Long Genuflect Poems

Highlight of Goofus and Gallant 
bred within the survival instinct 
of hungry hordes of prey, 
when Earth in the balance 
against an uncomfortable truth 
smug smurf like scavengers. 

     Punishment meted...

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"The Precipice"



In the Autumn 
she wore a wedding veil
A cold winter would lift it
Kiss her lips passionately to 
speak words of 
LOVE
on a 
late roll call

“Well, that’s insanity for you” 
some snakes would hiss
others rapture-faced
on...

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"Books and Covers"



"Books and Covers"

"Covers and Books"

"Stories and Lovers"

"Lovers and Stories"

"Some Time It Took"

"Spinning Wheels Spinning"

"Needles Pricking Thumbs"

"Agatha and Daphne"

"Danvers is Rebecca's Mum"

"Casting Fishing Hooks and Aspersions"

"Bewitching Hour"

"Drinking Potions of Lovespell's Nasturtiums"

"Lost Love Woods" 

"Hidden...

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A true story, based on family oral tradition
from the oldest part of the city of Bern,
capitol of Switzerland, where my mother was
born and raised, in the Nydegghoff)

He lighted the candle with a quivering hand,
his overcoat...

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"The Epiphany Rose"

All well and good,
the story unfolds;
the isolating madness 
drew out the poets 
in all the shunned
playing up and out 
their origami
word games

something like 
an epiphany rose
in them, the mad,
recalcitrant ones,
like nuns leaving 
the...

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We gave Johnny a gun and a uniform
Trained him to kill, in a regiment conform
Sent him deep into Vietnam jungles warm
With little regard to how we did him harm
 
     So...

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Our life’s twists are at times too bad.
Bliss is not what we always have.
Tears do shed and make us broken,
Life is like this so we need to keep on moving.
 
My journey if full of...

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What's man that heaven turned to hell
in Eden's garden? It's a tale,
as old as time before the flood,
before Cain spilled Abel's blood.

Subtler than murder, the neighbor 
grows rich against the miserably poor;
with might, the sword...

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MOTHER GHANA
I was told about your retrospect, after that scene, I burst into tears. I learned they came to genuflect like angels and took away your possessions. They dehumanized your progeny like animals. They dragged...

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The Translucent Loft

The girls choir at St. Mary’s still sings there.
Shh, be quiet as we step inside
through these green rectangular doors,
Shh! Listen... 
We can hear them up there, 
in the translucent loft.

They are still cloistered...

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If there’s no god, why show respect
for pain that’s felt by an insect,
for doesn’t that in part deflect
from order’s natural select
which did from soup somehow infect,
cajole or otherwise confect
life as we know it, and inject
complexity,...

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This Romeo is bleeding, but you don't see his blood - Bon Jovi - Always

                    ...

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Color outside the lines


Coloring outside the lines
Not at my school
Nuns frowned on that;
Skirts above the knee
No way
Not at my school;
No gum, no pens,
No make-up
Not allowed-uh-uh
Not at Saint George School;
Memorize your verses
Three a night
Don'miss a word
Mistakes...

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I stand neck-high tall
within the quicksand
of my infirmities.
Green and gaunt,
I hesitantly genuflect.

Ravaged tendons and corpuscles
are barely breathing
within the vacant corridors
of a soiled carcass.

My ardor for vindication
has been abandoned.
I presently refrain from accepting
the consultation of 
umbrous...

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storm, weight of rain sloshes
o’er the sides of the acrylic tub
thunder of strobe, eyes blinking
slashes of screams, disaster —
utterance of lips, gutteral
door jammed, eye to eye contact
with the lion and lamb; the owl
on heights of...

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I hold three magic rocks, in my hand
Rolling them over and over and over
Leaving this reality behind, far behind...
 
I know not where I'm headed to,
the sage's advice, my only clue :
"Enlightenment is now in...

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The space is smaller 
than what was measured by memory,
the stained glass windows much less 
vibrant compared to what glowed 
brightly in the light of back then.
The pews have been worn down 
to bare wood...

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by Michaelw1two

 What to think on this day’s rise
 to summer’s praise and spring’s goodbyes,
 wish upon one’s life and sigh
 or gladly breathe and greet opened eyed,
 what comes or passes one’s thoughts and...

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"Blue Movie"



Electroflushed
True Blue 
shines neon 
his gospel brow 
indigo guilt crushed
into the perilous
fathoms of her 
deep Ocean 
The Challenger Deep
depth charged
exploring 
the beauty of 
her black habit
plunging forbidden
lace marks 
a penance veil
kissed hard, 
unrepentant
rippling ponds...

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Alone I stand amongst those that love me.

Firmly in the ground have I placed my awakened feet. 

Blood thus far rushes the visions that lay before me. 

Through the white waters and the snow sands,...

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Humble beginnings, a stable, for there was no room in a home.
A star in the East foretold the Savior’s birth, to shepherds who roam.
They followed the star, and knelt at the babe’s sweet tiny baby...

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Politics in Motion
Marching to the drummers beat; of Yankee Doodle Dandy; 
While on a float of stars and stripes; our uncle throws his candy.
With promises obligatory; and request for contributions; 
Claiming if elected; there’ll be...

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"Plenitude" 

a full circle 

centre point 
the dream, it 
swiftly approaches

through storms
walking on oceans
like devotion 

bare feet take

glass surfaces
breaking 
the vigil

for the mirror bleed 

part of the waking
vessel displacement 
passing over rough seas

through fiery 
St...

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          4/3/2025

No, it was not a dream at all….
I was with George Chakiris by my personal request.
No,I was not in with crazed teeny boppers in a...

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Hi !
You are my amigo. I knew you were amorous with me .Your not a spartan but you preach me to be so. I like your preaching as it all worked with me .I would...

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