Long Numinous Poems

Hark and listen well, if those foretoken in the eyes of hungers lust
Trapped in their illusion, trampling the Stars into dust
Forced with the detestation stench by the swamp of absolute disgust
Thou blackest scorpion be accursed,...

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A KIND RECONSIDERATION 
OF THE ABRAHAMIC FAITHS
IN A DIFFICULT TIME
I
I am interested in Moses,
the baby in the bulrushes
who eventually was able
to speak truth to power and
delivered his people to a
promised land
I am interested in Saul...

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ENCHANT ME!
(A Contemporary Animist’s Prayer) 

To the shared breath of life:

Enchant me!
Whisper to me in the cadence and rhymes, 
the deeper susurrations of this tellurian realm
with its numinous places that already call out
my name!
Talk to...

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*Image of Child Sad Suffering provided by Pixabay.

Not Of This Earth
Poetic Form: Narrative

Asymmetric mistrals warp speckled vaporous pallidness toward rhythmless voids. Obviates an evacuating azure as a midday star pivots to a twilight qualm. Numinous...

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An occasional chance encounter
With a stranger on the street 
Can change life like a tidal wave
And lift us off our feet.
The mystery of wakefulness
Like the dance of rolling dice,
Is filled with rhythm, love and hate
Virtue,...

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Falling across my mind
In whispers of serenity, a light
Folding joy through my thoughts
Inspiration and promise
Song of hearts and music of spirit
Merging to create poetry
Flowing words in gentle verses
Coloring the earth in moonbeams
Stardust moments silencing
The waking...

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A blanketed mist moves, among a towering evergreen wall
Haunting within a mysticism of magic known by all
Numinous trees dancing in shadows pass beyond my eye
Blocking vision of a supernatural when I walk on by

To enter...

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Proust searched his brain for memories that 
made the man, could finally understand
that this changed him just by looking;
so he called himself a sentimental realist!

many a prisoner, in walls cast of shadows,
have escaped their fate...

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halting-stars we are, aching 
                              for...

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•to zimmer (v.t.) – to flash brilliantly with apparent blinding insightfulness, suggestive almost of a certain numinosity.**
•** numinous (adj) – of or pertaining to a numen***; arousing elevated or religious feelings.
•*** numen (n) – a...

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Can there alight so fair a symbol
as a butterfly whose flight arrested,
stays upon my shoulder just as if
you sent it there, suggested
through an energy defined
in your own sweetness, your own touch
beyond carnality, where spirit plays?

Can...

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Am I doing this just to create drama
Or am I doing doing this to face the trauma
of years deep in the trenches of fears

not quite in space to deal with crazy
and my avoidance manifests as...

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Was it an early-summer’s fair day’s afternoon
He rode his tall white hairy horse
To the Rocky Mount’s top
And enjoyed in numinous silence
The old city’s beautiful view.
Or it was a chilly winter’s morning
He was sitting with his...

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("Incantations", 2014, original pen and ink and acrylic)

The Way Light Changes

There are times when the very fabric of reality
changes; alters, loosens and expands,
and for that matter times when it tightens and constricts.
The former leads to...

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Have I died?

I wake and I look about.

What is this place?

So grey and cloudy, just mist, nothing at all to see.
Is there anything there at all?
I try to sit, I cannot sit, I cannot move....

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well, that's a choice and many ascending-avatars spent eons of time in their caves trying to get out from behind the many-reflections of this sentimental-reality in flow -- this was the goal for awhile and...

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The meadow's radiance gradually dimmed
and evening littered far and wide
it encouraged the unfamiliar 
and everything uncertain.

The night accelerated sounds of anticipation 
as a thousand strangers loomed
 
and I thought him to be a foreigner 
until...

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There are times when the body
is as numinous as words – Robert Hass

Others, however, when it declares forcefully
its sheer bodiness;
your stomach tightens the waistband
of jeans you bought just last month
in the style of a ‘boyfriend’...

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I
O saints, creatures cast as masterpieces by VASTNESS
If you would just create space for the OTHER
You would sense how we are connected, closer THAN
Your own breath. O how my heart aches to convey THIS

II
Monet at...

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Lumina’s Light 

Light had faded in reflection from start to finish bitter battered final end
Bright mirror’s prisms a blinding darkened prison in her luscious name

Long lost love conceived in lust and lustre looming large from...

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THE QUANTUM SELF
At 11-45 pm Greenwich Mean Time, they switched on the Quantum Computer.
In less than a nanosecond it became self aware.
In another nanosecond it controlled the entire civilian and military grid of all NATO...

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Almost  Perfection, we two fit together
Bound in the incense of love and desire
Called by a song of eternal attraction
Dancing its way through our being;
Eager for everything, we dream it to life.

Fire and ice through...

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Tirelessly tapping the ecliptic elixir of modernity
the marionette hurls pebbles at minarets

The rot of this wretched wine vivified his rapturous pith
platting the tombs of his sodden salience 

The pangs of arousal cleave onto the inebriated...

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Relate to me with not one word of sorrow,
As from some timeless lay,
Regale me with a numinous poetic theme
That shall take me faraway!
O’ forespeak to me no form of darkness,
That may lie beyond my sight,
Nor...

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The numinous process of parthenogenesis 
Occurs when part of a plant 
Falls to the ground 
And without a sound begins sprouting 
Another plant, completely and distinctly anew.

Or is it really
The extension of life of the...

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