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More About Prayer
12-28-08


Prayer consists of confession
Thanksgiving, supplication, intercession and request
May us stick to our guns
Like they did in the movies in the wild west
Chicken scratch
Wrestling match
Deep sea fishing
We reel in with our struggle
To make our five o clock somewhere
Fresh catch
Prayer requires perseverance
Discipline, commitment and backbone
We draw the line in the sand
Daring our brother to cast the first stone
Carelessly rhymes are to be written
A bachelor is happy when he adopts a kitten
Time on his hands
By idleness he is smitten
By an infected mosquito he is bitten
The itch oddly feels quite pleasant.....












Smell Before The Taste
12-28-08


Pray for Ephesus and Thessonolica
Read again the books of Malachi and Micha
Yet it turns out that in this
A man puts the emphasis upon himself
As idols are made of the books upon his shelf
We lose sight of what really matters
Our family and our fellowship
Far beyond trying to appear fashionable
Or even hip
In the glass we smell it
Before we take our next sip
Joining loved ones to another mission and day trip
Pray for Galatia, Samaria and Judah
Stick with Jesus
Yet still you make friends with the Buddha
Love all people
And you will make your quota...












Bad Ingredients
12-28-08


Feasts have their ways to bring one fear
Concerning matters of sodium, fat and cholesterol
Always a repercussion to truth we hear
May us read Hemmingway
As we build up tolerance to alcohol
Esteem others before your own reflection
Sermon on the radio makes you lose your erection
God has given us a way to escape
As truth might serve as molestation and rape
Don't want to violate those whom do not yet know
Yet I need to take my chances
In order to flourish and grow
Truth can be like violation and harassment
Yet I am willing to take this chance....














357 To Go
12-28-08


Three hundred fifty-seven poems yet to write
My God is Jesus
Even if my idol might be the season of night
Collective consciousness
People I still remember
Whom I failed to leave behind
Can't kiss you goodbye my brother
For you are a part of my mind
All I think I need I already possess
There is nothing more I need try to find
Preacher says that rock and roll is spiritual pollution
Yet, for every cucumber
For every onion
For every pickle there is a solution
I top my salad with cottage cheese and beats
I thank the Lord for all mesquite smoked dried meats
Taste, my friend and you shall live...














Seventeen Tickets To The Show
12-28-08


May us live up to the dainties of the dessert
May us walk through the wilderness of sweets
May us thirst for the waters of the sea
May us reserve seats in the audience seventeen seats
Angels and spirits are welcome and entitled
Horses by bits are restrained and bridled
Don't need to crack the whip to make them run
They will race yet at their own consent
I burn the midnight oil till the rising of the sun
I've lived the last eleven years like a king on subsidized rent
The poor will reign
The needy will know gain
The humble will see love
As well as those inept and insane
The first will be last
Forsake not the past
For it is your treasure....














Synthetic Is Authentic
12-28-08


Synthetic imitation Elvis covers
Serve their purpose and plan
Remakes so serve as our new lovers
To be open minded is part of being a man
I don't fret of exhausting my supply
I step out of my comfort zone
Knowing that the time will fly
But why do I go on wishing it all away
When I know that experience provides me words to write
And more things to say
Celebrities will one day be reduced to peasants
As the poor will one day eat the flesh of grouses and pheasants
The first will be last
Forsake not your past
For it is your treasure....












The Pen, The Plaything
12-28-08


God will judge the remnant
The remainder and the residue
As all that is torn down
Will leave an important clue
Stuck in a dark corner
Of a hundred shades of green and blue
We need the light to perceive the color
And to grasp things that are spiritual and true
One glass remains in a bottle of wine dry
Rhyming is like masturbation
As we know not the how or the why
If you want to stay healthy
Take this advice
Go on another journey
And venture out to claim another vice
Carry the weight of the world
On your stronger back
Knowing you already possess
Things you only think to lack....












Stage Is Set
12-28-08


Les Miserable
And Beauty and the Beast
We return to the theatre for a literary feast
The magic of the stage
Is like the turning of the page
The lamb lies down with the lion
Blessings are applied on Mount Zion
Intoxicated with the escape
I get naked and refuse to draw the drape
I salute with reverence
The fermentation of the grape
Practicing my enunciation on tape
Kid wrecks his skateboard
His mother coddles his scrape
Need to be ready for the day that we die
Some speak of forever
We wonder is this, too a lie
All we can do is hope....