triumph

Triumph
11-28-09


May us have triumph in tragedy
May us have our success
In our strategy
And we count the crumbs of our crème pie
As we see the solution
And need not ask how or why
May us have victory in our defeat
As we rejoice in having something more to eat
May us know our winning in all loss
As we look to our teeth
Yet to brush and floss
May us have triumph
In tragedy....










Death Is But A Shadow
11-28-09


Death is but a shadow
Where the grave has no more power
Life is in the light
When we can pray for one whole hour
Death is but a doubt
Where the grave has no more light
As outside of the city
We stand without
Where faith will give way into light
Death is but a darkness in the night
As life is but a conflict
Both dark and bright
Death is but a shadow
Where the grave has no more dominion...


















Recommendations
11-29-09


Today everything has its way of working out
To state that chapter six of Matthew
Is what it's all about
I recommend that you check it out for yourself
To give readers understanding to all other books upon the shelf
So later tonight I take up Walt Whitman's
Leaves of Grass
To take in another symphony
Zeroing in on the sections of strings and brass
Two balls on my tree so far
As I wait patiently
For the evening star...










Genesis Is Awesome
11-29-09


It is said that the word quit
Is another word for free
But I am just beginning
With my new Christmas tree
Genesis is awesome
So said a class comrade
In my old school
When some less enthusiastic
Would only say that it is cool
We need our new beginnings
To redeem at the counter all our winnings
Cash in and walk away two hundred dollars richer
And fill with ice cubes our juice pitcher
To whet my palate
And get another celebration started...












Feist
11-29-09


We have a choice to use such a word as feist
To be an epithet
Describing a mongrel dog
As all language is set in place by Christ
And into the Nile so leaps another bullfrog
Jeremiah lamented
Apostle Paul has repented
I think of those who put me to work
Like the fire we kindle
When we put on another log
Work is good even when it is a burden
And a weight
When I make a vow
That I will not hate...










Touching Up On My English While Using French
11-29-09


Mighty to drink wine
O, have I become a reprobate
Has God given me up to the destruction of the flesh
Or has he given me another clean slate
I am unworthy of eternal life
But it is the good Lord that still has grace
So I take up again the box cutting knife
To flip the coin bearing the edifice and the face
Even the best billiard player misses
Even the loser will partake in his double kisses
As it is time to touch up on my own form of English...