Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr Poems

I can feel th' pulse of my heart
pounding fast and hard
coursing through my body
like a thousand drums beating,
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The trip to Chinatown was symbolic
of any space communed by a culture
either from a desire for acceptance,
or a fear of others non-acceptance
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Two doves in motion, exploring their options
in tune to life from their spire;
dictating wings expand with suggestion
in a tone of conviction,
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Below Senryu is constructed
with the employment of 5-7-5
Syllabic requirement of Haiku
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A Senryu Verse, but with the
employment of the syllabic re-
quirement of Traditional Haiku.
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Odd's of coming home for a slice....of Mum's Key-Lime Pie,
Or watching a virgin sunset bleeding into twilights backdrop

Or, spending fourty dollars, for th' Sweetheart Rose corsage-
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In the day's that pass we come to know
that peace and greed are the symbols-
of Christ...and the Anti-Christ.
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And...yet still now, you are confirmed by the notion
that so long as the Mind be strong the Heart will then
always follow, and because so, I find cause now, to
educate your Mind regarding the physics and logics
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Senses alive I felt a presage breathing thru' my Brain,
Time dropped its hands to purge spaced indifference,
Breadth of science loses range by th' open Eye of God,
Silent, lay the pagans sleeping in their black holes.
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September first, two-thousand-eight,
my own personal day of 'Infamy'
though i'm grown and self-sufficient
and have always walked a private path
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