Short Genuflecting Poems

A grasshopper
on a bamboo shoot                  
genuflecting...

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Pursuing the great American Dream
Juggling life-children, work and home
Justifying time away from family
Genuflecting to the Almighty Dollar


Captcha PJJG...

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ADMIRATIONS
captivated
  by
    the imperative
genuflecting
  the polyphonetic
with
demode
  certainties

castigating
  & circumventing
pressures

entranced
    by
      the
unsettling

yet
irrepressible
  influences
of
today...

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“Consider the lilies,” the wise Solomon said
They do not spend their time in worry,
Though they know they soon will fade ~~
They present themselves in all their glory,
Neither genuflecting nor saying they’re sorry. 

Written April 21, 2022...

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somehow there was no way back and it burdened so.
Like a wish that has slowly burned away to embers;
hope seems to have become but a lifeless  pile of molted ash.
And the weeping eyes that are reflected in the tears that flow;
Seem to carry a message that may soon become;
The passing melody of an unsung epitaph...

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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 genuflecting
lines, many of us
striving for sainthood
in latter years, fingering
rosaries – chanting on knees

converts 
at Altar of years…....

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EXTRA  EXTRA

Contextual Comrades Incarcerated,

Victims of vitriols vexation 
denied the rights of their inquisitors.
Censored by the voices of shame
guilt and hubris masquerading
as righteous indignation.
Virtue’s vanity
shouting from the “bully” pulpit
concerned only with its own reflection
“gutturally” genuflecting
before a muted “god”.



©6/3/2021...

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We were intimidated by stone man
Wondering why he was genuflecting
We reflected on it as only adults can do
Wesley walked over to touch him and say “hi”.

They had an intense conversation, this toddler and this statue.
We were stunned, realizing Wesley saw a human being
Whereas we had seen stone, not recognizing his humanness.
We all walked over then, grateful a child lead us....

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How the shadows fall back bowing;
prostrating themselves 
before the noon day sun.
Genuflecting as their wooden, vegetative father’s can not.
Performing dance movements of mimicry
the boughs above initiate.

How the shadows fall daringly, dauntless;
dissecting the bleached winter grass,
making perplexing puzzles of mossy patches
creating mystical arteries upon 
the breast of Mother Earth....

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She is furious; I feel her fury.
Taste her anger; my eyes open from sound slumber.
BANG!
Storm’s loudest cymbal.
I smile, picturing trees lying flat in a straight line
Maybe oaks, genuflecting to her power.

I will come back as a storm.
I will be furious.
I feel and taste my fury,
I am maniacal and mad.
Oaks and elms will lie flat, amazed at my swiftness.

BAM!
I smile, loving her strength.
I hear rain 
Gentling her
My eyes close....

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moonlight sonata plays sound waves
Reverberating
     the sordid tune of our last days.
Excruciating
     Pain enters into my mind frame.
Frustrating
     the birth of the universal flame.
Contemplating
     the solution to your pollution.
Educating
     monkeys about their evolution.
Genuflecting
     priests kiss Mary's bleeding stigmata.
Reflecting
     his holy name now and tomorrow.
Reiterating
     moonlight sonata plays sound waves....

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