INSULAR

these are my poems about the benefit of solitude and isolation.....


Insular
1-24-14

BLUE INK

Blue Ink
1-23-14

King Darius still writes
Rolling one's days into much colder nights
In that I believe that God has meant
For me to stay home and read the Scripture
Given victory in all of such battles and fights
So it's peace be multiplied to you
According to today's writings of this humble pen of blue
In that Daniel doth prosper throughout the reign
As to live is Christ and to die is gain
By such blue ink
Flowing through my every vein...





Decree
1-23-14

Four winds strive upon our great sea
Where I will discover today the real me
Given this pen within the abode of this den
Where this is as that
In what I'm given to see
Writing out my dreams
According to these new rhyme schemes
Praying for understanding
In the matter of declining
To stay home with my cat
And read Scripture
By which Darius signs the decree
And I still pray according to the passion
Of the real me...





Beast
1-24-14

By my first beast
As my lion with eagle's wings
And my second likened to a bear
It is the hardest thing to do
To say that indeed I care
Where the Nazarite is foolish
Growing in the locks of his hair
And I see what a miracle of three hours of sleep can do
To wake before the sun again
And take up my pen of blue
To look upon the real me
To see what lies in you
By my third beast like the leopard
It works for me in such a procession
In things that are so true...





On Daniel 7:8
1-24-14

Plucked up by the roots
Fucked up by my fruits
Pardon the expletive
For another day without my timberland boots
Going into hiding all over again
By the day's first light
B y which I take up my pen
Waiting for my guru to bring me my drugs
As yet instead
We make the best of kisses and hugs
Being one to yet expound where I come from
Going in the ring my extra round
To offer up my stale bread crumbs
And it was well worth mine endeavors...




Worthwhile
1-24-14

I would enter the unmanifested
But for three hours to rise before the dawn
In remembrance of no such dreams
Saved my prized possessions
Sold in our front lawn
Wherein my feline friend is right beside me
And the darkness is far gone
Having my morning coffee to stifle off my yawn
Where I would enter the unmanifested
As if last night I never had struggled
But it was all worthwhile after all...





Seat
1-24-14

And I beheld the thrones cast down
Where the ancient of days doth take his seat
And I am glad to know my shelter from the elements
Today in no need to turn up the heat
Delivered again from my fiery furnace
Where a voice yet whispers
That I'm in for a treat
Running on empty on only three hours of sleep
I am yet to make my way back to the surface
Wherein I delve deep
Where I behold the thrones cast down
To be one to yet read it and weep....





Issue
1-24-14

By garments white as snow
And hair like pure wool
I stand corrected as the fool
In that it's no longer about being cool
In walking by the same standard and rule
By a sword of platinum
Taken up with its great weight
Taking up such a love
That doth conquer all hate
By this fiery stream
That hath issued forth
Given today my home by the sea....





Wane
1-24-14

By this weakening of enervation
And by the quickening in preservation
Such foundation endures
The next snowstorm
To come upon the east end of town
For which I intercede
Becoming confusion again
Between my want and need
Led in the dark by way of rhyme
As we relive our lives
For a dollar and a dime
By the judgment seat set forth
And books yet to be opened
By this weakening of enervation...




Jaundice
1-24-14

Imbued by sentiments
Yet vexed in eccentricities
It was well worth the struggle
In that I would make known these words
In the ears of whom would hear
Yet to muzzle the ox that treads out of the grain
Influenced yet by prejudice
I knew my jaundice
In wanting what did not belong to me
But I found it was all worthwhile
To etch these runes and glyphs
To serve as my poetic style...

WORK TO SUCCEED

Work To Succeed
12-19-09

The Spirit of God is poured out upon the servant
When hard work brings words to mouth
With an illumination fervent
Toil and travail to succeed
For it pays to bust your bum
And sweat and bleed
So I was given a spiritual bloody nose
As I have hope in knowing
That what I go through Jesus Christ knows
He's been there even before we knew what was going to transpire
It is hard manual labor
That starts our fire...



...title inspired by a Yes lyric, "you have to work to succeed"



Of Thees And Thous
12-19-09

Try not to impress or flatter God
In the usage of old English of strange spelling
Yet still we have a desire to learn
About the thee's and thou's
Seeing the benefits in jackasses, goats and cows
Yet to be upon the altars sacrificed
Meat lovers get a good deal in their purchase specially priced
May us learn to see past what many call depression....




The Right To Hang A Wreathe
12-19-09

We will see signs in heaven above
And in the earth beneath
To behold blood, fire and vapors of smoke
I have the right to say this
Like the Christian has the right to hang on his door his wreathe
Where babes can devour small bites of steak and not choke
Some say that one cannot mix music with politics
As we put on the armor
To stand fast in the storms of the devil's tricks
O, Alas, what will I do with all of these written rhymes...






Memories Of M-
12-19-09

The bookworm lass I once known
Had an impact on the rest of my life
And it turned out that I do not have a heart of stone
Given the knowledge for the bravado
To take up again my retail knife
Love will see one through every snowstorm
So as of Now
This is my life
My law and my love
Where esteemed the same
Are the night owl and day dove
When all things will serve their purpose
In this world uncertain...





Ode On Acts 2:20
12-19-09

The sun is turned to darkness
And the moon is turned to blood
Before the great and notable day of the Lord is come
For Jesus healed a blind man with spittle and mud
As I have my dreams where I will break my base drum
Maybe I was Ringo in another time and place
But now I am content in the singing of Amazing Grace
As sisters in Christ are made manifest
Through the music and the beat...




Asking For A Loan
12-19-09

We are yet to plea for loans
From the Dutch bankers of Amsterdam
As we have a Christmas turkey in mind
Yet willing to settle for a ham
Yet to experiment with honey mustard and soy
To feel like we can once more as a growing boy
Greatest in the kingdom of heaven
Is he whom humbles himself as a child
We weather our first snowstorm
As it is yet still considered mild
Where our double dipping
Is permitted and justified...





Poem For The Poets
12-19-09

And for those that take the podium and recite these
I will regard and salute
As in the darkness so shines a manifest light
Where Ian brings to rock and roll the sound of the flute
And to men who recite their poems
I will highly regard
As in our kitchen we sweep up the bread crumb and glass shard
Such things can work together for God's plan
When I am soon to partake in my stew from a can
Where words can either build or destroy...




Still We Ask For More
12-19-09

We squander our substance
And ask God for more dough
As it turns out it really doesn't work this way
As I have so little time with so much to know
As in the season it only seems like an endless grey
As the British boast and the Irish fight
So I raise my glass for a toast
Ready for the asp that might bite
Following no rules of rhyme nor meter
As I walk on the water like Peter...

GIFT

...covet earnestly the best gifts, yeah, even presumptuousness....


Presumptuous
1-22-14

Smoking cigarettes today presumptuously
Being as one of my main iniquities
Much like my taking of extra thought
In the matter unintentionally
Going wrong in this of which is that
By the contrast of condemnation and conviction
Seen as similar words
According to the law that is for the native
And as well for the stranger
Where there is no partiality
Smoking cigarettes today presumptuously
In that the thing that I hate, that I do
And the things that I mean to do
I do not....




Blue Thread
1-22-14

Moses brings them out
While Joshua will lead them in
As so in the moment today when I lose
Then indeed I win
Introducing compositions
Of how we are called as saints while in our sin
By this interpretation
And newly given understanding
Of such a blue thread
To remind those that wander
Of being with bread and quail well fed
Going as long as I am able
On this path to somewhere
Of which is of this
In that which lies in that
Yes, that..





Still Smoking
1-22-14

Smoking today like the devil
Seeing God's grace of unconditional love
On a whole new level
In that I am pardoned according to censers that burn
In mine abode years ago
Where I would burn my midnight oil by pen and wine
Stating such in present tense to serve as my sign
Smoking today as if I were the antichrist
At the door of the tabernacle of this congregation
Letting it all hang out
Just as Stipe doth cover Aerosmith
To a classic number in my library
I hope to return to
In these endeavors
For this which is of that....




Class Dreams
1-22-14

Halelliah, praise the Lord
So I repeat as my mantra
Where music and poetry will be my cord
Halfway remembering last night's dreams of going back to class
Reporting to my random periods not on my schedule
Knowing not which hallway to yet traverse
Being one to forget where to go when I arrive
Being as one quite absent minded
Concerning just which bus to board
At the end of the day
Haleluiah, praise the Lord
In that I wake up with nowhere I need go.....



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TREAT

Treat Of Tax
1-19-09

Some say that Obama is the antichrist
If this is so, so be it and so what
We owe a debt of gratitude
For the man that invented bread sliced
The average American wants his tax cut
People that make this much money ought not complain
The sky is soon condensed
May as well let fall the freezing rain
It is what it is
So my former boss used to say
The skies are dark
Yet I still consider it the day...





Freethinker
1-19-09

Proud of the scar
My cat made upon my upper lip
I am blunt over nachos at my table
I still double dip
Disrespecting all conventional rules
Much yet to learn from both old and new schools
We can utter obscenities in our English class
If by it we can prove a point
We can mess around in woodshop
As by trial and error
We learn to build our rabbet joint
Teacher was deaf from a lifetime of working with machines
The playwright omitted the undesirable scenes...