A NEW WORLD
...My old lady dropped a needle
From the cloth she was sewing
A fart of zaracatan or tailor's fart buzzed
That, in the silence of the afternoon
Made me flee quickly from the sewing room.
The news f...
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Categories:
miserere, engagement,
Form: Free verse
The Mercy
...Have mercy on me, O God, in Your Goodness; in the greatness of Your compassion wipe out my offense Psalm 51:3
There are severe penitential realms that was sung or spoken can give us much spiritua...
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Categories:
miserere, christian, devotion, god, heaven,
Form: Narrative
Exegesis
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"Exegesis"
At 7 he was
thrown to the wolves
Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets
kept in the abbey
he escaped
went to war
where ...
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Categories:
miserere, father daughter, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
Father the Mercy You Grant Us I Am Not Worthy-
...Deus et Pater gratias ago tibi semper,
I thank you always Father God
ut det Patri
cur vexas
Et miserere dona nobis
Non sum dignus
Hallelujah
non sum
Non sum dignus
Sed usquam
Et semper,
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Categories:
miserere, analogy, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Silkworm's Birthday
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"The Silkworm’s Birthday"
Mulberry leaves flutter in the breeze
Kookaburra brave Joker bluffs a sky blue breast
Drops one feather for a qu...
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Categories:
miserere, chicago, grandchild, imagery, love,
Form: Free verse
Lost Lamentations
...Lost Lamentations
by
Rick Folker
(remembering Charlotesville)
"Miserere mei, Deus"
Lost among the shrill voices
of blame, of rage, of insatiable violence
The low, plaintive lamentations
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Categories:
miserere, anger, bereavement, courage,
Form: Free verse
Nigeria Had I Own You
...My dear fervent land of emulous miserere,
Had I be your creator or swish despot care,
Whose cloat can awe beyond exalted gild,
Then you'll bloom than grass, and wet sild,
River Benue, and Niger...
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Categories:
miserere, absence,
Form: Ballad
Mindfulness
...Mindfulness
Mindfulness is being in the moment, with the past
A dim memorial and the future ripe anticipation;
Without investment of self in uncertainty and “when I…”,
Just living life in the n...
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Categories:
miserere, absence, betrayal, break up,
Form: Blank verse
Dante's Divina Commedia Translation
...The difficult translation of first Canto of Divina Commedia is here completed
In the part published before, Dante imagined to find himself in a dark forest where he met three beasts.
Now he is going...
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Categories:
miserere, fantasy,
Form: Terza Rima
Dante's Divine Comedy First Canto Translation
...Premise
The great poem by the italian poet Dante is the DIVINA COMMEDIA
I have tried to translate in english verses of INFERNO (HELL).
It was a very difficult task.
I expect criticism.
When j...
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Categories:
miserere, dream, poems,
Form: Terza Rima
Miserere - God Have Mercy On Me
...Night after night,
the hassock in my room,
the only safe haven
against the bale anguish of times
reminding me of happin...
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Categories:
miserere, dark, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Lyric