Enormity Poems - Poems about Enormity

They shine in the night ...

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Where do you start, When this world opens up In front of you, When this hidden view Reveals itself in one big bang. I knew I wasn’t normal From an early age But when you hear it all, It still shocks. The attempted murder, rape, Sexual assaults, Suicides, attempted suicides, Addicts of all different flavours, Take your pick. Adoptions, Brain tumours, Autism, Kids born blind...

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I shudder in this great sleep to awaken-- to understand, to see, to know. Why the mind? Grasping a bit here, a bit there-- the pieces never, never to come together. Why do we long, And what is it we long for: the light of God-- all we need, all we want-- to bask in it, the one true luxury. Yet darkness clings to us even in the brightest daylight....

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This world is so heavy upon us, we scarcely can know of the Other as it impinges on this world of flesh and bone, air and water, sky and mountain, man and woman.... Our bodies are too fine-- instruments of unending sensation from birth to death, our brains so vast in imagination... yet so small in comprehension. We live in...

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Can a denier believe? Can a man of God doubt? Can a prisoner leave? Can a king go without? Can children die? Can stars ordain? Can songbirds cry? Can deserts rain? Can killers heal? Can healers kill? Can the sun melt? Can it be felt? Can the soul see? Can my soul hear? Can God be? Can time disappear? [posted 12/2012]...

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In the ruins of yesteryears a cave of harrowed woods and it saves; These tears dry and I bear; The wind comes today Gushing past the wild mountains Have I not hold my heart For why they rush to pierce? This lust of the dusky sky With the words I wept through You have heard all; Yet you rest in tranquil lie Forever more And pieces of...

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