His Real Name
...Didn’t take a notice where in the news today
His real name appeared as if out of the blue
I’m Punishment, he said, unknowingly they pray
But that’s the funny side of job I used to do
I send...
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Categories:
supplicants, irony, religion, sad,
Form: Rhyme
The Pottawattamie Beaver
...In the sylvan sewers of Fritchy's tombie
the Pottawattamie beavers play
deep beneath the verdant pastures
where dead skunks and possum lay
Circling skyward glowing wierdly
jack...
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Categories:
supplicants, bird, confusion, fantasy, fishing,
Form: Sonnet
Supplication
...Look at us O heavens deity!
Look at us from Heaven Bower
Supplicants at thee are gazing
Bounties unto them thou shower
Midst of palest lights they singth
Hymns for Thee in Holy hour...
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Categories:
supplicants, angel, cool, grief, light,
Form: Verse
Resurrection
...As buried seeds that germinate
We one day from the graves will rise
All life this fear devoured our hearts
All life we paid this scenery's price
Oh that this day thee I can find!
Oh that Th...
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Categories:
supplicants, art, death, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
My Sweet Grandma
...To my Sweet Grandma
Thy love, thy sacred smiling face
I cant forget till final breath
Thy beauteous eyes, thy charming smile
Thou are goddess of vale of Death
I often see thee in the drea...
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Categories:
supplicants, angel, care, death of
Form: Rhyme
Quittance
...An empty pocket is an empty pocket
that's all Joshua can see
the tears of its hunger
a reminder of a protracted destiny
while donations to the temples
confirm the need for charity
an immoral ci...
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Categories:
supplicants, destiny, god, judgement,
Form: Free verse
In a Lonely Garden
...In a lonely garden there' s a shrine
where upon a rough hewn stone is writ:
“GOD IS LOVE.”
The devoted supplicants make wail,
water the flowers, feed with crumbs
the sacramental dove.
A pri...
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Categories:
supplicants, humanity, religion, sorrow,
Form: Elegy
Ireland - a Divided Island Part One
...born under the sea, an irresistible force
two bodies reluctantly embrace, shunting, shifting, tectonic drifting
alongside the southern Iapetus Ocean
equatorial deep-time child of Laurentia a...
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Categories:
supplicants, community, history, ireland, time,
Form: Narrative
Indigo's Child
...Indigo's child
lives in turquoise walled
creativity.
Her temple roof of cobalt glass
slashed with aquamarine
radiates peace with purpose
steel dolphin joyfulness
as sun's waves reflect
hourly...
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Categories:
supplicants, color,
Form: Free verse
Exile In Ptolemy's House
...Safe, at long last,
behind closed, locked doors and windows,
behind heavy, hanging, purple drapery:
plush, pellucid, subterranean refuge.
Far from the proverbial maddening crowd,
out of sight:...
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Categories:
supplicants, philosophy, religion, symbolism,
Form: Prose Poetry
Two Fires
...In a lonely garden is a shrine
where upon a rough hewn stone is writ:
“GOD IS LOVE.”
The devoted supplicants make wail,
water the flowers, feed with crumbs
the sacramental dove.
A priest, d...
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Categories:
supplicants, religious,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Sickened Pride
...The country is painted red
By the hand that seals our fate
The pain requires of a poet a sad poem
The hope of the supplicants
Is sickened by the festering ulcer of infamy
The absence of civility...
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Categories:
supplicants, africa,
Form: Free verse
Precarious Miracle
...For all that it is worth was contained in a single droplet of thought
in symbiotic deliverance
shall pass perhaps unnoticed by a billion suns
or find it’s way in chaotic course
discover the encha...
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Categories:
supplicants, mystery,
Form: Free verse
It Is a Rose Sprung
...es ist ein 'Rose' entsprungen
Just outside the city walls ringed in roses,
Rosenfriedhof, Rose Cemetery blooms,
fairest in the Fatherland.
Leaven cakes iced in concrete or royal brass
pan th...
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Categories:
supplicants, abuse, meaningful, race, religious,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts of the Sun Dance-Part 1
...Ghosts of the Sun Dance
1. The Path
A quest dating back through our history
Surpassing the flesh, a spiritual path
Human endurance, road to mystery
Dark trail winding through t...
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Categories:
supplicants, spiritual, sports, endurance, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
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