A Broken Mirror
...A battered pier glass, the length of a running lightning,
The width of a Caesarean window,
And next to an agelong, framed
Daguerreotype, lies face down across
A musty room.
Shafts and rods of ro...
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Categories:
piously, emotions, life,
Form: Free verse
Easter Essence
...Spring sunshine as winter has now past
That tempestuous wild weather did not last
Pollen-covered daffodils do permeate the air with their fresh scent
What will the pious sacrifice for lent
Th...
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Categories:
piously, easter,
Form: Rhyme
NATURE OF HEART
...NATURE OF HEART
Dual curved carved
crystalline
earth pointed plasmic
Oneness
quantum wave
particled
allows Heart to heave
Heal with white light
eagles
on Tibetan height n...
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Categories:
piously, 12th grade, allegory, deep,
Form: Free verse
NEW - Where is The Love Mamma - The Video
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Synopsis:
A powerful video, lyrics and music that sheds light on the devastating impact of poverty, illustrating how it fuels crime, gang violence, and psychological trauma i...
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Categories:
piously, anger, angst, conflict, poverty,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Example of Saint Dominic
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On Memorial of St. Dominic
We remember that man who sought to teach the truth in service to Father Christ
The Master Teacher
Every age has its errors
As Dominic encountered with Albigensian her...
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Categories:
piously, christian, community, god, jesus,
Form: Free verse
WHERE IS THE LOVE MAMMA
...For Silent One's - Mamma Poetry Contest
Where is the love, Mamma?
Through broken Louvre blinds, you're ever watching
Rosary beads clicking prayers on repeat mode, utteri...
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Categories:
piously, angst, conflict, corruption, mother
Form: Rhyme
Passions
...Dad is out back,
speaking to his swedes and turnips.
He only grows tubers, root vegetables,
that I sullenly refuse to eat.
There is one flower
a Passionflower, 'Passiflora Incarnate'
that c...
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Categories:
piously, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Penny Loafers
...Penny loafers; muffling, shuffling, slipping, sliding symbols of a generation.
The rings of alarm clocks, sprints to an office, and evenings in dance hall gyration.
Low, feminine shoes, a Post-War...
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Categories:
piously, clothes,
Form: Rhyme
Generating
...She awakens with the glare
and swims with the dolphins
She houses by twilight
and sees off the peoples
Nostums awaken
The tempest stars assemble
in the melancholy of the shadows
the birds hav...
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Categories:
piously, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Wagon Man
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The Wagon Man
Wagon John,
Wanted My Thoughts On Columbine and Gun Control
4-20-2000
The place, was Littleton Colorado, the school, Columbine High.
But it could have happened in any s...
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Categories:
piously, death, high school, school,
Form: Narrative
God Does Not Conceal Himself
...God does not play a child's game of hide and seek
You will find Him standing at the side of the meek
Do not search for Him behind a stone temple wall,
but He will hear your prayer when...
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Categories:
piously, god,
Form: Rhyme
Players of Life
...Let me tell you a story…
A story about life, where Solitude gracefully glides into the room, wearing a loose fitting gown, draping her curvaceous form. Piously she takes her place at the table of li...
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Categories:
piously, imagery, life, metaphor,
Form: Narrative
My Heart's Secret
...I never cease to puzzle over
life's mystery, how on a drizzly morning
I found my long wished for love
crossing the street in opposite direction,
eternal love was conceived in the moment
and she ...
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Categories:
piously, destiny,
Form: Free verse
With Tender Affection
...Merciful Father,
Humbly, I approach You with devout thanks
for blessings bestowed on me and my family.
The world is in turmoil, suffering calamities.
Illness and death abounds, ...
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Categories:
piously, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Dances With Leaves
...Leaves of burnished gold take flight
Whirling spirals, with childish delight
A final pirouette without a sound
B...
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Categories:
piously, autumn, dance,
Form: Couplet
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