Long Genuflects Poems

Have you ever found yourself stranded in the tract
between what you think is fiction and what you think is fact?
And whipped so hard with the bible belt, your minds a welt of doubt
throbbing in confusion...

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..Dez sighed at a soft feeling when
a gentle breeze brushed past his skin,
it was the first soft thing he’d felt,
the first wind that didn’t burn him.

Far above came a subtle warmth,
comforting, not the burning kind,
a...

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The soldier, he looked down at me
While I protested vociferously.
He seemed to be but twenty-five
An age that weathered eyes belied.
And as I turned to walk away,
I heard the soldier up and say:

“It seems that you...

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"Moonspinner Seer" 

Moments we dance
you and I 
alone 

sensing 
all the words 
gone

soul naked
we spin 
sad worlds away 

bad spells 
in a small ocean 
buried, never forgotten

casting pearls 
luminescent 
into the trapping net

ghosts in the...

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You watched it on TV 
And you might have wondered why
Colin knelt on that football field 
What was he attempting to try? 
The narrative of his actions 
Were about America's attitude 
Towards Black men 
How...

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I saw the old priest all in black
walking to the small town church
on a chilly late October morn, bent against the wind
the mountains a backdrop to his back

a flock of birds flew over the trees
red...

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There’s a forest bizarre neither nearby nor far,
full of sights somewhat scary to spook a soul wary.
The deep, darkened jungle, I think you’ll agree 
is never a safe place for you or for me...

The vicious...

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The Inner Workings of a Clock

My Catholic schoolgirl
Denies my shadowy persona.
Costumed in
A navy blue uniform 
A snow-white blouse,
A chest pocket embroidered
By Saint John Fisher,
Her youthful bearing ticks
Smoothly, quietly, piously.

My Catholic schoolgirl leads
The May Day procession
She...

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Imagine 

Imagine…
A mansion among many promised mansions
On the banks of a river from blessing, 
Sparkling in the eternal sun,
A shoreline lined with trees
In the harmonic hush of glory
Their leaves of healing 
Float like sacred balm...

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She’ll be leaving soon I see
The ambulance has arrived,
Waiting for another guest 
To take a long, hard ride.   

A malicious, microscopic serpent 
Invaded blood and bones 
Leaving this sweet young lady 
Ravaged, scared...

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COLLEGIATE MANTIS

solo stick figure genuflects at the knees
leafy green, prophet-like.
                 
petitions God with a tenacious grip -
of the windshield...

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She dons her scarlet gown again
Still radiant from last year’s ball
She knows it will attract the men
As it glitters in hues of fall

A golden scarf ignites the flame
Of campfires in the painted hills
On this dance...

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