Long Paschal Poems

History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s greatest miracle play
Called to speak their lines
On redemption’s stage
In a...

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As our Lord was resurrected 
He left behind symbols of the torture to which He was subjected 
To remind us of his sacrifice 
With the belief that they will suffice 
What symbols are these you...

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Padraig's Fire

Hurry!
Hurry through the night
With windstorms
Breathing at your back
Before the shadows know
You pass their doors -
Their darkened, dusty, empty hearths -
Before the dawn ascends -
Before the pipes awaken;
Carry close
Precious flint and tinder
Next to the wildly...

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We want to heal-
scab stealers wont allows us too 
sneaking up on us-
giving us new busy work
side trackers –
killing us 
the only hope we had left 
invested in our progeny. 
progenitors
Our children become our ancestors
Arrested...

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Muscles locked in agony
Every ligament burning 
Pain flooding nerve endings
Labor
Heavy panting of breath
Heart pumping trying to keep up

Behind the canopy of human perception 
Life and Death dance
  
On her knees pushing
Two women holding her
A...

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VI
Deeds

Patrick traveled lightly, 
	He carried but his needed load
		And made himself as useful 
	As he could along the road.
			He aided all who asked him,
				Offering a hand where'er he went
					And they, pagan or not, knew in...

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   ~ Rapid Rap-style Chant ~  

  Pass over, Pass over, pass out
  Pass over, Pass over, pass out
    Drink the four cups of wine
  ...

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I had hoped there would be a 50th class reunion for my class of 67.
Instead, I got word the other day that Aggie High is closing its doors.

For four years, I was taught by some...

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Music of My Soul 

The earth ever composes mystical arias for me
That taste the splendor in thunder’s profusion,
Then touch the silent metronomes of lyric waves free
To hypnotize my pulse in movements of fusion.

The sounds of...

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EASTER SUNDAY  
                            Spring goddess Eostre--Astarte--Ishtar
 ...

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Trapped between two floors, maybe heaven and hell,
were souls that screamed through elevator doors.
Our feet in blood, we asked who was the devil
among us. Strangers died and out of fear

    were souls...

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HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH

Much I marveled
The spiritual doxology
The sacred sobbing
Holy! Glorious I rejoiced I, Yes We Holy-Holy

HOLY GLORIOUS TO THE HIGHEST PRAISE HAIL HALLELUJAH

And the alto basses were daubing
Singing their Hallelujah...

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Earth Music 

The earth ever composes mystical arias for me
That taste the splendor of rolling thunder,
To touch the silent metronomes of lyric waves
That hypnotize my presto pulse in movements perpetual.

The sounds of earth…

Earth music arranges...

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As a faith community it’s a living presence,
a gift of everyone inclined to give worship –
praise and glory to God, the source of life;
who champions holiness and reason to love.

  The throbbing chapters of...

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Easter

Anointed Eternity
Rises up above the paschal dawn
Heaven’s wounded Prince returns to outshine glory
As the sun blushes – witness to His splendor –
Waters from His wounded side christen crystal springs
With flowing purity
And bloodstained rocks harmonize 
With...

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O Moon of My Memory

O new moon of my day-time sky
Reflection of earthshine
Craters and mountains
Vague images floating
Reminding of days gone by

O waxing moon of my memory
Graceful and slender
Teasing and flirting 
Uncertain faces 
Shadows are being
Pushed...

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Amusan's Tears

Amusan's tears says something,
That thing is very far from nothing.

First, it was an infectious smile,
Later, it became tears from a mile.

This tears goes beyond the victory,
It carries that which is not a mystery.

Yes, the...

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Roads rising up from Irish mists in merry jigs
To the flowing tenor song
Sung by the River Boyne born from Tara's Keep
As Patrick's paschal fire
Weaves truth from stones of blarney
And lucky charms of Erin's spring
Cloth hills...

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Candles have been lit in a room of seventy-two  
my yoga mat is weaved from recycled flexi-jute
I am a wisp of silence in this doctrine old and new  
seated in my soul, I...

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This is the servant of the Lord God
with no attraction to make an appeal
He suffered, was rejected and despised
full of sorrows this man wasn't the real deal

He was crushed for all our iniquities
every one of...

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Your Greatness

I met Greatness walking down the street.
It walks with a swagger without a beat.
It's Greatness walking in total universal peace.

Greatness has been here, Greatness has done.
Greatness is not afraid of what's too come.
It's Greatness...

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Grace, God’s pleasure,
is His treasure,
in bold measure
beautiful grace.

Christ bore the dross
of worldly loss
upon His cross.
He took our place.

Accused of sham 
the great I Am  
our paschal Lamb
in love’s embrace.
	
When people grope
He is our hope,
the...

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Scathing sheaves of love diverge endlessly,
O, yet I propound to despair of simplicity,
While watching the loving dances to jive,
Beneath dew resolute to heartbreak survive.

I climb above wintry storms into the Pagan realms,
Holding the torches of...

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Dominus Vobiscum

Adopted ways, to thrive in paschal, wooded glens,
and manners, to honor pristine water,
pass through our generations to their end,
pass away like a long forgotten friend.

Calloused hands, now unsoiled from soil and...

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Kissing her gently a dayspring, Daphne, in streams of light....
Chromatic chiffon curtains; their greating be this dawn ? Ornamental
Stitchery time's storybook soft, lashes fluttering while she dreams so, lovely
Tranquillity greeting his dawn silk cocoons; baroque,...

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