Longo-Geremia

SPEAKING IN TONGUES For most For some Passion speaks a different tongue Words of love Promises of forever Together Always in one embrace But When the flesh has had its fill An uneasy smile speaks regret Suddenly a turn about To every beginning there is an end And we sadly see The will retreat in its... Sign in to see full entry.

This poem was inspired by Umberto Eco's novel THE NAME OF THE ROSE. Sorry if I made anyone gasp. Joe Sign in to see full entry.

OBSCENITY Stale flesh and incense Filing through Two by two Shadowed faces in brown hoods Whispering Canticles and Incantations Liturgical murmurings Smothering sensuality Unspeakable passion Never to spill their seed For fear of Eternal Damnation Denial of Creation Fire in their loins An Obscenity Sign in to see full entry.

AND PROTECT ME FROM ALL EVIL...AMEN [To recognize evil is to reject it] Are you the devil come claim my soul I know all too well Those gypsy legends of old Or can you be The one I used to see In childhood visions of earliest memory The one I would tell To smiling faces now long gone But you don’t... Sign in to see full entry.

Silent Spaces What is this silence that I fear A voice that goes nowhere Empty echoes from star to star Reverberating through A Universe I thought I knew Empty prayers from my mind Shouting silence in return No comfort in this Were they right Is He dead All beginnings have an end Or was it an... Sign in to see full entry.

POETS AND SEERS Poets and seers What do they see They know intuitively What the soul speaks Sanity in insanity Words meaningless full of meaning Understood by none and everyone They seek the Truth Of Creation Seer the spirit with their fire Storm the depths of our Absurdity The Mind, the Soul... Sign in to see full entry.

TIME Fire in their eyes Steeds Dark as darkest night Free and bold No reins to hold Them back Palpitating panting strides In flame Electricity piecing through My brain Shock waves of red and blue Hooves striking stars On the attack Across the universe They steal me far away Past Heaven's Gate And... Sign in to see full entry.

AND OTHER THINGS In the morning light of day Slowly I break away From nighttime dreams And nighttime scenes Wishes and imagination Fancy and Realty take hold of me I dance in a world not at all The one I know in sunlit streams Waves of feelings incarnate steal my mind Rise and fall Unkind From bliss... Sign in to see full entry.

THE GIFT OF FREE CHOICE Angels and Demons all in a row Singing In Excelso Deo A marvelous and fearful asymmetry In this their harmonious cacophony All of One seed are We Here to claim Humanity Angels or Demons That is the Choice They say Come sing with us Choose your Voice Kriste eleison! Sign in to see full entry.

NATURE'S WAY The sweet taste of morning dew Blades of honey shining through Crystal prisms on my window sill Dancing rainbows on the wall Ocean green and blue Sending waves of salt spray In the air The cares of night giving way To the first light of day I wonder Why is it so What irony has taken... Sign in to see full entry.