Son Ottava Rima Poems

If we know ourself, we’ll know the universe
but if our inquiry seeks to go in deep,
recognising touch divine does not rehearse,
we begin by letting musings...

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Son why don’t you call and tell me you’re fine;
I am out of my mind with the worry.
Fun are you having ... just drop me...

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You are the one I have long waited for
The one who filled with love this empty heart
Who gave me meaning and courage once more
To follow...

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Dad is long gone now - nearly twenty years.
I still see his face with the deep lines etched
at the corners of his mouth from the...

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Come boldly into this old world, my son
Don't cry and shake your fists with angst and dread
Grow straight, grow strong and work until it's done
Life...

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It was a time to bond and booze with dear Papa,
An interval all the more naughtily charming
As it inflamed the temper of irascible Mama.
Before happy...

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Jesus Christ’s Final Days on Earth

His ride to town began with human praise.
And palm fronds paved the road that Jesus chose.
The will of God the...

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A warring god of wind storms and lightening,
Rudra, rough looking, well built, braided hair
Golden in color, of firm limbs widening
With streaks of lightening and fearful...

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Read me verses
vibrant with life,
not sad epitaphs;
paint me my portrait
with a lustrous light...
be a Cavaraggio, or Rembrandt,
and my replicas sell in the market
for a price...

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Diane was like any other Long Island mother,
but on July twenty six she made an horrible mistake by smoking pot,
resulting in the death of five...

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" VA PENSIERO, " was one of the most 
famous of Verdi's masterpieces:
the Chorus of the Hebrews slaves
lamenting for their Motherland
by the Euphrates' River...as
Nabuchadnezzar II,...

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