Shame
...Shame
When word had spread of His arrest, I left
Bethesda, passed five porticoes and came
Eventually upon the Roman fortress;
My curiosity overriding shame.
Six trials they say He underwe...
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Categories:
porticoes, easter, religious,
Form: Rhyme
Auto Da Fe At the Plaza Major
...Auto-da-fé at Plaza Major
Sixteen-Eighty was brutal on saints and their hissing cats.
A turgid June, thickened as it was by an immature sanguinary wine
that failed to quench the civil mob.
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Categories:
porticoes, poverty,
Form: Free verse
The House Our Fathers Built, the Woman and Her Almost Husband
...The heirloom, Neo-classical, Palladian, almost as old as light, was mine from conception, so, when the latchkeys were placed over Simian crease,
I put my ears to the hardwood floor, listening for t...
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Categories:
porticoes, allegory, america, betrayal,
Form: Narrative
Perched Near the Volcano
...these radiating, seemingly
endless rows of dust-choked porticoes
in the bustling Roman forum.
Receding to the vanishing point:
sun-drenched streets,
Ways to, hours for due mythology;
bus...
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Categories:
porticoes, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Barren of People
...Barren of People
Some people are so empty within
Do they hear the echo of the fallen footfall
There are museums without many statues
Grande they are standing with outstanding
pillars, porticoe...
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Categories:
porticoes, appreciation, art, beauty, mum,
Form: Free verse