Tongues Poems - Poems about Tongues

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...

Rabasha Kabasha Old Prophet Noadiah Rifling society Lying to God Judgement shall fall on thee Incomprehensibly Thou art an enemy One to the Lord...Read the rest...

Some languages are fluently translatable but only by how the mouth utters and shapes them, they are too musical to be not sung, like Gaelic; it was my mother’s tongue and her grandmother’s elder tongue. Romani is acoustically spell-binding, Grandfather was a...Read the rest...

Peoples hearts and tongues implicitly they are wild Men and women's hearts pump venom yet faces mild My tears are turning black I am out of normal tears Blood pots from me black blood flows...Read the rest...

In a small Russian village the people speak like animals and their animals listen like humans. Deep in a Malay forest there are apes that love God with a slow burning love that turns their hair orange. They are called. "old man...Read the rest...