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Aug1

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Hands Cupped – July 2015

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I do less I know
I travel more the spirit’s
paths than collect good deeds

I sit and think what
a sea my life has been
stretched between lands

under tempests or requited
as oil on hot days he was
above all looking down

pouring rain to add to me
when I felt deserted
hands cupped to

collect me

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. This one overlaps into August. The older poems of the collection can be found and read using the Search Window.

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Jul31

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – The Look Of My Soul – July 2015

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in between loving cats
and feeding elders
roaming paths

it was the caressing
with my eyes of the olive
trees barks twisted by

the winds and the lack
of water is that the look
my soul has she had no

idea life was business
to attend same the church
and the cats and the elderly

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2013-07-05 16.08.58

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. The older poems of the collection can be found and read using the search window.

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Jul30

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Past Locked Doors – July 2015

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I was taken
behind the altar
to the choir seats

even behind that
past locked doors
to private rooms

beautifully adorned walls
filled with secrets doors
compartments carved

floors long planned
huge desks to think at
pondering villagers’ lives

I could not stop filling
the spaces looking
around feeling everything

under my fingertips
the wood and marble
the walls encrusted

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. The older poems of the collection can be found and read using the search window.

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Jul29

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Faithfulness Fulfilled – July 2015

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decades later I would
get the privilege to enter
a catholic church at night

overseeing the sea on
top of a hill beautifully
decorated dark inside

after hours I felt
honored to be able to
observe and absorb

what really that was all
about to walk by the votive
candles pick up the consumed

ones and replace them
my new unlit ones such
beautiful neatness

to read the album of
prayers just before
the altar and wish

each one to be met
faithfulness fulfilled
people to be elevated

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. The older poems of the collection can be found and read using the search window.

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Jul28

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Votive Candles – July 2015

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votive candles
were there for us
a wonder to look at

they didn’t smell good
then – they just burn
and piss the melted

nor small or round – they
pushed themselves up
as we peeled off excesses

we sat quietly enchanted
they made great shadows
calling us up in and out

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. The other poems of the collections can be found and read using the search window.

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Jul27

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Penalty Prayers – July 2015

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it was long gone
from my memory
the times of confession

long penalty prayers
counting the rounds
impatient to get

to the candles

before the priest
try with friends to
turn off

the flame with bare
fingers to pour the
wax on our hands

to measure resistance
and daring pulses
to learn novelties

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.“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. The other poems of the collections can be found and read using the search window....

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Jul26

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – I Was Right – July 2015

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in darkness I gathered
knowledge success and fame
they spell as bulimia none filling

as far as I let the ego talk louder
it forged my thoughts I was right
of course everyone else wrong

gently I was allowed to run
kindly led to a revelation’s
my own throne was darkness

I had no power to leave
blindness bounded me
I was out of touch but for him

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started on July 2013. The poems, about a spiritual journey, have the habit to pop up here, for a maximum count of seven, in July of each year. This one overlaps into August. The older poems of the collection can be found and read using the Search Window to the right.

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Jul21

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Behind Bars – July 2014

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each day I forged
a mantra to change
ordinary life into bad

it was freedom
I searched for the most
while sinking behind bars

the harder my heart
the farther the key
the darker the vision
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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started last year on July 2013.

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Jul17

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – God is Dead – July 2014

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god is dead was my
victor’s cry I had books
proving that and a pencil

never anger was fiercer
nor larger memory loss
I had taken on a mission

not to miss on any
transgression many
doors were there to bust

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started last year on July 2013.

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Jul14

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Survival – July 2014

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Easter ceased to exist
I didn’t even realize
but it was gone

I went on a battle
field and inhabited
a barrack there

it moved with me
across the world I had
plenty of ammunitions

each moving object
was my target I had
no more spirituality

my religion was survival

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started last year on July 2013.

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Jul10

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – I Was Marked – July 2014

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after my first
kiss I entered a
world of enchantment

started to feel
ready for sisterhood
to fight for women’s right

this was the epitome
I really should not attend
rebellious I was marked

the worst were the looks
I gathered as dandelions
transmuting in spring

jagged as their leaves

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started last year on July 2013.

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Jul7

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Palm’s Sunday – July 2014

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on a Palm Sunday
I was roaming town
offering olives branches

in exchange for funds
to the church when I
found myself face

to face with the boy
I beat on birth place
along cold corridors

we sat on the steps
of the tallest building
to compare depths

colds sand colored
marble steps at
lunch time we

had no appetite
we bore similar hues
mostly our intelligences

bonded

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Jul4

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – A Candle – July 2014

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it appears as if
a candle can
initiate a prayer

shun away
darkness warming
near the ice of fear

a soft walk in
pitch darkness
afraid of vibrations

creepiness of the night
of the deep unknown
black out enforced

the bands of sleep
to fall upon my eyes
slumber on the eyelids

I never felt this way

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“Not Rosaries Nor Missals” is a collections of poems started last year on July 2013.

The other poems of the collections can be found and read using the search window.

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Mar18

Not Rosaries Nor Missals – Luminous Things – March 2014

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I loved luminous
things when I was
younger beside gold

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I loved anything that
would glow in the dark

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there wasn’t much of that
kind except small madonna
saints’ statuettes and rosaries

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I’ll hide under the blankets
to marvel before dreaming

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one day I braided my very

blonde hair in cornrows

together with the ceramic

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beads were the plastic ones

the glow in the dark rosary

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when I’ll go to sleep

these days I’ll have
(half) a luminous halo

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around my angelic
head and a dazzling
greenish eerie collar

yoked clearly around
my shoulders when

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I went to the disco

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For more of the ongoing Collection “Nor Rosaries Nor Missals”, published on July 2013, please use the search button to the right of the page.

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Mar9

California Notebooks, January 2014

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don’t many of us
in this life get the chance
to be human

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even if for a brief
moment of vulnerability

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tenderness entwined in
with love and forgiveness
embracing mistakes

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ours or others
understanding
there are no podiums

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but one race
just one step
following
the other

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one person
looking after another

keeping our necks oiled
to turn around

any given time

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