Tag Archives: gospel

The Gospel According to Ice Cream

Posted on June 25, 2018 by John Biscello

Perfection, this life’s greatest untruth and maligner, see how ice cream summer-melts and runs like happy magma down the ridged wonders of a waffle cone clutched by a child like an edible prayer destined to disappear, one bite at a … Continue reading →

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Girl and the Moon

Posted on June 21, 2018 by John Biscello

There is the snake and there is the amen and perhaps there’s not really much difference between the two. Like you, and the moon, and how my longing bleeds a fugitive overlap, i.e, where exactly does the queenly orb of … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged amen, fracture, girl, gospel, John Biscello, love, moon, mystery, poem, prayer, romance | 2 Comments

Glisten

Posted on May 22, 2018 by John Biscello

It is hard to believe, but after years and years of clawing with bitten nails, and digging with torn palms, in the heart of a stone she found the babybluest wisps of cloud, soft nimbus music, to which she tendered … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged dedication, gospel, John Biscello, love, poem, rain, rebirth, self, tribute | 24 Comments

Holy

Posted on May 8, 2018 by John Biscello

Unbridled, the holy seethe, touching upon lips, to reinvent the kiss as barest gospel.

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Currency

Posted on April 23, 2018 by John Biscello

Language, a living currency and greening force, gospel and amorphic in its leanings toward the freest and most daring aspects of your imagination, well beyond margins, syntax, and staid forms.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged currency, daring, gospel, John Biscello, language, magic, matter, Poetry, protean, spirit, words | Leave a comment

In Praise of Dark and Light

Posted on November 5, 2017 by John Biscello

Everyone’s dark is coming up and it isn’t going to be pretty, as well it shouldn’t be. Beauty, as a rugged force, as thorny swaths of dream-thistles, blooms through night-fasting, and respiring enclosures of dark. Beauty marks the hidden faith … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged brave new world, courage, creativity, dark, dawn, dreams, epic, faith, gospel, heart, John Biscello, Light, Literary, love, love poem, Poetry, praise, songs, sovereignty | 1 Comment

Star

Posted on November 4, 2017 by John Biscello

By solitude’s star, on any given night, a twinning may occur to praise phenomena, our bodies, alight, infused with never-ending gospel.

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Charlie Parker

Posted on August 25, 2017 by John Biscello

Yardbird’s singed solo, wings crisped to perfect measure– fly now, pray later.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged bebop, charlie parker, gospel, haiku, horn, jazz, John Biscello, poem, Poetry, wings | Leave a comment

Touch

Posted on July 20, 2017 by John Biscello

It is the quiet history of touch, tendered through years of symmetry and fable, a radiant pulsing in the spaces between fingers, holy derived, charging us to mercy and enclosure.

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Riversong

Posted on July 16, 2017 by John Biscello

Show us where it is you’re dying, the silent ebb and roaring tides of dark, expose to us, with a scalpel’s exactitude, the finite lineage of your deepest wounds and locks, and we promise that the light’s searing of naked … Continue reading →

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