We stood in shock. Our city in flames. Praying for rain. Until the flood came. We took shelter in the church. Hallelujah. We died in shock. Laid to rest by our shocked friends. Pennies on our eyes trembling from waking terrors. In nomine Patris. Wet ghoulish faces sipped soup from cracked bowls on those Lisbon [...]
Archive for the ‘Eulogy’ Category
After Shock
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, tagged comfort, death, earthquake, Haiti, life, Lisbon, rebirth, Religion on January 14, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Of What Man Is
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged death, God, self-eulogy on July 8, 2009 | 13 Comments »
My God, I am dying and with me goes my God. My God, can ashes catch an image other than of death – Of death, of what we have come from and to what we will return. My God, can I be with you without being you and what of those I leave behind. I [...]
The Funeral Games
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, tagged comedy, death, life, pain, perception, poems, Poetry, Spartan, truth on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nature knew I would later write about her in the context of some Mercurial poem – One that before collecting some dust just barely missed the trash barrel that had collected the more ill-formed siblings. It’s a rather Spartan practice I suppose to dash such children against the rocks. It wasn’t their fault their feet were [...]
He Never Spoke…
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, tagged death, Eulogy, Father, life, Poetry, speaking, Words on February 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
His voice, captured in ink Knows not time on the letter Too old to fold. His thoughts could do no better than to leave his mouth and sink through the paper he gave his life to. I had just told you, I had just said my father was a silent man His word sold for gold A [...]
What surprises morning brings
Posted in Didactic, Eulogy, Poetry, tagged answers, belief, Didactic, Eulogy, Faith, History, life, Poetry, poets, questions, writing on January 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A man with nothing to wear but belief Crawls, his belly toward hell, over A street with cobblestone teeth. Roadside vendors sell their vices and prayers with stoney answers. Above them the giant clock tower eye’s hands are tied with tears From the ashen faced sky. Two lovers are the masons of a desire Killing [...]
Why They Still Play
Posted in Eulogy, Lyrics, Poetry, tagged afterlife, death, Eulogy, hell, Humanity, Lyrics, music, Poetry on December 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
They’ll still play, because their human; even though life is away They’ll still play With Bones as their drumstyx, Fingernail picks for fat licks, Because their human. They’ll still play the blues Even with nothing left to loose they’ll still play On drums made of skin, Guitar’s with sinews streched thin, Because they are human. They’ll [...]
Hung
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, tagged death, fate, questioning, sorrow on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A tremendous blow a heart string to hang from curling like a question mark Once inside. A punctuated equilibrium swinging back and forth like a pendulum, The crowd gathered sighs. The man doesn’t die, not yet, that would be kind So he swings, swings, swings, in the wind and can only whisper “why”. A final [...]
The Law of Non-Contradiction: Or why things die
Posted in Eulogy, Ode, Poetry, tagged Eulogy, Ode, Poetry on November 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It was on this very spot, this pile of dirt we bought, that our father once stood He lived through wars we fought, and he never forgot that evil comes from good. Is he in the wind, or in the mind, the absolute of history, or the grace of time, In her hand, or in [...]
Said the Judge, in review of case 3712, after having been presented with overwhelming evidence supporting the allegation that a severe policy violation had occurred on the eve of Saturnalia in attempts to directly challenge the already arbitrated disputes between the once Universal Institution and the Current Establishment as outlined in the Immanuel Act of 2007, to the movie store clerk
Posted in Didactic, Eulogy, Poetry, tagged Didactic, Eulogy, government, Humanity, justice, Modernity, Poetry, sentence on November 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“In line with protocol seven, two, four, two, three, In the light of evidence presented to me, and the congregation of equals assembled here, by the power invested by the supreme and austere, His Eminence the Executive, so endowed by the equal citizens In reference to the God they once worshiped, I sentence you with removal, with no [...]
Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle: Or what it means to fall in love.
Posted in Eulogy, Poetry, tagged Eulogy, Love, Poetry on November 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Somewhere, is some forgotten attic Seven fanatic wise men drink and talk while they think about quantum love, and the leaping of the heart super strings between energy levels. 70 frantic fingers, bound with seven rings Fondle rapidly aging pages as dry as their skin. Silently the sages calculate the weight of loneliness, or the [...]
