Long Majesties Poems

I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and rough;
Upon which stands...
Crumbled stone walls
With an exposed slate roof in
Some...

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The great Sabbath day descended, though not in my heart and mind
On this new day,
I imagined rays of God’s light shining generously upon the mountains,
Pools of living waters gurgling, and winds gently rustling trees
Wishing for...

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Date:  March  2051

3 days until April:
Flight time 3:05 afternoon--  IN flight 
"Dolly and Molly fumbled in their
Seat to achieve comfort. "Ooo does
This flight have to be this long!" 
Dolly was frustrated. Holly...

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"The Forgotten Legion of Rose Thorns"



Reversing roll calls
the Anti-Hero 
jumps through 
burning hoops
instinctively

bathed in the magnum glow
designed to fire cartridges
with a kick like a field gun
a bloody victory 
is eventually won

lacking conventionality
novel and picaresque
placing bad...

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It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean air on the Bounty blew unkind
It was the troubled wind...

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The prince loves his princess and their guillotine
It came at a handsome price but that’s alright 
Stars and moons are laid before her majesty 
Heads roll when she lifts her dainty finger
Of course a palace...

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“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple mountain majesties”
yet that’s not all that my heart sees
There “above...

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America The Broken

“O beautiful for spacious skies”
yet marred by all it’s leaders lies.
See it’s “amber waves of grain”
beneath them hidden is a stain

I pause  “For purple mountain majesties”
yet that’s not all that my heart...

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Let not the pain of death enter my body
I the Pharaoh, son of the gods
Here my wife, who is the daughter of the Nile
The daughter of Isis sits beside my throne,
Is she not beautiful?

I live...

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Yes, there were certain
majesties, which
in all regards are 
to be expected.
For upon the engagements
of husband and wife,
Prince and Princess,
to marry, there is 
an exaltation, thought
the King guilefully.
As his snickered brow
advanced the courtyard's 
jester, feelings of...

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Stilled again across the canals broadening 
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions 
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the hot glare of the sun...
Provoking images and stirring indefinable...

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(Verse 1)
Well, I remember back in school, a song we'd all uphold,
"America, America," we'd sing it, hearts so bold.
Oh, beautiful for heroes proved in battles fought and won,
Who more than self, their country loved, and...

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In a world full of sadness,
The golden light of our Creator, 
Shall shine for evermore.

Elohim, Elohim, we all shall sing!

Those of us that follow, 
The way of the truth, 
Shall rise up and up,
To the...

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Spirits of unnatural forgiveness
for past bullying  behavior
and sacred redemption
from internalized shaming,
self-blaming

Begin in our shared multiculturing
co-empathic nature
uncomfortable with win/lose historic
and contemporary choices,
ecopolitical system analyzed
and deep ego-centrifugally felt

Longing for an interfaith return
to win/win healthy solidarity
as part...

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A mother’s two daughters transformed the bookstore the other day…
let me set the scene….
They turned our bookstore into a castle…ruled over by two queens.

In an instant the battlements and a tower were erected…and here’s a...

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We bind the wounded
Encourage the hurted
Rebuke the wayward
Enjoin the truthful...
Rejoice in the Just...
Prosper in elect ones

Goes the adage.. in time..
..Winds are tied up...
..In hope for The Dawn...
...Yester's liberators
Are they not today's
Most feared tyrants....

.....Were we not...

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I was carried away up and over a topped stack just the other day,
By the oceans of blue cascading across shadows of magnifying rays of sunlight!
One by one they dashed through the trickery Sun as...

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OCULUS  

Is…

…about the MOON, its power, its mystery, its simplicity?

Its light is soft a pail reflection 
Of its son. 
The one always on the run. 

The moon is an oculus of cold white a...

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As I stand atop purple mountain majesties,
And watch the sun set across thy mighty seas.
I feel your gentle breeze upon my face,
And realize your magnitude as I pursue this awesome race.

You created all wonders and...

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We can see you standing there,
On people, you don’t care.
Think that we don’t know?
Soon you’ll be exposed.
Wearing crowns of riches,
While we mend our stitches.
Looking down on us,
While asking for our trust.

Burn, burn, take me away,...

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Poets have an invisible friend,
a source of steady comfort, of reliable joy;
this is a companion whose trustworthiness 
is transcended by images and sentiments;
always there to inspire the busy pen...
guided by an imaginable mind at play......

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Nuremburg Turmoil

Last night my wife Jill and I watched the Nuremburg Trials movie.
I ended up writing this poem just now at 0500 in the morning.
It all was such a horrible affair to have seen. It...

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Anti-Poem — “The Membrane Electric”

(Poet’s Instruction: Play “Two Thousand Light Years From Home” by The Rolling Stones, while reading this anti-Poem)

susie and billy tripping into arterial los angeles 
sloshing their young gonads with diet-rite cokes
riding...

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Oh, how the sea billows roll.
Oh, how they roll they are are so beautiful and majestic as they slap against the southern shores. How these waves rise and come and go.
Oh, how the sea billows...

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Clinging to sunny Bognors regal
skirts
At his Majesties most royal verges
The readied hand thrusts upon the 
lever,
And, shuddering, She forward lurches.

Clanking ominously over diesel fueled
growls,
Expediency, they said, was driven 
to ignore:
The raised up objections and anguished
frowns,
And...

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