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Fifty Percent
1-27-12


Half of God's people are not prepared
Yet by his mercy our lives are but spared
And those without oil were not ready to receive it
When those with their oil
Could not get them to believe it
In a new kind of listening experiment
Setting into motion
That which has been at rest
For a year or more
To reactivate the love
In the words to the song
Where eventually
All will be made right
Which is wrong....


















Spring Like Winter Day
1-27-12


A relationship with Jesus
Cannot be borrowed nor lended
As we rise in the morning
With minds and hearts mended
Living to see another day of blessings
In which we abound to discover
That ones dignity once again is found
On a January day that feels like March
Back from a meal with Mother
Where I get my dose of sugar and starch
Noticing the changes of the chords
In the melody I'd always sing along to
So I might stir this gift
To put love into action...










Contortionists
1-27-12


Contortionists perform
In a circuis of souls that are saved
Where conditions are no longer inimical
Nor will we be enslaved
And I want to make it real again
And to gain back the love I knew
Of the days when I could believe
In the miracle of loving you
O, I want it all back in my hands
And to claim again what was lost
In treasures of abundant lands
As contortionists display their abilities and attributes
Delving deep like trees and their roots...

















At Dusk I Pray
1-27-12


Retaining personal sociopolitical factors
Put to work by cranes
And agricultural tractors
As kids play at the evening
Of this darkest day
And I wonder in matters of time
O, where have I gone
When dead so appear the trees
And withered grass on the lawn
And I hanker for the rebirth of things that I see
And all I desire is to reattain the life of love
In the real me
For this I pray
Over my coffee and tea...


















Not In Vain
1-28-12


I have a life to live today
Either in hubris or humility
Where I capture the meaning
Either of significance or futility
Not in vain
On a day of no rain
Where such intricate melodies
Are presented in ways simple and plain
I have a life to live
On this mild sunshiny winter's day
Of which is sweet to behold
Through eyes rested and restored....








Day To Day Challenge
1-28-12


In my day to day challenge
I press on in my healing
Of dreams that extend
Into the hope of a new dawn
Yet to behold the light rise in the east
Working up an appetite
So that I might attend my marriage feast
And in my day to day challenge
I am yet to reconcile
The things that appear to be out of place....










The Need, Today
1-28-12


I saw and filled the need
To turn off the television
And to get on with the facing of the music
To mollify inner contention and division
Where I have all the day to do the nothing
That indeed is something to me
In battle with my resistance
Yet at peace in the somewhere
That permeates my nowhere
As such is as the nourishment
To start out another day
With new lofty hopes
Of the light of day....