Michael Pruchnicki Poems

Chaucer goes on -

'And was a povere Parsoun of a town
But riche he was of hooly thoght and werk
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The knock on the oak door echoes
(whispers and silence in the old manse)

Muffled sounds from the root cellar
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Once upon a time I lived
in a hut with ten other guys
in a village near Kaesong
north of the 38th parallel
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Rereading Shelley's 'Ozymandias' recently
gave me time to reconsider
the glory days of Germany
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I read cervantes' novel don quixote
in visitation grammar school

the good nuns knew I was not
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Of course you knew that your words
flowing freely through cyberspace
would be misunderstood
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the only movie for her
was one about edith

the street sparrow
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A modern day prophet of doom
is a rather corpulent politician -
a Cassandra of global warning
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Give me Thomas Aquinas, scholar who grew
from a dumb ox in school! Ignatius Loyola,
who founded an order of religious warriors
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after Rehan Hyder's 'Brittle Fidelity'

Brutal boots of dusk
chase delicate sunbeams
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