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Ralph Esposito Poem
Adam’s Easter
I fell today,
an unexpected plunge. A once inviting pleasure now
gave birth to anguish clouding the eyes of my soul,
snatching the innocence that lay within.
Forced to the ground like ancient serpent
who chose its own deception I found no dwelling for honor and code,
or joyful communion.
Only me. Now alone.
I wept in pain,
a shuddering lament. Not sure of its genesis
I came to understand bewilderment born in my spirit that now embodied
innocence and guilt, obedience and shame.
I felt punctured and torn apart like
one thrust from the heavens doomed to time,
forced to drink of the absence of eternity that
I chose. Bitter herbs.
A herald sounded today,
a heavenly blast. I sensed it profoundly within
as it rose from a forgotten image, an unseen
power summoning life, heralding hope.
They say my descendant was put to death
pierced on a cross, head crowned with thorns as
the wind blew briskly over the emptiness of the earth and the
veil that separated God from man was torn in two.
I ponder. I wait.
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Ralph Esposito Poem
My Cat
Intense elation fills my every fiber
as I sense delight arising from within her
while she gently discerns and replaces my pain
that instantly flees in her ardent embrace.
Who is this that has chosen me to be her
solitary lover? What demands arise from a dancing
heart that fixes her gaze upon my face
and perceives me as her endless elect?
Perhaps she is but a spirit floating through eternity
or even the whisper of God gently brushing my face.
She dances ethereally, unencumbered by concern
for life itself.
Even if I should be lost in infinity
she would detect me, and there attend to the
indigence she perceived without her
presence - - - this devotee, this shadowy soul.
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Ralph Esposito Poem
Have you seen the fireflies?
They dance with glee
for all to see.
They brighten the dusk and darkness flees
the brilliance of their symphony.
Have you heard the crickets’ song?
They chant with delight
all through the night.
They celebrate twilight and shadow ‘till dawn,
resounding the night’s endless carillon.
Have you pondered the whippoorwill?
They sing to their mates.
A response each awaits ---
embraced by the sound of each other's call,
beginning their tune at start of nightfall.
Do you know why the night must pass?
It manifests a resonance,
reminding us of excellence;
that deep inside our souls is found
a richer song on fertile ground.
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Sometimes I feel compelled to wander far from
the security I have forged.
That is when life reconsiders what has been
and challenges me to choose or
negate a perspective that I know exists
but wish to deny.
Is not how I see the world mine alone
while others prefer their own experience?
It's not always easy to appreciate
the choices that they affirm because
reality can be so subtle if not
intrusive.
Maybe that is how things are and I
am not alone in my seeking.
The realities of others touch me in
ways unknown and sharpen my imagination
and understanding with explosive
possibilities that I must consider.
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Darkness, vacuum, abyss and void,
writhing pain and agony.
Chaos is split forced to spurt out
birth and life while Death and Nothingness
conspire to prolong the struggle for dominance
and to collapse the emerging cosmos.
Silence.
Anticipation awakens hidden fibers.
Electrum spurts from within a yet
undiscovered core.
A sigh – the Infinite One breathes a
breeze of light that encircles all,
stripping the nothingness, laying it naked.
Before the Death Keeper a voice whispers:
Genesis.
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