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JW Harvey Nov 2014
My body is a temple and
on holidays, they prey.
"Come to the feast,"
An invitation to
forgive and forget
the sins and trespassings
of crucifixation.

The body and blood of
--oh Christ--
Taken by you, shed by me,
as this Holy wine saves us
from a judgment
between comforting beliefs
and cold, hard facts.

Love, Loss, Lust,
The divine Trinity that
brings us to our knees
in front of the altered;
Bliss-ed is he who comes
in the place of the Lord.
Dante Rocío Sep 2020
And now a change of scenery;
the night has truly fallen
now
and departing from
our Baltic Galway
“into the woods”
we can greet the callings
of some shenanigans
luring and
lurking there
to plant or extract ideas
and trespassings
of
our
flickerings.
Have a waiting room
in car rides,
help yourself

And earlier,
barefoot through
sand poured with pine needles
and we walk
nevertheless.
Bare feet open
the way to puddles
of warm diamonds
called sky water
now with pungent flowers
hitting senses like ambrosia,
the way to high embracing
of the trees whilst climbing,
to mud healing,
to impassive conquering
of any earth we
encounter,
to comprehension,
and to the respect
of all that came
and left through
these lands
in the span
of
all
the history.

Stronger and stronger,
closest to the truest
an affection and
calling
belonging
from the trees.
As such I cup one all,
I never want to let go,
there comes a commotion,
like entering the hidden crowd
from which you’ve always known
you truly come from,
like creatures
of a forest looking
in the silence too deep
at a village of
another world.
At first I thought from scientists
that plants don’t like being
touched,
yet as someone
quite new told me:
“Would you
be able to
find such
comprehension, love
and moving
appurtenance if they
didn’t feel exactly
the same towards
You?

Recent forest
walks when I
free my spirit too to
let it approach me
make me feel that
such great intimate
pride of an archer
or
vagabond
bound with it all in
their own story
and perception, and
even a half an hour walk
makes itself a wonder of
a few pages of a
Robin-Hood-like
book
in my presence
walking.

Also, the same
in river’s sole fine
line of freeze,
who holds dear
the mute,
those
who feign not
appurtenance
of this
world.

Let us stop,
we have arrived
already at our shack
and there’s our safe
space that
holds a place
for us to sleep
away.

Another
unconscious lesson
in God’s library,

another
Sun
to
come.
What’s over a garden wall,
Lighting a torch towards the known
Instead of truer unknown,
Magic and Home are already there
From a time before time.

I have been there.
Then.
It’s just the same encounter well,
Just that it is in flesh.
Darren Whippe Apr 2021
I know there’s something wrong with me
There has been for a long time
I know I can’t smile like I used to
This grin is a crude forgery, the cheap kind of counterfeit you don’t want to accept is fake
I know there’s something missing from my programming
Something small
A comma or backslash that is vital for executing the intended functions
I’m 11 point font on a final paper
Your professor might not notice it but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s inadequate
I’m the shoddy locks on a downtown apartment; just for show
I am imitation crab
Cheap
I am the live action remake of a beloved childhood cartoon
I’ll never be able to capture the magic
I am a bathroom sink dye job
The colorless strands muddy the result
I am the green skin hidden by a cheap ring
I am the leaves in your gutter
Out of sight, out of mind
I am a municipal oversight
You won’t realize there are loopholes in your laws until it’s too late
I am the rushed ending to an otherwise wonderful novel
Disappointing
I am a pulled muscle you can’t quite forget about
The sleeve of an old hoodie you worry at when you’re bored
I am the weekly meeting you can’t get out of
The ‘before’ picture
I am the dead batteries in a fire alarm
A fatal mistake
I am the cracked camera on a brand new iPhone
A burnt out light bulb
I am a dress that gets ripped in the wash
A pink shirt that’s leached into crisp white socks
An unwanted stump tarnishing a perfectly manicured lawn
I am the behavior you can’t train out
The shakes that won’t go away no matter how long you’ve been sober
A slant rhyme
I am a dead outlet
A fraying charger
The flat tire you never learned how to change
I am an A.I. that will never quite pass for human
Manufactured mannerisms
Improvised idiosyncrasies
I am the package that comes broken
The chores you never quite get around to
A new building you won’t live to see
I am a botched haircut
An infected piercing
I am inherently flawed
Tainted by the trespassings of my forefathers

— The End —