Long Expiate Poems

Brahma III

The frivolous life lives vainly 
looking at a phantom, chasing after illusion;
men accuse one another thinking their life is real,
fight each other thinking they are existing. Today as well,
I wander in the valley of...

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(A LIFE TIME IN A DAY)
                      I
So! This is what it’s all about,
to think...

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The Devil’s watch has started and the time is consummate
A strange and tranquil calmness mocks our terrifying wait
There, just beyond our window moves like fearsome reprobates
A pair of tortuous demons meant all Hell to perpetrate
We...

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It does seem, at times, that all things make very little sense.  These are the times when a man might question his reason for living.  It is, after all, true, that in one...

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Synthetic satisfaction derived in the shade
On the edge of the page that defies the sage stage
Where wear and tear declare war to degrade the head
That buttresses my resistance and persistence to engage   ...

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Feel the pulse of the spouse in a house
You thought you knew
Until your mouth turned into the louse
You became as fantasies ate you up anew.

Guilt on stilts divorced
Sombre sentiments in the mind
Imbued with dark thoughts...

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abominate, abhor, abuse, admonish, adumbrate, afflict, advance,
agitate, agonize, alcohol, announce, approach, awaken, bait, bark,
bawl, bedamn, bedevil, berate, betoken, bluster, bode, bother, break,
brew, browbeat, bully, caution, censure, chide, clutter, comminate,
complain, complicate, confuse, cow, crucify, DAD, damage,...

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Who could have known of their watch
Who could have told of their suspicion
Who could have told
That they were the harbingers
To my resurrection?

Me, I sat there
Plummeted 
Engrossed in my ingratitude
Occasionally
Languishing
Betraying the illusion

And I remember, too,
Lingering in...

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Can you hear Him, He’s whispering
Come back to me, turn from your sin
There’s no iniquity that’s so great
That Jesus’ blood can’t expiate
I’ll forgive you then my child you’ll be
The price was paid at Calvary
The cost...

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My heart weakened by its innumerable years 
continues to flutter its plangent beats. An 
ancient maple tree, its leafless naked branches calls 
for me to rest beside its protective scaly bosom, 
for it sees a...

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A church is beckoning to come within
There's going to be a service to expiate sin
The invisible guest who's to do this task
Is one never seen so by what means you ask
Well it goes like this...

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The nurse said, “ This will soothe your pain. “
My left hand was connected with Iv. 
And, I was observing how 
The blood flows through the narrow pipes
A playtime for my very own blood!

The nurses...

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This sleeping dog, from winter's rate
is so sublime, survivor's state
not acquisitions in relate
nor oft imposing, oft sedate!

So look upon my line's rebate
not spoken with a narrow gate
but obvious, exacting date
whilst looking only seals my fate!

By...

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If I only had one day to live on earth's fragile dimension
I would pass by all fears that kept me standing like rock,
Dismissing stodgy impulses to win in a concrete contention
For my instincts to release,...

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It's mystery, just fantasy,
That reader's "take" on any rhyme
Should supersede the poet's time,
The vision that he bleeds to pen,
Not set aside by mortal men,
That's hubris (without courtesy)!

A muse possesses phantom's depth!
Most haikus failures, beggar art,
Joke...

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Purge
Unburden
Refine
Improve
Free
Immaculate
Expiate
Deliver


1 John 1:9

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 

 1 John 1:7New 

 But if we walk in...

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Sitting under an arbor,
Broad daylight and pondering 
mind,
Cerebral thinking as of a 
maestro,
But a question still unanswered,
What makes me stick onto you?
Pardon me, did you just ask me 
that ??

You assuage my desires,
Protect me from...

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No God for Expiation
By Sy Roth

Held in ungodly thrall
Their bodies wracked blasphmely dry
Loosley held together by the striped cloth.

Typhus-infested, David-starred beasts
Caricatures of humanity
Carved into beasts of burden

Only worthy of torture, or
Zyklon deaths---
Their punishment for existence

Work,...

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