Short Transfused Poems

anchored
by 
the Holy Spirit
yet
 rooted
 in reality

   on display
infused
then
transfused  
  with
   a separate
creative
   vision

     blending
 internal
    sensation
this anchored
   perception
extrapolated
in
the
simplified 
  patterns
of poiema
  itself...

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Danced with
Conceived and born
Sung to and nursed
On a downy soft quilt

Transfused with
Vibrations of Ellington
Basie, Crosby, Waller
Goodman and Armstrong

Skyrocketed spiritually 
By Kern and Carmichael
Porter, Gershwin and Berlin

Thanks Mom and Dad
For the beautiful music
We made together
On that bed of downy softness...

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A glossy warmth is forming 

On the meadow.

Shallow morning air 

Transfixed  thru every eye.
 
From the memory of the sun’s blood, 

Life is transfused.

Bird and fowl 

Share a common breath, 

Falling into the day. 

Where softness stays

This day remains. 

Like the feathered touch 

Of an old idea, 


This place, this time,

Made for bigger hearts 

Than mine.....

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You can’t teach poetry pro forma
it’s the effort of a fool
You can’t gain sagacity from a book
or by the golden rule

You can’t be what you haven’t lived
the safety net misleads
You can’t bleed with another’s blood
transfused each phrase deceives

The dance floor or the balcony
true seekers get to choose
And write those words their pain has forged
—that dilettantes misuse

(Dreamsleep: April, 2023)...

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