That Is To Say Poems - Poems about That Is To Say

Unbirthday

...Noon simmers a chamomile lavender
Like the summer rain that resembles diamond tears
The tea pot serenades my senses with aroma rays of hope 
My favorite mug sports a Sunday best just waiting for s...

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...Currency As Evidence
In that allowance of finance exist it is not done so that a business of borrowing can permit one to subvert the process of owning a business.

Example 1 grants are issued for ...

The Matriarchs are Molting Again

...
Grandma’s ghost has taken up
knitting rattlesnakes in the drapes. 
They hiss when someone lies.

Now, my mother only speaks
in noodle metaphors.
I ask her how she is, and she replies,
al...

Cosmic Ghosts

...
Throughout the outer cosmos you will find
ghosts leaving interstellar gas behind.
That is to say a galaxy remains,
where pompous, excess energy enflames
a slight shiver<...

Requiem for Elmer

...
*After my last post I thought it would be nice to lighten up a bit with some warm, happy (well, not so happy for Elmer) pest poetry. Who doesn't love bug humor? This one actually won first place in...

8 Little Egypts

...Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go a...

On the Morning of the Dawn of My Life

...On the morning of the dawn of my life, I wake 
into a world where I am good, and I am loved,
and every passing moment of it is called 
Miracle,
without need for such words, 
known unspoken even ...

It Seems

...

It seems that the beef
In Stans veggie beef soup.
Has gone the same way
As most pork and beans do.
So, that is to say
There isn't much of either.
Yet,  that's just my view
But the price ha...

New Covenant

...Giving thanks unto the eternal inheritance
Brought forth by the sacrifice of Christ
The consuming fire to burn away weeds and thorns
Separating the wheat from the chaff
That one might be a dwelli...

Courage

...Courage

Courage is what you have 
when you have only two choices left. 
One of them to accept fate, 
and the other to cheat it, 
beat it, 
unseat it... 
meet it halfway, 
and then knock it ...

Veiled

..."Hebrews 10:19-20 ~
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is...

Kaleidoscope

...
"Kaleidoscope" 

They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy 
and far removed from 
such an alien world,
would not possess the...

Imagination

...I know of a very good-sounding song.
I heard it first when I was very young.
Its theme reminds me of a lovely nursery
rhyme. It speaks of and longs for peace, harmony,
and togetherness. The song ...

Rare Air

...2000 miles is a long way, and 50 plus years is a very long time.
It spells the time and space that have separated me and my two best
childhood friends. Back then, whether it was hay, ammonia, cowbo...

Upstream

...
In no real sense is he alive:
a wind-up toy, personified.
A message bundled with a drive,
he neither eats or can divide.

Two hundred million like himself,
each one distinct, yet all ...

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