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Aft
1-11-14

Aft and astern
Of much yet to learn
Given the wisdom to yet discern
Abaft of this
Beside a feline friend that doth never hiss
Aft of that
She is the most beautiful cat
To come into my life by divine intervention
By the halflight of the dawn
Given bittersweet intention
And take care, so says my guru
As if there was something wrong
About the writing of this song
Towards the stern
Returning to my center
I have much yet to learn...




Chastening
1-11-14

Verily, for a few days
Chastened by which I find my peace of mind
Not hastened for our own profit
That we might be of his holiness
Partakers according to snake charmers and rain makers
Given another Sabbath in its diligence
Broken by a late lunch with Mother
And to but resume
In my meaning to love one another...




Stricture
1-11-14

Of structure and of stricture
Scholars today get the picture
Home this morning to listen to the falling rain
In hopes that words written will not be in vain
By these abnormal contractions of passages and ducts
By restriction and limitation of all that we can know
Through fleshly senses as loopholes of this reality but perceived
Where I am what I am
And God needs not be grieved....




On Colossians 3:1,2
1-11-14

If then raised up
Seek the things above
To refill again my coffee cup
Wherein all we need is love
Where Christ sits at God's right hand
In that today poets will seek to understand
In then raised up
Be one to go beyond the southern border
Setting not mind on things of the earth
Which is not one's home
In just passing through
Seek what is real
According to what God hath made in you...




Lift
1-11-14

Lifting up hands that hang down with feeble knees
Being one to go there again
to claim one's crown
Seeing again the forest for the trees
Making straight one's paths
Leading to higher places of one's safety
Knowing that I have made it through it again
In my taking up of this humble pen
Lifting up hands that hang down
In hopes for my next adventure back into town...






I Can Do This
1-11-14

In Jesus name
I can do this
Yes, just this, just here, just now
Yet to esteem the milk of another milch cow
In Jesus name
I am going to make it there
And back here
Going full circle in the face of fear
Doing another three-sixty
In the music that I hear
Lifting up hands that which hang down
In Jesus name
I will be the one
To claim his crown...