A Collection of Poems

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Into our town the Hangman came, Smelling of gold and blood and flame. And he paced our bricks with a diffident air, And built his frame on t...

Out of the darkness, the chaos of time, the whirlwind gave birth to the Mother sublime. She woke to Herself knowing life had great worth, th...

No embers fell from the sky No bells were heard

Today is Boxing Day in an isle parts of us hail from surely not homage to Sugar Ray or container congloms

Dear God, help us look, look closer so that we may see our children in their children, their children in our own. 

Making my breakfast I look out through the kitchen window: two deer peacefully munching at my garden.

For all those beaten, for the broken heads, The fosterless, the simple, the oppressed, The ghosts in the burning city of our time ...

Tomatoes bring love. Potatoes raise consciousness.  

The water falls, a thousand flecks of light, And through the spray the rainbow's arch is thrown, A bridge of colour spanning heaven and ...

I will not hurry through this day! Lord, I will listen by the way,

Through a veil of water, hues so bright and gay A wondrous sight, that fills my heart with awe As cascading droplets form fine spray And rai...

One November morning outside Saratoga Springs over coffee at the Red Roof Inn you say We’re leaving for Florida

'Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand

I  In three days, they took down the temple brick by brick: the steel-toothed claws ripping apart tile and mortar, 

So lef’ me, ef you waan’a feel How p’isin sting from manchineel.

She brings her host a basket: earrings, mats, testimony This basket, she says, is medicine.

Yesterday I felt myself begin to die, shadows behind my eyes stretched between a deepening green

From Mary's sweet silence, Come, Word mutely spoken!

Like a ball of blood-red fire Sinks the sun o’er forests sleeping, Wondrously in splendor steeping Glaciers far with cloud-capt spire.