bushwhack

Bushwhack
12-28-08


Guerrilla warfare
Is another key to understanding
Times will get tough
Situations will become demanding
Guard your front door
While you take a stroll on easy street
Every man marooned seeks something to eat
We must hunt so that we will live
If we claim to love
We must just as well give
I seek a way out of my rut of rhythm and rhyme
Alliterations no longer suffice
Yet I end up taking the same road in my time
Sold down the river
As an alternative to paying the price
I bushwhack my way through the thicket
Boldness is my pass
And zeal is the ticket
Take up your machete and walk...












I Offer Ten And Ten
12-28-08


God barks my fig tree
To make it clean bare
To cast it away
So that branches are made white
Things are a whole lot more real
When you really care
Yet intentions without actions won't set it right
I still quote the Scriptures
To work it into my own rhyme
I cast in the offering plate ten dollars and a dime
Not to boast, not to brag
Not to with insolence post my banner or my flag
Macadamia nuts, my latest addiction
Makes me itch and scratch
Like a fact expressed by fiction
Salt is good until it loses its savor...














Make A List
12-28-08


Misplaced my Strong's concordance
It is to be put to use, Lord willing
In the years to come
Soon time to learn Hebrew and Greek
It seems that knowledge has its way to make one numb
Desensitized by explicit exposure
Blocked by another cul-de-sec
And its inevitable enclosure
I can't quite believe what I wrote
Some two weeks ago
Time to plan the work and work the plan
As I let Jesus know
Make a list
Cross out obstacles
Of your work as you go
White and dry
O, how high we fly
In dreams our brothers learn how to levitate
Just as well
Stung by a bee
As in human nature
Our welt is yet to swell....












Two Loads
12-28-08


Lament like a virgin
Girded with sackcloth
For the husband of your youth
Babe, you must needs take the hard road
To find your way to the truth
Offerings are cut off from your house
God is the groom
And we will serve as the spouse
There will come adultery in taking other roads
It will cost us six bucks
To wash and dry two laundry loads
Sin leaves a stain
And no detergent gets it out
We all have our will to try to get clean
To transcend unbelief and doubt
Time to call my aunt and uncle
To claim my stones of emerald and carbuncle....
















Honor
12-28-08


Honor your father and mother
Honor you grandpa and your uncle and you aunt
Seek out not only self
Yet as well the other
Love yourself and your scope will be yet scant
Exclude no one on your heart
May intercession and love for others be your art
Don't let our differences get in the way
See the black and white
And swirls of color
And not just shades of gray
Compare your truth with your opinion
Cater to your follower
Yeah, feed your minion
In the valley I walk
Need knowledge to back up my talk
Say what you mean
Mean what you say...












Life Is More Than What You See
12-28-08


Rejoice in every sip and every sup
Revel in every flagon
In every cup
Pour the glass until it should be filled
As by God's grace
By pouncing felines
The glass on the table is not spilled
Cats, my perfect companions
And ministering spirits
They are the gift of God to me
Touch and kiss all you can
Life is more than what you see
I've seen my share of repetition
But so what
As I partake in morsels sweet and spicy
And the filbert nut
To make it mean something to me
As I will be reminded
That life is more than what you see...














Tasting Transition
12-28-08


We wonder
Shall iron break the northern iron and steel
We question
Will love depend upon the way we feel
The answer is no
Dialup internet is too slow
By patience we are yet to grow
May us purchase the ticket
To go out to see the show
Tasting transition
From the white to the red
Eat a cracker in between
As we pray for our daily bread
Life is a journey
There is no set destination
In life we carry out our mission
Making use in our lives of all creation
Mixed nuts
Cigarette butts
We bleed from deep lacerations and cuts
We want to change our ways
To break out of molds and ruts
Always time to change the road we're on.....