COOL

another prolific one written by day in the shelter of my air conditioned apartment...


Staying Cool
6-10-14

Seeking today the risibility
To release emotion
That meets up with reason
Of colanders in the cards
Upon calanders
Refusing to get involved
With such conversation
With those who talk of contention
It's going to be a hot day
So I plan to keep cool
In this shelter I thank my God for
Taking to old notes
Of the book of Ezekiel
Consisting of a hard truth
To yet retain...



Lamentations Are Not Complaints
6-10-12

Lamentations are set apart
From ordinary complaints
In the expression of what is real
In the sorrows that meet up with the joy
In God's love
Passing the latter morning
With the food channel
To gather the incentive
For lamentations
Touching upon the subject
Of how God loves us all
In that he cries for all that lose their way
Yet to find it again
On this hot sunny day
To stay cool as I write...





Holding Horses
6-10-12

I never before knew the meaning
Of the adage stating to hold one's horses
To consult the taking for granted of the senses
In deep study today
Of all I can see in the sunshine
That once came my way
In watching the races
As I savor the light
That shines through my window
Upon my cat's golden pelage
In brilliance and illumination...





A Sight To See
6-10-12

The Borealis is rarely seen
By those with eyes receptive
By which I need look after my feline companion
Almost always by my side
As a faithful entity of support expedient
In that today it's something to be thankful for
The Borealis is rarely spotted in the night sky
But when it is such
Will be all of the glory that is needed
To fulfill the view...

today mentioning Jupiter assisted my success to make it to where I am now....




Adamant
6-10-12

I was as adamant
Harder than flint
In the beauty of boreal breezes of bliss
Set in my ways
As if nothing else mattered
In the things they had to say
About ways I ought to make a change
Like a brow of brass
Of a stiff neck
Determined to do it all in my own way
And this will do
When to myself I'll be true....



Found A Pick
6-10-12

My stereo sorrows in her solitude
Now that online records take the place
Of a need to play cassettes having their advantage
Of no such skips
As without a need to leave my home
I can go on these day trips
Inebriated in sobriety
Looking upon my west wall
Where my sad guitar waits for the pick
I have found by the way
As an omen of good fortune
Like a tribute to a brother
Who has passed on....





I Won't Walk That Way
6-10-12


Refusing to involve myself
With those that bring tidings
About the so called end of the world
That serves today as a challenge
To stay on top
And because I am misunderstanding
What is spoken
I try to walk away from it all
For this is my choice to maintain
What is peaceful and just
And conducive to edification...





Moving On
6-10-12

Angels would look after me
In those days of riot
When I drink my weight in grog
Mingled with my benzodiapines
Seeing that I ought to move on
And forget such days
In the way I would walk
Seeing it makes a whole lot more sense
To live for what is today....





On Ezekiel 4:9
6-10-12

In lentils, millets and fitches
I find consolation in obsessive compulsive rituals
And light switches
And at the chime of one
The other chimes of freedom ring
Standing here with a gun to my head
And no choice but to proceed with prayers
That love will always win the game I play
Upon the stage set for poets
That are ordained as the prophets
That encourage those
Whom seem lost in the world
God has made...





Making Ripples
6-10-12

Taking up the mantle to smite the water
Making ripples that will touch
All of that is in the way miles downstream
Where I remember last night's dream
Of coffee and crème
As material to satisfy the entire team
Praying for the comfort and hope to sustain
On this hot day
Where I am thankful for this shelter
From these elements
Wishing neighbors blessing
In their barbeque savoring
Such a coolness of my shelter
I no longer want to take for granted...






Narrow And Broad
6-10-12

Hidebound conservatives
Also have their purpose and place
In things to be said
About things both narrow and broad
Where we will never be done with the sustenance
Contained in the grace of our awesome God
Taught that so we can be the witness
In the world yet not of it
Where I choose to come to understand
How we can all today love it....