Short Pilgrimages Poems

A pilgrimage should not take a direct path,
a traveler should wander seeking to be even lost
following new tacks
to unexpected destinations.

if you know where you are going
the sacredness of your journey
will be at best just a ritual....

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A pilgrimage should not take a direct path,
a traveler should wander seeking to be even lost
following new tacks
to unexpected destinations.

if you know where you are going
the sacredness of your journey
will be at best just a ritual....

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it is better
that i am
the man
instead
of you
being
the

bearded lady though 
it was exclaimed in 
one of Chaucer's
Canterbury tale's
pilgrimages

in which a certain
Miller tells albeit
a drunken tale
but he does
give fair

warning to the
weak of heart
the nobility of
drunkenness
and so winds

or breaks
wind it as if 
from his 
bottom
to find
that

her arse
was his
and then
asks was
that the 

beard
of a her
or a him...

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Calypso red dressed in dawn’s vague morning mist
Splendor painted behind the miasmic curtain
An enigmatic temptation dripping of murk and shadow
A delicately cruel mélange lost within nature’s backdrop
A barb in the thigh of our daily pious pilgrimages
Imprisoned beneath a shallow earthy grave
Forcing and screaming it entices it’s own release
In a measured fury of escape and conquest
The fragile orchid screams a silent blossom of victory
And worshipped thanks to the morning sunshine...

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