Not Yet Time For Paradise
...Mistaking side by side pluralism
for more resonant
co-infested polyculturalism
Is like mistaking chaotic divisions
for resilient organic complexity,
integral multiplicity
Like only perceiv...
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Categories:
unscorched, culture, earth, health, nature,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Lost Soldier's Lover
...THE LOST SOLDIER'S LOVER
Her heart plays bellows to heighten nightly fires of solitude,
Playful flames of terror taunt a dancing flicker of despair
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Categories:
unscorched, bereavement, soldier, war,
Form: Free verse
To Summer I Plead
...Shed on that certain kind of warmth
You give the waters that washed away our footsteps
Illumine the dark leaves of our past
Blown away by the indifferent breeze.
Desiccate the grass that invited co...
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Categories:
unscorched, hope, autumn,
Form: Personification
Once I Was a Prince - Part Two
...Once i was a prince in your eyes my every wish granted
even before I could wish it
eevaa peerankal muuvaa maruntu
the hot kuul boiling complaining in the chessman e...
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Categories:
unscorched, family, me, water, fear,
Form: Free verse
But, God
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Joseph’s brothers hated him
But God delivered him from the pit
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
Thrown into a fiery furnace lit
Intended to kill them in an instant
But God delivered them...
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Categories:
unscorched, faith, religion, god, god,
Form: Narrative