Fire Within
Clouded vision,
fog shrouded
sightlessly glide
through morning
pale shades,
searching
for clearer light!
Oh blazing star!
banish death's sight!
Clear clean
the sharp edges
of infinite right,
and emerge,
O Fire
within!
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New Wine Into Fresh Skins!
Renew me, wash me
in deeper pools open my
righteous, narrow mind,
for your wine over-
whelms, rends ancient seams, blood streams,
my weakness reveals.
Make me a new man
and I'll hold your wine within
my fresh, new-made skin.
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Cherry Blossoms on Palm Sunday
Windy day,
undulant sun
floods smooth cut of lawn
as cherry blossoms race
and lightly fall upon
my upturned face.
O, Sacrificial Tree!
your bright glory cast
to the clamant breeze and
let fill your boughs
with ordinary green.
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Down a Bright Way
Close to the center,
near to where silence
fills my straining ears,
where long years
of searching end,
I find you waiting
my old friend.
You take my hand
and in a glance
know all.
Without a word
down a bright way
we walk.
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Nightfall
grey limbs twisting
through emerald shade
reaching at last,
clear blue day!
fern overflowing,
with living lace
red rose embracing
impassioned grace.
the sun’s final flames
high leaves emblaze,
soft night claims
fading day.
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Travis Moonrise
Over barren trees
the tattered moon
ascends, barely clearing
dark hills
pausing, unwilling
to fall back
into cold, delta fog,
like the lumbering C-5
rising through the gloom
on bright thunderbolts
to December's
bleeding moon.
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Wait
Cold winds lash
spring branches;
new leaves
lust
for heat;
torn stems
litter
tender new grasses
and wait
for discordant chimes
to rend the sky,
release bright spirits,
charm the shy sun,
and cast to waiting earth
Summer.
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A Warm Morning
In morning's hush
heat builds,
leaves glitter.
Into pure silver
dissolves the shade.
Birds are calling
winging it
to high, dark eves,
any place
where the tattered night
may hide
and seek retreat
from day's clear,
searing eye.
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Golden-Eyed Day
Golden-eyed day
blazing through trees
swaying,
mockingbirds and blue-jays
clinging
to dancing branches, singing
as a feathered form
flashes darkly past
and is gone in a blinking.
But silence remains,
an empty chair
waiting.
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The Kingdom Of Heaven
Cast your seed
upon my barren soil.
In winter’s dark night
I yearn for new light.
Rain falls;
fleeting life fails
as fearfully I pray:
O fill my fertile soul
and show me your sun-filled face!
Warm me with your
radiant grace
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