...you called me poet-priest - I am. ...devoted to my art, faithful to you...or, is the other way around?...
John GeddesTags: devotion poet priest faithful
...I guess you're right - I am a priest - I offer sacrifices - so take this line, I want you to have something of mine...
John Geddes...maybe I am just your priest - or a churl - perhaps you mistrust me the way the medievals mistrusted monks...
John GeddesTags: priest monks mistrust boorish churl
...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....
John GeddesTags: hell priest mistrust chrysostom
...God daubs stars into galaxies with fiery paint - the same lacquer he uses upon your lips...
John Geddes...I committed a sin the day I refused you - I discovered metal inside me where my heart should be - forgive me, Love, for acting on principles...
John GeddesTags: love sin selfishness repentance refusal hard-hearted
...dark embers smolder inside me - one touch and they flare - who would have thought memory combustible, or near you bright sparks appear?...
John GeddesTags: love memory touch sparks
...surely by now you must know: It’s love; it’s love—but will there ever be good news?...
John GeddesTags: love uncertainty unrequited good-news
...allowing yourself to be vulnerable makes you weak but also opens you to the nuances of beauty...
John GeddesTags: beauty vulnerability fragility
...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...
John GeddesTags: love poetry prayer disillusioned
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