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Honest Inquiry
9-19-13

O, if God had his infinite longsuffering
How can we offend him
In things we still do
Cleaving onto the flesh like we do
To be attached to all excess
O, how can we offend him
If he is all knowing
Yet such I take into consideration
To entertain my soliloquy
Of sorts with a word or two
That admonishes and exhorts
For someone walking in the same way as do I...





On Lamentations 4:14
9-19-13

Wandering as a blind man
In sitting still
Yet to buckle, surrender and yield
In taking up the breastplate, helmet and shield
To live by the sword
Sharpened by chief craftsmen
Where I don't know just how to express
What I have been through
Wandering as a blind man
On my way back to you
Polluting my flesh
With my own blood
Squeezed from a nail I still bite
With teeth grinding for the cause of ambition
Making me ugly and quite beautiful
Wandering as a blind man
Given sight anew....






Here
9-19-13

I am here as a watcher once again
A pastime that yesterday had completely wiped me out
Where I wear away
To again be strengthened on the day after a good night's rest
Here again to be the observer
Like an angel looking out for you
It is the least I can do
For a God that provided so far in the source
That never dwindles
Here as a watcher
It's the least I can do...





Fanlight
9-19-13

Windows and fanlights are constructed
By those architects
Inspired by Solomon
Written of in the book of First Kings
Given the knowledge of all of these numbers
Of which the head of the choir sings
Of windows and fanlights
Set in place by those at work with meager pay
Where ones outcome is near
As days will be fulfilled
In the word of truth the scholar absorbs as his own
To be reassured that I am not alone...




Just Because
9-19-13

I check out a book of calculus two
And ask, O, why
To be answered with just because
Sketching these designs
As if I were high on life
As I study on
Where my area is of my pie times the radius squared
But O, why
And the answer is just because
Why did I write this poem
O, just because
Observing the crescendo
Of another new beginning
Just because...




Perifery
9-19-13

Fixed points and peripheries
Take on new meaning
In a class of my dreams
That I walk on on my intuition
Where curiosity and ambition
Will equal the depths of the real me
In all I can taste and see
Chained up in this chair yet free
Struggling against antipathy
Yet somehow I come to agree
At the intersection of Philadelphia and Queen
Where I get my supply in demand once again....




Fountain
9-19-13

Starting again at the other side of the mountain
Provided cold drinking water
By the well that wants to be the me, the fountain
Caressing my beard stubble
In self affections that mean not my trouble
Content even in seeing double
Where God reserved for me this seat
With a perfect view of the beauty that abounds...





One
9-19-13

I accidently wrote such an equation
In the other notebook
Not on accident
But for a higher purpose
To look back on for further guidance
Asking why
To get an answer
O, just because
To be the sustenance
Of such an orphan page
To count as one...




Oblique
9-19-13

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles
That hope to fly into heaven
In that today I live for this anticipation
Of a feast to be held at seven
On the night of my full moon
Where it is never too late nor too soon
Following the sketch on my orphan page
To be one in thousands
And therefore chief and unique
Where my counselor tells me
O, have a good one
And have a wonderful week
So I say, hey you too
In a voice deep and oblique...