Long Insomuch Poems

“I, Being Born a Woman and Distressed” (Sonnet XLI)
by Edna St. Vincent Millay

I, being born a woman and distressed
By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair,...

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October 3 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 12-13

Key Verse – Luke 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he (Jesus...

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Like in a dungeon we live,
Full of dissatisfaction and high charges of stuff
With no sign of reduction but expansion
As if we were victims of famine
In a famished land.
The rainbows of intercession speak not,
And the markets,...

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Persuasion's possessive verses
'midst absolute poetic madness
surrendered in rhapsodic poesy,
poets are a tidy sum of quirky &
care zilch of external perceptions,
content to breathe 'round seduction
and unicorns' phantasmagoria
insomuch nonsense amid candor,
directionless winds 'neath allegory
'pon posies and dragon's...

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Patience is a puddle in your eyes.
Each day you look upon me within foreign realms of happiness; 
 insomuch you adeptly caress satin wings sprouting from my back 
allowing lips of yours to feed the...

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Is history not the study of war,
treading on nations that flourished before?

It's how civilizations rise and fall,
tyranny is a weapon known to all. 

Is it fear that allows us to be led
toward greed and not...

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Signs of the apocalypse are a fundamental part of the Christian faith, 
Insomuch that the Bible forewarns of its inevitability. 
God's judgment of Man shall come to pass, and yet,
No man shall know when that...

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Somewhere between here,

blase and tomorrow's

derangement, lost the plot in

a moment of coherent clarity,

'twas quite a peculiar notion

unsettling predicament of

knowing one's own psyche,

silently questioned the

absolute mindfulness,

hardly sure whether to

heed or trust abstruse

insomuch as the validity

mid concise...

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Each New Year, you make a resolution,
Nothing life-changing, just some small changes.
January 1st. means a new start for
Optimist that wish themselves a better
Year ahead, vowing to improve their lot.

Little changes are often accomplished,
Insomuch as they...

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Beneath blossoming, neat rows
Spring thoughtfully seeds
Once inchoate, now transformed
Were they visible, naked.

Coaxed or neglected
Into more important things --
Their outgrowth substantial
And beating, alive.

A pounding or downpour, 
The influence prized
Insomuch as it aided
Propagation. Spread.

The seeds, so once...

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KJV: Isaiah 2:4, " ... they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:" ... by Isaiah son of Amoz re last days of Judah & Jerusalem

Insomuch, the northern rains be as...

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Is it okay if I ask you one more time?
 
Is it just my senses,
 
Or are we falling?
 
Insanity is not just a state of mind,
 
It's a sense of being,
 
And my melted...

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Breathe my name with the breeze that rustles
Through the leaves and part your velvet-touched
Lips, that they may take my own rough ones
To a place as near bliss insomuch

That I can smell the melting morning dew
On...

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Insomuch as we are all awoken, insomuch as we cherish this effort of life, of this new day. 

As we surrender all of this life all away in the sincere support, of all life, and...

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People tend to analyze what they do;
Hoping to discover just who they are.
It's one way to see our species anew,
Little groups that we study from afar.
Often, we fault those of low intellect,
So easily led by...

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Out of the deep,
I heard a voice,
A strange sensation,
Over my soul;
I saw moon's eyes,
Piercing at me,
A whirlwind funnel,
Dropped on my knees.


Through the gleam of the star,
I dashed insomuch awe,
Out of the deep,
Still his voice,
Of something...

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