Long Atones Poems

Stood I there, that last day,
On an iron bridge...
An aqueduct by design,
Where, looking dreamily out over
The Ernes Lower Lough,
My compressed shadow 
Momentarily paused -
To contently recline:
Amidst coy Junes radiant beams 
of sweet benign!
All was stilled,...

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Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones. 

The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...

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The Ancient Viking Warrior In His Old Age, 
A Collaboration With Vladislav Raven

Part (1.)

Biding his time, as each day wrangles its hours away
his soul resting between heaven and Hade's hot fires
for wanton desires shall demand...

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Part - 1.

Biding his time, as each day wrangles its hours away
his soul resting between heaven and Hade's hot fires
for wanton desires shall demand highest of life's pay
from blood flowing until care and want expires
battles...

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I.

I had the son for a sacrifice
Proffered in faith and joined to love
My covenant with him is eternal, sealed by his blood
And his fire consumes what he pleases
Though the waters be deep as the abyss,
they...

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Did Adam’s fig leaf portray his work in brief; 
the attempt, his sinfulness to cover:
While the “blood sacrificed skin”, atones his sins;
- covering them rightly all over?

Cain’s works of his will, “the best from his...

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Captive beauty, in the wilderness aloneGolden moments of a man’s solitudeStands gloriously, as when bliss does hone                  ...

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The events of the morning 
Were told to the men.
Two raced to the tomb 
One stooped and went in.
"Indeed, it is empty!"
Was all they could say, 
And with minds full of wonder,
They walked slowly away.

As...

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Two and sixty days ago —
Two months, or so I'm told —
I wandered, wistful, without cause,
Through a memory of old.

A hall of walls I wandered, tall,
As tall as tales I could weave,
But none as tall...

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Strolling thro' the cemetery the other day I chanced to see,
Various grave stones that were quite intriguing to me.
Most were modest, a few monumental, some very old.
On each was etched a tad of history with...

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The wheels turn round and the window pane shines with the aesthetic light of the great divine. The street is filled with people too important to notice the infant crying alone, wedged against the wall....

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A named Mercury plies the air
above his fountain
in the Phipps Conservatory.

Children wet their fingers
in the receiving pool
and stare
up at possibilities
that may enable them
someday
to match the blossoming
in the Amazonian Room.

Co-eds with athletic boys,
muscular Pitts and tall...

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Below the Dungeons of Despair
Alone, atones the scattered bones, 
As shattered death-dreams linger there
To moan and groan their tragic tones.



It lies beside the Sea of Tears 
Where fog and mist still fails to lift 
The...

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Jamaica, Jamaica, Jamaica now day comes bright
Her white dress lifted over blue legs of mountains
Marbled to the sky. It drank diamond littered night
Leaving nothing but  an empty cup, where fountains
Of rivers use to full...

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The waves are restless in their testimony...
a Winslow Homer portrait of shifting shapes and size.
So utterly rhythmic and mighty in their ceremony
as they swallow the golden shore then form to rise.
The indigo-green waters emerge
into a...

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Limits 



Take me to the desert and leave me there to die alone.... 
.. .. 

I wish to find tranquillity and peace before I am but bones.... 

.. .. 

The weapons of people's voices have...

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Darkness abides save flickering candle light
Illuminating his silhouette of masculinity 
exhaustion renders an end tonight
Supplanting all previous antiquity  

In the quiet he sleeps 
Leaning close to steal his breath 
As the wanting piques 
With...

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I smile at the thought of her death,
Evil lies she spews with each breath.

Mystic beauty sends dark shivers,
spindly spine erupts in quivers,

Anger floods her soul, hollow heart.
Laughing in my face, poison dart.

Temptress feigning tears, sets...

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See me bowing down, head uplifted there
Heart wounded, and bandaged in tear
At the cross alone, so naked and bare
The crowd gone, I tarry here
To hear him say, today, today, today
Your sins are all washed away
And...

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The yellow scraps perform a thrill during fierce storms. 
The breeze turbine is a lofty pattern within local farms. 
Amazed, I can spot concussive impacts in the wet stones. 
Bursting a ball of fire to...

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If you've ever wondered about atonement
it's all there in Sirach 3:30
thy wrongs against neighbour and servant
wiped off; with God, found worthy.

In giving we receive, our sins to forgive
"As water quenches a flaming fire,"
so our sins...

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birth begot obsidian night
myself grew blind to dawning light
eclipse shrouded and buried sight
twilight descended ushering spite

terror resides inside as guilt
behind the walls suppression built
crumbling walls fall the tables' tilt
foundations fallen are not rebuilt 

challenges to...

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Jesus Is Love- -


Judicious divines intuit
Eons sphere spinning on and on and on….
S like embracing Christ and God
Uncounted atones multi landscapes trod
Starry heavens solar plexus

I soul’s glimmers their lights shine
S blinks of hearts and eyes...

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Violet and gray spoke of harsh rains that day,
as clouds hung low in weighted anticipation,
then upon my face sprinkled Heaven's bouquet,
slight at first, then swift in accumulation.

The amber porch lamp, my distant beacon,
where a snapping...

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The sun has been a no show 
for the most of several months.
He peeks out a bit to cheer us
then clouds come almost at once.

We’re worried about the pretty flowers
that should be coming through.
Without the...

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