by admin | Apr 27, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Lie back daughter, let your headbe tipped back in the cup of my hand.Gently, and I will hold you. Spreadyour arms wide, lie out on the streamand look high at the gulls. A dead-man’s float is face down. You will diveand swim soon enough where this tidewaterebbs...
by admin | Apr 27, 2024 | Poems, Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
How long does it take to make the woods?As long as it takes to make the world.The woods is present as the world is, the presenceof all its past and of all its time to come.It is always finished, it is always being made, the actof its making forever greater than the...
by admin | Apr 25, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
Every morningthe worldis created.Under the orangesticks of the sunthe heapedashes of the nightturn into leaves againand fasten themselves to the high branches –and the ponds appearlike black clothon which are painted islandsof summer lilies.If it is your...
by admin | Apr 22, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
Over I journeyAnd for each painA pleasant sting onlyShall one day remain.Yet in a few momentsThen free am I,And intoxicatedIn Love’s lap lie.Life everlastingLifts, wave-like, at me,I gaze from its summitDown after thee.Your lustre must vanishYon mound underneath...
by admin | Apr 19, 2024 | Poems by Women, Secular/Modern Era
We die,Welcoming Bluebeards to our darkening closets,Stranglers to our outstretched necks,Stranglers, who neither care norcare to know thatDEATH IS INTERNAL.We pray,Savoring sweet the teethed lies,Bellying the grounds before alien gods,Gods, who neither know norwish...
by admin | Apr 17, 2024 | Poems by Men, Secular/Modern Era
And now to the Abyss I passOf that Unfathomable Grass…1.Dear relatives and friends, when my last breathGrows large and free in air, don’t call it death –A word to enrich the undertaker and inspireHis surly art of imitating life; conspireAgainst him....
