On Romans 11:1
1-1-14
Of the tribe of Benjamin
An Israelite
I can boldly say that I have seen the light
Where they have killed our prophets
And torn down our altars
To provide the bible scholar his second sight
Where believing is as seeing
In our fresh and new state of being
By the action verbs abused
As if tigers from cages one is freeing
Yet to inquire
Has God cast away his people
To be answered, O God forbid...
Remnant
1-1-14
I alone remain where they seek my neck
With caffeine running through my every vein
Where I again get into my wreck
Starting out the new year with Dylan
Playing today my rummy
With a three quarters deck
Reserving myself seven thousand
Whom would not bow down
Writing these rhymes from the heart
On the east edge of town
By this remnant
According to election of men of renown
Where I alone remain
And they seek my life....
Face To Face
1-1-14
There is a remnant
According to the election of grace
By my consciousness that today abides
In a much better place
Sitting on my love seat with Jesus
Where we talk face to face
And if of grace
Then it is no longer of our works
In no such need for a can of mace
Yeah, there is a remnant
Wherein it is God's desire
That everyone will be saved...
Fast And Feast
1-1-14
Israel has not obtained what she seeks
By my celebration of this feast of weeks
Where we go on a fast
To fulfill cessation at last
Where the wager is made
And the die is cast
Where the elect have obtained it
And the rest of them go blind
As all of such infirmities
Are only in our mind
Where we all read the same book
To believe of one accord
Where today all things are possible
In the good Lord....
Bowing Down
1-1-14
Always bowing down my back
In the absence of color
In one's white and black
Where my conscience spares me
Cutting some slack
Justified by these words
As a plan of attack
Where salvation comes to the gentiles
And nothing of the sort will we need lack
Always bowing down my head
Being today both alive and dead
Hoping that all has not been done and said
Provoking them to jealousy
In being well fed
O, how much more our fullness...
Olive Roots
1-1-14
Olive roots doth represent
The blessings promised to Abraham's seed
Where he that is hungry
Would gladly eat of swine swill and chicken feed
Where God yet doth spare the natural branches
In their need of necessity
Obliged to be what God has made them
In a seemingly newfangled reality
On this new years day of new hope
To both mask and manage
In one's new way to cope
Putting into practice one's joy
In double knots tied in one's rope
Of olive roots
That represent the blessings promised
Yet to be received in those that indeed are...
Ministry
1-1-14
Israel's blindness is only in part
Where I quote these passages and call it art
Where Judah's speechlessness would be their ministry
Where I am given a fresh and new start
Going back to school in my dreams
But not to get smart
Given these words that come straight from the heart
If by any means one would provoke them to jealousy
By the contents of one's shopping cart
Stocking up one's abode with comestibles
Of further blessings to count one by one...
Ministries
1-1-14
Ministries yet to magnify
So doth transcend the truth in one's lie
By tears of joy that one doth cry
In no further need to ask why
Where the root is holy
And therefore are the branches
Where the firstfruit is holy
And therefore is the lump
Where treasure is to be found
In one's city dump
Where the tree is hewn
And left over is the stump
By these ministries yet to magnify...
On Romans 11:15
1-1-14
What would be my acceptance
But life from the dead
And all of mine infirmities
That are only in my head
On this new years day
When by the manna I am well fed
Choosing to claim and to believe
That not everything is done and said
O, what would be my acceptance
But my dying in my living
And what would be my justification
But my forgetting and forgiving
To be reconciled and therefore glorified
By the way that is narrow
Upon a path that is wide
Where contention doth come by pride
O, what would be my acceptance...
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