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"Dear Robert"

Posted on Jun 18th, 2008 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

"St John of the Cross heard an Arab love poem Through the bars and began his poem" ~Robert Bly This is a wide ocean, we could swim for centuries and never find a shore but... More »

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to Jonathan

Posted on Jul 15th, 2007 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

I am afraid to write the words afraid they might capture you, take you prisoner make you less than you are   and you are everything   I am afraid to turn you into a poem that might... More »

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Being Where Called and Being Available

Posted on Jun 17th, 2007 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

Maybe it is just because I have fallen in love with riding my bike.  I had a bike when I was a child, but I also had an older brother that terrorized me and had... More »

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Master of Malkhut

Posted on May 28th, 2007 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

Oh, David, master of Malkhut, you dance, you teach me how to sing praise. You sit with me under a tree and speak fire.    Oh, David, would you love me my bare breasts gleaming... More »

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all these grasping hands

Posted on May 24th, 2007 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

is that your eye, lord, that twinkles your lips that kiss your hand that moves over me like warm water   you are the wine of my drunkeness you are his voice that dives deeply   you... More »

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hello friends

Posted on Jan 17th, 2007 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

My little family of 3 came down with the flu - one daughter on Thursday, myself on Friday, and my other daughter on Saturday and we have been busy mending.  I think one daughter will... More »

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5 things about me - you may not know

Posted on Dec 29th, 2006 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

Donan tagged me:   1) I sit and read poetry and other mystical writings to God 2) On Tuesday I heard the wind rushing through the trees on the Oregon Coast and it made my heart... More »

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such a lowly place

Posted on Dec 14th, 2006 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

Fall on your knees! Oh, hear the angel voices! O night divine, the night when Christ was born; O night divine! O night, O night divine! John Sullivan Dwight (1812-1893) This silent night, holy night.... More »

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Thanksgiving isn't over yet

Posted on Nov 24th, 2006 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

Yesterday was very interesting.  Yes, it was Thanksgiving day but it would have also been my father's 77th birthday and the first time Thanksgiving day has fallen on his birthday since he passed.  So, my... More »

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crack

Posted on Nov 19th, 2006 by Metta : metaphorical longshoreman Metta

my house vibrates with His name upstairs and down entering all ears but one now to penetrate that one self His name from all directions but it is that one call the one that swims hardest cracking... More »

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