Short Reliquary Poems

Sadness within me is my skald,
Ignorant world, taunting my afterworld,
Why is my soul in this soil pinfold... 

The sky is filled with dark enshroud,
Am dumbstruck, thunderstorms cloud... 

Love is an unloved harken,
The heart in me, a shrunken token... 

Fey reliquary in the sand,
Buffing the defoliated leaves off my land,
She lay her tears on my heartland... 

Miseries of the silenced one...
Tortured hell gone......

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Retreating into my mind, I find, 
Encased like glass, a history of my past, of
Lovers long ago, of bent and broken arrows.
Instant memories envelop me, like a familiar
Quilt, wrapping me into a mummy of guilt,
Unhappiness, pain. . . all feeling remains,
Are stored here, the bones of tears, to
Regret, resurrect, reflect, or entomb. I linger, having
Yet to exhume, the elusive, gold doubloons.



4/26/11

*Won 1st place in "One Off" contest...

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Repeat...

Imaginary things 
Make believe places
Roaring gods
Benevolent faces
Old holy ones
Contrite women
Religious puns
Invisible semen
Sacred tomes
Fantastic stories
Reliquary bones
Uplifting Glories
Sins of the mind
Confessions of the heart
Eyes for the blind
Converts from the start
Alters and incense
Candles and fire
Bronze age past tense
Pointy church spire
Lying to infants
frightening folk
Keep the lay distant
Holy men strokes...

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