The Cloisters
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I can almost hear the
haunting monastic chants
and solemn songs, lost
between the rippling currents
of the Hudson River.
The Cloisters stand, silent
upon a nearby hill
stone walls and an...
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Categories:
rosaries, god, places,
Form: Free verse
To Santa Fe
...Ever since I left you
the sky has been too narrow
and the light too heavy
and I inhabit the flatlands
like an exile, dreaming of
the Blood of Christ mountains
and mesquite.
The scent of sil...
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Categories:
rosaries, i miss you, light,
Form: Free verse
ELEPHANT WOMAN
...{ emo music inspired poem }
ELEPHANT WOMAN
She is Elephant Woman
you cannot hide from her
in houses of brick or glass or
lined velvet curtains
whether it sits o...
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Categories:
rosaries, allegory, character, courage, dance,
Form: Free verse
Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep
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“Concrete Hearts, the Deep End Keys and the Miniaturist's Poetry of Sleep”
Following the Babel paths,
where footprints progress
like rough-hewn braille,
temptation shows i...
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Categories:
rosaries, muse,
Form: Narrative
Approximations
...I think the beauty in living comes along when we shirk our heavy coats
And our white-knuckle approximation of old, flake-away skin, which we have
Stapled back onto ourselves—
The faces we’ve taugh...
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Categories:
rosaries, people, social, surreal, truth,
Form: Free verse
Anguish And Admonitions Of Eve
...No! you weren’t born
to be beaten
raped
chained to a life bloodstained ingrained with pain
wordless worthless voiceless choiceless
No! you can’t live
being beaten
raped
chained to a ...
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Categories:
rosaries, abuse, conflict, courage, perspective,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
God Night
...A brightly feathered crooner
daffodils along a hidden creek
the bombs mimicking raindrops
cracking the halo of good dreams.
Assassins are ever commonplace
in critical condition is the human ra...
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Categories:
rosaries, god, night,
Form: Rhyme
To which image should we cling
..."We have been here a thousand times before"
Praying for world peace, or the end of war
"Memory erased, each time we begin anew"
PRIEZ POUR NOUS QUI AVONS RECOURS À VOUS
"Of hands held tenderl...
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Categories:
rosaries, heaven, light, mother son,
Form: Couplet
The Farce Of Law
...Posters painted
By law tainted
Rosaries rattling
Prayers prattling
Police swoop
Spirits droop
Whisked away
Because they pray
For children unborn
Innocent lives shorn
In abortion clinics
Co...
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Categories:
rosaries, children, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Lilies Of Lucent Light
...Lilies of lucent light,
single file walking along
the cloudless pathway of
the songbirds' garden kingdom.
How fair the child lilies,
a gathering of the guiltless,
in snow-white
First Holy Co...
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Categories:
rosaries, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse
UNDERBELLIES
...UNDERBELLIES
What underbelly is this
containing quiet grasping greed for
my magical sword gifted to me by St Michael ?
What underbelly is this that
deciphers my Heart thro...
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Categories:
rosaries, 12th grade, courage, deep,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Open Grave
...Fey King knelt to me.
Hearts engraved with oak leaves
Songs of fires and green rosaries
Bands of merchants plying their wares
Queens ascending toward mountains glen
Scenes of battle and quests o...
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Categories:
rosaries, devotion, fairy, fantasy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Montage, Part One of Many
...I stand
Standing upon the emerald landscape
posture stiff and still
Eyes like black holes
devouring the space around me
Glass horse galloping, prisms
exploding through the plainlands
Time pas...
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Categories:
rosaries, dream, imagery, imagination, longing,
Form: Free verse
The Altar of Years
...Most of my flying now
is restricted to planes,
feet less able to
“trip the life fantastic” --
age having slowed fast living
to delayed starts and early
finishes –
joining the genuflecti...
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Categories:
rosaries, faith, introspection, journey, religious,
Form: Free verse
Dahlia's Dreamscape
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When Neptune's
nostalgic sighs,
weave ruffled rosaries
of brocade ink,
bleeding from
blackberry wrinkles
in torrential time,
I wonder if
herculean eyes
of my earthen heart,
...
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Categories:
rosaries, angel, deep, fantasy, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
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