral Arc is bent but not broken It can be retr......

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...Lost Lamentations by Rick Folker (remembering Charlotesville) "Miserere mei, Deus" Lost among the shrill voices of blame, of rage, of insatiable violence The low, plaintive lamentations ......

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...59 by rick folker What happened in Vegas Should not stay in Vegas. Such a mind-numbing tragedy cannot be contained, nor constrained or explained by a simple 'summing up'. No, never 'wh......

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...On Reading Akhmatova by Rick Folker Kansas City, MO ...delighted in deliriums, In singing about tombs. I distributed misfortunes… … But I am not allowed to forget The taste of the tears o......

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...KINDRED KIND by Rick Folker We need prophets and poets Poor people, lost people Raising their voices In Rage We need Feminists Fearless Gays, Forces of Freedom Ready to Engage We nee......

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...A Frisson of Fear by Rick Folker I will not bow to your idols of hate I will not offer prayers to your false gods you create I will not kneel to your toxic media of lies, half-truths......

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...The 'Beloved Community' by Rick Folker One beloved community in God's world Where each soul honors the Image of God in the other Where neither Jew nor Greek Woman nor Man Delivers the 'man......

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...Ibrahim’s Broken Dream by Rick Folker His withered hand sifts through the sand, “My descendants, Isaac-Ishmael are like stars that have fallen, sand scattering into a nameless lake ... So......

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