Brian’sPoems

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A book by Brian J. Mueller

Second Communion

368 pieces · in calendar order

January

  1. 1Divine Poet
  2. 2A Natural Symmetry
  3. 3Oh, That Sweet Silence!
  4. 4Inevitable
  5. 5All the Talking
  6. 6Plutocrats
  7. 7Close My Door
  8. 8Within Me Swells a Stone
  9. 9Good Boundaries
  10. 10Relax, It's Okay
  11. 11The Best Among Us
  12. 12Good for Goose and Gander
  13. 13Making Peace with Father
  14. 14The Ghost
  15. 15Let the New Year Come
  16. 16The Tortured Tortoise
  17. 17Too Many Words
  18. 18Snow Is in the Forecast
  19. 19An Invitation to be Held
  20. 20Going Round in Circles
  21. 21Hear the Wind Whisper
  22. 22The Way of Council
  23. 23On the Lam
  24. 24When Death Comes Knocking
  25. 25God's Lighthouse
  26. 26Out of Focus
  27. 27Idle Markets
  28. 28The Love You Seek
  29. 29Divorce
  30. 30Here and Now
  31. 31Anger like Sugar

February

  1. 1Slap the Buddha
  2. 2A Morning Prayer for Peace
  3. 3Refugee
  4. 4Place of No Escape
  5. 5Grasping
  6. 6My Meditation
  7. 7Demon Seeds
  8. 8The Universe Wants It All
  9. 9Another Weirdo
  10. 10Goodbye Trusted Wall Clock
  11. 11Into the Darkness
  12. 12Give Me Patience
  13. 13God Has Angels Everywhere
  14. 14Killjoy
  15. 15New Stories
  16. 16Hey Now Now
  17. 17Art of Being
  18. 18What They Told Me
  19. 19Spiritual Journey
  20. 20New Ice Age
  21. 21Where Nothing is Forbidden
  22. 22The Soul Organ
  23. 23Winter Comes in Handy
  24. 24Lost in the City
  25. 25Oh My Heart
  26. 26Authenticity
  27. 27Take You
  28. 28Tuesday Night at Nova House

March

  1. 1Heaven & Hell
  2. 2Heart & Soul
  3. 3Crazy
  4. 4Now Is the Hour
  5. 5Let Go Kitten
  6. 6Ramble On
  7. 7All of This
  8. 8All This Burning
  9. 9Take Great Cheer
  10. 10My Fiery Preacher
  11. 11We All Stream
  12. 12At All Costs
  13. 13Get Some Sleep
  14. 14What to Bring
  15. 15Forgiveness Is like the Rainy Season
  16. 16Nothing Unusual Here
  17. 17Cracks in the Pavement
  18. 18Prayer for Patience
  19. 19Simon Says
  20. 20I'm Counting on You
  21. 21I Wander
  22. 22Film Noir
  23. 23The Gods Hold Sway
  24. 24Mystery & Chagrin
  25. 25The Herpetologist
  26. 26The Divinity of Water
  27. 27The Gifts Keep Coming
  28. 28It's Wednesday
  29. 29Divine Tension
  30. 30Skip Ahead
  31. 31Over to the Light

April

  1. 1Release and Resurrect
  2. 2Soul Full
  3. 3Invite Favorable Spirits
  4. 4Nothing Is Wasted
  5. 5A Slowing
  6. 6Rocky Top
  7. 7No Power (in Jackson, Mississippi)
  8. 8Road Weary
  9. 9Counting
  10. 10Teachers and Students
  11. 11All Aboard!
  12. 12Searching for a Better Way
  13. 13Male Divorce
  14. 14Groaning and Growing
  15. 15Second Communion
  16. 16Brotherhood
  17. 17My Reality
  18. 18A Jest
  19. 19The Dentist
  20. 20Knocking
  21. 21Peace with My Pain
  22. 22Hiding in Plain Sight
  23. 23A Tenuous Order
  24. 24Half-Baked
  25. 25My Poem
  26. 26Untimely Death
  27. 27Blue Room
  28. 28How “My Father” Is a Damaged Word for Me?
  29. 29What Is My Way of the Cross?
  30. 30Vision

May

  1. 1Do Something Minuscule
  2. 2When Mind and Matter Meet
  3. 3Glittering Blackness
  4. 4Be a Sponge
  5. 5The Fool's Virtue
  6. 6Insatiable Hunger
  7. 7Point of Necessity
  8. 8Slack
  9. 9Try to Go There
  10. 10Laughing Spirits
  11. 11Just Like Honey
  12. 12Spring
  13. 13Mother's Day
  14. 14Mariscal
  15. 15A Matter of Perspective
  16. 16Softened
  17. 17Anger & Fear
  18. 18A Better Choice
  19. 19The Ocean Rises
  20. 20The Waning Winter
  21. 21Power of the Very Word
  22. 22Ego
  23. 23Mortality
  24. 24A Simple Sorry
  25. 25What is Eternity?
  26. 26Fruity
  27. 27Unburdened Unknowing
  28. 28Gift Yourself This Lifetime
  29. 29Leaky Faucet
  30. 30Make Serenity Great Again
  31. 31La Tierra Fecunda

June

  1. 1Soul Reawakening
  2. 2Collecting
  3. 3Be Gentle with Yourself
  4. 4More Weekend
  5. 5Faith & Love
  6. 6Let This Day
  7. 7Too Much
  8. 8Just Do It
  9. 9Unfinished Poems
  10. 10Odd Day
  11. 11Best Sort of Prayer
  12. 12Sleeping and Waking
  13. 13Soul of the West
  14. 14Suicide Wars
  15. 15Velvet Morning
  16. 16The Lame Goat Leads
  17. 17Growing Up
  18. 18The Startle
  19. 19All at Once
  20. 20Tap a Vein
  21. 21Banner
  22. 22Cerveza Song
  23. 23Toolbox
  24. 24Roadkill
  25. 25Something
  26. 26I Don't Understand
  27. 27Here, Take It
  28. 28Let the Sunshine
  29. 29Union
  30. 30Gentle Accounting

July

  1. 1Being Human
  2. 2Free at Dawn
  3. 3You Can't Rush Your Healing
  4. 4Don't Be Discouraged
  5. 5Oh, God! You Devil
  6. 6Enlightenment
  7. 7Choices
  8. 8Everything Belongs
  9. 9Rainbows
  10. 10Embodied
  11. 11Swing Low
  12. 12Real Wild Mind
  13. 13I Do
  14. 14A Natural Wisdom
  15. 15Mysterious Places
  16. 16Don't Make Things Worse
  17. 17Someday
  18. 18Dream Weaver
  19. 19The Road to Home
  20. 20Suburbia
  21. 21Breathing Under Water
  22. 22To the Dogs
  23. 23Truth
  24. 24The Case for Living in Poetry
  25. 25A Good Recipe
  26. 26The Majesty Everywhere
  27. 27The Touch of Death
  28. 28All the Loving People
  29. 29Right Now
  30. 30Be Found
  31. 31Take a Moment

August

  1. 1My Father's Voice
  2. 2Little Miracle
  3. 3The Point of No Return
  4. 4Sleek Black Cat
  5. 5The Desert Wakes
  6. 6Our Livelihood
  7. 7Good News, I Guess
  8. 8Take the Plunge
  9. 9The Bridge on the River Kwai
  10. 10Divine Witness
  11. 11Any Reason for Being
  12. 12No Longer a Need to Know
  13. 13Food & Drink
  14. 14Let It Be Easy
  15. 15The Secret is Beyond Me
  16. 16The Immeasurable
  17. 17My Boring Life
  18. 18Something for Everyone
  19. 19A Fool Like Me
  20. 20A Dog's Joy
  21. 21Go to the Wilderness Within
  22. 22Become Weightlessness
  23. 23Can't You See it?
  24. 24Leaning on Simple Truths
  25. 25Conviction
  26. 26Beautiful Unknowing
  27. 27There's Always Time
  28. 28You Are Bottomless
  29. 29Attending Me
  30. 30I Woke from Where?
  31. 31Cliché

September

  1. 1A True Lover
  2. 2Dry Up
  3. 3The Child
  4. 4The Voice
  5. 5Even if I Knew
  6. 6A Diagnosis
  7. 7Amazing Fruit
  8. 8Condescension Falls
  9. 9I Go to Meetings
  10. 10No Fix
  11. 11Home of the Prey
  12. 12The Truth Sits Alone
  13. 13Forgive Me Another Day
  14. 14My Hometown
  15. 15Something Known
  16. 16Geological Time
  17. 17No Fix
  18. 18His New Car
  19. 19Reassurances
  20. 20The Spirit Arrives
  21. 21Mentor
  22. 22Silence
  23. 23Hope
  24. 24What's Eating Me
  25. 25Timex
  26. 26Ripe Fruit
  27. 27Welcome to My Morning
  28. 28Take Your Medicine
  29. 29The Great Gift of Poetry
  30. 30No Need Unsatisfied

October

  1. 1Resistance
  2. 2The King from Queens
  3. 3Serious Man
  4. 4Love Will Be the Prophet
  5. 5Some Instructions
  6. 6The Wind Blows for a Reason
  7. 7Millenia
  8. 8God Says...
  9. 9I Design Trees
  10. 10Eternity Next to a Rock in the Desert
  11. 11My Knowing
  12. 12The Stomach
  13. 13False Affirmation
  14. 14Circular
  15. 15The Enthusiast
  16. 16A Fair Market Price
  17. 17Big Sky Revelation
  18. 18In the Middle of This Nowhere
  19. 19Three Rivers
  20. 20A Post-Mortem Conversation
  21. 21Love Train
  22. 22Sinus Infection
  23. 23The Sound of Bagpipes
  24. 24Awakening to Consciousness
  25. 25Autumn Reckoning
  26. 26All in God's Time
  27. 27The Gift of Hardship
  28. 28Tell Your Secrets
  29. 29Gifts for Free
  30. 30Grow Softer
  31. 31To Hold a Baby

November

  1. 1Flags
  2. 2Adam
  3. 3Already Here
  4. 4The Great Perspective
  5. 5Let Me Be Blurry
  6. 6Weeble Wobbles
  7. 7Too Tired
  8. 8This Is Not the End
  9. 9White Pine
  10. 10Holding the Pain
  11. 11Time to Laugh
  12. 12Divine Train Wreck
  13. 13Hatched
  14. 14Ohio
  15. 15The Present
  16. 16Given to Fly
  17. 17My Cause
  18. 18I Grow Easier
  19. 19An Ordinary Life
  20. 20The Harvest of a Man
  21. 21A Fix for All of This
  22. 22The Fire for My Feast
  23. 23My Soul is Sticky
  24. 24The Idea of Growing Old
  25. 25Beyond the Dying
  26. 26I Get Overwhelmed
  27. 27Lots More
  28. 28Conceit of Knowing
  29. 29So Hungry for This Day
  30. 30A Second Life Begins

December

  1. 1Chinese Furniture
  2. 2Math
  3. 3Mystical Embryo
  4. 4Spiritual Journey
  5. 5When Breaks the First Light
  6. 6I Write Poetry
  7. 7Becoming Timeless
  8. 8The Sponge
  9. 9You Will Have the Boom
  10. 10Back to Bed
  11. 11Sweet Taste of Sorrow
  12. 12What I'm Speaking About is Death
  13. 13Deep in the Heart of Change
  14. 14The Flood (Wake up Man!)
  15. 15Remaining Open
  16. 16For Griffin
  17. 17Here We Go
  18. 18On Our Way Home
  19. 19Promise on the Horizon
  20. 20No Easy Answers
  21. 21Winter Solstice
  22. 22Letting Go Sets the Stage
  23. 23At the Intersection of Feast and Fasting
  24. 24It's All so Strange, so Funny
  25. 25Merry Metanoia***
  26. 26Circular Time
  27. 27Beyond Compare
  28. 28No Shortcuts
  29. 29As the Glaciers Recede
  30. 30Copeless
  31. 31A Day Off

Undated

  1. Any Good Broom
  2. The Virtuosos
  3. Pound Something