Herein Poems - Poems about Herein

4 July 2025 Juxtaposition Contest sponsored by Regina McIntosh Can a lie be true? Unwittingly! Can truth be a lie: unable to see? Is what I perceive the only truth; or, just my angled point of view? Where is the bird’s-eye scene: the whole, the real that holds all things, and all of time? Surely, that is God’s: not mine. ...

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Politics governs our temporal lives Religion conscripting eternity’s prize Together they’ve killed more than famine and war A plague that still haunts us —to shun and deplore (Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2020)...

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Upon this fairly scribal yet oversize, Very squarish or rectangular tablet, Do I scribble and scrawl these very words, And those of the completeness of at least a brace, A twain, a pair of poems, though These are, after a fashion, hardly meet. Albeit, they are not so ill-fitting for all of that. They are good...

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Loose cannon fires a sure salvo; Aim for quick wit to spring wild jest; Urge can fashion as pun demos; Grip humour's fit in silly fest; Hurl a new joy with banter mild; Throw a joke there with metaphor; Embrace fond ploy to roar most wild; Reach a somewhere beyond before. Hide your sad gloom in laughter's sway; Emote and purge your tension fast; Restore...

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we are herein doomed as we fake the smiles: Therein groomed as me rake the wiles- Sins splattered stiff to our shadows Lurking unflattered from the laws. sins fall like sounds from the Trumpet The Law selling its indulgence, The church singing in different pitches About Christ, their rhythms Hoarse from greed and lies. Bibles interpreted vociferously like literature. while we croak hoarse in the...

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