Tag: spiritual
member name: Mike Ellwood
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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 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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April 17, 2008 03:32 AM EDT --
The Capstan's Arc
"Please tell me. Did my father save my life
That day I swung upon the capstan arm?"
"Of course. Though light, my . . .
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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 24, 2008 06:09 AM EST --
An Eschatological Discourse
The wandering earth herself may be
Only a sudden flaming word,
In clanging space a moment heard,
Troubling . . .
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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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June 11, 2009 10:40 AM EDT --
Running High on Inch Strand
Earth's purest air comes tumbling over surf
To charge my blood. The endless ocean roar,
The coursing sky where flashing sea-birds soar,
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July 09, 2009 05:49 AM EDT --
The Dying Tree
The earth is parched; belief, a dying tree.
Scant shade remains beneath the dying tree.
The ceaseless wind has scorched the canopy.
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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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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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October 30, 2008 04:30 PM EDT --
Mercy
He learned of it through word and deed
at school, where battered 'til he'd bleed
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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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