London
...Shoreditch clung to its ruin
Its roughhewn gate staring out at corpses
And the clutch of travellers heading from the fields,
The shepherds rambling onwards,
The herders with their slow-moving cat...
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Categories:
roughhewn, allegory, allusion, angel, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Eyes on the Fish
...Hungry for ideas -
a fish dish would help,
an unhinged arm's length away,
way over the Yangtze River,
where, far from the nearest eyeball,
drunken cormorants dive
for silverplated carp.
Alas, ...
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Categories:
roughhewn, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Three Turtle Songs
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Turtle by the Door
The bears and wolves are few,
one threadbare widow mourning,
two grays as consumptive as smoke.
The large dwindle,
their bodies grow more awkward,
more at odds.
The heav...
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Categories:
roughhewn, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My Missing Piece
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Searching outside of myself
Far and wide
Looking into the eyes and souls of others
Seeking answers
Looking for my missing part
Always sensing an absence
Awakening one day with tears in m...
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Categories:
roughhewn, animal, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
A Thing To Speak Of
...I could have been a thing spoken,
a fine Chinese porcelain vase for instance
with all my nature painted upon it.
Herons in flight, storks stalking,
ibis reciting the ‘I Ching’ to other ibis,
lot...
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Categories:
roughhewn, poetry,
Form: Free verse
No Pardon For Jesus
...I never cease to be amazed
When in the morn the sun is raised
To brightly light our lovely land
A present wrought by God's own hand
They mocked his short eventful life
His miracles, did not he...
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Categories:
roughhewn, bible, christian, heaven,
Form: Pastoral
Three Turtle Songs
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Turtle by the Door
The bears and wolves are few;
one threadbare widow mourning,
two grays as consumptive as smoke.
The large dwindle,
their bodies grow more awkward,
more at odds.
The heav...
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Categories:
roughhewn, poetry,
Form: Blank verse
Categories:
roughhewn, easter,
Form: Free verse