Metaphor Shelter Poems

On days of strong heat:
       any and all rain that falls,
        ...

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Houses
entrenched, mounted
over beaten soil and stones...
Cemented in concrete
 and amazement...
Everything to survive the fight
against the natural ways
and artificial routes...
Everything to offer
  to the lord...

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A bare tree
without offering any shade,
haunts me...
 It wishes to shelter birds
that are no longer here...,
This tree still conceives itself
shady and fruitful...
Ponders of when it...

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A child shelters ...
Under a bloody, swollen moon
Yearning the daylight
Soft beams show the way
But there is no ember ... no brightened clarity
No warm-to-the-marrow saturation
It is...

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I toss fire down your throat
pour you your bullet, goblet to gullet

glass-jacketed explosions 
line my wall like church organ flues
ablution for absolution from desperation 
libation-liberations...

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Rather stay in with my words 
Than think or feel today 
I'll hang them in the air so that
The sky is not so gray 
Or...

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A shelter from the storm,
of life's torment.
A place of safety,
with no lament.
When your life seems,
so unstable,
Let God's loving arms,
turn the tables.

When you're running on
slippery ground,
when...

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