rookery

Rookery
11-11-12


Of rooks and crows
Yeah, the good Lord knows
In that they toil not for the seed that is to be scattered
In the fields where my sunflowers flourish
In my view behind closed eyes
To yet, with salvation nourish
Where tenements gossip outside my east gate
Yet I just stand back and let be just what it is....








Rapier
11-11-12


Sharpened are blades of rapiers but not to slay
Those who taste of the sclerotium and the Tuckahoe
In that these reach out and let a neighbor know
As I listen in on a conversation in the hallway
Asking a blessing upon those that are at work
On the something that might matter in the long run.....








Command Of Confidence
11-11-12


In God it is understood
How self esteem would be the command
To lead me to all potential
Freely given of that which is infinite
And anything less would be as a slap in the face
O, so it seems
Where I still stock shelves of produce
In these hard working dreams
In that I ought to feel good
About what God hath made me to be...












My Verisimilitude
11-12-12


Verisimilitude is a beautiful word
Even when I don't remember its meaning
In that it flows fluent on the roof of my mouth
As a palatable viand of verse
Somehow and by the grace of God
Where language is yet being built
In the mind of the bible scholar
Enrolled for the previous twelve years of diligence
In doctrine in that verisimilitude is a beautiful word....










Not My Passion
11-12-12


Vogue and fashion
Will not serve as my inward passion
Wherein I disregard that which is upon
The surfaces of things that are distinguished
By the things which are not
In my second attempt to read a novel
That by chance I found upon my dusty bedroom bookshelf
Of sweet nostalgia in that vogue and fashion
Will not serve as my inward passion...












I Pierce
11-12-12


President Franklin Pierce
Is brought to remembrance
In my study of the history
Behind a novel I take up today to fill in the time
In that I can know enjoyment in early Christmas lights
In that last night I hear the music begin to flow into my inner ear
Of imaginary Spirit that I begin to put into practice
To read again about the Scarlet Letter
To find what it can mean to me....