Long Sandaled 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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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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My attention is undivided as you dance for me the dance of 
Mahanaim with your beautiful sandaled feet.  Your graceful legs are the jewels of 
the Master Craftsman, which surround my waist, and your...

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Raven was Death. She dwelt in death. She lived on death. Ages past, she had worn 
the blue-black, purple, feathers of the raven and dined on royalty at Tower hill. A 
tumble from grace had...

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Two sandaled feet
Beginning a pace
That will grant salvation
To the whole human race

One foot, placed on hard sand ground
Being followed by disciples milling around
Believers clustered with Jesus, enthralled 
Like leaves of a tree that had refused...

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Diego Rivera’s Flower Carrier

My load to carry is backbreaking.
But this I must do to feed my family.
On the ground, on all fours, praying;
For fairness in barter and my return safely,
In this capitalist enterprise, I am...

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depression in the other pillow is deep
	your head
	is a hot air balloon
i wish you’d be there when my hamster dies
	my heart
	is locked up, whirring
photo paper scrunched by anguish
	your eye
	invisible from fold line
i lay out my...

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whispers...
 a shudder,
 to frolic in the dire ambiance
 a spiritual awakening
 a peace that passes all understanding
 the go between
 the comforter
 a heart saturated with truth
 in order to withstand the true test...

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Sunlight hot strikes hard
	White concrete shimmering
rippling mirages of water far
	piercing cleanly the boundary clear

Gliding swaying moving near
	linen blinding bright conceals
shadowed curves hinted within
	softly moving rhythmically

creamy white buttons
	within slits that hold
unfastened slowly setting free
	moistened flesh lying...

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- a brief tango -

I see from this pestering pedestal,
And what’s that I see?
Gazelles and antelopes of the Savannah
Or the deceits of a mooting brain?

I see them – a careful pick of a generation
In pairs...

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A shadow crossed the room
in the corner of my awareness

A cloud outside somewhere, probably,
but for an instant, I thought that motion was you.

Thoughts of you are casually intrusive.

Maybe you’d crawled into my luggage - and...

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In aquamarine ran off my warmth traversing 
mild meadows with swallows of ash 
past the pink sunset 

Three cherry cardinals swooped past partly pleased 
the brook trickled near 

Evading were than icon imaginings 
the following...

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An Angelic Presence

Faith can move mountains of adversity in your life
 Amidst the columns of hatred spilled out lies
 It comes in many forms through a disguise of the wise
 Filter through the sun it...

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A Magical Moment In Time

Words can expose the nice scenic view
 Others ponder a new way of escape
 We get lost in a moment in time
 Love has changed to burdened heart to a degree
...

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We all go through transitions

Written By Dean Masciarelli

February 16, 2010 (7:05am)


We all go through transitions

With problems of our own

And life can be challenging
in so many different situations

But you have to keep in mind

That life is...

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my roman ruins

you are my rome, 
all roads lead home to you
 
the ruins of my destruction
on the rounding patchy earthen grounds
strewn with stiff marble columns
that have long ago cracked and crumbled
and into several broken...

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Pretty Pictures, Ribbons & You 

We each must take a step of faith in the right direction
 A soldier fighting in the field of grass lives another day
 Something to be grasped amidst the madness...

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Eyes wide in wonder I entered the chapel
a curious child 
through the back door of the church
candles twinkling in the dim light
streaming through the stained glass
like colored candy
like lollipops
statues of saints standing sentry in silence...

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Weekend in Cascais
On Cascais glittering Saturday bay, slowly rides a rust stripped
bulk-carrier, sailors on the deck look at the town and think it
is Paradise, from the soot hallooed green stacks, whispering
smoke dissolves their dream of...

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An old man plods slowly down the rutted middle
Of an ancient dusty country lane, unmindful of his steps.
His calloused sandaled feet know the way,
As he has trodden this path to market for decades,
Or centuries perhaps,
He...

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Along a shaded lane I strolled,
then to a fork I came.
A man in sandals rested there,
I did not know his name.

Where are you  going he inquired?
my reply, I do not know.
He told me it...

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All roads lead to Rome
 
My neighbour’s garden wall is made of stones from the disused Roman road that had stopped going anywhere for ages; smooth stones walked over by mules and sandaled feet. 
No...

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Sobering grays of alabaster
Winds that fly through alleys crumble
Time comes nigh to flaunt the tresses
As breezes press in playful tumble


The day came, the shore awaited
For sandaled walk 'pon roughly plow,
Clad in grain and pebble plated
In...

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We trudge and trip
along the slick, stony path
Squishy moss covered rocks and roots
propel our wet sandaled feet forward.

Treacherous trail ends
in a sun washed clearing
Tall pines tower,
solemn totems, encircling
the idyllic patch of heaven
in the woods.

Warm, happy...

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Feet throb – and blisters swelling –
And specked blood – on leather soles confirm 
A sandaled trek beside the Thames –
Surely my highest and measureless Most –
With God and the Devil – drinking the Fullness...

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