Barry Blander

Here I sit, late at night, bones languish.
But I know somewhere, your voice melodiously peals, morning church bells
I wonder, will it ever end, this dolorous anguish
But I glance at your face in my heart, and know that therein your indomitable spirit dwells.
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Subdued voices in prayer softly humming
Tremulous fingers on string of harp gently strumming
Children, imbued with the wan moonlight scatter and strew
Branches of leafy palm along the road, chanting:
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Behold, the Lamb of God whose face did shine,
John saw approaching; in apprehension
Trembled with joy seeing the Son Divine
Conceived by God's holiest intention.
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Your eyes flutter
(Frightened flocks
Of birds in flight)
Your pursed mouth;
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Wafting through perennial verdant trees
I espied a small window of sunlight;
On her tiptoes whispers the bashful breeze,
Nascent and seductive the silk twilight.
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Far, the son went to another nation
Spent his father's money on harlots, drink;
Consumed by sin: low, sordid and ancient.
Money spent, into poverty he'd sink
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How does one measure another man's pain?
What compass describes pain's circumference?
In a ward my good friend vents sorrow's rain
Anguish hid, today given prominence.
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Under a billowing canopy of stars
As pale as the drifting snow
Dawn disrobes her wedding gown
Steps ankle-deep into a river
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Our souls purchased
At a price
Man cannot fathom
Delivered are we
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The blazing stars benedictory wheel
Girdles Earth in enamored serenade;
Writes Holy secrets no one can unseal
Except by babes for whom Heaven is made.
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Fingers of snow
Flicker silvery
In the nascent night.
Somewhere apple blossoms shimmer,
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Find myself in woman
Lose myself in women

Plough earth
Watch the ocean's rebirth
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Spirit of most Holy God
Descend upon me
Touch my heart with
The torch of
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Who molds the clay for my unseeing eyes?
The ineffable, seen, now I'm shriven.
The world pontificates; all its' truths lies,
To walls of sand the gullible driven.
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Moonlight glows from eyes of emerald green
And bathes me in layers of mystery
Surely the Nine have touched you, Art to teem;
Venus draws you, deepens your history
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If love dreamt, enraptured only with Time
And perfect hands would surface from the sea
From conch held by their fingers I'd sip wine
And care not whether I be or not be
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Heaven sinned against, mans' soul with dark stain
Now cursed for eating the fruit forbidden
An outcast for Adam, God would ordain
With crushing burden his spirit ridden;
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Nailed to splintered wood of the Sacred Cross
Your fathomless eyes wept a sea of blood
Each falling tear weaving a dance of loss
The world, now virgin, out of earth-swept flood;
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In a canoe of bark are my daughters of chastity
As the warbling lark, swiftly they paddle down
The running waters of rhapsody;
How they flew down the frothy river's rapids.
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