The Civil War - Anne Sexton

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I am torn in two
but I will conquer myself.
I will dig up the pride.
I will take the scissors
and cut out the beggar.
I will take the crowbar
and pry out the broken
pieces of God in me.
Just like a jigsaw puzzle,
I will put Him together again
with the patience of a chess player.

How many pieces?

It feels like thousands,
God dressed up like whore
in a slime of green algae.
God dressed up like an old man
staggering out of His shoes.
God dressed up like a child,
all naked,
even without skin,
soft as an avacado when you peel it.
And others,others,others.

But I will conquer them all
and build a whole nation of God
in me- but united,
build a new soul,
dress it with my skin
and then put on my shirt
and sing an anthem,
a song of myself

William F. DeVault

[amdresselaers.livejournal.com]

I've been some time with this community, but this is my first post here... I found this poet by accident, and found his work quite lovely. Wanted to share it with you:

Glass Roses

conceive of a flower.
like no other.
no colour,
but the curving clarity,
the photic charity
of crystalline silence.
past the rainbow's violence.
a white fragrance,
white as a virgin's first kiss,
or the lost heartbeat I gave over
to the universe when
first we met,
when first I set my sails
for a new horizon,
passion and pride put down
and sacrificed
to the gods of love.
to the holders of dreams.
to the bearers of my gift.
to wings that take their lift
from the winds of sorrow.
a meadow of perfect blossoms
refracting the light you give me
onto a page of history and hope.
my brother, the night, takes me,
and I am not tomorrow anymore.
but my words endure.
pure
as a field of glass roses.
row upon perfect chaotic row
not discovered in this incarnation.
but they are out there.

Jinglejangle

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by Harryette Mullen