DESCENT AND ASCENT
...DESCENT AND ASCENT
Down here amongst the mud and weeds
Now I know where disappointment leads
All life’s chances are as a string of beads
And if explored or ignored, one by one
Whether cold ice...
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Categories:
string of beads, future,
Form: Rhyme
The Priest
...Yesterday,
the father,
in the soft brown shroud of peace,
blessed the rosary
I got in your honor.
A Franciscan priest,
a man of the mission,
placed his warm hand
over mine
and the crystal...
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Categories:
string of beads, bereavement, religion,
Form: Free verse
Nelson Mandela
...He fell in the world like dripping rain
He shone in the land like a moving star
He walked the way that was full of pain
The journey was tough but he walked far
The song he sung in his callusing c...
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Categories:
string of beads, africa, farewell, thanksgiving,
Form: Ballade
The Sibyl - Invocation
...Come, Sibyl, speak of ancient times and ways
Marpessan youth, Apollo's golden days.
Come, Sibyl, o'er time's countless grains of sand,
That shades now lost to night mght guide my hand
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Categories:
string of beads, fantasy, history
Form: I do not know?
A Narrowed Soul
...Tonight I grow tired of keeping the secrets that were spark within my visions. I
must tell someone of what I saw and how the end came to be. From the
beginning we never understood how the human...
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Categories:
string of beads, imagination, loss, philosophy, sad,
Form: Narrative