Light up the incense, we’re talking non-sense,
so give up the pretense and speak your two cents.
Then we can all wince, in common ignorance.

Illusions are phantoms of the...

Religious and spiritual poem: Talking to the muse, Conversations with the Holy Spirit By Peter Menkin - Jun 20, 2001 Edited October 27, 2007

Religious and spiritual poem written for December, 2006 (Advent), the work is introduced by this on Peter Menkin blog:

I have transposed nearly all of the poems of the Greek poet Constantine Cavafy into English. This is no. 151 of his poetical canon. 151. ANCIENT GRECOSYRIAN SPELLS Wait for the silence and the...

Religious and spiritual poem by Peter Menkin. Colored streamers move in the wind: a poem This may be more a series of notes and reflections, a journal entry, more than a poem. It is about the...

Nothing’s Free by MrDaman Virgil R. Hall II (Randy) Free as the air you breathe at the cost of the blood you bear. Free as the light that blinds you to see what isn’t there. Free to feel...

Troublesome Mind by MrDaMan Virgil R. Hall II (Randy) What will you think today? Did you tell yourself "Good Morning"? Awakened by alarm of opportunity, once again setting aside the...

A comparison of two poems from different poets, periods, and backgrounds, but, with a similar idea. "Rarely, rarely, comest thou, Spirit of Delight!" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) ...