Long Raiments Poems

Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist, essayist, novelist
Alma mater	University College, Oxford (no degree)
Literary movement	Romanticism
Spouse	Harriet Westbrook
(m. 1811;...

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Smelly Nelly was quite a charming girl,
She wore her hair in braids instead of curls,
Bathing several times per day in the Jewish way,
Yet many scoffed and sniffed,
exclaiming she smelt like manure in hay,
Nelly used expensive...

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January 18 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 1-3

Key Verse – Exodus 1:20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO DEALS...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Nineteen

“Not that I had not spied your tulip-lipped doting jasmine airs
Nor the way your wraith-like form take me back to sumptuous fairs
Of Samarkand yore whence I dallied with...

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Just the other day I came across her phone number
that you had programmed in your cell phone,
And as my mind started to wonder
I was curious to know  what was really going on?
You had told...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part One

Lone gold Venus nears the sickle moon in the late autumn sky
She lies naked dreaming with one leg tucked under her thigh
The pallor of her silvery skin simmering...

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blessed maiden by the stream
weaving raiments from the stars
apple of her father's eye
full of charm and grace

there lived one across the bank
across where the princess weaved
steering oxen through the grass
able, strong and brave

the princess and...

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All within the taiga glade,
Their raiments gilt in comely shades,
The burgess shrives vagrant souls.
A garth of god for men alow.

Whereinto the roots may grow,
We wayfarers may never know,
For we waltz twixt sky and earth-
Domain of...

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Before we utter a word
Before thought is formed within our temples
We are movement

What gods of old
Have abandoned Flesh impure
For the pristine ghosts of Spirit
Which have no touch, nor sex,
Nor hair, nor raiments;

Perfection, always another world,
Looms...

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© 2013 (by Jim Sularz) 


Atop a secret hillside, 
high above a babbling brook. 
Where passions once entwined, 
when time would never look.

He, in his threadbare raiments, 
and she, at her wedding's best.
Vowed with a...

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Awaiting Summer's rule to end
     Fall sleeps in dream of colored shades.
As sun unwinds its solstice bend,
     The hope of autumn soon pervades
    ...

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Standing bare the trees looked dead

Around their feet their raiments lay,

Their life force, it seemed they shed

On this bleak autumnal day.


Black as sin, crows looked on

Then screeched in noisy argument,

A raucous call, no sweet birdsong,

A...

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