Short Wafer Poems

Fine wafer thin flakes
of a rainbow, delight eyes
with pretty ballets....

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Fine wafer thin flakes
of a rainbow, delight eyes
with pretty ballets....

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gently laid to rest
 wafer thin in copper bronze
 fallen ghosts of spring...

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Yet whilst ajar, my hopes are wafer thin,

as door is slight, then wide awake am I

constraint of dismal days without reply

hopeful that if somehow, light shines in....

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Cerise clouds
picot
the mallows
edging 
a wafer
of earth.

Distant mallards
volute the evening,
wainscot
the vault
of season--
a lattice
of lavalieres
mulling a sky
blanched as gin....

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My Mind and Medical Emergency

My mind made me have a medical emergency,
To meet God was met with  a severe urgency;
On Him relied;
This, I denied;
Sinned and needed wafer than wine insurgency.

Jim Horn...

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I
Moon is a Necco
Wafer, Sugar Babies, we
‘Neath the Milky Way.

	II
Yorks, the Musketeers!
The Swedish Fish froth away
From the Whopper Balls.

	III
The dark side of Mars,
The Salt Kiss on the Heath,
No mint’s on the bed....

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To understand the problem,
look from deep within
where logic and the sciences
are both cut wafer thin

Our thinking trapped and handcuffed,
when seen by reason bound
those answers we were given born
—unquestioned and profound

(The New Room: March, 2021)...

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It's nice and sticky,it's white and runny
If you really stare at it you will think it is funny

You use it at school, you use it on paper
When you get home eat a vanilla wafer 

So if you think I'm silly the notion is true
You better watch out I have elmers glue...

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Shimmering jewel
Wafer thin fans spread 
Wide, Proud
Gentle vibrating hum
Dragonfly dashes 
Engrossed
To and fro

Searching for……..
THUD

Silence
Glass distorting
Emerald to red
Blink of eye
Flap of wing no more
Nothing
Tranquility...

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coral sunset warm
mother's fish curry

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attic
childhood memories dusted

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if petrichor were petaled 
jasmine-scented night 

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broken cistern
wafer-thin heart

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fast city life
smoky haze

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23rd March 2023...

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Flimsy tissue paper bliss, 
gift wrapped wafer-thin
  promises midst kisses,
glued together with
    yesterday's adhesive, 
fallen as separate shrouds
   in wayward glances &
   capricious charades razing 
     death do us part illusions 
   of finale's papier-mâché knots...

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Epiphany 

I 

Was 

Born 

An 

Insect 

Resurrected 

Mind 

A 

Shell 

Military 

Eye 

Ebb 

So 

 

Wanda 

Sauce 

On 

The 

Salad 

And 

Rye 

Nibbling 

Every 

Little 

Wafer 

Comes 

By 

Nights 

Blue 

Twigh light 

You 

Knew...

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Are you everything you could have been,
the moments gone,
the wafer thin

While reaching out did you lose hold
of what defines you,
a broken mold

The chase elusive, running wild
into the darkness,
a bastard child

To reach old age before your time,
a broken bell
—that cannot chime

(Villanova University: July, 2021)...

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Bread can nourish earthly dreams
Regale failing flesh
Eventually to join the crux that, with elán,
Allows the grape to ripen to dull
Death - a necessary

Acidic action to save,
Not
Deny, the vintage of the gutsy merlot.

What modest wafer would right
Injustice and what drink dare
Nourish the freshly born,
Even though earthly dreams seem undone?...

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They have written of the sky as
the “star-torn blanket of the night” 

and of the moon

as a white communion wafer

as the Buddhist female
to be covered by the sun

but when I looked

the light moon had
a torn-pink-paper edge

the sky

was a clear blue dome over
and wrapped all around

for once

I might have centred in
my own universe

but it was another cause

the girl died soon after...

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can i keep
the leech
that hangs
on a private
part but does
not separate us

sucking
my blood
to vampirishly
live as a parasite
but might i kindly say
lets look at it in a different

way
since
she is
symbiotic
not parastitic
living off of my

non
existent
host may we
bow our heads
in prayer and ask
for this wine to become

blood
and this
wafer to yes
truly become
the flesh and body
then what are we but

cannibals...

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Push me in the door once more,
scrub me for the alter.
Return me to the sacraments,
the rituals,
the wafer and wine.

Place me, dazzled
among votive candles
that are such fat bones
for the weak flesh.

To each Holy Sister a token,
a little lingerie kept secretly -
a sign that love
with all its depths, frippery and frills,
will prevail.

On a Sunday,
we will lower Him
from the cross of our guilt,
chant:
enough, enough, enough!...

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Push me in the door once more.
Scrub me for the alter.
Return me to the sacraments,
the rituals, 
the wafer and wine.

Place me, dazzled
among votive candles,
that are such fat bones 
for the weak flesh.

To each Sister, a token,
a little lingerie kept secretly-
a sign, that love 
with all its depths, frippery and frills,
will prevail.

On a Sunday, 
we will lower Him 
from the cross of our guilt.
Chant:  enough, enough. enough....

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Lilies of lucent light,
single file walking along
the cloudless pathway of
the songbirds' garden kingdom.

How fair the child lilies,
a gathering of the guiltless,
in snow-white
First Holy Communion dresses
with lacy veils.
Seven year old springtime
girls with pearly rosaries,
betrothed to the benevolent
Lord in spirit.

They receive the purity of
the Communion wafer
representing His covenant,
they are His lilies of lucent light. ~...

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I enjoy your roast beef sliced wafer-thin.
Pile it high on a seeded bun whenever I am in.
Combine it with a drink and some curly fries.
I get a good fast food meal with no surprise.

For years, I considered your restaurants swell.
Whenever I left, I rang your bell.
There was plenty of horsey and honey mustard sauce.
Your place was number one, the ultimate boss.
Where did your pickles and onions go?
I miss those things.  I would like to know....

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Push me in the door once more.
Scrub me for the alter.
Return me to the sacraments,
the rituals,
the wafer and wine.

Place me, dazzled
among votive candles,
that are such fat bones
for the weak flesh.

To each Holy Sister, a token,
a little lingerie kept secretly-
a sign, that love
with all its depths, frippery and frills,
will prevail.

On a Sunday,
we will lower Him,
from the cross of our guilt.

Chant: enough, enough. enough.

...

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One wafer to its pal:
"Wish you get your cream this time, 
So that i can crumble real fine,
Better than getting eaten by the devil for sure,
I'd love to pretend, it never happened before!!"

Wafer emotions:
"Once read happy, twice too read:
Dreams are frizzy, valentine dead
Hope think springs, fun wasted
Smiles are gone, words spoon fed."

The Story:
"The wafer got his cream
Getting eaten didn't ruin
Its pal got away..
(Into dust) 
Happy and gay."...

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I walk a mile, smiling and smoking
A cigarette. Awaits me are glad-hands.

Preacher explains in terms I know.
For the sermons, is why I will go.

Wearing jeans and a pretty blouse,
I stand and sing along in my head.
Last time I held a note, last song.

Once I raised my hand to have head
Doffed off. It's a choice in the Bible.

God lives. Parks, darks and lights.
Nights are colder, my soul is older.

I eat wafer and drink grape juice in
Honour of my parents, now long gone....

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A raw communion wafer in my hand
A hard wind melting the castles of sand

There is an anger roaring through us
A surf thrashing on the rocky shore
An inebriated old incubus
Its wist binds our Samson to the floor
It butters the children dry bread
Broke hole in my mother's shoes
Turn blue, silky skies to lead
And print morning and evening news
I saw the pale infection
Coiled like a whip on a Great House floor
The master of the plantation
The tears of children on a foreign shore....

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