Long Paraclete Poems

my presence was needed
the announcement echoed thru hospital halls
which meant the medical team assembled
but that kind of expertise
was not why i was called
my lot in this equation, a signature
i was in another room in a...

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Once within recycling time
lived brother Paraclete
as sister Sophia,
and vice versa.

Written across each bicameral heart and mindbody
these two live on
as controlling Yang
with nurturing Yin,
somewhat before their Western cousins,
Paraclete, God's Justice Advocate
as Sophia,
Wisdom's Holonic CoOperative Spirit.

These dipolar...

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You gleamed brighter than glorious sunlight                             ...

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My OldSchool patriarchal Pentateuch
precedes our polycultural HolyNew Paraclete.

This Pentateuch
begins with the beginning
of theo-TribalEgo cultural correlations;
Genesis begets Exodus,
the ChosenTribe's emigration
into sacred Promised Land

Of special transparency
and divine vulnerability
for a religious Priesthood
found in Leviticus.

Levite Priests
Jesus recognized
and dismembered as...

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While the church of today continues to wrestle with prominent issues,
like those of leadership, moral credibility, or fidelity of her members;
society remains critical to address certain weakpoints already at hand,
those seeming endless lawsuits against the...

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Christ and the Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon (1916)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7OEnXw7P60


The straggled soldier halted and clumsily went down  "O blessed crucifix, I'm beat !"
Christ still sentried by a seraphim between two splintered trees did speak  
"My...

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I want things to be good
When the hawk touches down
Have to stand where we should
When the hawk touches down
When polished and spiffed,
Our spirits will lift
Let us ready the gift
When the hawk touches down

I want things...

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We have not the wit for Whit 

                           ...

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As the devil roams the earth, sometimes
believing church folk depend on other
Christians for support during occasions of
doubt and despair.  I find myself
errantly choosing the wrong paths
forgetting that I have professed
God as the One on...

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Illuminating a radainces
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It feels like hell to be stuck!

It feels overwhelmingly annoying not to know when to break out  of the cage, when captured like a beast against your will.

Set loose the chains of poverty, inferiority...

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Yes you are ‘we’
to make us like you three
Within myself tripartite
Within you, one community

We worship one
creator, saviour, paraclete
We bow as one
as many come with one in three to meet

You spoke, we are
The word, we hear
The...

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I feel him there all day and night.
In my dreams, he speaks to me and makes my burden light.

His voice is like a soft and beautiful cymbal.
His turn of phrase makes my heart quick and...

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A perfect bird takes flight on yellow wings
Dipped in golden sunbeams from pure light               
Crimson days are etched with feathers pointed
Darting...

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You are eternal, we extol your power!
The Creator of the universe; 
You are the Everlasting Father, 
Provider of salvation by grace
You reign with justice, goodness and mercy.
We submit to your dominion and power

You are forever,...

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Three blocks away a church bell from my parish always calls
Pleading for my soul as the statues of Mary hang within the church's walls
I visualize the sculptured faces and count the clapper’s swings
I almost hear...

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Oh, Holy Spirit such joy in thy numen name,
Amidst a plentiful paraclete of a burning flame…
Stormy skies subdue as you enter with a tame,
Dropping pearls from heaven an almighty acclaim.

White Doves follow your peaceful playful...

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My thoughts arrive in short, staccato bursts;
the long lines never seem to want to flow.
Macabre at best, generally, worse;
uncertain, the direction they will go.

Romantic phrasing seems a foreign tongue;
a lilting verse on love just comes...

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Lost in a sea of blue velvet 
she dances, by the rhythm of aquamarine eyes 
Beneath a parapet of stars where no one can foretell,
the sparkle of a smile is waving its goodbyes; 
to loneliness...

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My Love is like the Sky, a wind of dreams,
Like trailing Heav’n her garment covers me,
Stars line her cloak, her sword’s not what it seems,
It’s limned with lightning, she pulls it from a tree!
Her glowing...

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What kind of love is this that sets my mind aglow 
what kind of heart can be so full of light so free  
what is the name of He, who has just given me
the...

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