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And then?

...Then? What then?

What about the 
Bare legs 
Seeking address 

Wait. Be a snail.
Then the hours 
Began undressing 

And then?

Wait.
No unleashed 
Impulses.

The earth tilts 
Towards...

Categories: moneylenders, imagery, life,
Form: Free verse

the fable of Jesus

...The Fable of Jesus
Jesus was skeptical of his tribe, he didn't 
whether he was a Semite, his father, the renowned 
the wood craftsman had green eyes and knew 
a few phrases of gallic monks had vi...

Categories: moneylenders, absence, blue, career,
Form: Blank verse

ODE TO MONEYLENDERS

...ODE TO MONEYLENDERS

Oh, what designs can one possess
Lending succour to those with naught
Such desperate need one must confess
And how hard one must have fought

When courtesy has no more cur...

Categories: moneylenders, anxiety, journey, sympathy,
Form: Ode

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

The Devil of a Deal

...Where will tomorrow take us
Only God alone can tell
A brighter future a cloudless day
Or an earthly living Hell 
How much of its our doing
How much is down to me
Is the fate laid out before us
...

Categories: moneylenders, business, corruption, depression, evil,
Form: Rhyme

Rant

...This town, this Silk Road had no toll to pay
  yet from the east caravans again fill its
pharaonic marble and glass temples. Monolith

malls rise its clefts, eco-wilderness morph
  into mult...

Categories: moneylenders, culture, humanity,
Form: Free verse

Maudlin Mary

...Modeled by the     skilled and clumsy hands
of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness,
a penniless waif appears      on a stool

last week a stranger called her Mona Lisa. 

Statu...

Categories: moneylenders, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis

Sunday Service

...They used to flock here
Of a Sunday
For worship and prayer
Lost in a world 
Of private contemplation

Now they come
For that first Sunday pint
Praying for an end
To splitting headaches
And ...

Categories: moneylenders, social
Form: Verse