Short Handmaiden Poems

Sorrow…
 penultimate killer
—handmaiden of death

(Dreamsleep: January, 2021)...

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Time waits…
  the handmaiden of love

Love waits,
—only upon itself

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Time waits…
  the handmaiden of love

Love waits
  —only upon itself

(Villanova Pennsylvania: July, 2016)...

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Time waits…
  the handmaiden of love

Love waits,
—only upon itself

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2000)...

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engaged violets
blushing at the angel’s words
handmaiden bouquet—
faithfulness and modesty
of virginal motherhood

2/9/2022...

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Poetry…
  the most regal of all gifted language

Prose sitting as handmaiden
  —to each verse sublime

(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2018)...

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Poseidon
What sweet gift
You giveth
Unto me
This beautiful handmaiden
From the deep sea
How can
I love her
Faithfully
When she cometh by sea
While I cometh by land
The gift that you gave...

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Science…
  a handmaiden of knowledge

The upstairs maid
  in a mansion of discovery

Chauffeuring itself
  along roads it has built

A quantitative valet
  —in the closet of the unknown

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2019)...

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Watch out for betrayers, the knowing handmaiden said.
Cleopatra took the apple, not realizing she would soon be dead.
The asp was hidden well, same color green as the apple’s stem.
The handmaiden was tossed into the tomb, her fate totally grim....

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...keep our metaphysics warm
( From : Whispers of Immortality/T.S.Eliot)


Keep our metaphysics warm
in dorm sheet our handmaiden
work like monsters bazooka
Slit our conscience and alas
masturbation is a metaphor
Hammer and chain God is lost
Only interpretation, function
of power not even truth, fly....

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Other Egyptian dancers love her
for the beauty of their Land
Some spoke some wept
others ate deceased flowers
within brilliant hearts
and how i feel love
knowing this world of pain
and suffering and love and
passion breathes my skin;

exquisite

but necessarily so
-- For the Handmaiden of Love
and her Song foretold it.

:: 12.21.2021 ::...

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A higher 
but hidden presence 
than God
Surrounds his nature
eternity’s
pod

Existing over
and deep
within
Its seminal essence
 forever
begins

Averse to our choosing
and freedom
blind
Professing nothing
but itself
in kind

And blacker
than the 
blackest hole
Obverting time
remains
— untold

(Villanova University: May, 2025)

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A unique form of hatred,
stereotypes and prejudice, 
they decipher realities.
Forgotten the same father, 
Ibrahim, Canaan families.

Who loving safe, warm, faith,
in the same lands.
Hagar,
Sarah.

Buzzing claims, 
devout homes and beliefs,
attempted annihilation,
superseded born, sibling rivalry.

Pardon, end.
End, end, endeavour destruction....

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He hath become religious of late
prostrated before the virgin Mary
Cornflower blues blown to wild violets
and thin lines puckering in concentration

Prayers spilling in loud sputters from his mouth
She hath listened a time or two
to testimonies led by callused hands
Run lukewarm holy water upon him

Coaxing gentle promises from cold maidens
candlelight vigils by the goose feather altar
Ordered 10 Hail Marys, and 5 Our fathers
and she bled for both of their sins...

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