S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; After Three Hours With The Snipping App On My Laptop 20 weeks ago
So many pictures of beautiful, barefoot young men---
high school seniors, posed in photography,
casually clad in their baggy, even oversized, jeans:
the barefoot Muses revealed in photographic poetry.
Starward-Led
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled Immanuel (a kontakion) 21 weeks ago
Kontakion: Immanuel, God With Us
The heavens could not contain You, O Christ, yet You chose the lowliness of flesh, to dwell among Your creatures and redeem them. Prophets foretold, and angels proclaimed,... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled Immanuel among us (a troparion) 21 weeks ago
Troparion: Immanuel Among Us
O Christ our God, You who are infinite, yet chose to dwell with us, Immanuel, Light of the world, You emptied Yourself in love, to bear our sin and conquer death. Glory to You, who are truly... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled when roses where too much 21 weeks ago
There you are,
trading small graces;
cups & saucers
like treaties of peace.
I sit back,
half‑skeptic, half‑believer,
watching this fragile pact
hold for a moment—
an apparition
of simple bliss.
Strange, how it... [read more] |
ramonathompsont posted a new Poem titled Ouija Cake 21 weeks ago
A Bon Ouija Music Project ad/promotion!
One of a kind
U won't be able to resist
It's hands down the all around best
Just give it a chance
And guaranteed you'll for sure never regret
Caught up in the rock n roll spirit
Allow... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled the nag called Time 21 weeks ago
A Nag Called Time
She’s no noble steed— more like a barnyard tyrant, hooves tapping like a bad drummer outside my skull.
Neigh, neigh, neigh— she heckles from the rafters, snorting at my plans, biting at my heels.
Deadlines?... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled the moon's unblinking eye 21 weeks ago
Harvest moon veils the field,
dark lips pressed against silence;
the night’s ears rise like daggers,
cornstalks brood in their rows.
A scarecrow mutters his curses,
straw hands clawing the wind;
the furrows remember old blood,... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 1ST ORTHODOX POEMS: θυσίαν αἴνεσις On The Kenosis 21 weeks ago
Your majestic infinity, oh Christ, great God and our Saviour
is greater than the Cosmos of stars you have built.
Yet, for love of sin-crippled mankind---
whose souls and lives You have designed---
You emptied Yourself of Your grandeur and set... [read more] |
redbrick posted a new Poem titled the fifth continuum 21 weeks ago
The Fifth Continuum
In one universe, despair repeats, its speech worn thin with use. In another, we laugh at its persistence— not because it is small, but because we are still here.
Storm quiet. Chairs overturned. Papers... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled DAILY GRATITUDE THE IMPORTANCE OF CHILDREN 21 weeks ago
I am grateful for understanding how important our children are
wherever in the world they dwell…
and am grateful Native Nations people understood this as well.
They knew there was a knowledge all babies before they could speak ... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled BELIEVE IN THE CHILDREN 21 weeks ago
May we be blessed to believe in all children:
As a native nation prayer goes:
There is faith in their eyes,
Love in their touch,
Kindness in their gestures.
Thrill with them at life’s big
and small moments…
Hold... [read more] |
joy posted a new Poem titled ORANGE SHIRT DAY 21 weeks ago
I wore an orange shirt yesterday, September 30th
it’s a shirt I wanted everyone to see…
even though the color orange doesn’t look that good on me.
The reason has to do with a gruesome chapter in North America’s history:
Phyllis Webstad... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled @ 27.055 MHz: Ad Astra; Advice To A College Freshman, Shy, But Most Definitely Queer 21 weeks ago
Young man, step outside your dormitory
room and into the adjacent corridor.
Give your neighbors' and classmates' beauty a long gaze:
shirtless, clad in baggy jeans or cargo pants;
shoeless, their feet bare or socksheathed.
A hundred or more... [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 8TH POEMS: At Revelation 22:16, Et Al [Repost] 21 weeks ago
To my Lord, I looked Starward unto Salvation,
which I received eagerly: henceforth, privileged, to be Starward-Led
among pious Orthodox Christians for the duration;
of my existence, no longer bully-broken, terrified, or full of dread. [read more] |
S74rw4rd-13d posted a new Poem titled + 8TH POEMS: Yet, This Poem With An Attitude Of Humble Supplication After Hebrews 4:16 [Repost] 21 weeks ago
I hope, as (with this final handle) Starward-Led,
to revisit those splendid days of old, that had so quickly fled:
season of nineteen seventy-six: if Christ, on His Throne of Grace in Heaven,
will bless me to live through two thousand twenty-... [read more] |
