Long Aquinas Poems
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Where the Ocean Meets the Mountain
You, Mariana—deepest trench of my knowing
I call you by name not to possess it
but because it is the only prayer
I have ever known how to...
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Categories:
aquinas, assonance, love, metaphor, mountains, ocean, woman,
Form:
Lyric
She Believes In Lavender Moons
Introduction: one of the nice aspects of having an oeuvre as a poet is the ability to see where you have changed over the years. this is such a poem where i can see the...
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Categories:
aquinas, faith, growth, myth,
Form:
Free verse
God As Archivist
It is at least interesting to turn life's political economy backward
through reverse-time focus.
Life's memories of an uphill journey,
perhaps even a sacred pilgrimage,
toward an ultimate death of ego identity,
giving way voluntarily, or not,
to Earth's regenerative potential,...
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Categories:
aquinas, culture, earth, health, history, political, psychological,
Form:
Political Verse
Invisible Realities
Modern living and its obsession with materialism has conditioned us to think that what we can see, and feel is all that is real.
We say, ‘seeing is believing’ and insist on proof by saying, ‘show...
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Categories:
aquinas, abuse, faith, inspiration, inspirational, religion, religious,
Form:
Free verse
AUTHENTICITY of POETRY
When people comment
on the style or way
I write and the words
I use to express and convey
my thoughts and views.
I tend to stop and ponder
my road less traveled ....
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Categories:
aquinas, tribute,
Form:
Free verse
The Jesuit Boy
They took me at seven, not with chains —
but with silence, incense, and Latin refrains.
Fr. Toni, black-robed, sharp-eyed and still,
Read my soul like scripture, broke my will.
Not to destroy — no, they had higher plans:
To...
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Categories:
aquinas, baptism,
Form:
Free verse
What Then Endures
Oh, may LOVE feel its worth, though a concept like time,
Much less Entropy's increase no longer makes sense.
Will light still earn thought's praise if no mortal speaks rhyme,
If no stars (laws exist!) more collapse to...
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Categories:
aquinas, faith, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
A Philosopher’s Grief
We sit together in the shadowed halls beyond time—
Plato, Socrates, Spinoza, Protagoras,
Aristotle, Pythagoras, Kant, Descartes, Aquinas—
our words once rivers,
now dust in the mouths of men.
I, Plato, speak first:
“I left you the Sun,
the realm beyond your...
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Categories:
aquinas, allegory, extended metaphor, freedom, introspection, journey, mythology,
Form:
Free verse
Inside This Cave
Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath,
to find myself among the ruins
of ancient places, faces, and history.
Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivations,
something akin to...
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Categories:
aquinas, allusion, history,
Form:
Rhyme
Love So True
The love of a mother for her newborn babe,
The love of a child for adoring parents;
The love of a nun for Lord Jesus,
...
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Categories:
aquinas, heaven, love, true love,
Form:
Free verse
Golden Roses
Golden Roses
...to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary...to one without faith, no explanation is possible...Thomas Aquinas.
Roses side by side where the grotto stood
A golden garden not seen by their eyes
Bernadette could...
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Categories:
aquinas, christian, mother, spiritual,
Form:
Sonnet
John Scotus Duns
Thinker, scholar, sophist; Duns was, yet, a humanist,
His thoughts actions exhibited him as true philanthropist…!
Constructing a metaphysical argument, he said,
Of the existence of God, that like rivers moves ahead…!
Aristotle or Aquinas need not be great...
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Categories:
aquinas, faith, life, love, people, philosophy,
Form:
Couplet
The Unwritten Dogma
The Unwritten Dogma
Institutions and their doctrines fall to the spiritual reality. Not in Emergence--in affirmation of a bigoted tradition of God and man.
How can an individual Catholic be redeemed; when God has condemned that spiritual...
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Categories:
aquinas, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
Jabberwocky Redux
Jabberwocky Redux
After reading too much Aquinas
Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s...
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Categories:
aquinas, confusion
Form:
Free verse
Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply
Let Any Agnostic Provide a Reply
After reading too much Aquinas
Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear
if the onager’s master spoke Twi?
Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope
if a civet leapt out of a...
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Categories:
aquinas, faith
Form:
Free verse
Aquinas Lear Limericks
Thomas Aquinas ,a 13th century Italian friar first recorded use of the anapestic meter in the AABBA form with prayers in Latin until Edward Lear used theform for humourous verse.The title Limerick is more uncertain...
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Categories:
aquinas, humorous, word play,
Form:
Limerick