Tag: religious
member name: Mike Ellwood
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March 19, 2008 08:06 AM EDT --
Act of Faith
Minds accumulate their own stores of belief
Harvesting words
To squeeze dry in the press
Crushing
The kernel of hypothesis
To dress the salad of . . .
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December 14, 2009 03:21 PM EST --
The Lioness
We flock and try to catch another’s eye
But eyes are everywhere and never dwell
For long enough to break the edgy spell
That ties our herd. . . .
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January 07, 2008 01:22 PM EST --
Purgatory
The ocean of guilt, deep and turbulent . . .
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January 26, 2008 04:11 AM EST --
Hell
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While mourners stand and weep upon the Earth
Before Almighty God your soul is weighed.
His agents have been watching since your birth
And judgement . . .
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January 16, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
Abram and Sarai
You are still mine although your hair is straight
And shimmering scents surround you as you move.
You are still mine, the power of my love
Could melt those golden . . .
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February 06, 2008 03:55 AM EST --
Lent
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Through Ramadan the Muslim keeps his Fast,
Enduring and enjoying unity
With co-religionists, until at last
Euphoria replaces piety.
While Christian . . .
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July 16, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
Petrification
Before the cock crows
My heart hardens. Crystalline.
Blue veins in marble.
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Metamorphosis,
As thrice I deny your love.
I am become rock. . . .
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November 17, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
Devotion
Sometimes the closest friend can ask too much
While roses bloom and promises are made
That are not kept because you are afraid,
And then . . .
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February 19, 2008 08:55 AM EST --
Seneca's Last Words
Virtuous friends, death now or hereafter
Is immaterial. We live, we die.
We may laugh in poverty; in wealth, cry.
The wind . . .
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May 02, 2008 03:58 AM EDT --
Quicksand at Night
The sand is inanimate. It has no soul.
Its speckles of silica and shell swirl
In the gritty Moon-drawn tide,
Rise and fall without pity
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May 30, 2008 04:02 AM EDT --
Sandro Filipepi (Botticelli) lived most of his life in Florence and, having been patronised by the wealthy Medici family, for whom he painted such masterpieces as The Birth of Venus, he fell under . . .
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January 10, 2009 03:50 PM EST --
Temptation
This idea of mine,
At least, this desire
That has grown somehow
And now requires me,
As if in a dream,
Obediently,
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February 17, 2009 04:38 AM EST --
Jacob's Sons
My sons! What can I say?
Should I be proud?
Ashamed?
A sister disrespected -
So they vowed to take revenge.
I'm sure you . . .
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January 27, 2009 04:55 AM EST --
After Sarah had given birth to Isaac the presence of Hagar and Ishmael displeased her greatly. She had no intention of allowing Ishmael to share in Isaac's inheritance and required Abraham to effect . . .
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February 12, 2009 05:34 AM EST --
Rebekah's Contemplation
May you find peace at last, released from me
Old troubled friend. Perhaps that sullenness
I knew so well, that bone-hard carapace
You hid . . .
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April 16, 2009 03:40 PM EDT --
The Witness
....of course their brother never would discuss
What he had known in those four days and nights.
His lips were sealed. He'd once call hypocrites: . . .
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July 21, 2009 08:43 AM EDT --
Rising Sap
Deep roots infuse the wood with rising sap,
Bone softens into bud with rising sap.
The rain, transformed within the living root,
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December 05, 2007 10:55 AM EST --
Waiting
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What are we waiting for? I'd like to know -
But time can never twist to let us see.
And if it could the image it would show
Would involve . . .
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January 15, 2008 05:56 PM EST --
Limbo
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January 22, 2008 04:31 AM EST --
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