List: Spiritual

• Word

  ageless Stone dropped in
  the wanton face of the deep.
  

  5 lines, 15 comments, on Apr 11 12:52 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Life, Personal
• Uncovered

  feeling shame of bulbous burning
  (blushing fairness)

  12 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 18 9:43 AM 2007. In Life, Pain, Spiritual
• Encounter

  I feel you press upon me
  like a thousand years of poetry

  3 lines, 4 comments, on Apr 21 8:55 AM 2007. In Love, Spiritual
• Bedfellows

  Awake, O genteel Spirit man, Your gown about your breast. Rebuke your rabid bedfellow Who rages as you rest!

  89 lines, 5 comments, on Apr 24 1:18 PM 2007. In Spiritual, Life
• Passing Understanding

  Beyond the barge and the wafting deep, / past tempest's fury, cresting white, / there comes a stillness, without forcing, ever there / but

  8 lines, 4 comments, on May 5 8:35 PM 2007. In Hope, Life, Spiritual
• Before

  Child created in fearful wonder / Before the dawn of endless universe / Child foretold by voice of Thunder / Before creeks burbled or ocean

  12 lines, 6 comments, on May 8 1:56 AM 2007. In Nature, Spiritual
• Note to Self :

  Down in a cool, dim basement / A drawer is opened casually / As if to retrieve a needed file. / Man in white coat unzips a bag inside. / Co

  20 lines, 21 comments, on Jun 20 9:10 PM 2007. In Life, Personal, Spiritual
• Insight

  Chase, / young man, / your vision! / Forsake not, / old one, / your dreams! / Pursuing / passion's viewing / brings scope / of life / to be.

  12 lines, 1 comment, on Jul 5 10:23 PM 2007
• Stones of Seduction

  fondling tablets inscribed by

  12 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 6 4:08 PM 2007
• Esther's Song

  banquet with me / Oh, King, / and let us bring / salvation!

  3 lines, 6 comments, on Jul 9 12:19 AM 2007
• Looking on the Heart

  Beams of Chrystallic light / bore souls / -- leaving holes / Through Some, light passes uninterupted / For Others darkness blocks their pas

  7 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 10 12:20 AM 2007
• Evil Embered

  blackened dust / of depravity's pride / covers as ash / masking wrong / beneath it's spreading film / but, / stoked with stick of Truth, /

  13 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 10 4:02 PM 2007
• Poison Misperceptions

  Deep in the Woods of Discontent, where shadows, masked, roam as spirits, / Ancient trees fold their claws of fear, and, doubt and meanest r

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 11 9:51 AM 2007
• The Way

  In blackened pit where flame is void of light / every molecule screams and breath is short / Folly marks the forhead / and thirst announces

  15 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 12 7:49 PM 2007
• The Artist's Intention

  He splashes / canvas with azure, foam-topped musings / interrupted by sienna, spreading mass / He gathers / purpled oils to compliment / in

  21 lines, 18 comments, on Jul 12 10:35 PM 2007
• Recovery

  The crippling ruin of all that's singed / would coil and curl and blacken-- / melting hope of ever-allusive escape / But mending comes when

  6 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 13 1:42 PM 2007
• Slicing Fruit

  like sleek razor's edge / against Adam's / bulging apple / is temptation / when given into / /

  6 lines, 3 comments, on May 10 11:36 PM 2007
• Butterfly Prayer

  May milkweed's / lusty sustainance be / denied / so I'll / continue. . . free

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 7 1:56 AM 2007
• Gold Rushing

  Like lusty dreams / of never ending circles / (glistening in the glimmer / of what might be) / sought with ravishing thirst; / touched by i

  15 lines, 8 comments, on Jul 8 12:54 AM 2007
• Resolve

  O wicked, winding, wistful web! / why are you woven for me? / O damnable den of delicious doom! / I dare not be drawn in. / Those who have

  27 lines, 5 comments, on Jul 15 7:07 PM 2007
• The Ascended

  brightening sky / in clouded lifting / broadening space / creating rift between / earth and rising one, / my adoration's Song / now as shad

  16 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 17 8:20 AM 2007
• Ultimate Reflection

  cotton / puffed on azure canvas / hyacinth hills / adorned with stately greens / child's gleam / bright-- / amid ambered sorrow / &nb

  13 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 19 12:01 AM 2007
• New Dawn

  midnight crept through humid hope of light / as Life laid down His glowing head as sun / but / veil of chasm, and certain sting of death / were SHATTERED full by blow of risen Morn /

  7 lines, 2 comments, on Jul 20 10:25 PM 2007
• Slave to Self

  wrists bound, / hands / sewing no kindness / without gain / feet chained / walking not / where treasure's promise / isn't found / throat sh

  20 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 21 8:22 PM 2007
• The Swagger

  Sleek, lengthy strides / black, coated wrap / hung taut on / broad, / tapered / form, disguising / delicious deft, / adept in fiery eyes / smooth in supple word / enticing, reeling me----

  18 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 24 9:32 PM 2007
• Clouded Welling

  Billowed fullness dark,

  8 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 4 10:40 PM 2007
• Unseen Ones

  Prompt: WINGS OF GRACE

  8 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 4 11:20 PM 2007
• The Perennial

  More lovely than the infant crocus
  Which peeps his trumpeted purple head

  13 lines, 3 comments, on Aug 17 2:42 PM 2007
• The Expanse

  a vast blue chasm
  is splashed between two sky pillows

  32 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 20 4:58 PM 2007
• Scrolls

  Before
  first broken syllable

  21 lines, 11 comments, on Aug 29 8:43 AM 2007
• In the Center

  turmoil spews it's howling winds
  and trouble spits it's fury

  15 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 9 8:27 PM 2007
• Feigning Daisy

  Beauty extends itself
  from darkened core--

  13 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 25 10:17 PM 2007
• Gift

  When forlorn in darkened heaven feeling want for more

  13 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 1 3:08 PM 2007
• Chado (The Way of Tea)

  Come to me
  down winding way

  106 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 29 7:33 PM 2007
• On Flesh of Want

  Angelo's pristine forefinger
  extends as brush

  16 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 1 12:53 AM 2007
• Sheathed

  Sleekest sword as soul's extension
  needs not pretention's boastful taunt,

  15 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 17 6:04 PM 2007
• Unleashed

  grasped by bands
  of corset's

  12 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 6 9:31 PM 2007
• Mirror

  Prompt: Monster Mirror

  9 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 7 8:21 PM 2007
• Finding Reassurance

  Message floats
  through clouded fullness

  12 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 7 9:40 PM 2007
• Pitter-Patter

  Will the wet of heaven,
  spilled,

  15 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 7 9:56 PM 2007
• New Every Morning

  Trickling, swift,
  from sweetest lips of Source

  23 lines, 16 comments, on Oct 8 9:50 AM 2007
• Throwing Out Umbrellas

  Blessings pour
  from overflow

  21 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 8 3:09 PM 2007
• Opened Eyes

  When I awoke between the folds
  of boldest, silken slumber

  54 lines, 13 comments, on Oct 12 2:31 PM 2007
• Meadowed Stillness

  When trouble rages meadow
  and grasses' blades are torn

  13 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 12 11:08 PM 2007
• Waters

  I am

  18 lines, 6 comments, on Jan 5 10:22 PM
• Extensions

  Dark extends
  his creeping chill

  17 lines, 3 comments, on Jan 9 9:21 PM
• Enough

  Music’s
  decrescendo tumbles

  33 lines, 19 comments, on Feb 13 6:58 PM
• The Innocent

  Mantle
  of perfect

  18 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 16 10:27 PM
• Imprisoned

  15 lines, 7 comments, on Feb 16 11:44 PM
• Balloon

  Filled
  with heaven's hope

  21 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 26 4:27 AM
• Chained

  Wretched bonds
  shackle mortal aspiration

  21 lines, 2 comments, on Mar 5 11:34 AM
• Utterance

  What noise? What sound
  of heaven’s swift articulation

  42 lines, 12 comments, on Mar 8 11:57 PM
• A Great Voice

  I John,
  who also am your brother,

  86 lines, 7 comments, on Mar 10 2:15 AM
• Traversing the Savannah

  On arid days,
  when soul paces long

  34 lines, 13 comments, on Mar 29 12:44 PM
• The Garden Row

  Along a fertile garden row, a man set out to walk.
  Beside the row there grew some briars with course and thorny stalks.

  51 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 5 1:38 AM 2007. In Spiritual, Personal, Life, Inspirational
• Redemption's Rain

  Outside the shade of elder sycamore
  she bent to touch the seam of garden’s barren edge

  60 lines, 21 comments, on Jan 13 2:30 PM
• Humble Image

  psalmist strumming, singing perfection imperfectly

  21 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 8 10:48 PM
• The Tent

  A tarnished hide
  stretched tight upon a leaning frame

  68 lines, 14 comments, on Feb 9 11:55 PM
• Lively Stone

  "."

  49 lines, 7 comments, on Apr 8 8:31 PM
• Tabula Rasa

  Long interred in Adam’s bitter soot,
  till worms crept

  52 lines, 7 comments, on Jun 6 11:39 PM
• Finding Possession

  I have wrestled in fits of sun
  with the noise of need

  45 lines, 13 comments, on Jun 13 7:06 PM
• Untitled Accompaniment

  It’s gift of grace to graze the eyes
  across a mystic vale, and view

  57 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 26 9:32 AM
• The Partner

  He came to me in wanton field at dusk
  When I laid down in drying grasses, nose to earth,

  64 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 2 11:28 PM
• The Inclination (repost)

  The Ear of God is inclined unto me--
  Expanding all the star-lit heavens,

  21 lines, 10 comments, on Aug 18 2:08 AM

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