My husband's poetry

Category: spiritual

  • Warm coffee

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    An epigraph and poem suitable for Ridvan, “O Children of Dust! Tell the rich of the midnight sighing of the poor, lest heedlessness lead them into the path of destruction, and deprive them of the Tree of Wealth…” (Baha’u’llah) Yesterday, at a downtown café you sat outside with a friend, drank warm coffee, complained about…

  • morning haiku

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    reading Thich Nhat Hanh plum blossoms broken open scattered on wet ground 4-19-22

  • The last fast

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    Days of malaise days of no energy days of frequent naps days waiting for the sun to set Maybe it’s the aging out of an obligation to fast maybe it is feeling old maybe it is being old maybe it is coming out of two years of pandemic isolation maybe it is all of these…

  • Benevolence

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    You gave at home, in church, on the playground, at team practice and in fights after school. You gave in the backseat, at the office, the drunken party and for a worthy cause. You stole kisses, hearts and candy. You stole time, again and again and again. You threw it away. You disbelieved. You tried…

  • Insomnia #67

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    You wake from a dream unable to sleep Tell yourself that after you die You don’t want to stumble in the dark or get lost between worlds So you will leave a light on at the earth end of the tunnel And then you realize Mom and Dad will be upset You left the light…

  • Who

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    Why is north up and south down, heaven up and hell down? Who said we can’t change our orientation or that ancient myths are sacrosanct? Would we behave differently, if north was left and hell right? 1-28-22

  • Tread lightly on the ground

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    People of the dust Walking clay Beneath your feet Your forbears mingle there Holding you up Breathing history into pores of clay feet 1-13-22 Last Friday, I wrote and read this poem at the Park Circle Gallery in North Charleston for the opening exhibition of work by Artist, Pascale Bilgis, called, ‘Little Flat People.’ The…

  • autumn haiku for Lazarus

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    at the bottom of sky among dead leaves you linger rise up, walk in light 10-26-21

  • Dear Raphael

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    Paint me a laughing Madonna with postpartum belly rolls and hips Joseph in the foreground fashioning a new crèche Her wooly headed baby suckling a swollen nipple Little hands playing with her other breast All of them laughing and laughing at their good fortune 10-25-21