North and South

North and South

       North and South   Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem  Through the waters of Granada only sighs can row.  ~ Lorca, “Baladilla de lost res rios” The gondolier in Venice oars his way Through green as...

Gautama and Māra

         Gautama and Māra Iniquity is starlight in the wrong Location or the purest atom gone Awry, a darkroom with a delving song Of light inside it, thinking in its dawn. The sin is not the light itself.  Its height Is not the evil, black the background not Its...

Before the Foundation of the World

Before the Foundation of the World   Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I never can feel certain of any truth, but from a clear perception of its beauty. ~ John Keats If we were forced to choose between a...

Compassion

                 Compassion “Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.”  Matthew 10:29            Compassion is a tearless grief, an eye Like God’s. How else could He survive?  He sees And...

The Lamb

                            The Lamb “And suddenly there was with the angel a heavenly host saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, goodwill toward men.” ~ Luke 2:14 The lamb looks up and sees a light, a star Or something heavenly, a...

So What?

                So What? “a Rugby athlete” “There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” ~ Oscar Wilde If we reduce the man to what he was On Rugby playing fields, back when a lad Who might have...

Like Mystics

                           Like Mystics   Modern poetry  modern verse contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem It isn’t strange that men draw us to God, That women, children, boys and girls require The heart to think divinity, not odd...

Free Will

                        Free Will Jehovah was the first to think of Free Will.  Maybe He pulled back from thinking then. This one divinity went on a spree Of  wide creation, making light and men, A trillion galaxies and globes, with no More cogitation.  Clearly he was...

Supreme Longshot(s)

     Supreme L-o-n-g-s-h-o-t-(s) The Father reigns supreme in every way. It’s all a bit uncertain if the Son Came later and is lesser (this sounds gay) But still divine.  And then the other One Is even more ambiguous.  We know This biblically,...

Does a Daydream in the Mind of God Become Reality?

Does a Daydream in the Mind of God Become Reality? Modern poetry modern verse contemporary poetry contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem When Jesus has a daydream on his throne, The Holy Spirit and the Father share It since the Trinity has always known...

God’s Hard Bolt

                      God’s Hard Bolt Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem Since Charles has crossed the mountain, now he will Not see the cherry blossoms in the spring. He took me to the Mall but now the...

Abandonment’s Magnificat

Abandonment’s Magnificat A beauty gone is never gone. It goes Down deep in memory.  It does not turn To boredom and it never turns to prose. True beauty is like branding irons that burn The hips because of him or her but more Like him because of what he did between...

Born from the Genitals of Uranus

Born from the Genitals of Uranus Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The eyes of Aphrodite are more blue, As blue as depths off Kythira, perhaps As pale as blue waves mariners see through Before they find...

God Loves

                 God Loves God loves with all the discrimination Of  hurricanes and tidal waves.  He loves Creating . . . and watching the castration Of child molesters, and He loves the shoves Of penises inside their victims.  He Loves victims, too.  God loves the...

The Opposite of Rape

       The Opposite of Rape Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem A mountain turns and sticks it peak, hard, down, And burrows in the ground.  The action brings No glow like lava.  It does not even bring a...

Golden Tongue

        Golden Tongue Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem Ancient mummies with golden tongues unearthed in Egypt – BBC News If I were buried with a tongue of gold, Would I still be a poet, or,...

Which God is Not

      Which God is Not “The intellect can understand any part of a thing as a part, but not as a whole.  It can understand anything which God is not.”  page 193 That’s really not what poetry can deal With.  Poetry that’s poetry cannot Express the whole.  A poem makes...

Four Corners

                 Four Corners Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem The Earth was said to have four corners when The Bible first appeared in Jewish minds. My mind has just four corners.  Its amen Is...

A Sparrow Falls in Eternity

    A Sparrow Falls in Eternity He felt a small, one moment’s stress when he Rode past the fox in Slough.  The coach swept by It, beautiful, quite orange.  Divinity Would also have looked down from God-filled sky Since He is everywhere.  He would have seen The...

Godly Fluids

                 Godly Fluids God lives where time is an instruction, since Eternity requires a teacher doomed To death.  Divinity can never wince Unless his palms and arches are consumed By pierce of nails to agony, are torn As gravity drags down the flesh, and rips...

They Never Slumber nor Sleep

They Never Slumber nor Sleep The reason icons break but still remain At crooked angles over slopes and cracks In eon landscapes is to entertain Their sacred irises.  Greek mountains tracks Show off to icons ancient splits pronounced By earthquakes forty thousand times...

“The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!”

“The Isles of Greece, the Isles of Greece!” The icons looking over valleys down Beneath, and over hills across the way, Are placed to shine like jewels on a crown. This crown looks far to mountains where priests pray And past the harbors where boats wait before They...

Curly Top and Dimples

       Curly Top and Dimples Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem You might want to watch this before reading this sonnet: Shirley Temple – On The Good Ship Lollipop.avi – YouTube I  never ...

Revelations

               Revelations Revelation 21:19 Your eyes arrived as if a sea of blue Is where they came up from, as if they rose From Caribbean waves.  If all love blue, Then all adore your look.  Your eyes expose In just one glance divinity the way That it would choose...

Still God

                    Still God    Amphibole Tremolite-121232.  By Rob Lavinsky, iRocks.com – CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10140515 Suppose that God could resurrect you whole, By quarks and hadrons, nth particle by Nth...

Revenant Religion

           Revenant Religion The ancient skies were filled with gods and gods And gods.  We sickened of them, most of them. The priests and prophets held them up at odds With us.  The gods were one vile diadem That crowned creation.  But these gods were red As death...

Seilênos, Apollo, and Orpheus

              Seilênos, Apollo, and Orpheus Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem We want a poet who is satyr, god (As Dionysus), both, and more, combined. We want his beard raised high and want him shod...

Over the Mystic River

         Over a Mystic River Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem   Aaron Wu@aaroncwu Suspended from the columns of men’s brains, Our dreams are bridges that go strong and straight To mystery though...

Harvest and Outside Harvesting

Harvest and Outside Harvesting   1 Kings 8: “Then spake Solomon: “The Lord said that he would dwell in the thick darkness.” First Samuel 22: “He made darkness pavilions round about Him, dark waters.” Psalm 18:11: “He made darkness his secret place.”   The harvesting...

Cormorants

              Cormorants   Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Morning twilight; in Their basket the cormorants                   Asleep, exhausted.        ~ Shiki The poet notices the tiny things,...

Psalm 139:12 “for darkness is as light to You”

Psalm 139:12 “for darkness is as light to You” Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem A moment comes when coal becomes a piece Of heaven, pure and diamond in strength. A moment comes when wooden matters cease...

Rulers without Culture and Without a Blind Poet

Rulers without Culture and Without a Blind Poet “When a Prince lacks a Homer, it means that he is not worthy of having one.” ~ François de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon “He knows the application of the book But not who wrote it; shuts it like a shot. Rather than read...

Lightning Gods

                Lightning Gods Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem The lightning rods for timelessness, we wait For sly eternity to strike.  We wait in time Yet immortality aims to castrate Or drown us. ...

Dead Sea Salt, not Caves

       Dead Sea Salt, not Caves “Many soul-destroying things/In folded tablets” ~ T. S. Brandreth, The Iliad of Homer, 1816 I know those soul-destroying things, those things In ancient texts on parchment, vellum, or Papyrus, rolled or folded.  Suffering...

Knowing Men

         Knowing Men Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. ~ Ezekiel 16:49 Both Sodom and Gomorrah, salt-lick...

The Cavern Leading to the Muses

The Cavern Leading to the Muses When Linus first invented rhythm with A melody in song, the beauty came Ideal — so lovely that a sacred myth Could not compete.  Apollo could not tame A thing so perfect, so he had to kill The poet.  Deity must never lose With humans,...

The Big Exceptions

   The Big Exceptions The women move in caged in places both In life and plays.  In poetry they are Curtailed to Sappho and Corinna.  Troth Constricts Penelope.  It hems.  No spar To take her seas away, she sits at loom, Is trapped at night unpicking her trapped work,...

Before We Brought Them Down

Before We Brought Them Down Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image  ~ Exodus 20:4 When gods become mere figures, they are not Gods anymore.  They slip to being oil On canvas, words on pages, poems caught In scrolls and codexes.  Gods used to roil Around in...

Before We Brought Them Down

Before We Brought Them Down Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image  ~ Exodus 20:4 When gods become mere figures, they are not Gods anymore.  They slip to being oil On canvas, words on pages, poems caught In scrolls and codexes.  Gods used to roil Around in...

Crippled Poets

        Crippled Poets Among the earliest of lines to spring And linger utterly till now are long Ones drawn from blinded eyes.  The verses sing Like prophets’ spirits which must see.  A song Of guts, the gods, and marrow-spills came out From manly depths behind the...

Talleyrand & Gouveneur Morris Crippled Twinning

Talleyrand & Gouveneur Morris Crippled Twinning “Your character is such that you destroy Unhappiness much faster than can fate Create its sadnesses,” said Monstesquiou To Adelaïde, who had the lovely trait Of being charming Countess de Flahaut— Which meant that...

Queen Mary & the Governess:            Ho Hum Hussies The queen of England met the young Greek prince. She said he was quite nice and had blue eyes. Her Majesty flunked the test to evince The slightest insight.  That is no surprise. Queen Mary was just a bloody...

And Lifted Up

          And Lifted Up If poets and composers failed to come, Then who would write the hymns for Venus, Mars, And Jupiter? Our race would be a numb Excuse for souls. If none could look at stars Through telescopes, or build an altar, then Existing would become a...

TRUTH: The Notice Board Was Blank Today, as Blank as Death

TRUTH: The Notice Board Was Blank Today, as Blank as Death Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem I passed again that notice board today, The one displaying clever Christian quips That used to make me want to...

Utmost

            Utmost Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse modern poem contemporary poem Perfections are perfection but just one Is perfect. This is it. Yes, even he Is stunned to musing by the thought that none, No other single truth,...

Inner Sanctums of Hole-iness

Inner Sanctums of Hole-iness Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem The gods loomed more than superstars do now. The gods were more like legendary fire Behind a gilded curtain. They would plough A lad or...

Storm in the Friday Night Love Feast

Storm in the Friday Night Love Feast Modern poetry  modern verse  contemporary poetry  contemporary verse  modern poem  contemporary poem He raised his blue-veined wrists in notes to God The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. The last Force was to come, bolts to the...

The Degradation of the Divine

  The Degradation of the Divine The gods have been reduced to ploys for ads, Cartoonish movies, and perfume campaigns For goddess-like attraction, and for fads Like PS4-ish war games. Gods’ remains Are just commercial or for trivial Stupidities.  The great gods...

Dangerous Theophany

    Dangerous Theophany When Gods appear, we dare not look at them. We turn our heads and eyes.  We stare at ground Or lower gaze and dare not touch a hem As robes go swirling by.  A holy sound Comes haunting,  muffled even.  It brings awe. If Gods have curly hair, it...

Only Paradox is Universally True

Only Paradox is Universally True The cosmos touches me and I know love And also it is more the other way Around.  The highest heaven far above And God’s foundations join as one.  A May Of charity expresses one long truth That matters.  When that spring explodes inside...

Circumsised Sentiment

   Circumsised Sentiment “The famous love story of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala in the Mahabharata…became the theme of Kalidasa’s (c. fourth-fifth centuries CE) play Abhijanashakuntala, which brings love to life in the way that the best drama does.  Unluckily,...

“Work of the Father of Glory”

“Work of the Father of Glory” ………. — “weork Wuldor-Faeder” ……………~ Cædmon, “Cædmon’s Hymn” Ideals, those wonders that are perfect, come From only one perfection.  Like begets Its like, its offspring, that proceeding from...

Before We Brought Them Down

Before We Brought Them Down Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image  ~ Exodus 20:4 When gods become mere figures, they are not Gods anymore.  They slip to being oil On canvas, words on pages, poems caught In scrolls and codexes.  Gods used to roil Around in...

Condescending

          Condescending When humans make a God more human, we Make God less God. A God or Goddess falls   Uzzah struck dead by God Like Dagon when we dress divinity In ways we know. The Gods should have their halls In separate spheres from ours and filled with fires...

Enough Trouble Caused

Enough Trouble Caused When we began to put the gods in myth And the language of the poets, transcendence Died. This literature became the smith That pounded, flat, godly ascendance To make them jewellery foil for our minds. They used to be so coolly far above Us that...

Bow Down Thine Ear

                                          Bow Down Thine Ear Gods used to be transcendent, far beyond, Above, away, unreachable on cliffs Too high to scale. We, humans, were so fond That we imagined Gods behind white whiffs Of mists in sacred precincts set aside By...

Divinity

          Divinity Jehovah hovers, prying with that eye, All-seeing gaze, omniscience. Worse than That sideways eyeball of Egyptians, Spy- In-Chief, He’s always seeing if He can Trip up and punish. He comes down in the cloud And fire on Sinai and writes on stone With...

Don’t Be Fooled

                Don’t Be Fooled The gods’ eyes, even when the gods are turned Away, are staring at us.  Egypt’s gods Are set askance.  Mortal sins are discerned By monumental eyes.  Temple facades Are covered with sly looks from faces sloped Away and sideways angles...

The Voice

          The Voice We all are waiting for the voice to speak, But how will it be spoken? Will we hear It when it whispers in an ancient Greek The severity of stone-hard Doric fear? Perhaps still, small hoarseness in a fire Will echo in the deserts of our soul When...

Lollygagging on Olympus

Lollygagging on Olympus The gods are idle all day long like pale Silk hanging from a sultan’s wrist while gone On holiday and drowsing with a veil Around his satin bed. Supine they yawn By banquet tables weighted down with wine, Ambrosia and grapes. They laze about On...

Lost God

          Lost God “like the gods whose powers fade as they are carted off from their landscapes and dialects and universalized” ~ Michael Schmidt, The First Poets, 13 When God becomes too universal, he Is lost. He fades, Narcissus on a pool Too broad. A fuzziness...

The Larger Picture

           The Larger Picture At Oxford Artie took a First, then went To teach in Kenya. There he sat out on His little porch and taught us what is meant By dedication. His unruly lawn Was near the Great Rift Valley as he stretched Young minds in mathematics. One to...

The Central Singularity

    The Central Singularity The blood of sadness is reality. The real stands far away from bloodless veins And not in shadows.  No duality As Zarathustra saw it swells or strains Inside the marrow of the universe. Inside its bones where quantum physics seethes The...

Hush

                                    Hush Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.  ~ Psalm 84:3   The swallow and the sparrow do not sing Beside...

Dante and the Divine

               Dante and the Divine The truth is love alone it is which moves The sun and stars.  That final line Of mastery says love alone, love proves The primal power and makes the heavens a shrine, And love not only was the first great cause But also is the...

I John 1:5

               I John 1:5 A damask tablecloth embraced by light From candelabra, and a Christmas tree Awake with twinkling, and Diwali night Are tempting us to think that light means glee. John’s God is light but too much brilliance blights: When Moses climbed the...

Leviticus 11:19

               Leviticus 11:19 I’m really tempted–ain’t you?–to eat bats. I mean, they’d be so succulent with all Those bugs they’ve munched, more delicate than rats On palate, right?  Yep.  Those fly-flavored, small Bones inside...

Why He Can Intervene; Hezekiah Brings Evil: Paired Sonnets

      Why He Can Intervene Did God extend Himself,  . . . stretch . . . to create The universe?  Since He was everywhere Throughout the endless vacuum sans date Defined by blackest agate depths of space, He actually elected to withdraw His nth infinitude and folded up...

Splendor

Splendor Exploding faster now, the universe Expands, violently, a spherical wave, A globe-shaped tidal wave or pyre, a curse. It is a wider-living deathly grave For all it gives birth to, a hex on life Produced in its calamities.  It burns Flame breath across...

The Hard Truth

       The Hard Truth The myth rides gently on that wasting death. Consumption weakened him as if a spell Were cast by Tories hating lines with breath For weaker ones among us.  He was well In brain and soul, this little giant filled With all nobilities, this genius...

Slew

                    Slew Across the universe the only straight Component is the hasty one, the light God spoke, that first thing that obeyed the weight Of his commands.  Jehovah found it slight, Though, boring—or it seems he did because He never made another item in...

Translucent Demigods

Translucent Demigods The heroes of the past are god-like strong. Their loins are near pellucid in their power And beauty.  Irridescent thighs are long In loveliness of maleness as they tower Above their plinths.  These calves and biceps glow With inner force as marble...

Everlasting Godfire

Everlasting Godfire I wish that God had killed the angels whom He sent to Sodom and Gomorrah, not The men–the husbands, fathers, sons in bloom Of youthful beauty, bachelors with hot Prospects–and not the women, children, mules, And donkeys, braying in the...

Without a Doubt

        Without a Doubt   “God is sheer nothingness, whatever else he may be” –Angelus Silesius Angelus Silesius “Without a doubt, time’s an accident,” said Maimonides, “like blackness, whiteness.”  What Stupidity!  You...

Design?

Design? https://www.flowersandfreshness.com/wedding-flowers/snapdragons/white-snapdragon-flowers.html The snapdragon’s genes provoke its petals To veil its hidden hospitality Until Dior-like insect foot settles Upon the flower’s velvet shelf. The bee— A...

The OMNIs

The OMNIs How boring to exist as God, to know The end from the beginning, to see, To watch predicted futures always grow As augured in your three-sixty degree, Predestinated plan, unending strength In all locations, present, future, past All held at once in...