The governor took a black Sharpie permanent pen, some Chinese plywood, a packet of screws. Then with left-handed cursive he scribbled a sentence “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews” He put it in Latin, in Greek and Hebrew In Spanish, in Braille, in the tongue of the Scots In Semaphore signals, in sign language [...]
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Pilate’s Sign
Posted in Poetry on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
THE FALL OF A DISTANT PLANET
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized on May 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I found a homeless planet by a distant star, untouched by human vice or the waste of war. I stepped aft of the lightspeed craft into a burst of color and blinding vision from a star closer than my sun – My mission had begun. Hastily I put some virgin sand into a wooden box [...]
COLORS
Posted in Language about Language, Poetry on November 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
COLORS Alluring Wyoming on a midsummer evening before the storm: A sun-kissed, bubbling creek beneath an aura of ivy laurel The forest, deep in magenta mist and whispy, icicle blue angel wings of ivory hue An electric yellow sunbeam glow Turns jadesheen, then juniper green The serene terra cotta terrain with its ashen sagebrush, cornhusk [...]
Poem of the Unknown Savior
Posted in Poetry, Science Challenges on July 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »
He saved the world And no one on the planet knew what happened They still fail to recognize him today Even though his action saved their very lives and make possible their posterity The whole world was in his hands its destiny at the tip of his fingers For that brief moment he held the [...]
Hey, I’m A Believer Now!
Posted in Poetry on June 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
HEY, I’M A BELIEVER NOW I’ll believe in global warming when hell freezes over When I blindly pick up a four-leaf clover And white turns black on the cliffs of Dover That’s when I’ll believe I’ll fall for the right to spew internet porn When I hear if from the mouth of a [...]
IWO JIMA
Posted in Poetry on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I could just stare at this image And I do Often, and long Alone Mezmerized by a secret enchantment I hide from family and friends— My escape to this singular island of contemplation. What is it that so captures my eyes Holds them fast Makes me a hostage to such raw beauty? After all, it [...]
The White Radiance of Eternity
Posted in Poetry on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Somewhere between the white radiance of eternity And the washed-out hues of earth-bound existence We meet Between the outstretched tent of heaven’s firmament And the tattered fabric of windless souls
Space
Posted in Poetry on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Space Antares is a star above all stars You could fit a thousand suns inside its sphere It burns 400 light-years from where we are And the eye can scarcely see it shine from here
Cosmic Salvation
Posted in Poetry on October 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Take me through a vortex in your heart That whirlpool of crushing revelation And blackhole of abandoned trust. Completely absorb The mass that is me by the gravity that is you.
RED
Posted in Poetry on August 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Red is the color of the planet Mars Volcanic anger and giant-gas stars Ruby lips tasting cherry wine Twelve roses waiting in a check-out line
