Outsized Poems - Poems about Outsized

It Was All an Illusion

...
  
      All a mirage, an aberrant illusion
        acceptance in America
           professionally, socially
       we even became sought-after marriage partners…

     Educated people seeme...

The Clock Struck One

...At twelve forty-five, the clock struck one, 
and when it had seen what it had done, 
after sixty more minutes flew, 
that timekeeper struck two.

It never learned, next to the shelf:
"Always ke...

Orphan

...You chance upon her
in the far reaches of the backyard
a place you never go
and there she trembles  a tiny tiger in a blurred world 
secreted in shadows below blackthorn shrubs 

faint mews dra...

Two Small Verbs,Nouns

...Two Small Verbs/Nouns

Love and hate,
two peas in a pod.
Two words so alike
yet not alike.

Both filled with passion,
evoking strong feelings.
We act on them,
or not, each in our own way.
...

America's Apostasy

...Exile prophet, seer of Patmos,
peering through a time yet future,
saw your rising, not from waters,
but from the bowels of the earth.

Lamb-like beast adorned with two horns,
destined by God’s ...

You Looked Up To Him

...That tiny infant you held in your outsized hand
    gently held your arm as you stumble-walked
  down the block for a bit of fresh air, and when you turned
    toward him, you looked up to him, as...

Unworded Rituals

...Glow morning warm
hugging
sleepy scalp and face embrace
outside sacred pink
yellowing fragrant dawn

Without fear of fading dark
or death
or sin

Welcome in
naked foot massage
pressure me...

Tracery

...Bejeweled, in and out of the Gothic architecture, 
Conceived by Abbot Suger, through a constant conjecture;
With perfect glasswork etched out of the then-time silica,
Found its place In Saint-Deni...

Lost and Found

...Lingering longingly, lost love laments
Obstreperous outrage, overintense
Sorrowful solitude, sad, sluggish since
Tumultuous tantrums, terrible, tense

Amorous ...

Hedonistic Hate

...When we compare the numbers
and percentages of innocent,
trusting lives lost
in significant part because of Christian
militarized
capitalized
patriarchal 
monotheistic judging fundamentalism,
...

The Outs Have It

...He is outstandingly out-of-bounds 
asserted the outlandishly outspoken outlaw
He can outshoot, outtrump and outride you.
He is outrageously outranked, the tenderfoot replied.

But he did feel ou...

Travelogue

...Discover a country by bus and train
Listen to the sound and look at the sight
Buildings may crumble but people remain

Santander port welcomes with loud refrain
Old station front, new inside, mi...

Disempowering Missions

...Begin
by composing grandly outsized mission statements,
"To end racism, ignorance, sin."

Continue
to accept past win/lose separations,
divorces,
fragmentation
as tolerable compromises
while...

Doubling Boundaries

...You had me at Aloha
all through Aloha again,
between banks of outdoor clouds
sailing sigh,
some lighter whiter
faster,
some darkly starkly stable
yet even these passing through
this invite an...

Blade of Grass

...Front porch consciousness of organically rich freedom,
relief from language label boxes,
reifying,
static,
now giving way toward emerging diastolic flow,
abundance fills a fertile inside view of...

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