Penitent's Paean
...In sundry ways deaf to your zeal
Which foxy whims fruitless sway,
My wandering self did finally feel
Pearliest sparks of your legit ray.
Inured by bestial blinding decoys
Which easiest-farin...
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Categories:
sublimer, absence, allegory, allusion, blessing,
Form: Other
Blackbird
...Blackbird sings shrill at night, before day's dawn,
not now drowned by traffic's rumble sound,
nor returning early morning flight from Costa's Benidorm
to Heathrow's duller, grayer ground.
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Categories:
sublimer, beauty, bird, christian, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Cowboy Church
...A cowboy don't need no plushy pew or a rantin' preacher,
Pontificatin' from his pulpit aerie as his spiritual teacher!
He gits his religion from (to him) a more gratifyin' source,
Cherishin' God's...
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Categories:
sublimer, creation, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Failure
...FAILURE.
Isolated tentative in rosy tower
Sublime detached observer of success
Making its own life and time
Swallowing in one long yawn all the glories
Keen scented existence and sanctified ...
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Categories:
sublimer, allegory, philosophy, poets,
Form: Verse