Autumn Religion Poems

In Japan, people make a Spring pilgrimage
They go to pay homage to cherry blossoms
When the earth nods its head
When the sun warms its forehead
It causes...

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When the autumn fades,
Behind soft clouds,
Leaving dancing leaves, rustling so loud,
Inspiring me – to hear the music in my doubts,
To see the joy in the...

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Spilling myself with an ink-soaked feather
pages cocooned by mahogany leather,
eroded and weathered

“Damn my eyes”
“My deeds unjustified”

Perusing prose to anesthetize my pain
my windowpane dripping with drops...

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Up the wooden hill
where the fir tree spills
rustic autumn and soil,
cries of "The pale one".
All in arms,
pitchforks at the ready.
"Burn the witch! Be gone!"

An equivocal...

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holy shops are filled
with sacred relics acquired
from the bodies shed...

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Amber moon over endless seas
warm breezes caressing
Green sweet grass nodding into the brisk air
gulls nest, fires dot the beach
figures rushing hand in hand
Along the reach

the...

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On site of this forgotten Babylon
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in this annihilated place
What strange creature’s kin
to inhuman race
Dwell deep in antediluvian hells 
Uncanny...

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Chocolate lotus lips
A planted peach tongue
And ebony seeding eyes
I am the garden you greet
With thick calloused thumbs
And warm loving palms

How can I be so selfish
to...

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As I hike
The winding Rattler paths of Green Mountain
It’s tempting to think
Beneath my skidding leather shoes
These marbles of red stones
Were scattered and tossed here
Just today

Laid...

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In the twilight autumn storm
Trampoline trees still green in the wind
Roared like oceans crashing a beach

Hail bouncing on their vinyl backs

Leaves shriveling in electric flames
Whipped...

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1.
Highest frigid mount
For a private, odd god walks
betrayed by the ghost

2.
Frosty timberland
A female, great Panther swims
in spite of the frost

3.
A snowy autumn
when a wooden, tall...

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~Seasonal darkness descends~ 


Smiling pumpkin faces soon will be at our front doors,
Though children in California may not celebrate Halloween 
anymore!

Will our Christmas and Christ,...

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Each day I trudge
Through thoughts and care
But barely notice
What is there..

Those moments hidden
In the dust
Of life's travails
And human rust

Beyond myself
I need to be
More present to
Infinity

And...

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Gravel paths line the way, to my abode of the fey.
Rough surface, heavy footsteps, stones of grey.
With weary spirit, I scale them day-after-day.
How I pray...

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I cannot see it, yet I believe it as fact:
Death has swallowed me, it’s no victory
but the sting of it impales my soul with grief...

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