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Tag Archives: grace
Seeds
The other day I met a monk who juggled watermelon seeds with his tongue. When I asked him how he did it, he spit the seeds at me, a staccato stream of seeds as if the monk were no monk … Continue reading
Visitation
Above all else, (she told me, her smile a glowing sickle) dignity and grace, for each and every soul on this planet, no one above, no one below, and everything I mean everything you truly need to know you’ve already … Continue reading
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Tagged dignity, eternal, grace, John Biscello, love, poem, soul, spirit, wisdom, wise woman
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Orphan
The greatest lies I learned as a child seperated my soul from its choir, a violent breaching that took the littlest me to the far ends of my self, where I found, in dwelling, Beauty, untrammeled, opening her palm to … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, charity, grace, John Biscello, love, poem, reunion, self, soul
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Jean Rhys
You held the islands in your eyes, where it rained and rained and then the sun warmed wet to a wafting hiss. This Jean, you, the feline slink, filigreed shock, and sinewy comb of whitelaced waves ruffling upon puttied blobs … Continue reading
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Tagged Beauty, grace, islands, Jean Rhys, John Biscello, literature, passion, poem, Poetry, sadness, sea, spirit, story, tribute, writer, writer's life
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Sway
To sway, with corset no more to bind, hips parlaying grace, to rivet greening desire.
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Tagged Desire, grace, Green, hips, John Biscello, love, Poetry, Rivet
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Fount
I have heard her sing, lungs, founting with light, to braid dark hours into grace.
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Tagged dark, fount, grace, haiku, John Biscello, Light, lungs, poem, singing, song
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Next
The lushest red rose, a fragile torch passed, to grace whatever comes next.
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Tagged Beauty, flower, grace, haiku, John Biscello, lush, Poetry, red rose, rose, spirit, torch
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Cubist Pin-Up
Psychically dismembered since birth, Grace walked her palms to her feet, and prayed that everything lost, in between, would return ritually transfigured.
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Tagged Artwork, cubist, grace, John Biscello, pin-up, poem, Poetry, prayer, rebirth, ritual
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Song for the Meek
It has finally come, bearing a fount of bruised petals, blood-pink and white and reigning silvered silence, the year the meek inherit the earth, the plight of sensuous souls flown within to claim tenderest grace on loan from God’s rimless … Continue reading
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Tagged God, grace, John Biscello, meek, Poetry, rebirth, renaissance, romantic, romanticism, sensual, silence, spirit, words
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