My Country Tears For Thee
...My Country tears for thee Black
Nativity scene. Sour milking abreast of poison trans-Libertitity. LGBTTT/STATUS/VIP/perversing.
branding.trending, algorithm bending, Lockhee...
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Categories:
http, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Dry Canals of the Gathering
...Those who crown themselves with miters and croziers
Are dry and barren canals to which I shall describe
Boats remain frozen in their abandoned and void place
The waters being a simulacrum of ...
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Categories:
http, anger, religion, religious, sad,
Form: Free verse
Valentinus' Sight of Life
...i saw a child awake and resting ~ he declared “I’m the Word of life”
Inspired by "Valentinus' Vision of the Word" (a mystical vision of Christ) found here: http://www.gnosis.org/library/valen...
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Categories:
http, child, life, religious, spiritual,
Form: Monoku
Prayer To the Mystery
...Grant me your free-flowing mercy
The bright redeeming potency
For I’m yours, redeemer I plea
Mystery, have mercy on me
Grant me your saving birth, oh Mind
Open yourself, treasure refined ...
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Categories:
http, allah, devotion, mystery, prayer,
Form: Kyrielle
Healer of the Sea
...Styrax staff in hand
Heals the blind and lost at sea
Calling out “Pearls! Pearls!”
Holding the book of secrets
Deep as the ocean’s abyss
Inspired by the text "The Acts of Peter and the Twelv...
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Categories:
http, allegory, jesus, ocean, religion,
Form: Tanka
A Man Nighmare
...Painting by Scottish painter "Peter Doig". One of the most well-known contemporary figurative artists. In the Magic Realism style, this artwork is titled 100 Years Ago.
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Categories:
http, analogy, appreciation, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Thought of the Day
...Are we awake in the waking state ~
Mindful of desires that lie in wait
31-March-2022
Notes: http://yogananda.com.au/g/g_turiya.html...
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Categories:
http, introspection, sleep, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
Significance of Easter
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Organic form goes through birth and death
Thus man too did believe in death’s inevitability
Until Jesus practically demonstrated resurrection
Signalling that we too may so transcend, as...
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Categories:
http, easter, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Snail Sealed Away
...Trapped in slothfulness
Trapped in spiral labyrinth
Will she leave her shell
Inspired by a mosiac art of snails in Aquileia Basilica. Explained here: https://theomagica.com/blog/visit-to...
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Categories:
http, allegory, analogy, animal, dark,
Form: Haiku
In the Realm of Shadows
...“Even though I walk through the darkest valley,
I will fear no evil, for you are with me;
your rod and your staff, they comfort me.”
Psalm 23:4
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Categories:
http, bible, religious,
Form: Rhyme
The Orford Castle
...Anglo-Saxon rulers were interned in the Orford castle.
Its polygonal edges secure the town's harbor from dazzle.
Many tallies of feral men caught in fisher webs hassle.
In 1826, Joseph...
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Categories:
http, art, beauty, color, history,
Form: Ekphrasis
Keelmen Coal Factory
...Turner's artistic gift is sought to a working-class dream sequence.
His visual poetry beats the factory revolt's time and place.
In a stunning display of moonshine, which erupts through...
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Categories:
http, art, firework, inspirational,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Bridge Sur Scene
...Monet's brush strokes blend to show Argenteuil and Seine.
Monet, Renoir prized evoking faded light and scene
Told to Lilla Cabot, US artist "painting means slight around you,"
Frame a ...
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Categories:
http, analogy, art, river,
Form: Clerihew
Spirit of Summer Night
...In the spirit I see all hanging by the stars
In the spirit I see all held by the bars:
The flesh a curtain hanging under the dead soul
The dead soul an owl held by air above the knoll
The air hel...
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Categories:
http, flower, night, riddle, song,
Form: Rhyme
Clerihew York
...A US born painter was Albert York
preferred action to small talk
American vanitas was his style*
small,minimal lacking guile
*http://www.artnet.com/artists/albert-york/...
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Categories:
http, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
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