Chants
...The bowel of the earth deepens with
Saturated blessings of the soil, and
Down, down, the forces burrow in its
Caverns —creviced
Between day and night, I cannot decipher,
Yet it is the mind of ...
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Categories:
processions, africa, culture, music,
Form: Free verse
By The Squeaky Gate
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Swish of ripples weave
along a ledge...my hands pretending
to rap beneath inked stars ;
while soft winds chime a lonely chorus
filling the shoreline
with empty rhythm and blues;
the on...
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Categories:
processions, longing,
Form: Free verse
Elusive
...Elopement through the dry heart
One nightfall
Or the flower
I seize
In the pungent processions
Of the winter dew
The lamppost cries for
The enlightenment
In the field of epoch-making poet...
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Categories:
processions, life,
Form: Free verse
A NEW WORLD
...My old lady dropped a needle
From the cloth she was sewing
A fart of zaracatan or tailor's fart buzzed
That, in the silence of the afternoon
Made me flee quickly from the sewing room.
The news f...
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Categories:
processions, engagement,
Form: Free verse
Safe guarding gods children arch dioceses of Milwaukee
...The many blessings taking classes at Saint Marks Catholic Church safe guarding gods children arch dioceses of Milwaukee raising my granddaughter from walking my pre schooler to our lady of mount Carm...
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Categories:
processions, allah, christian,
Form: Qawwali
200 Miles of Devotion
...Paws on pilgrimage, a faithful friend
Walked beside his master, 'til journey's end
But Pandharpur's crowds, a moment's distraction
Loyal companionship faced subtraction
Ten days of travel, now ...
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Categories:
processions, pets,
Form: Free verse
Smothering Gloria given Privileges
...Feathers sparkled lustrous leaves
crowded in a blisterful branch
glazed pink lusted sprinkling waves
smothered a idyllic luxury
Blizzard armies of service
strategically polished in s...
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Categories:
processions, absence,
Form: Lyric
rat catcher
...Rat Catcher
I feel repulsed when he is near, I ought to have compassion
for this cripple, a twisted foot. an arm that does not
function as it should a beggar with scabby skin, eyes as black
as...
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Categories:
processions, absence, break up, crush,
Form: Blank verse
Children's Poems IX
...The Tapestry of Leaves
Michael R. Burch
Leaves unfold
as life is sold
or bartered, for a moment in the sun.
The interchange
of lives is strange:
what reason—life—when death leaves all undo...
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Categories:
processions, baseball, dark, death, earth,
Form: Rhyme
Beneath the mask of day, fragments of people smile
...Beneath the mask of day, fragments of people smile,
Wrapped in a silence shattered into things unsaid,
And you will look without seeing into their fractured cleavage
Unless they themselves lend yo...
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Categories:
processions, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Ek mutho roddur
...A handful of sunlight, sky blue melting high in the horizon, out there, fugitive and passionate
For your sake, the lavish city, is filled with processions and rallies of love,
Meant only for you...
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Categories:
processions, good night,
Form: Free verse
Easter
...We, Christians celebrate Easter
To thank Jesus Christ, our Redeemer
He’s the reason for this season
Who’d gifted us God’s Eternal Salvation.
From the dead, Jesus had risen
From His gra...
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Categories:
processions, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Power and Fame
...Power and fame requires discipline
No such thing as a lawless hero or heroine
The scope of celebration is the scope of condemnation
You cannot sway a nation to refute your apprehension
Once you a...
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Categories:
processions, power,
Form: Rhyme
Chattogram, 4th December 2022
...My country people
join still in political meaningless processions
just for one plate fried rice
My country people
strike roads and highways still
just for a piece of cloths
My country p...
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Categories:
processions, community, life,
Form: Free verse
Sirens Scream
...flares on earth
tweak the heavens
the scream of sirens ~
blood-stained processions...
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Categories:
processions, earth, fear, heaven, sound,
Form: Rhyme
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