Sweet little lady in pineapple socks 

Amethyst pendant with matching dreadlocks

As she bottled spring water cathedral hydration 

Spoke of soul food ..nutrition meditation 

Suppressed uniqueness a thing of the past 

"My name is Yolanda" she said when I asked 

I looked up the meaning purple it means 

Purple her aura with earth browns and green

Violet earth angel at the anglic...

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The Cathedral and holy relics are burning.

For grief of righteous, for the joy of devil.

Will you, our Lord, bring people to the square,

So that, the grief could crawl far away?

I beg you, Lord! Save humans treasure!

Restore the shrine by the whole world!

Or we are on edge of quickly dying.

And this the people understand at last!

Let everyone just pray in their own temples...

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Salt and Light

Lofty and proud, the mighty cathedral stands,

grandly waits for its faithful servants

(more on fine days - they're not exactly fervent).

Tourists chatter in, grow quiet in its shadowed womb,

some trace vanishing points among the tombs.

A child holds his mother by the hand.

Distant echoes rebound through quire and transept

as the stained glass kaleid...

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I've now published my epic verse-novel God The Banana. It's available in print on Amazon & on Kindle at http://www.amazon.co.uk/God-The-Banana-Tim-Ellis/dp/150317428X/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1417545504&sr=1-2

I posted the first two of the 437-sonnet story here a few weeks ago.  This is how it continues:

Many thousand sticks of incense smoulder

blueing the gloomy hall within t...

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