Short Ritualistic Poems

Unction from heavens
Mitigating crown
Ballasting nature and nurture
Ritualistic canopy
Ecological shield
Leased providence
Licensed convenience
Amended space...

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I drugged my demons
Ritualistic suicide
Speaking the word
Of indifference-
I woke one day embodied in manhood–
Self searching –
Self seeking-
I began the anatomy of a prince in ruins-
The legend remains,
A child-...

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religion
ritualistic, judgmental 
kneeling, praying, seeking
fear, shame, compassion, acceptance
connecting, feeling, recognising
childlike, pristine
spirituality

18-January-2023

Delightful Diamante Poetry Contest 
Sponsor: Caren Krutsinger...

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What ever happened to May Day
Was it always borne of fire?
Ritualistic backstay
The opposite of a pyre

Ensuring fertility of the land
Safety of the livestock
Fire, dancing hand in hand
All together en bloc

Don't fear Beltane
The new fire is lit
Modern meets the arcane
To the heaven and earth we recommit 

Which fire is eternal Poetry Contest
7th March 2023
Sponsored by: Joe Maverick...

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It's a wonder,
  indeed it is
  her hand in yours, not his.
The rhythmic beating of your heart
  desperate to speak but dare not
  for fear of betrayal fearing the start,
that love is more than just a chemical spark
 and every glance you take
 is but a ritualistic dance and embrace faked
that plays a game of hide and seek
 worthy of attempts and repeats
 each that may or may not be
beginnings of the romance trot....

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Jul 2013
Chennai

Proof that an indivisible portion of time exists,
Frozen in that time, unchanging,
Morphed into the metamorphic rock, forever,
Hacked, packed, moved,
masoned into walls of a ritualistic enclosure

I can drink on them for hours,
Look into their eyes,
Isolated, purified, distilled to 175° proof,
One expression, one thought, one pain,
...maybe that is why I can see them

Or maybe I just spend too much time in that room...

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sometimes it is not real 
 those words you spit out 

 venom ladened
 enclosed in a ritualistic chant

 haunting the night 
 shadows confirm my thought 

 deeper into everything 
 i am consumed

 deeper and deeper i sink
 can't find up 

 the pressure is so overwhelming
 just want it to end as you begin 

 you whisper your screaming thoughts
 i find it harder to be

 in this sea of uncertainty   
 drowning sweetly deep...

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We are caught up in this digital distance
Tangled in strings of binary code
Texting in sequence but in silence
Transmitting thoughts on keystroke roads.

We are caught up in tactile indigence
An impoverished need for human touch
We receive electronic mental perceptions
By fonts implied as such.

We are caught up in digital rambling
Ritualistic taps of thoughts and rhymes
Suffocating until we tap, release and enter
Into the electronically charged sublime....

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