Long Aramaic Poems

“The God Complex”



His face imprinted 
hidden under layers of ink
he whispers his words

like a haunting breeze
dust blown off the pages
towards the back of their minds

once-in-a-while 
reminding them of stories 
they are eventually, all souls

book-marked 
tagged...

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Ask your friend, neighbour or even a stranger newly-met
Have they ever been damaged by a ‘trust’ ….now turned ‘regret’?
Most men, if not all, have fashioned their character on personal experience
Yet these damned hypocrites are themselves...

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SIBLING RIVALRY BETWEEN THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

For thousands of years animosity has existed between the Arabs and the Jews, we know this, but what is the reason? 
Let’s go back in time and try to...

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I am the Mozart of my name
And I wait for you my Je’amour
To paint the parfai’d affair
And cross the fur elise of time
O vogue of vogues
Love is written in visions of glory
Even where the vogues...

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YESHUA
His name was Yeshua, the legitimate, not immaculate,
scion of a young Jewish couple named Miriam and Yosef and surely
a brown-haired, brown-eyed Middle-Eastern man, sun-bathed and beige,
raised in the traditions of Abraham and Moses, David and...

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Youthful temptress, aging oracle,
Nymph-like debacle, Gorgon spectacle,
Retreat from retribution’s precipice,
And a transient victory wrought by avarice,
To listen to a parable
Devoid of the empirical.

Several centuries ago in the land of the Saracen,
You were born to a...

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HE WAS NEVER A CHRISTIAN!

His name was Yeshua, the legitimate, not immaculate,
scion of a young Jewish couple named Miriam and 
Yosef and surely an olive-skinned, brown-haired, brown-eyed
Middle-Eastern man of medium height, raised in the traditions...

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O Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew and Aramaic - as Mary called Thee
I tell my churches, my poets, family about YOU
They may suspect, "He lies, just a convert to Christianity,"
Dear Heart: Jesus is real, it took...

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Ruminating on the events over two-thousand years ago:
the life, suffering, death, burial of Jesus, and the exciting,
dramatic, and supernatural arousal of Christ, incarnate -
from death to life, of the imputation - his sacrifice.

Jesus is the...

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VOLUNTARY

Jesus came to die for our sins
of His own volition in His great love
He took on the cross at Calvary
having come here from heaven above

VICARIOUS

Jesus died for sins not His own
for He was sinless perfect...

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Ah, that I were in the valley of vision
In the valley, yea, the desolate valley
Where there is sorrow like unto my sorrow
And the evening sand is gone over the sea

Oh, that I were in the...

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(Part 2) The Next Few Hours,Then Homeward.
To soon, the road an end did come
and I that dreaded stake to the ground did lay,
Where without ado, they laid that Holy-man down,
Over that stake and through both...

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the pinion of penetration which is pounded into your
skull at birth if you are ever so lucky enough to be
born into one of those families which hold the instrumental
notion of guilt production throughout a life...

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"See of Ghosts"

ghosts never leave
they watch you 
while you sleep 
casting dreams
of their return 
they wait for you
to see

ghosts never leave
whispering their 
absent stories 
into your delta heart
constant in deep shadows
along the undulating waves 
the...

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"The Kissing Loop"



My eyes close to keep you there
in a dream slow dancing, bow and cello we waltz in air
bending you closer into my body
like this pea soup fog embracing me
I walk quiet streets surrounded...

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now in his mind there are many gears
rusty but funtional.

they meter out the letters and create words
 that may even form a Structure from time
 to time.

 iron oxide filled metallic brown bullfrogs 
line up...

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Ancient tombs, of long ago times
Byblos, the walled city, fortress and shrines
Shrouded in mystery, wisdom's, and thyme
The Phoenicians sailed from this very port
Their ships full of knowledge and the alphabet too

And the peoples from times...

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The Meaning Of Humankind

Forever people look for a complicated word
Years, decades and centuries they search
One sad word that gives meaning to humankind
Poets have written pages looking for the word
Singers sing their songs trying to find...

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“So the soldiers took charge of Jesus. 17Carrying his own cross, he went out to the place of the Skull (which in Aramaic is called Golgotha). 18Here they crucified him, and with him two others—one...

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For everyone who hates his brother murders a person, and you know that eternal life cannot abide in anyone who murders a person.
                  Aramaic Bible in Plain English
                                                  1John 3:15

A murderer biblically,  
Sometimes a person...

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sometimes i want to write but 
my hand cramps up
 so i switch hands

 now my right hand does not like
 my left because he does not know how
 to use chopsticks properly.

 old lefty...

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Let me explain in words of art.
Open the mind to a-maze-ing ideas.
Coloring books for lives.
Blank pages to fill in.
Conspiring or inspiring concoctions.
Stirring with a paintbrush
colors of bright and dull.
Puzzles that are riddles, me here
pieces collage...

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You’ve become indispensable,
a reason for my existence;
a quest for what life means
speaks at length in actions.

Oh God you’re the only one,
whose essence makes me one
like a sibling soul in reality
a perspective in spirituality.

The Aramaic expression...

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In Break Formation


The indications used to come
like movie fighter planes in break
formation, one by one, the perfect
plummet, down and out. This time they’re
slower. But after supper, when I hear
her in the kitchen hum again, hum...

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Reason in unison with misfortune the line crossed between Sunday and sin seasons change 
the pathway to purity fades away, the unsympathetic audience erodes the frail sermon delivered 
by the dioceses best lier the philosophy...

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