Long Prayer beads Poems

Memories Of Youth And Nature, Were A True Blast
In collaboration with Robert Lindley

Beautiful dawn a Nature walk would do one good
Across the flower filled pond, into the woods
With hearty breakfast, soul could be truly blessed
This...

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Memories Of Youth And Nature, Were A True Blast,
In collaboration with Riabi Dziri, Besma

Beautiful dawn a Nature walk would do one good
Across the flower filled pond, into the woods
With hearty breakfast, soul could be truly...

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I never knew that Stonehenge refers to hanging gallows


While solstice gives solace as the sun dial moves forth

Many years of mysteries immortalized for sacred worship

	Blue Stones transported from Pembrokeshire

	For a giant Cromlech by magic or...

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She looked peaceful in her lavender dress-
as I suppose she was. Eyes closed as if lost
in childhood dreams, small hands folded across her chest.
Her glasses resting beside her auburn strands,
lips pleading for color, her face...

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I like my lies the way my mother used to make them. Wrapped up in spring roll pastry and thrown into the fryer. Served on a plate to a child who had nothing else to...

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What struck me is that it showed him
Always leaving
And sadly looking back
At his family home
Going to Llasa
To be (re)educated
Tenzin Gyatso was found as a young child
Went through many tests to prove
That he was the 13th...

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Each holy man there is, is convinced he's better than the next,
as his right hand tightly clasps prayer beads, whilst he judges others with his left.
Piety the reason that he wakes up every day,
just to...

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blindfolded he came close to the edge of the cliff

	that he was sure of because vertigo taunted him

		decision time sprung open like a grandfather watch


on his knees he felt the spray of a thunderous sea

	swirling...

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I had by no means celebrated Christmas in the past with such love
                  Until thy lord presented thee...

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I danced with the hoodlum priestess, in the temple of the sacred pool.
The candles burned down low and jasmine incense from censors, filled the night.
While attendents at the altars, worried prayer beads and chanted sacred...

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by Michaelw1two

 Sunsets glow here in Al-Iraq,
 it casts an orange beige;
 fiery though its blister stare,
 the horizon is still a dusty greige;
 visual spectres shun its light,
 twilight’s shield released its guige;
 haunt...

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He chafes the prayer beads against his wrist
	Has died lesser deaths of exasperated rage
		It’s not forgiveness he seeks but purifying anger

To feel the rawness of emotion he focusses
	On undefeatable loss and zealous slaughter
		Of cross fires...

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Across the knoll where fading starlight hangs
On graveyards damp, laying on pleated  moss
While row of angels bears the gusty winds;
As evening spreads its thin veil on the ground .
My hands begin to trace each...

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“The fate of individual human beings may not now be connected in a deep way with the rest
of the universe, but the matter out of which each of us is made is intimately tied to...

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The world of sight is when taken
Away, let of vision waken,
Let world of sound sharply shaken.

Way laid gets when my wander lust, 
Let me hear time’s footsteps in dust, 
Dawn’s birds wake me with song-filled...

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I see the destruction
Flashing flames on the TV screen
It’s 2003 a time marked in history
A fiery storm rains on a city—Bagdad
Buildings aflamed that make a fiery grave
No discretion implementing
A war based on lies
Human lives sacrificed...

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                       Over the years I have found many faiths-
   Why settle...

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They grin and sneer, then turn away quickly
Following their lead, my heart slowly recedes
Never without their tales, some quite sickly

They listen to many stories, gossiping thickly
Spirits winking at the darkest of the proceeds
They grin and...

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The merrily loaded luggage
Adults in a hurry to find their seats
children walking as the train moves,
Expecting  a wave in reply like" SCHWAMM's son "      
    ...

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The snow is melting quickly now, drip, drip,
and I am getting ready to plant seeds;
I must read up for some have extra needs,
(on a bare branch two birds dance in courtship;
I fear they will...

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Sealed upon my lips 
Are the crimson stains
Of words and sins
Unravelling in my 
Soul
Are secrets pressed
Upon my lips
That only God
And I have known.

Too many confessions
For a priest to shoulder
Absolution mingling with
My prayer beads
Eating words that...

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I was a child, an ordinary one.
Perhaps all other kids had 
Something in common.
I can still remember how
I felt
When my mother used to cook a favorite dish.
I was so embarrassed when she was upset with...

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Poetically sees the night, an overwhelming depth of a moment
Divine palm scatters the fullest moment, prayer beads lament
And, shining stars twinkle.  The moment of an earnest spree.
Illusion of a mystic mirage, touch the deep...

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There are many kind wonderful souls and others helping us from the magical place.
My advice, my child, as I prepare to leave you here, alone, with the human race,
Is to find the ones who will...

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Summit to the heavens where the angels breathe and sing

watch the sky turn silver like those Holy wings that gleam  

Search the path that God intended raise your eyes of ching

life on earth is...

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