Recapture Poems - Poems about Recapture

Baking Bread

...
I open the oven door
to a blast of heat 
and hot bread bulging
out of a high tin, brown, crusty
and ready to be taken out.
That smell wafts across 
seventy years to when I can
remember bread...

Layers of Intention

...Coming back to recapture and constitute whys,
To understand our train of thought, the path we seek with our eyes,
The external influence that suggests and surrounds,
Take it all away and what have...

Light Up My Fantasy

..."The essence of art is to recapture the fantasy and the imagination of a child again, but without the innocence of a child."
~Romare Bearden


she had been reaching for all the w...

Mountains of Hope

...Take me to the mountain of hope
Where I can find a place to replenish my soul
Take me to the mountain near the sea
 where I can spend quiet time with thee 
I want to breathe fresh air again and 
...

Incarnate

...Bloodlet me, my precious
You can make this my willing sacrifice
To cure me of impurity, of sickness.
Cut gashes into my face.
Discard chunks of my body.
These cliffs into my mind,
Scars of unhe...

The End is How It Ends

...The End is How it Ends 

The end is how it ends and if it doesn’t we haven’t gotten there yet

As I sit here and the window open and the church bells toll

It’s a reminder that your spirit is l...

ALUTA CONTINUA

...ALUTA CONTINUA : FORCED REMOVALS 

( Poet’s Note : I’m posting this poem here as a South African history student recently asked to interview poet on Forced Removals. I read this poem which he enjoy...

UnSung IrReligious DisAuguration

...How does it feel to you
when presidents proclaim anthro-supremacy
exclusively made
in one universal God's
straight WesternWhite monotheistic 
over-Capitalized 
autocratic entitlement
for a mon...

To live means to be alive, to defy unfulfilled moralizers

...To live means to be alive, to defy unfulfilled moralizers,
Digital prophets marked by the compulsion to preach,
The trendy ideologies of the day, without hesitation, without end,
To be alive is to...

Coconut Wireless

...I am flowered in the shade of bird wings
neath patch of deep sadness absent of clouds
beholden to loosen memories mist filtered
cell charged energies their liberal release
bars that s...

Lennon and Napalm

...The Beatles split up so mystically -pronto
the Vietnam spine came back together
some branded the blame into Yoko
some tied a wreath of thorns on the reds.

Imagine time moving queerly along-
Le...

Passion Through Reference

...

I thought I stood on top of the world
But it was only when I fell
That I realized how small I am
Every success feels unearned
And every failure long overdue
Lifelong passions feel like a...

In the murmur of modernity, a disease courses through the veins

...In the murmur of modernity, a disease courses through the veins,
A silent malaise, binding hearts and thoughts in heavy chains,
Where no one thinks, feels, or dares to care deeply anymore,
No spar...

I Couldn't Talk About It, So I Wrote A Poem Poetry Contest

...
If I had a hashtag or even understood them,
it might be “TMI.”
I don’t lack for stories and opinions.
I’ll engage in conversations with friendly total strangers
when right away I see they share...

Hard to Stand up for What's Right

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  Hard to stand up for what’s right
     when POTUS gives up on the fight

  Right away he abandoned Afghanistan
     forsaking our own soldiers to the Taliban  

  For two years he’s supplie...

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