Smokescreen
A thin wisp
Like fingers entwining
Opening like a budding flower
Skywards
Taking a path, a grey meander
Spooling and curling
Relying on a gentle breeze
For safe passage
The momentary heat on wood
Sublimating to perfumed wonder
Entering my body to
Ensnare the soul
The scent which evokes
For each a different memory,
A feeling; but to all…
Solace, fortitude, release
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Categories:
santo, nature,
Form: Free verse
Antipoem 4 Santo and Johnny
AntiPoem 4
“Santo and Johnny”
(Poet’s instruction- Play “Sleepwalk” twice by Santo and Johnny while reading)
Santo and Johnny play Sleepwalk on Fender steel and bass
Just oozing out their mellow electric dream sound as the
Santa Monica Pier exudes under a blue napkin of sky voices
Lifting tanned bodies aloft into the maelstrom of sun and stars
The world sneezes and
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Categories:
santo, memory,
Form: Free verse
Palo Santo
The Wood That Smelt Good:
I adore your smoldering odor.
Your sniff makes my nostrils go gaga.
It's like someone threw a rose at my nose.
Whoops, got it too close too my face; now I've got a left ash-cheek.
Try not to freak, but this smudge is gonna be here all week.
I've heard the birbs; they've spoken 'bout your
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Categories:
santo, crazy, fun, funny, silly,
Form: Burlesque
El Espiritu Santo
I've just finished sweeping,
And now he liter the floor:
Cries the Holy Spirit,
For the filthiness of mankind.
18:01:27:20:13
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Categories:
santo, allusion,
Form: Quatrain
Uprise In Santo Domingo
From the European and taste of sugar
Depended the Caribbean riches
Produced by extensive manual work
Of Africans enslaved
In colonial plantation economy regime
Amid the hard work
How fast the energy is exhausted,
And hanging over the slaves
The scarce supply in what sordid houses
Nor medical care they had! ...
Marrons
were gangs of runaway slaves
Hidden in the forest
Out of imperial
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Categories:
santo, nostalgia,
Form: Blank verse
Silly Silly Santo
silly silly rick santorum
demanding that *********** go away
so that christians can pretend like
their way is the only game in town
(ban ***********, ban same-sex marriage,
ban sugar, ban television, ban books, ban
conversation not concerning “god” or “jesus,”
ban *****es & ban ******s (after they have
done their “duty” popping out lil’ rugrats like
it was going out of fashion in
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Categories:
santo, life, women, silly, women,
Form: Free verse
Santo
santo was his little brother
who always wore a smile
he went back home to mexico
what was supposed to be
for just a little while
then one day not long ago
we got the sad sad news
a woman driver
tore delfino,s family in two
he,ll never again be with his family
we,ll never again see him smile
cause santo,s up in heaven
no
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Categories:
santo, lossday, earth,
Form: ABC
Espiritu Santo
Will you live in me
Purify my body whole
Cleanse my all; amen
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Categories:
santo, faith
Form: Senryu