Long Munificence Poems

Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                            ...

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Convalescence of Richard McGeehan

Spouse of my eldest sister
marital bond fixed in place
strong as mortise and tenon,
he hales of hearty Irish stock
genes of said septuagenarian
analogous to pith and marrow
wrought courtesy divine providence.

At present aforementioned brother in...

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I am the newly born face of munificence, unquenchable beauty. 
My tides are full with bountifulness, like an orchard to the table.
My fleece radiates guiltless white, bestowed like a lamb, fresh 
upon its mother. And...

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A cartridge filled with a horde of shackled emotions, am I,
Trifle feelings loiter within me, until she elicits them out,
Wizened by time, she knows that otherwise I might turn mordacious... 
God guides my pen and...

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VERILY I STATE…
     Celebrating enjoying life, I tolerate others’ leisure all the time.
I know people live for the sun to shine.
     I just ask that if I...

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THE ALL POWER IS GREATER!

The Big Bang designed the stratosphere and troposphere.
Below both majestic presence, Earth is the topography.
Today, all God’s creature roams freely.
Human being munificence is magnanimousness.

Now sits a child fulfilled.
She has her ink...

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When growing up on the farm in Indiana even at 'round the age of three,
I began to notice simple yet beautiful things that surrounded me.
Strange though it seems, I found beauty in grumpy bumble bees,
And...

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Where was I in all this?
Is it that I am with your existence?
Like a refined form you
Live to be strong.
Is that I did not call?
Aspiration was not known.
Munificence is your life lived normally.

Lithe as a...

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We are badgered by the media most every other day,
Blaring that self-appointed conjurors want to take our God away!
Maybe they should be challenged with more productive things to do,
Like caring for the hungry and homeless,...

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Life giving, purifying drops from heaven
Buffeted by a gusty wind, cascading droplets of rain
Moistening parched land, nourishing farmland
Replenishing lakes and ponds, absorbed by desert sand
Quenching the fabled chatak’s thirst
A bird, fabled to drink only from...

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Each sound
              free or bound
each petal
Each quivering utterance
              ...

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HEAVEN IS AGLOW!
     Doves will fly in the sweet by and by.
     The angels will sing upon entering divinity.
     Chariots of the Lord's...

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In the undulating landscape of confused existence,  
I walk my confounded life on the path of illusion,
chase the mirage of endless desires.
I wander disillusioned in the wasteland, 
seeking the sense of being in the...

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MARVIN BENET BLACKMON, JR.

Yesterday, as you remember, was just another day.
You played like a boy could with no worries in place.
Today you sing the gospel and your soul is fulfilled.
Benet, you are anointed to excel.

The...

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The year ends with the Christmas time,  
freezing in the festive December air,
as the sun-soaked days fade out
at the glacial edge of the lasting night.
 
The celebration panorama draped with stellar dust 
will glitter...

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The wretched wearers of this mound of shoes who once walked free,
And enjoyed The Creator's munificence, life and pursuit of liberty,
Are now but scattered ashes with their shoes cast in a gruesome heap,
By ruthless and...

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At a time when a vital organ of mine began to fail, 
I thought that was the beginning of the end. 
The miserable mind plunged in the abyss of despair,
for modern medicines seemed not to...

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I was waiting still
Wandering, dreaming
in the frozen tundra, communing 
with echoes of unformed shadows
each season, I swore that this
Silviah will surely come someday

As angels share dreams
so are our tendrils twined
each node, an inch to sunlight
What...

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Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 39  

Carbon molecules woken up by thunder
Is violence life-wire of existence
Can God come into being beyond Nature

Violence in warp and woof of our nature
Can one avoid being...

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He died so unexpectedly.
My soul provider and my identity,
In a complex world of desires.
My children father, their only dad,
His last breath of loved he bequeath.
My sister followed on Valentine’s Day. 
Troubled by what he did...

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I passed in a garden
with the gaits of the wind.
I saw the owner of garden
with the art of love
in the look of a rose.
The branches of all the
trees were ornamented with
the blossom of the apple.
Bravo,...

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Though curved like a question mark, 
she walks without a Zimmer frame. 
Will she ever veer from 
the narrow, 
nonsensical 
dirt road? 

She earns,
mopping, scrubbing, laundering, and currying. 
She’s often gifted with 
rice, tea powder,...

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A nurse with near exhausted patience
Trying to fix back a dislodged needle:
An order from her fought clear conscience,
When she could task stop to just tweedle;
She’d spent all her purposed munificence
And nursed patient stuck to her...

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Which Modern Man longs
For the folksongs
Helped by rusted gongs
Or their lines sing to a throng, 
Very sure that nothing is wrong?

Which Modern Man eats with bare hands,
Because on them unseen sands
And this publicizes with bands,
Heroically...

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