Long Plenary Poems

This is a tale of ancient times
And a knight of valiant heraldry
Who followed true his knightly code,
The weight of righteousness his load,
All sheathed in heaven's grace he rode,
And practiced naught save chivalry.

From the Pope a...

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Funeral in 1963


Beveled dusty cracked glass shielding Mother Mary enthroned,
Amidst flying angelic devotions atop whipped clouds of icy air,
Enslaved by an antique miracle made manifest in stained blood,
With silent invisible memorized prayers uttered in ancient...

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If today were in fact the end of days
We'd face it with no scintilla of anxiety or sadness 
because our fate is in God's hands
I'd leave absolutely nothing unsaid 
between us; no time would be...

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As if the house had landed on a witch’s vavavavoom,
the door’s ajar, and my boy had alerted me…

surely tornadoes increase the velocity of speed
of a mom, to zero in on, a three year old.

Forget the...

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You, looking at me
             Come and let me look closely
             ...

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The club recruits fresh people—in session plenary.
Of wealth, generosity, enthusiasm, and education.
Sang a Peppa Pig song when we looted the—treasury.
Bullingdon boys with elegant looks joined—damnation. 

They still swag public funds with no hesitation.
Of their country,...

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if only we could all...

                           find...
   ...

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Concerto D'amor

Whenever I'm with you, 
Other things are amnesia. 
Every single moment with you, 
Suits decades in a catatonia. 

If you were Bermuda triangle, 
I'd often tread on the blast of shangri-la;
A picnic in the...

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The essence of our spirituality rests 
On having plenary faith in the Lord.
Who are we without an omnipotent force 
In our day-to-day existence?
When we find ourselves broken 
Who do we turn to for reconstruction?
Or when...

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I canceled my death for you
a postponement on the inevitable 
the choice had come 
I could have walked away
but all things considered
and considering how much I love you
I chose to stay

This decision has had its...

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I'm Mephistopheles, you, my Faust
I'm to your mind what a fluorescent bulb is...
To a fly. I take perverse pleasure
In trapping you in my undertow

I'm a tireless tease that will break your will
I live in your...

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Tonight we’ll share the heavens;
Souls knitted into one,
Fly together we, the ochre moontrails,
on gossamer wings.

The decanter overflows with nectar;
its sweetness permeates the ethereal void,
like ephemerous orbs when touched
by the hands of a child.

The secret Garden’s...

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Wrapping me in plenary comfort with your loving arms
Heartbeats, yours and mine, beating in unison. Your...
Amorous glance that makes my happy soul dance
Telling me how much you love me, and vice versa

Being loved by you...

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An indulgence is the remission in whole or in part of the temporal punishment due to sin

An indulgence is not a pardon of sin, nor a license to commit sin, and one who is in...

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Honey did not leave me,
Just robbed me of my sweetness.
While scarlet desires still emanate from the evergreen memories,
Under the moonlit sky,
I mourn over the ascetic turmoil...
Like an invisible shrine,
It has become the bastion of our...

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Spare me passenger, for when in the mind's eye thy sojourn,
Retire terra firma, and all indubitable shall adjourn,

Light lies in a lucent litany, now look upon the penumbra unlit,
Yonder the yawn of rhythm, in which...

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The only genius I ever met was me
Why is it so hard for others not to see?
I try so hard to teach everything I know
And all I hear from folks is where to go

It's my...

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Something I’m sure is wrong with Tom,
His laughter crushing like burst bomb:
Men having to bear Cruel Chapter
And wounds keep licking long after…

Tom does the fullest delight find
In gushing blood that might one blind,
Clinching absurd satisfaction
From...

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Onward Christian Soldiers
(Chivalry Dead)

God’s crusade upon them laid
a stubborn suit of mail brocade.

Knights Templar, Teutonic thugs
Mercenaries out for blood.

In guarantee of resurrection. 
Skull bludgeoning insurrection.

For every heathen to the cemetery
Pope so grants indulgence plenary. ...

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*************
On velvet reams of cobalt carpet.
I embrace loves' memory portrait.

On streets, or in dancing memory,
Be thou, forever, in my dreams, plenary.

My dreams rarely of my own flawed 
greatness.
But center on you, god of all
my love and...

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