Thorny Destiny
...Some say he's a prophet
others swear he's the son of God
some say he was just a man
still others say he never existed at all.
I think he was the original hippie
a supreme giver -who taught ta...
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Categories:
salving, jesus,
Form: Free verse
Generations Sing Songs
...Generations sing songs
Long after the apple
Gifted pleasure and pain
Unraveling ripe notes
Driving lovers insane
Generations sing songs
Of whiskey beards touching
The dirty o...
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Categories:
salving, angst,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Breadcrumbs
...These words
Stream-of-consciousness-soup really
Rarely chosen with care
Falling on thirsty ground
A lost soul trying to find
"the great forgotten language" *
For
"the unspeakable and incommun...
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Categories:
salving, identity, words,
Form: Free verse
Only From the Heart
...
“Only from the Heart”
Only from the heart
can you touch
your Blue Sky
poems -
short sentences,
sometimes long
why do we write?
only the shadow inside
knows w...
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Categories:
salving, humanity, muse, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Backscattering
...She gazed at the looking glass, but the mirror refused to grant her a preview of what might happen, a clear picture of where she had been and if she existed at all, the spectre of the moment seemed t...
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Categories:
salving, anti bullying,
Form: Haibun
We Owe It To Our Doctors
...We owe it to our doctors
We owe it to our doctors…
The ones who took it to be part of Sun Pharma’s greater mission;
To prevent disease rather cure
Cure and control if that happens at ...
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Categories:
salving, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Azrael
...What does it mean, when the Sand gets stuck?
(Gets stuck in the Hourglass)
What does it mean about time?
What does it mean about space?
Are we given a Respite?
(I meant, ‘was I?’)
Does this m...
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Categories:
salving, death, faith, grief, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Something Bigger Than Myself
...A serene succumbing through windows pane
In morning solitudes of the secreting scarlet sun
Where love penetrates partitions of the past
Riding on the refulgent rays of luculent light
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Categories:
salving, confusion, identity, love,
Form: Free verse
On Affection
...In dreams , we have nothing to fear
I hold you close within my arms
sustenance I need is so near
wrapped up close in your many charms
interpret as my clear voice calms-
drink deeply from my ...
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Categories:
salving, for her, love,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Santa
...From my lips to Santa’s ear,
I sure hope he can hear.
My silent plea for intercession,
I don’t ask for any beloved possession.
I ask for the broken to be mended.
The pain and sadness to be ende...
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Categories:
salving, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
In Self Defense
...Run thru the half-baked moon, snag slices
of dark fear, to cast off the forward bow
or stuff into mud-duck's ear.
Strap a double-edged blade high
upon your thigh. Greet the mugger
with courag...
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Categories:
salving, moon, recovery from, strength,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Ugly Poem
...Broken glass world
pithed with black flags
madmen and misfits.
Where is our god in all this fantastic muck?
Atop an out of touch mountain top...
Salving wounds of savant sons?
Far below all ...
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Categories:
salving, absence, war,
Form: Free verse
The Tragedy of the Banished Revolutionaries
...The Tragedy of the Banished Revolutionaries.
Epochs apart, yet,
bound by conscience,
Buddha,
Jesus,
Moses,
Muhammad,
Ram.
Enduring the whispers of time,
through creeds professed,
sermons preached...
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Categories:
salving, allah, christian, christmas, devotion,
Form: I do not know?
Categories:
salving, loveworld,
Form: Narrative
A Heart of Gold,
...A HEART OF GOLD
A
Symbol of a
Seraphic being you are,
For to the hopeless, without a
Behest a chest of hope on a platter
Of silver you offered, and the cold
Maimed, with your fur, warmth
You ...
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Categories:
salving, thank youheart, heart,
Form: Free verse
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