Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im...
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Categories:
josephus, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Babel
...[REVISED 2024 April 04]
Shinar, some know as Mesopotamia, others as Assyria,
near the Euphrates River, a midday sun cast doubts of
a weakened shade made idle by the pause of its agi...
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Categories:
josephus, allusion, analogy, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
Exits Exist
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"Exits Exist"
prophecies materialised
bad dreams of tomorrow
arrived vaporising today
the higher ones
prepared their exit plans
they thought they were gods
but...
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Categories:
josephus, humanity, peace, religious, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Sunflowers
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“Sunflowers”
She planted the seeds
in their minds
that perhaps
something of beauty
could come from the bad time
could grow there
in their dead pockets
spreadin...
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Categories:
josephus, humanity, peace, war,
Form: Free verse
My Faint Ray of Sun
...Like the faint ray of sun on an autumn day,
Thou alluring Josephus, bring all my warmth.
Trestles on trees crunch while the birds play;
And all the stars sparkle as if it was the fourth.
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Categories:
josephus, beauty, desire, feelings, for
Form: Roundel
An Episcopalian Who Became An Australian
...ead of Reverend should it be Father. That is what everyone else is called.
Uncanny Priest Depiction Picture Contest
This should be your first Church Poetry Contest.
Write a poem that depicts w...
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Categories:
josephus, allegory, analogy,
Form: Couplet
Hanukkah
...Hanukkah
By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd
Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd
The Hanukkah candles remind us of the story,
How one day’s Holy oil stretched into seven days of Gl...
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Categories:
josephus, jewish,
Form: I do not know?
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:
josephus, allegory, change,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Alexandria
...Long before Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians and Greeks,
Before Hammurabi, Sargon and Ramses ruled
The world below their feet;
Before biblical scenes and mythological dreams
Of magical carpet ride...
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Categories:
josephus, history, world, sea, city,
Form: Rhyme
The Cross of Our Savior
...An aged cedar's fallen trunk was taken from
a remote, quite grove by a stone wall,
and brought to Jerusalem to build
the wooden cross on which Christ was crucified,
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Categories:
josephus, history, hope, love, peace,
Form: Narrative