onyx

Onyx
12-13-14


Sampling my prisms
Yet to embark on another tome
Of rhyme bridging the schisms
R.E.M. on my computer speakers
Of downloads for free
And moderate mannerisms
I hear the fireworks of another
Black Silk pot yet brewing
This one goes out to the One I love
Seeming to be lacking its indigo
The onyx as my latest muse
As soon the sun cometh up
On my peacefulness
By my new drug in its tranquility
I give it another alibi
In that I let it fly...

























Trying Cessation
12-13-14


Watching my Wellbutrin
Knowing not its adversity
Sampling my Chantax
Hoping for no such antagonism
O, will it work alongside my other prescription drugs
I'm better best to rearrange
And if it works for me
It's nothing strange
By such an insatiable craving
Yet conducive
In that it tastes good to me
It's the beginning of a new world
As far as purblind eyes can clearly see
And I feel wonderful...










Stand Back And Listen
12-13-14


Taking up Geometry
O, stand back and listen
Hanging up more ornaments
To reflect colored lights that glisten
Keep a chart and a calendar
And log the day's events
Before your alter ego repents
You can train yourself to cease and desist
And consider making a more healthy shopping list
My family tree serves as my motive to live on
And to be good to myself
Come the light of another dawn
Taking up trigonometry
Until I disengage the blade
To cut the lawn...












Four Down, One To Go
12-13-14


Journal pages can be like cigarette rolling papers
When you run out you can always get more
O, stand back and observe
In what you have found in this
Keeping motives pure
And I'm up before the light of day
To write these rhymes until my hand gets sore
Try to wear this on your sleeve
By my repetitious act of self destruction
One raises his fingers to his mouth
As a learned behavior
Such seems to be a long shot
But it's worth another try...












Trans Fat
12-13-14


Don't mean to be parsimonious
Hallelujiah, it was another wonderful trip
To the steak house with Mother
Coming home to talk about the passion
And hum along to my spiritual ration
Not everyone can carry the weight of the world of fashion
I'm back in the swing of things
This is not all that she wrote
According to my generous ration
When I try to give it up
I'm losing track of the time
Apology accepted
I didn't need to miss the boat
Where trans fat sticks to my blood vessels
In that talk is cheap
Come the tongue that wrestles...

flask

Flask
1-4-14


Is Christ therefore a minister of sin
God forbid
By my memories
Of the out trips
To the convenience store
Sipping my coffee upon which is a tight lid
I could not seal shut
What I had on my heart
To but shine forth
Being one to gamble
By which my wages I yet bid
For if I build again the things destroyed
I make myself a transgressor
Yet amongst and amid
As a window pried ajar
And my deeds that travel far...










Odd And Even
1-4-14


I, through the law
Died to the law
That I might live to God
While that which appears to be even
Has potential to be found as odd
Where it is I that no longer liveth
But Christ in me
In that I am yet to love them
With an iron rod
Capturing this base riff
To build my hut with bricks of sod
For if righteousness comes by this law
Then Christ is dead in vain
Made once again alive
By the thawing of snowfall
That melts into rain....

























Two Sides Included
1-4-14


Justification is wholly apart from the law
Where grace doth abound
As well inside dishes of red beets and coleslaw
O, foolish Galatians
Who hath bewitched thee
That you should base this faith upon vegetables raw
Where so is contained more nutrition
By the wall torn down
Of such a partition
Turning the pulpit over to Bruce
He has a new style
In his eighteenth studio album
Coming out next Tuesday
I say this much to be not one to deny Him....

























Putting In Another Shift
1-4-14


I practice my faith
Every time I look back down upon my Bible page
Where I can always come back to it
According to today's shift and worker's wage
Being today the poet
Twice before called the sage
Before whose eyes Jesus was clearly portrayed among you
As crucified where the way is narrow
But the mind yet is vast and wide
I put my faith into action
Every time I take up this pen
Being one grateful for this advantage
To read the book of Galatians again....










Dead And Alive
1-4-14


Last night I fell fast asleep
During the Cotton Bowl
To dream of what I would try to do
According to my new years resolution and goal
So I step up to turn off my television
And went on my merry way
Back to bed in my own way
Of being very much alive while dead
As so my cat uses my Schofield Bible for a pillow
And man doth not live upon only bread
Not by the works of law
But by the hearing of faith
Much more than just in my head....












On Galatians 3:9
1-4-14


Those whom are of faith
Are blessed with our believing Abraham
So I answered again my telephone
And it was another money making scam
I should have talked to them about Jesus
But I just hung up and went back to my meditation
Determined to make it through the day
With a word such as Beautiful
That was all I had to say
Still subject to the works of the law
And therefore I see this curse
With prayers that as well
My brother will come to understand this verse....

wish

Wish
11-9-14


I make a wish just to get through today
At my magic time of eleven eleven
Get back on my case
Jesus advocate for all of my discontent
So shall the coming of the son of man ought to be
Come the main point of these things we are saying
We have a High Priest in the heavens
That knows our infirmities
You're a reasonable man
Get back on my case
We know not until the flood doth come upon us
Set yourself on fire
O, what did I see when I go there
Today to build my wall
O, watch and pray as leaves still fall
I make my will to but be
As one to survive it
Heaven and earth shall pass away
But my words will not
Jump into the river
And let your angels swim away
I make my wish...










Consider
11-9-14


Now consider how great this man still is
As of today now consider all that you've been through
In that it is made new
I make my wish just to persevere
And to myself be real and true
Endless and indissoluble
As one of the few
Endless and continual
Written by another pen of blue
Stopped at Rutter's for my jerky and smoke
Blessed is such a servant
Whom his Lord when he comes
Is found in intercession
O, watch and pray
Until the end of the day
To anoint and make fat
He whom lost much weight
From prayer and fasting
For the cause of a covenant everlasting
Now consider....






















Anticipation
11-9-14


I have much to look forward to
In my coffee house and my library
I couldn't taste it
But I came to know how it could be
Five had oil and the other five had not
I pray for this wisdom when I return
For I still have so much more to learn
In the beginning was the Word
The Word was with God
And the Word was God
By my goal to express all joy and sorrow
In hopes for another prolific tomorrow
I'm tired and naked
Stepping out of the bath water
In a clean change of briefs and socks
I have much to look forward to...










Wade