Vigils Poems

The Night New York Slept

...It was one solemn, long night,
Tenebrous with the astuteness of perfidy,
And multiple hours before the break of an
Impatient dawn.
Lampposts froze through the pergola of winter.
Limp from exposu...

The Invisible Strength

...The sparrow cannot help being tireless.
The banyan cannot help being sheltered.
The moon cannot help being constant.
And I cannot help being Amma.

Even in my sleep, I dream of your healing.
Ev...

The Joy of summer reading and online summer school Tampa Florida July 4th 2020

...Busy month my family very sunny here in Lakeland during covid July 1st  2020 filled with plans for the 4th of July and celebrating my husband and I wedding anniversary my granddaughter loved baking f...

Win's Feathers

...An impotent soul wrapped with a police seal
Married a merchant and stopped bearing Jill
everyone must care, that’s how it feels
traps of superiority placed like banana pills
mutual respect losing...

Sleep

...The sun has set; light has faded
Darkness soon, will earth be raided,
Birds have flown to their nest
While silver turns the mountain crest.
Waves that were roaring high the tide
Seems louder now...

Rubicon Prophecy

...I weave a narrative of unspeakable taboo, a symphony of sighs and groans, a cacophony of defiled innocence.

Your body, a temple of decadence, a sanctum of sadomasochistic excess, where the strictu...

The Colossal Wheels of Time

...The colossal wheels of time, ever-turning gears,
Grinding moments into the dust of bygone years.
Massive cogs of destiny, relentlessly spin,
Weaving tapestries of what has been and what's to begin...

Night Creatures

...Like a gecko, that one changes their colours
speaks in tongues long then short blue
climbing up and down walls clicking
translating the draconians’ poetic profusions
all are night creatures in th...

Attack

...i never thought this day would come
many were there, but now only some
once a friend of many
but this day took plenty
what went through his head this day?
leaving these young children to decay
...

Matthew Shepard Of Wyoming

...Twenty-one years old,
or should I say young,
with the fair coloring and
grace of a trumpeting swan.
Youth of intellect and
a goodness.

He attended an LGBTQ+ meeting
on the campus of the
Uni...

Songs of Nature COS No 2: ABBA

...Divided droplets formed handheld mirth tames,
for they beheld Earth in their gentle fall,
like stars drop the night, all is heavens call,
know their named true, they'll climb make good their claim...

The Watchers

...They loiter, smoke pensively, whisper low.
some pace the thin snow
writing mist clouds that look like thoughts
roaming the night air.
All of them shuffle, wait and watch.

If the sky topples fr...

Arise In Obedience To This Clarion Call

...Arise o compatriot, Nigeria's call obey
To save her from going astray
Stand not aloof this is our Clarion call
Spread the news like you'll for a casting call

We're in for an urgent rescue missi...

The River

...I can hear the slow
thump and thrash
of a ship's propeller 
churning the dark and see
the sheer black wall
of a hull slide by,
gathering the river in
like a skirt,
then releasing a train
of ...

He Abideth

...AUDIO: Music for lyrics below...

He Abideth

He's not in a box -- never was,
Giver of Life, He's the First Cause;

He left a bit; it is His style,
He wants to make the world worthwhile,

Y...

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