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2d ago
Unknowable Agnosticism
Worldly Atheism
Tudor Anglicanism
Sun-loving Atenism
All-theistic Baha’ism
Ritualistic Roman Catholicism
Thought-controlling Celestial screenplayism
Spiritual-healing Christian Scientists
Social Justice Confucianism
Rational Deism
Nature-worshipping Druidism
Kabbalistic Hasidism
Greek Hellenism
Karmic Hinduism
Life-affirming Jainism
Egyptian Kemetism
Five-solas Lutheranism
Polygamous Mormonism
Satirical Pastafarianism
Ecstatic Pentecostalism
Black-empowering Rastafarianism
Hedonistic Satanism
Otherworldly Shamanism
Japanese Shintoism
5-k’s Sikhism
Mystical Sufiism
Mongol ..read more
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1w ago
Such lovely ladies,
All of them!
Such lovely ladies:
Some teenagers,
Some adults,
Some middle-aged,
some elderly.
Such lovely ladies:
Some fair-skinned,
Some dark-skinned,
some oriental.
Such lovely ladies:
Some wear short skirts,
Some wear pants,
Some wear shorts,
Some wear swimsuits,
some wear long, flowing robes.
Such lovely ladies;
Spectral,
walking through thick mists,
in single file,
entranced,
Towards a well,
Bearing water-filled buckets
Buckets that leak,
Unnoticed.
Such lovely ladies;
Pouring empty buckets
Into the well,
Chanting monotonously;
“We ca ..read more
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2w ago
The feeling is that the smell
of deep space is patina
green & sapphire Thai
food purchased from
a street cart. One
Himalayan beauty
is snowcapped,
knitted hat eburnean
as the steam within
the glassen spires
at the Holocaust
Memorial, Union
Street. We hear
the source of
the universe
here &
in
the
coquettish
London bird
with celadon -
soothing tones
on cassette saying
mind the gap, northern
line, Embankment stop,
loudspeakers as soliloquy
to the woman sitting on the
same wooden bench each every
day; his voice keeping her calm
carrying her on while he's been gone.
A token treasure, space ..read more
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3w ago
Under the spruce trees playing
soft moss and feathery branches waving
surrounded by the trees
we children alive we were
and sounded in the forests’ cheer
Though dark things lurked
they were for other days
the golden childrens laughter
kept them all away.
There were no omens
behind those dark moving branches
The sun was gentle then
and softened every blow
It was as though
the moments had no breaking tides
And never any reason
to cry or die or lie ..read more
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3w ago
Spears of grass, do tears
That fall for
A male lover have a different
Mass, can they be shaped
From within. Dialogue between
Nature and art, spirit and flesh.
Walt Whitman had his hands
On two different mirrors, arc of
Swan's uplift reflected on water.
Move towards perfection
In his work and male
Companions. Unresting
Ballet of a poet's senses.
Can tear with image of
Lost lover be recalled
Who painted Michelangelo's
Dream within the tear.
Love without boundaries.
Organic as
The compost Walt wrote about,
Natural as daylight that
Astonished him. Michelangelo
Created an aestheti ..read more
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3w ago
When the deer gather in spring
anxious to find fresh green
grasslands will appear
remembering last year
lost of all its dreary news. Looking forward
to cool dripping days
where the forest trembles in rain
pouring to savour the first turn
away from winter’s pain
and its sleeping charms.
  ..read more
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3w ago
Maps of the centuries,
water-stained, some unreadable
missing charts missing timelines.
The map of the last hundred years
wears mended clothes with seams undone,
patches, broken zippers
stains of blood, war, and tears
frightening spectres hanging over hills
soiled with grime, lost years, fingerprints
fading with each turn of the gyre.
Earth wears its scars
with equanimity, naturally
allows beauty in time to cover over,
grow greenery, even the sands
mould themselves into pleasing
wind shapes. Earth
accepts its bodies to ..read more
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1M ago
Two singers in different dreams
Attempt to wake sleepers,
Do songs match. Which tears of time weigh More those
Falling from the artist or
Soldier of war.
Shadows on ships
On Greek water, lyric songs carried
Across waves. Stories on
Land in oral form. Homer held
Storm between his
Hands to reap it's excavation and
To see his sleeping form
In a dream, his face reflected
In the tears of time-he whispered
Stories. Did the closed eyes
Of Zeus reveal themselves
In the winds blowing in from
The sea to a blind story
Teller, wings without shadows.
Route to Leda's shifting
Form, Greece Homer ..read more
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1M ago
Branches in winter yet unfulfilled
of shiny dreams; barren? Unknown
the possibilities flowering; despairingly
tired prospects lying dormant,
unseeded gardens waiting…..
Waiting for worlds unfolding fresh oceans
so blue the light itself drinks
the real and true
that has no hanging shadows
the push through walls
the flashing the rearranging
the coalescing
the blind seeing the deaf hearing
the parched world beginning to sing
past the thirst of dying to living
past the faded tracts of time ..read more
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1M ago
His stomach is growling.
ROARING more like.
Parched is his throat-beyond parched. It’s burning.
All around him; water: sparkling, fizzling water. Tempting, beckoning.
At the pool’s edge stands a tree, its branches hanging close to the pool, dangling pears, bananas, apples, pomegranates, and even chicken wings plus sausages! Tempting, beckoning.
So close, so tempting. Can’t resist the urge anymore…
He bends his head. Thin, empty air. No water. Dry is his swimsuit-clad body, very dry.
He reaches towards the food. His fingertips barely touch them ..read more