salutation

Salutation
4-30-14




Greet Mary who bestowed upon us much labor
Greet me by the way
And I will wish you well
To yet wrought all greeting
Salute Herodian, my kinsman
For another round of chicken and beef
Of good eating
Unless of course you are a vegan
O, so beautiful just the way that you are
Whom have for our lives laid down their own necks
As still I ramble
Playing with three other
Three quarter full decks
Yet to take up another great roll
To write upon it with a man's pen
I am a fool for these classic archives
And I will get up tomorrow
And do it all again....































My State
5-1-14




I was on the corner of Market and State
As one to tear down what God did create
To be as one to countersign
What has already been called yours and mine
As all belongs to us in this silver mine
To sanctify the people by his own blood
Treading in the wet grass
To clean my boots from mud
And today I reek to high heavens
For a purpose in hand
Where my God will have mercy
When I go there again to understand
I was on the corner of Philadelphia and Beaver
In my roving days
Before I became a believer
Given a rhyme to write
For every street corner
As my subordinate deities
At hand and foot....


















My Flame
5-1-14




Yet to sanctify the people
With his own blood
He suffered without the gate
As so I cleanse my boots from morning dew and mud
To learn how to love and forget how to hate
I saw my flame on the way in
O, let it go forth
To walk into the front door
Towards the general direction north
Let us go forth unto him
Without the lamp
Bearing his reproach
Given five hours to write these rhymes
Until I meet my stagecoach
For here we have no continuing city
But we seek one yet to come
Glorious, splendid and quite pretty
Like the flame
I met on my way in...












On First Corinthians 3:6,7 (look this up)
5-1-14


Speaking to you as unto carnal
As unto babes
That partake of the milk
Where tomorrow I need not leave my front door
In that I dwell in flannel, cotton and silk
I have fed you not with meat
For you were not able to bear or grasp it
Neither yet now were you able
As soon I pay my rent and my cable
Broke again for another month
Until my windfall
Come my forty-first birthday
I have planted
Appollos watered
But God gave the increase
When all that I ask for today
Is my love, joy and peace
May it be the fruit of the Spirit
In that I pray and do not cease....