Bend to me as you pass my way before you hold your head aloft in the skyward clouds of soft puffy silver hair. With your hands feel my decay, the weight of wrong skinned burdens, and a strong robust despair. Do not think your mercy pays for my freedom’s origin, the residue of Moses’ sin, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Salvation’
The Beggar, the Saint, and the Sign Post
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized, tagged Despair, life, meaning, paths, purpose, roads, Salvation, virtue on June 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Night We Read Genesis
Posted in Poetry, Sonnet, tagged Beauty, Faith, Genesis, Love, need, Poetry, prophesy, Religion, revelation, saint, Salvation, Sonnet, Woman on December 7, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A saint wrapped in only barbed wire fence proclaiming a scorched earth prophesy Salvation, a virgin steel’s test, is the garment of her seduction. Going forth to feel her brailled softness Divine revelation, her skin’s theology, Makes exclamation rhyme with silence, My hands, her education. An embrace, God’s recompense for a failing man’s unity binds skin to skin, breast to breast [...]
Morning in Uturbia
Posted in Didactic, Poetry, Urban Pastoral, tagged Didactic, Faith, life, Ownership, Poetry, poverty, Salvation, Urban Pastoral on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
It occurred to me recently That dreams are for those who can pay the most Over a bowl of sugared cardboard And fungal toast In my sublet apartment With more rats than ghosts In the morning the sun hits the trash And the local man, who smells likes booze And lives under the over pass [...]
