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Orisons Poems - Poems about Orisons

Barbaric Yawps
...My mind is tribal, I hunt in the mud and slurry, I track the stars in a wooden chariot made from the ribs of a blood-clan crib. My thoughts are armored, yet as articulated as any youthful flesh......

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Categories: orisons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Spirit of Swan Lake
... " In titanium haze of love, truth is but a mere lie, never unlocking gold vaults of feelings, for, honesty weeps somewhere......

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Categories: orisons, angst, betrayal, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse



Birdsong
...Some are clearly Buddhist, they sing not much, but drone and chant, they do not flaunt. Some are brightly painted egos, their songs bootie-calls from empty nests where they preen melodically r......

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Categories: orisons, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Saving Grace
...When empty bubbles of stillness brimmed the place Upon an emerald carpet of meads, she genuflected with gathered grace Of languished bones and reverence plucked from nunhood hearts. Mighty potenta......

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Categories: orisons, destiny, emotions, forgiveness,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Giving Godly Grace
...Giving Godly Grace Giving Godly grace calls us to walk In God’s sweet embracing footsteps of mercy’s tears, Vital in vivacity grace births the soul of eternal vitality, Infused gratuity – no sm......

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Categories: orisons, blessing, giving, god, life,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member In Full Flight Her Soul Departed
...In Full Flight Her Soul Departed To free my heart of all that haunted me Told I, these my tidings. ... On a summer's dawn, Fresh from our orisons, we wandered forth To greet the waking of th......

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Categories: orisons, art, beauty, creation, emotions,
Form: Romanticism
Ecstacy
...When divine’s grace, stroked hair and kissed forehead Euphorically immersed in ecstasy When humming breeze smoothed solitude Weeping heart filled with orisons When rays of hope percolate......

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Categories: orisons, allusion,
Form: Free verse
I Chide You, Kirinyaga
...At the sound of the national lullaby My face will I hide, O Kirinyaga Will sleep not Your notes laden with saline saliva hammer and bore my ears, your thoughts unfathomable I have......

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Categories: orisons, abuse, analogy, august, ,
Form: Verse
***** Down
...It pirouettes in the air, the raison d'être for a black man's inimitability. Something that keeps a black man bleeding by a black man's thrust. As if by some twisted Divine stratagem, he wa......

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Categories: orisons, africa,
Form: Free verse
Black Wednesday
...I recollect the dark nights, worst nights, worst days, Dem nights, black Wednesday, My happiness that nightfall was the worst and last case I would love not to recollect, Damn! I couldn’t kip! I co......

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Categories: orisons, dedication, memorial day,
Form: Ode
Premium Member A Heart's Deep Song
...A Heart's Deep Song Grant me for sweet remembrance sake Some golden gift that I may take With me into that region Awaiting me when love is gone, The jewel that held thy fragrant hair Against ......

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Categories: orisons, appreciation, art, assonance, beauty,
Form: Classicism
Lurking Behind the Facade
...To be spoken silently In that unpleasant tumult Lurking behind the facade He does not suspect in what wild fear He'll join with her in a fatal play Thus he sees his life as an outrageous fort......

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Categories: orisons, life,
Form: Alliteration
Premium Member Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With James Fraser
...RAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH The darkening skies in choir of wrath; The wind brisk banging blows; The withering of trees; The falling twirling leaves; The branches sudden irate tweak......

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Categories: orisons, holiday, horror, imagery,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ravenous Eldritch Wrath a Collab With Olive Eloisa Guillermo
...RAVENOUS ELDRITCH WRATH The darkening skies in choir of wrath; The wind brisk banging blows; The withering of trees; The falling twirling leaves; The branches sudden irate tweak and split. ......

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Categories: orisons, angst, dance, dark, death,
Form: Verse
A Twenty-First Century Love Song
...Shuffling this scope of limited perceptions; their visions.. Crossing her celestial, scintilating skies; deep inside tubular Chimes lifting amid the breeze to these, tranquil orisons ? Subliminall......

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Categories: orisons, angel, art, autumn, love,
Form: I do not know?

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