Some sad truths told in Genesis, yet Lot, so named for his theoxenia, Angels welcomed only by "Lot's wife" who served food wine, and life her angles promised to strangers left as pillar of salt a bitter reward for glancing at home #poetryport #smallpoems
#poetryport Any ending must welcome a new beginning Night recedes carried on whistles of bird songs chirps keeping time Cover on a book closes, one last time, as minds open new ideas fluttering with Hornworms welcoming a cascade of flying sphinx's As the gold of a Monarch takes flight Poems reborn in the litter of cliche close out #poetryport in hopes of wel
Archer's arrows quelled by hermit's wisdom Renuka's feet welcoming rest from sun's heat rather than suffer a husband's aim at a "friend of all who cause the noise who sets in motion the luminous one" #poetryport
#PoetryPort Epilogue A final gift to https://david.shanske.com for being a tireless WordPress warrior on the hunt for a bookmark he can't like a found poem of parsed p-names pulled from child like h-cites, a digital dadaism swimming in metadata Greedy Bears Raven pulls on a rat drape the couches Lot's Wife shade saving sight and men pets of prosperity strang
How well teachers teach English in classrooms that include Black queer youth will depend largely on how willing they are to know all of their students. When teachers invite students to compose themselves in ways that enact their queer identities, we liberate voices that are normally silenced Latrise Johnson #quote
Like the blessings of Bakhty Han given to Shamans dancing around Ülgen's birch tree welcoming the worthy to boundaries of spirit world riding on souls stolen from steeds #poetryport
Whether draping the couches or Telmachus sparing Goddesses of Wisdom from mansplaining shared stories have always suggested putting out a welcoming chair. #poetryport
A priest knocking on Rantidev's door so different than "Please sir may I have some more" Athiti welcoming all and washing feet Even those from Ferenzi #poetryport
Hey #writingcommunity here is my final #poetryport poem: tried to show that hospitality lie poetry is a universal truth. Something required for a space to push us all forward: https://jgregorymcverry.com/PoetryIsWelcoming #poetry
Good to remember greatest of heroes fall in welcoming jaws of the Gadfly Horseflies hunting for hubris incessant bites take down those who slay monsters #poetryport
Whispers of yesteryear broken on gears of tomorrow's false promise. Turning in fickle hearts dulled notches slipping on realities of stolen prophets #smallpoems
Poets seek silence grasping sounds of truth spinning in the head of reality's flipside constantly plucking consciousness's fickle strings, time ticking on a metronome swaying between lost words and fallen worlds #poetryport
Winter sits Winter sits silent silent no no crystalizing slick cadence of swoosh of soft snow speedy sleds Winter sits Winter sits silent silent no Yet I humming enjoy this rythm spring to seasons Febraury Air