Religion Longing Poems

In a time where innocence should reign,
This little girl faced trials, her heart in pain.
Her upbringing, not necessarily the worst, I’d say,
But love and stability...

Read More

I am vitreous
like a candle-flame in the gale-wind of
your gaze, trembling
Your perfect gaze
that captures all realities in the oceans of
your eyes, surreal
Life falls away
when I...

Read More

I uncover my blackened face  
My frail hands trembling 
As I fervently seek the remedy  

I have nothing except morsels of supplication ...

Read More

A love as hot and tempting as rising dough,
     like fruit, is most ripe in the spring of life.
So slake the...

Read More

In…. Out

In….out
Someday it shall
Be found

Arms reach out
But not in the direction
I wish

Egret but 12 feet away
Flea bites round my ankles...

Read More

Mothers, fathers, and their children,
seldom share the exact same beliefs
No matter what their religion might be,
proving a child's relationship with their god 
is no different...

Read More

On days like these.
I feel the need. 
When lovers roam.
Driven a part, I need these
Feel my hand the reason it bleeds
and most of all I...

Read More

the story of the girl with conflicted intention. her direction
was known only by a being she was impartial to. it seemed 
her thoughts and feelings...

Read More

Chet lived creepily in the back of the tavern, hidden. 
No one bothered him. He lived vicariously through the others.
The pretty barflies who flitted in...

Read More

Motherland…

I am a desert, barren and hot.
Hoping for the rain, which I forgot.
Once, I was green, golden, and bright.
Nightingales singing night after night.
My fresh breeze...

Read More

Must be the smell of dust
That triggers all this longing
Is it the hollow musk
That leaves the heart a sting
Could be the busy streets
That makes me...

Read More

Meer Bai (1498-1546) was a Hindu mystic, musician, poet, and saint. She was born to a royal house, but gave up all privilege to live...

Read More

~Bells of Saint Mary's~

Oh, the joy of being young!
When those phenomenal bells
so joyfully rung!
And I, in patent leather Mary
Janes,
Ate Tootsie Rolls as if in a...

Read More

I feel envy from those who believe;
Those who see without a doubt,
For they know not the way to grieve:
To wonder what this is all about.

For...

Read More

Ordinarily, a discriminatory
guardedness factors large what I air
in close confidential quarters
within therapist office bare
ring pocked marked soul
of this feigned cheer
full contemplative, introspective,

and ruminative despair
ring fellow,...

Read More