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Category Archives: Enigmas

Entropy

This is the law,
the rule of nature eternal,
the force for which we name

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 18, 2021Posted inEnigmasTags:free verse, Freeverse, poem, poems, poetryLeave a comment on Entropy

Two Truths

Oh, Khafre would you tell the truth?
Was it you who removed Anubis
from the rough paws that soothed the world

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Posted byThepoetryofjpNovember 20, 2020November 20, 2020Posted inEnigmas, Uncategorized PoetryTags:Egyptian, poetry, sphinxLeave a comment on Two Truths

O’, Do Not Speak of the Soul

Not in leaflets or amid the marching
of nuclear niore to be found,

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 31, 2020August 5, 2020Posted inEnigmasTags:assonance, free verse, Freeverse, poem, poetry, the soul, verseLeave a comment on O’, Do Not Speak of the Soul

Supine and Standing Dreams

In thumping thuds of far off drowsy drums
I hear the restless distant call of questions,
beckoning me closer to feel their boom
and beat within my body louder the taunt

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 24, 2020Posted inEnigmas, Metrical Verse, Poems about lifeTags:poem, poetry, Poetry about lifeLeave a comment on Supine and Standing Dreams

Mother Teresa & The Search for God

Mother Teresa is enjambed with heaven and hell search for god

Mother Teresa sent her message out
in the bent and broken bodies
writhing as fuel to fill her soul

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 19, 2020July 21, 2020Posted inEnigmas, Short PoemsTags:Mother Teresa, poetryLeave a comment on Mother Teresa & The Search for God

Tracing that Long Path

Our lives pass like cherry blossoms,
snapped from hurried branch to ripened fruit.
We flit from first to fledged to finished,
put out to ash one hundred years an instant.

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Posted byThepoetryofjpJuly 7, 2020July 16, 2021Posted inEnigmas, Poems about lifeTags:human curiosity, poem, poems, Uncategorized Poetry, verseLeave a comment on Tracing that Long Path

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