Long Coptic Poems

Luke’s Purpose
Luke 1:1-4

Luke: “Many people have applied themselves,
to the task of compiling an account of the events,
that have been fulfilled among us [the shelves].
They used what the original eyewitnesses [gents] -

And servants of the word...

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Peter went downwards
Onto a bed of black mud 
To rest his filled mind 
From questions of the cold wind
And prayed to the Son
For the burning white fire 
He was thus blinded
Briefly by a burning light...

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The Holy Bible is an ancient collection
Of 66 books comprised
Thirty-nine books mainly in Hebrew
The OT, by the Jewish people still prized.
The NT books were letters
Written in the Greek language.
The first five books were written by...

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A lifetime of waiting, stacks of National
Geographic half as tall as me, piled on
every step. A girl with nothing to do but dream.

The yellow-black jackets buzzed, I flowered
as I turned the pages. The relics of...

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The Hate Machine

The tail of a bird the bone of a man;
Warm red Blood upon the sand.
A hooded figure, a Nazi Cross.
Was there ever a man who could count the cost.
Of the Hate Machine.

A starving...

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a grandfather clock in  the corner of the
 room turns its grayhead and sounds.

it is the hour of salt... it is the hour of aged reason. 
 and i have lost all affection for...

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S--t Happens!

Does sharing s--t with others make one's poems poetry: 
Blank verse or rhyme with meter win if metaphors disguise
The fact that truth is absent: is there love in bigotry, 
A plethora of nuance monkey...

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Each day, a red sun arises from the emerald river, 
In the acrobatic leap in the dark with watermelon smell.
In the evening, the pale moon it is dressed up in silver  
By a dervish...

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Each day, a red sun arises from the emerald river, 
In the acrobatic leap in the dark with watermelon smell.
In the evening, the pale moon it is dressed up in silver
 
By a dervish who...

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The Cross
It six o`clock Sunday early evening she is in
the church that looks Coptic, the sun lit up
the cross on the top and the roof looks rosé. 
 A Morocco radio station plays Arabic music...

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January

Journey into the New Year named after Janus,
the god of beginnings and transitions. 
Another year of New Year’s 
celebration and resolutions 
of new beginnings, 
putting the past behind us, 
and going forward into the future....

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