Long St augustine Poems

                        
A rising sun burns like a solar flare
  from St....

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What moves us to believe is not the fact that revealed truths 
Appear as true and intelligible in the light of our natural reason
We believe because the authority of Eternal God Himself who reveals them
Who...

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While working in Seattle for Boeing
Had duty in Florida for six weeks
Just before it was time to be going
Drove from town to town looking at antiques

In St. Augustine, day before my flight
I was sightseeing the...

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The industrial hull of the SUV 
Sways with the slightest wind taps 
And pothole shoves. Popeye’s signs, 
Golden shell displays, the lingering smell 
Of Premium-grade gasoline. 
The prices are Down, but our gas meter still...

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He's


sorry


for what he's done....


he's


apologetic, but the moon


she's crumbled in my palms and drenched


in my tears.


I rub my hands across my jeans and shoot stars across my ripped up, tarnished wardrobe


maybe he'll witness me before he...

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He gave me a strong impact,
with his gift for immemorial gestures;
he embraced the sick and handicapped
he kissed the soil of the nation on his first vist.

As an occupant of the Chair of St Peter,
he brought...

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They came to entertain us…high school students from St. Augustine
They came to dance…and I have to say their dancing was anything but routine.

And they were beautiful, these students, they came in all shapes and kinds
most...

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soft flames flickered offshore
Timucuan tribal campfires
luring Menendez’s armada

Feast Day of St. Augustine 1565
Spanish settlers rowed covertly to shore
more than 600 torches ushered in a new era of light

torches turned to gaslights
hanging yet today in a...

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Inside this cave, my refuge, nave
I bend and stretch and breath, 
to find myself among the ruins 
of ancient places, faces, and history. 

Although I strive to change the tide
of my own motivations,
something akin to...

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In the Sacrament of the altar
Lord meets us
Men and women created in God’s image and likeness
Becomes our companion along the way

In this sacrament
The Lord becomes food for us
Satisfy our hunger for truth and freedom
Father Christ...

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Everybody agrees he’s got those talents
however, he doesn’t pay much attention
described as an easy-go-lucky guy
he couldn’t care less in certain ways.

Oh, what a man who doesn’t see beyond
oh, what a man who knows so well
yet...

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In the Sacrament of the altar
Lord meets us
Men and women created in God’s image and likeness
Becomes our companion along the way

In this sacrament
The Lord becomes food for us
Satisfy our hunger for truth and freedom
Christ becomes...

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Without a word - you speak to me through particles of pigmentation
For centuries held within the grip of linseed oil
Where now I gaze upon  the many faces that you wore
And their beauty shakes ...

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 "The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home."

                          ...

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Bright blonde-haired girl
competitive
From the start, made a nine
Mile ride
With a spirited heart, straight
to the 
Summit of Telegraph Hill, I’ll
guess
She freewheeled back ‘just for
the thrill’

A gifted person, with a giving
heart
A literate future ‘to be’ in life
her...

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"God loves each of us as if there were only one of us." - St. Augustine

I don’t believe in magic.
I believe in hope.
I believe in grace.
I believe in love.
I believe in One who created –
All...

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People have always asked fundamental questions:
Who am I?
Where did I come from?
Where am I going?
Why do I need to struggle to achieve my goals?
Why is it so hard to love and be loved?
What is the...

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AND PASSING INTO HOLY SOULSFROM AGE TO AGE
SHE PRODUCES FRIENDS OF GOD 
 PROPHETS
WISDOM 7:27

IF YOU GO TO MILAN in northern Italy
You probably head first to the Duomo
The massive Gothic Cathedral in the center
After you...

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Syrupy with recipe ran along brasseries 
Peiping, Mags and Oasis pricey rotisseries
Sizzling sizzlers the Peter Cat’s clamor 
Addled couples fending their pockets out of scarce. 

Boogie with deejays rhythm along discos
Tantra, Fusion and Roxy surfaced...

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Orbit or forfeit but never collide
You’ll just mess it up like last time

On a beach in St. Augustine, Florida, I thought I wanted you.

Orbit or forfeit but never collide
You’ll just mess it up like last...

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I can only live in a garden
where warped talons
of tiger tulip petals mar
unbroken lines of pastel shimmer,
not where silent cerulean lakes
float as though aloft 
in frames of polished stone 
to tell the cloudless sky,
I'm your...

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I like to think I do not hate her
a Christian man,  
  heart so bound
in Galatians, John, St. Augustine
was on his knees, an artful proof
begging grace, 
   cursing youth
I like to...

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