Short Prodigals Poems

Our sages’ pages and wages
Fading, folding and falling
… the prodigals named and shamed...

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Bless the deviled eggs and the preacher’s children.
Grab a piece of fried-to-perfection chicken.
Coca-cola cake or banana pudding?
~ Prodigals welcomed






January 29, 2019
Sapphic Stanza with a JUX Poetry Contest
Craig Cornish, Sponsor...

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Seven dark prodigals approached in the night,
saying: “One has escaped and
journeyed into the light”

Seven dark prodigals with shadows now gone,
longed for he who had left them
—for he who was strong

Seven dark prodigals wandered the dark,
no safety in numbers,
in search of their heart

“We must look till he’s found,” I heard two of them
say,
seven sins unforgiven
—the eighth gone astray

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2017)...

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Satan hides
within the shadows
Among your thoughts
his evil trolls
His masquerade
beyond the body
  Feigning silence
inside your soul

He takes up space
at God’s indulgence
The part he plays
unscripted low
In brimstone’s fire
he finds acceptance
From prodigals
his demon’s flow

The battle royal
lasts forever
Cast in darkness
waits his throne
To live in shame
while unrepentant
A trillion souls
—one more to go

(Dreamsleep: January, 2024)
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So on the topic of river life,

What can I say that has not been said?

This reckless way is oft sought by few.

Adventurous souls eager of heart,

Who started wading her bramble shore.

Her lapping song is a sirens call.

Her scent holds captive to her domain.

Her secrets many hidden away.

 Waiting the "ah-Ahhh" each hopes to say.

Her prodigals yearn for life that way.

For life is a line like the river.

The river life is the life they love....

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