Tongues Poems - Poems about Tongues

Canvassers of the word, from the fireplaces of Pregnant minds let us, with ebullient enthusiasm, Pen flaming words to melt away the dismay in a world Wrought with war, bigotry, injustice, hate, and loss hope:- Let us not...Read the rest...

Canvassers of the word, from the fireplaces of Pregnant minds let us, with ebullient enthusiasm, Pen flaming words to melt away the dismay in a world Wrought with war, bigotry, injustice, hate, and loss hope:- Let us not...Read the rest...

Sweeter are the words That cannot be said It is so sweet Sour are the words That can be expressed It is wonderful thou A human being, A voice can modify Various languages As we speak And words can be spoken...Read the rest...

The oldest voices whisper below the ground. Hands pull on roots — wind-beaten, gnarled — stories woven through the fabric of time. Bark peeled slick, leaves flattened, the wisdom of what makes whole lies between finger and thumb, passed along like...Read the rest...

Life shouldn’t be a punishment for living We can’t be regulated by machines Accustomed to the stupid self-deceiving Our freedom is a bird of slavish dreams Where to it flies, avoiding troubles on its way We never wonder, giving...Read the rest...

While speaking in tongues, love's language flows, A river of secrets only hearts know. Words like leaves in a whispering breeze, Rustling truths in a forest of ease. Emotions dance in a cryptic ballet, Steps of passion in a silent...Read the rest...

Pointing fingers, wagging tongues, the "blame game" never gets things done.. Steamy anger and it's spillage never heals the hurting village.. Don't just stew and act fettered, work to make things a bit better.....Read the rest...

Q: Is it also, according to the Apostle Paul, to also become baptized by being so in the name of Jesus Christ? A: It is the Pentecostal and the...Read the rest...

A belief is a belief Stipulations of the unseen Catch your breathing A tear is a salty water Releasement of the pain Memories are flooding in Should be done, Originality is meant to be original And truth is a scarce...Read the rest...

("Still Life", 2021, original encaustic) Speaking in Tongues I like speaking To the sky, to the earth To my dogs, and wife and kids. It’s the sound of a babbling brook Flowing in cascades and eddies Rushing to the sea. Of course such...Read the rest...

Immersion of a total being And emotions that are fleeing With a voice that was not me I did speak with harmony To the majesty and power I cried out for an hour Unknown words that seem...Read the rest...

Gaelic: it was my mother's native tongue, and her grandmother’s elder tongue. Grandfather was a Romani gypsy, horses naturally understood his voice. My lips follow English, a tangled language with too many roots, tuberosities awkwardly clumped together, like hard and lumpy potato...Read the rest...

Saw thee, silly moon, smiling at me, Let us dance before dawn drives us away, Imbue this night with fanciful folly, Each breath a hurricane of moraless sway. Stars twinkle their tiny toes in turn, Waiting for moon’s...Read the rest...

Lies can twist a tongue, its like being stung, by a bee full of fibs, that's spoken on rumored lips, remembering them alls a joke forgetting all the ones you've spoke...Read the rest...

Not lying outright is far from the truth Hesitance vacuous barren of fruit What never gets said deceitfulness hides Stalking and preying while buried inside The pulpit a soapbox lectern a mask Pontification deceptions bombast Wittingly fervent the devil subverts False implication —the ultimate hurt (Dreamsleep: February, 2023)...Read the rest...