Tag Archives: prayer

The Odds

Posted on January 17, 2025 by John Biscello

He had searched high and low, mostly low, but he knew his fate, rigged to electrical impulses and happenstance, waited somewhere between a wrong number and an empty glass. He squeezed the lucky rabbit foot in his pocket, a prayer, … Continue reading →

Posted in photography, Poetry | Tagged chances, hustle, in the dark, New York, nights, poem, Poetry, pool hall, prayer | Leave a comment

Slide

Posted on October 10, 2023 by John Biscello

Unless you are converted and become as little children sliding down a blue slide while the living and dead co-exist side by side as playmates in a prayer-kind spectrum of transient passage your heaven will remain a seriously twisted topic … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged children, japan, joy, niigata, play, playground, poem, prayer, shrine, slide | Leave a comment

Prayer

Posted on July 13, 2018 by John Biscello

Thank you, is the simplest and most profound prayer I know, borne along on a sea of breath, it returns to itself, the divinest echo from God’s muse to my lips.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged breath, God, John Biscello, love, Muse, poem, prayer, thank you, thank you again | 1 Comment

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

Tryst

Posted on May 6, 2018 by John Biscello

The last time I fornicated with an angel my porchlights blew and we became tranluscent sheets of merger rising above a glassy pool of chartreuse reflecting in cursive the lighted gist of our holy remains. God, I’m open to another … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged angel, fornication, God, Heaven, John Biscello, Light, love, poem, porchlight, prayer, tryst | 4 Comments

Air

Posted on May 6, 2018 by John Biscello

Cherish, the strayest fibers thinning mouth to prayer, airing lips this side of kiss.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged cherish, fibers, John Biscello, kiss, lips, mouth, passion, poem, prayer | Leave a comment

Flagrant

Posted on April 24, 2018 by John Biscello

Prayer’s body to rent, exact in flagrant cherish– flesh struck to match, ssssssss.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged body, cherish, Desire, haiku, John Biscello, passion, poem, prayer | 1 Comment

Mermaid

Posted on April 19, 2018 by John Biscello

Mermaid in torn jeans, sea glistening on her knees- Your myth is safe with me.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged body, enchantment, John Biscello, knees, love, magic, mermaid, myth, ocean, poem, prayer, sea | 9 Comments

In Praise of Honey

Posted on February 19, 2018 by John Biscello

Listen to the spoken word track (with bass and flute) here. If your body, sungthru riddled and sticky, demanded rechristening for old time’s taste, down I’d go divebombin straight to and through the Source— a treebranch’s wellhung honeycomb totem, ridged bulb … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged bodies, dream, erotic, honey, John Biscello, love, lust, music, poem, Poetry, prayer, sex, Spoken Word | 1 Comment

Cubist Pin-Up

Posted on January 30, 2018 by John Biscello

Psychically dismembered since birth, Grace walked her palms to her feet, and prayed that everything lost, in between, would return ritually transfigured.

Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized | Tagged Artwork, cubist, grace, John Biscello, pin-up, poem, Poetry, prayer, rebirth, ritual | Leave a comment