Poetry

  • 7. Beyond the Veil

    7. Beyond the Veil

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    From Songs of the Islands (2005) A silhouette of sinking sunpronouncing all its labor doneslips down to join the earth as one — the ocean still remains.The salt grass dancing in the breeze,the starlight in the hala trees,a work of art that no one sees — the ocean still remains.Beyond the veil of day and […] Read more…

  • 1. Blinded

    1. Blinded

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    From Dawn Will Break (2002) I know the way. I have, before, been there.Seen it a thousand times.Walked there, drove there, rode there, ran there, sat there, been there.I know the Way, butwhere I am unknown I stay,reasoning I should be deserving,unknowing where I am known,Blinded. Composed April and May 2002 by Mark Feezell / […] Read more…

  • 2. I Am that I Am

    2. I Am that I Am

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    From Dawn Will Break (2002) I am a Panamanian,harvesting bananas in the hot and steamy summerof the brightly-sweltered sun.I am a soldier, fighting,brutal, fierce, a terror in the night,aged down with all my eight years.I am a sweeper down below,unworded and unworthy and unvisible,eyes choosing not, chosen not.I am a widow’s daughter,widowed now herself, aloneand […] Read more…

  • 3. Shallow Luminosity

    3. Shallow Luminosity

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    From Dawn Will Break (2002) Hollow, chimes pile webs across thegrasses, flowers, or weeks, or in-between them,and sifted silence mounts the cobbled sky.Darkness weighs the vapors on the hillside,drawn down bitter black between the stars.Choosing, chosen, falling to ascend,widened arms in grayed-up mist,widened eyes in grayed-up mist,Dawn will break the blackened canvas:shallow luminosity I’ll take […] Read more…

  • 1. But Twelve All Told

    1. But Twelve All Told

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    From Parting Strengthens Poetry (1996) The times of passing joys and trials,but twelve all told to take and turn,and we will be back to my home,together then, our life new-planted.Growing in God’s sweet soft soil:our love that hasn’t learned to lovefor lack of time to learn.We’ll come together here to lovewhat once was mine but […] Read more…

  • 2. Song for Jill

    2. Song for Jill

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    From Parting Strengthens Poetry (1996) “Dream a dream of Springshinein the waning autumn light,”I heard Him say.“I have made a gift to share with you,and when I give I never give halfway.”Heart of gold — deceptive glow,a faulty dream of youth — I see the truth:see the gold is far from pure, in facta tender […] Read more…

  • 3. By Joy

    3. By Joy

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    From Parting Strengthens Poetry (1996) O song that I have longed to sing,from early memory seek to bring,I heard you in my lullabies,I kissed you in my young goodbyes.O dream that in my youth I dreamed,though far removed you once had seemed,I saw you by the shadowed brook,yet you were gone the second look.And now […] Read more…

  • 4. Love It Is No Question

    4. Love It Is No Question

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    From Parting Strengthens Poetry (1996) I find the pain of speaking cuts me loose,yet cuts me.Over drama acted poorlyhurts that harden knock like bones.Youth is soft and brittle;how we hurt the One we love!Tears He cries will draw us back.Fresh breeze of Gilead,blow out rusty dirt in heartstoo hard to love.Turn me home; the path […] Read more…

  • 5. Savoring

    5. Savoring

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    From Parting Strengthens Poetry (1996) Supper smiles, scarlet sunsets,kisses stolen in the dark,Fridays, coupon-supper nights,park-green leaves around-about,driving homeward, Christmas-bound.Pictures only we can seeof days we lived awhile ago.Breeze that skips on piney limbs,starlit city streets,moonlight baths and reading peace,Sunny Sunday smile — a dress.Fill our home with laughter, Love,cozy in the snowy night.Friends, we shared […] Read more…