Poem: Shock and Awe
By: Gary Steven Corseri, Ph.D They told us it would be over soon; They told us it would save our lives. But our children’s eyes hardened like peach pits. More [...]
Category Archives: Poetry
Poems
Poem: Blue Moon Above the Sea
I have not seen the sun set so peacefully like this evening Receding from this sea shore with slow valediction. Here you stand with wide eyes And gaze at the [...]
Poem: Ladybug
(for Garda Ghista, 1944-2012) The ladybug goes back and forth, back and forth across the thin-rimmed screen. She doesn’t know she goes back and forth across the lip of the [...]
Poem: Heroes
Do not call them “heroes” if they have done your killing for you. Say that they have done your bidding; say they were your “soldiers.” Say that you have trained [...]
Poem: Failing Breath
Author’s Note: As we move deeper into the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to look towards the continuing freedoms and well-being of future generations with any great confidence. The [...]
Poem: Night Heron
Red trees in evening’s darkening glow. Breeze, cat-footed, stealthy, alert. Like an ashen bird’s first awakening, your eyes take in the night. Eight night herons voyage on. Eight silent pilgrims, [...]
Poem: No Separation Between Church & State
Mankind like all else in the Universe is an an expression of an Omniscient Godhead therefore there than can be no separation between the Laws of God and the laws [...]
Dark Planet
I will go now to the edge and fall off into the valley of shadow. There is no guarantee of my rising again to walk among the clouds. Down in the [...]
Poem: A Lilac Tale or Seven Days in Xanadu
Carrying an oil-paper umbrella, wandering in the deep, deep and mirrored seven alley I expect to meet a girl with sadness of a lilac tale, she will [...]
Poem: Villages & Orchards
Ibrahim, my friend there are no great men. We are all but brothers and sisters crossing the desert of time seeking the Oasis of God. Where we can dance together [...]
