Atonement Poems

I saw a famous fountain, in my dream,
Where shady path-ways to a valley led;
A weeping willow lay upon that stream,
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The roses of Love glad the garden of life,
Though nurtur'd 'mid weeds dropping pestilent dew,
Till Time crops the leaves with unmerciful knife,
Or prunes them for ever, in Love's last adieu!
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Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning
hours,
ran to the market place, and cried incessantly:
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I'll tell of Canute, King of England,
A native of Denmark was he,
His hobbies was roving and raiding
And paddling his feet in the sea.
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MANHATTAN'S streets I saunter'd, pondering,
On time, space, reality--on such as these, and abreast with them,
prudence.
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Daughters of Beulah! Muses who inspire the Poet's Song,
Record the journey of immortal Milton thro' your realms
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Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firstborn,
Or of the Eternal coeternal beam
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light,
And never but in unapproached light
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To Ianthe:

Not in those climes where I have late been straying,
Though Beauty long hath there been matchless deem'd;
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NOW shone the morning star in bright array,
To vanquish night, and usher in the day:
The wind veers southward, and moist clouds arise,
That blot with shades the blue meridian skies.
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'O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our soul's as free
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam,
Survey our empire, and behold our home!
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It was a broad moon light robbery.
The theft was notified
and the bandit was identified.
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Lord, Your humble servants hear,
Suppliant now before You,
Our Father, from Your children's plea
Turn not, we implore You!
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Now when Dawn in robe of saffron was hasting from the streams of
Oceanus, to bring light to mortals and immortals, Thetis reached the
ships with the armour that the god had given her. She found her son
fallen about the body of Patroclus and weeping bitterly. Many also
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In the grey beginning of years, in the twilight of things that began,
The word of the earth in the ears of the world, was it God? was it man?
The word of the earth to the spheres her sisters, the note of her song,
The sound of her speech in the ears of the starry and sisterly throng,
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Invisible gulls with human voices cry in the sea-cloud
'There is room, wild minds,
Up high in the cloud; the web and the feather remember
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He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago,
And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.',
But his real name was Careless, as the fellows understood --
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Oh, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous:
I thought from my wrath no atonement could save you:
But woman is made to command and deceive us —
I look 'd in your face, and I almost forgave you.
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(ll. 246-260) The Holy Lord, All-wielding God, with mighty hand
had wrought ten angel-orders in whom He trusted well, that they
would do Him service, and work His will. Therefore God gave them
reason, with His own hands shaped them, and established them in
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Over the sea, past Crete, on the Syrian shore to the southward,
Dwells in the well-tilled lowland a dark-haired AEthiop people,
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Seven moons, new moons, had eastward set their horns
Averted from the sun; seven moons, old moons,
Westward their sun-averted horns had set;
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written on Yom Kippur (lit. 'Day of Atonement') , Evening of Fri, Oct 11 - Sat, Oct 12

Yom Kippur
A Gazan doctor's blood flows
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Turmoil.
Emotion Liquefied.
Atonement.
Realization.
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Atonement.
Neverending.
Gorgeous.
Elation.
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I will say no more
ritualisation. Digging out moon to
win back the honor from sky.
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Oh my love, never in my life, can you see? Skills of this can I lack, my peace never does last, one world seems so small, yet others become so large when compared, such faith, will never confess to you, got to make the most of it, good bye as you say, they would say you didn't chose you, but a specialist did, grace and atonement, led it dissolve the faith in me, but you will continue on without me, disappearing, like it was there, something of a record...reteach it once well, hidden called upon with a little forward exhaustion, protecting with great ferocity, why always a negative reaction, true to myself, cleared mind and aplastic heart, a view different but all the same, persuading like the world to change, an annoyance at best, letting us all become one, is it easy if you try? Things that would be said again, never wither nor comely, just to be lest paused in life and everything else remained unsaid.
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Lent is a time of
atonement for our sins.

But proper atonement
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The pride of a lion is his pride
The pride of an Eagle; its wings
But the pride of a woman
Carefully curated is in-between
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The pride of a lion is his pride
The pride of an Eagle; its wings
But the pride of a woman
Carefully curated is in-between
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Gethsemane in Every Breath
by Michael R. Burch

Did heaven ever seem so far?
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A PhD in emotion and feel,
licentiate of what lives within

Professor of imagery, doctor of will,
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