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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