soup

I'll Have The Soup
3-24-14


Transpacific terrapins make good soup
By ones sarong
According to what is right and wrong
Where Saul wanted to pin David to the wall
By the reason of his music
thinking to be more tall
Where transatlantic alligators
And anger by reason of not finding their meat
And I am quite ready for air conditioners
And this summer heat
Yet David escapes his presence twice
As we play the game here and roll the dice
Yet Saul was afraid of him
In that he behaves himself wisely
And so our God is with him....
























Ensample
3-24-14


Ye become followers of us
Wanting tomorrow to travel
Without a need to board a bus
Having received the word in much affliction
Making today the word of God my devotion and sweeter addiction
So that you were ensamples to all that believe
Being one to rejoice in where I might grieve
Where you know not what manner of men you were among you
For your sakes
Turning from these idols to serve the living God
In the depths of childhood swimming lakes
Not wanting to share his throne with them
Doing all that it takes...












At Philippi
3-24-14


Shamefully entreated and yet suffering
For the cause of Christ that won't forsake me
My enemy is afraid of this
Being today more bold to talk about Jesus
Bold to speak the work with much contention
Where self doubt is not his invention
Bringing the wise men in that could not show the interpretation
Shamefully entreated at Philippi
As you know our entrance was not in vain
And not to ask the why
Waiting today for his son in heaven
Pressing onward in purging out old leaven
Writing these rhymes of one score and seven
Shamefully entreated yet comfortably seated....












Left In Athens
3-24-14


We thought it good to be left in Athens alone
As we were gentle among you
As a nurse that cherishes her children
Being as the greatest in the kingdom
Being one to just read it as it is
In hopes to apply it somewhere
Between what is here and there
Where our exhortation was not of deceit
This much I quote by reason of this black pen
Where I turn the page so that I might read it again
Wanting to believe
Wherein I play my main song of battle
Taking only the spoil of gold and of cattle
We thought it good to be left in Athens alone
By our sweet and subtle solitude
In song...
















It's You
3-24-14


Seven more days until I get paid
Where my dayjob in this
Is coping with it
To be one to bask in this sunshiny day
By the first and second epistles
Written from Athens
By which my next plan
Was to flip back to the minor prophets
Being as one to seek and find it
As if searching for hidden treasures
O, together we fly someday
Apart from all fleshly pleasures
Wondering if anyone else in the world
That is doing what I do here
Yet to read again my Obadiah
As if it were something new
Addicting my members
To a word tested, tried and true
By this vision concerning our Edom
By which the true tabernacle is you...












Amongst The Herdmen
3-24-14


Hearing the word of Amos
Yes, I keep this good word close
Amongst the herdmen of Tekoa
Two years before the earthquake
A voice whispers saying that I am a great poet
Yet such self esteem is only for the service
Seeking subtle snakes where the word will roar from Zion
Giving all that it might take
Where the shepherds will mourn
And the top of Carmel should wither
Hoping to make another plan
In turning the page to see
Hoping for my emancipation
And to be free
For three transgressions
And for four....












The True Tabernacle Is You
3-24-14


Sending his fire on the wall of Cyrus
We taste of these trials that yet refine
In that it's a wonder
I'm not deaf from all of such loud music
Piped in for the cause of poetry
So that I might prophesy in part
Praising God today in any way I might know how
Rocking on to the word before mine eyes
For the cause of transition and continuity
I go back down to the main study room
To greet a few friends I have seen
In being yet callow and green
Wherein tomorrow's agenda is just this
As so the true tabernacle is you....