drop zone

Drop Zone
7-2-15


Yet in my drop zone
Where supplies are parachuted
I need not stand alone
There is no one in need to be recruited
I let melt my pistachio ice cream cone
And my ambitions are looted
A song for my pathfinder
A reminder to call up Father and tell him about it
The ego wants trouble
Like a dog that wants to sink his teeth in a bone
To play the game of happiness For our paratroopers
To remind me of my childhood games
Of this obsession
From Miletus he sent to Ephesus
Calling the elders and servers
To yet break bread
Serving the Lord with all humility....










Seventeen Reasons
7-2-15


Keeping back nothing that is profitable unto you
We cannot live together nor live apart
And it's nothing new
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind
In constant supplication that my voices will be kind
Ye know from the first day I came into Asia
After what matter I've been with you at all seasons
Where Jesus gives me seventeen more reasons to give it up
And to stick to my hap, my lot and my cup
Those who sow in tears will reap in joy
And in singing today I surrender again to it....










Slender
7-2-15


While in doubt, branching out
Getting to know my neighbors
Much like tedious labors
My yoke is light
My smoke is black and white
Togetherness is what it's all about
I'm sorry to hear that in need of rain while in drought
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind
As at times treatment can be as torture
And far from being kind
And how I kept back nothing that is profitable
But showed you and taught you publicly
While short and stout and tall and slender....










Spin Doctor
7-2-15


Ye know from the first day
To Asia I am come
To grow in things to say
Travelling through Samaria with fife and drum
For my burgomaster, my personal magistrate
Coffee is my fuel and today I take unleaded
And I am a lad of old sorts
Wearing Jesus shoes but not shorts
For my connoisseur
Whom is renowned and experienced
Favorable interpretations
A poem is like a cigarette
Taking eight minutes to write
This is the time you will live for....










Branching Out
7-2-15


Words and actions of a public figure
From a region of the night, it won't be long
Soon I'm on my way out to explain my demeanor of my yesterday
And have my big brother pray for me
Where there'll be stories left untold
O testify both to the Jew and the Greek
Nothing new in which the scholar seeks
I come and go
I bang my drum with all I know
Repentance toward God and faith toward Jesus
Interchangable as One
Long live the King
Branching out...










Spine
7-2-15


Spine, strength and character
Backbone, courage and will power
Forty minutes to spare
Soon I am to meet my sunflower
And now behold I go bound in the Spirit
Not knowing the things that shall befall me there
But it's all good
For mahogany wood
But enough of me
O, how are you
For the Holy Ghost to witness in every city
Yet to pettifog and quibble
Yet to chew the cud and nibble
As an unscrupulous lawyer of sorts
In a symbolic sense
As one whom still wrangles
Over matters by the seed
The Christian poet yet scatters spine
Strength and character
We know....