measure

Measure (Mete)
10-15-15

Sometimes no news is good news
A fine line between abstinence and celibacy
When it comes to the booze
I set my face toward my God and make request
Like a do right Papa in the book of Jeremiah's writings
This is all I want to do today
Come the fulfilment of the prophetic portion
God guard my living quarters today
Behold the mote in your own eye
And consider the beam of vision
And of the dream I tasted
Of the sweeter blends today
To but measure and allot
I almost forgot...




Hand Her A Bone
10-15-15

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is wait
Yet it ought not drive the patient man to hate
Working on a Holy Ghost building
As one to all day create
Ask and it shall be given
Knock and the door will be opened
Conscious five hours
So far and so good
The coffee goes down warm
Seek and ye shall find
Behold the log in thine own eye
Give not that which is holy unto dogs
But hand her a bone
Know therefore and understand
That from the going forth of this beautiful command...





Bushmen
10-15-15

Till the end of the war
Desolations are determined
I have problems of my own
O, Master today whiter than snow
Lord, as in thy presence
Humbly I found
Do not delay for Your own sake
Southwest of the Great Salt Lake
I hope to get this message through
And to salute them by the way
As tribute to the Goshute
All for plunder and spoil and seek
For everyone that asks receives
As a bushman in the wilderness
And a backwoodsman in the outback
We make our kill for bread and meat
To finish the transgression....

thenceforward

Thenceforward
10-15-15

Breaking down time into increments
I'm all set to go there and taste something sweeter
Seek first the kingdom and all of these things will be added to you
Do not fret for the morrow for such shall take thought of the things of itself
He shall exalt himself in his heart for books on the shelf
My gift is packed like pebble
As I am yet the rebel
For after all these things do the Gentiles seek
I mean no partiality in such a statement
Therefore take no thought thenceforward
Still groping in the dark by the broad light of day.....




Champing At The Bit
10-15-15

O, Lord awesome and great
Hand to me the sword but not for hate
I want to be somewhere
We have not obeyed the voice
But we can always return
To that narrow way and walk the line
Lord, you know I don't have a friend like you
All transgressed your law
Soon I will be there to testify
O, call my name
For Gabriel the man of God
Such an angel for the following days
Two thousand and three hundred
I know it's going to work out just fine
Of whirring and buzzing champing at the bit
For another home run hit
Or at least second base will do....





Glad To Gather
10-15-15

We gild our garrets with gold
Glad to gather
To give an often deceiving attractive or improved appearance
Fogherty almost has me to remember my drinking days
Up and down the coast seven stops one way and five stops come my return
The hard way I had to learn
Judge not that ye be not judged
Our mete and boundary line to limit
To measure for all pain and pleasure
And these necessary opposing forces
She still thinks I care
Set before us by his servants and prophets
Before I go again I comb my hair...

alarum

Alarum
10-15-15

For lonely teardrops spilled upon my pillow
It felt so good to weep the way I did
And no such surliness or ill humor
And no such irritable state of mind to thwart nor foil
Tetchy, peevish and touchy, our alarum
And call to arms at our table
We get out all of our charms
I can hear the radio
And I know that motor wagon will do its thing
For you and I surly and gruff
Of rain we had just enough
Blue skies today for our event
Tetchy and surly
It is just as it is
And it's almost Saturday night....




Shall He Not Much More Clothe You
10-15-15

Ominous, arrogant and domineering
The clouds soon assemble
Where I came upon a stranger lying on the ground
I am one to lend and not to borrow
As I see fit to get things done tomorrow
If God so clothe the grass of the field
So much more will be our breastplate and shield
Come the King with fierce features
I'll be over there where the river flows for the vision
Of mornings and evenings which was told is true
Therefore seal up such a vision
For it refers to the days yet to be....





Brazen Lock
10-15-15

To God belongeth mercy and forgiveness
As the key to every brazen lock
That even Solomon in all his glory
Was not arrayed like one of these
This is my way to learn the Scripture
She says it does no good unless I apply it to life
But I will soldier on with my box cutting knife
Cutting shrink wrap for sup, lot and hap
The veil is torn down in the midst
Consider the lilies of the field
How they grow and toil not
Neither do they spin
In my situation of lose therefore win
To God belongeth mercy....





On Daniel 8:17 (check it out)
10-15-15

Two ends seem to be in view
One for me and one for you
Under the first king of Alexander
We discern just what is true
His power shall be mighty
But not by his own
I will not be the one to cast the first stone
Look, I am making known to you that which must soon come to pass
Now that the sun is up upon the dew on the grass
I've got the change of season blues
And I take no part of the morning news
Now don't be sad
It's going to be alright
And if you're strong
It's come and go tonight....

Indri

Indri (Aboreal)
10-15-15

The male goat and his successors
What do we make of this
Satisfied with well being
Ceasing the chase for states of bliss
I call up my main man to make some adjustments
Hoping to get my lights on
And get in the game of the holiday spirit
Take no thought of your life
Behold the fowls of the air
Renounce all such resentment and strife
Be as One to admit that you care
By the indri and the lemur of Madagascar
As well for the cygnet
We are all of one loaf and bread
They sow not neither do they reap
Tonight I will finally get some sleep...




Indrenched
10-15-15

Which of you by taking thought
Can add one cubit to your stature
I said it was much too late
They probably thought I was on something
Kiss your past goodbye
And take steps only forward from here
I'm not the partying type
I don't care for their beer
Indrenched by indecision
We either make love or fear
Travelling low yet high will be my spiritual career
He has confirmed his words so I leave a message and never mind
The songs of morning birds
Speaking against us and our judges to renounce
All of such grudges
Say you will....

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Orgeat
10-15-15

For the vision of the seventy weeks
The desert stars are bright
By the fruit of Abraham
A thousand stories can be told
A beast of fierce features
Whom understands sinister schemes
His power shall be might but not on his own
Appear not unto man to fast
Anoint thine face at last
Lay not up treasures upon earth
Where moth and dust corrupt
And thieves break in to steal
Come Orgeat of Oranse
And almond for our cocktails
Such is the beauty as Our Believers' duty
Between the banks of Ulai
Gabriel made this man to know the vision....





Silence In The Studio
10-15-15

Continuing in my wicked ways of the unconventional
Yet to ransack truth for plunder orgulous but not torn asunder
If thine eye be single
The whole body will be full of light
Off with the computer
And on with my old school Apple
I like it
Here we go rocking all over the world
The light of the body is the eye
I hope to be considerate in doing such
Yet to disgorge and surrender stolen goods
Today I am a prayer warrior
Just rocking on
I like it
Therefore he keeps all disasters in mind
And taketh care....






Bolting And Sifting
10-15-15

Going three-sixty again
As one today to take up tablet and pen
For Fraunktage
I'll be standing on the corner
Marked by causing consolation
I can always change it to make it fit
My earnest desire as the varlet and servant
Will be the highest title
For crimson and scarlet
We gear up and get ready for what is coming next
Getting the gist of the sacred text
Yet to bolt and pass flour through my sieve
As one to freely give
As resistance makes one stronger
When one would blench
Soon I meet you down at the bench.....






On Matthew 6:25 (look this up)
10-15-15

We're back in business
And you know we can fly
In lucid dreams
I cannot tell a lie
Never mind Wilhelm Reich
Go your own way and do what you like
God makes for us a new sharp threshing instrument
No man can serve two masters
Take no thought of your life
Of what to eat this evening
And stay on the path
The day looks good and I can now step out
Now that I had my bath
Life is more than the meat
And the body more than the raiment...

Am I awake

Am I Awake!
6-22-15

Change of plans
Going back out to the supermarket for nectarines
Thirty-five is my limit
This time as a man of means
You have set a boundary
That they may not pass over
That they may not return to cover the earth facing my giant
He is my bread
Pen marks on my left wrist
Ask yourself Am I Awake!
Bask in yourself and face up to the snake
No coasting for the Christian
We lose focus and drift off course
We get too busy and tired in setting the cart before the horse
Two hours yet to spare
Am I awake!




Off The Road
6-22-15

We all end up in a ditch
By the sewing of an extra stitch
Off the road and into the gutter
To have lobster one has need of butter
Starting to get comfortable
Getting caught off guard
As one to by human nature
Say that life is hard
Please don't cry so the song goes
But I say, please do
O, this great and wide sea
In which are inemerable seeming things
I learn the language
And trade off these wings for some wheels
The snares of death are far from me today
As so the herald angel sings
O, let's pull each other out
And lift up one another while in doubt.....





Need Humility
6-22-15

Plenty more where that came from
Crying out to God in praying Psalm eighteen
Still beating upon my base drum
Just to express the things today I mean
Let your soul shine through till the break of day
In my distress I cried and he heard as one to bless
The ropes are tied according to the Way and Word
Sometimes we need to get to the end of such a rope
In what we cannot see so lieth our hope
Where in my weakness God is strong
In a need of humility
And to allow yourself to be wrong
O, show up and show off!





Show Up And Show Off
6-22-15

God resists the proud and exalts the humble
In the sky today not a cloud
And no reason to stumble
I'm getting better at the Now
Even when it seems to be getting worse
By Spirit and letter I'm given the know-how
Light cuts through the fog
According to a well known verse
As a voice still cries out
What is God to you!
To challenge my faith in all that today I do
One hour to spare
I take not extra thought or care
Show up and show off
We think we don't need it
And such is a terrible mistake
As I ask myself
Am I awake!

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Agon
6-22-15

In monuments in agriculture of urban farms
In their experimentation sheep wander the backstreets
As we watch in reverence in reaction to the precepts of this passion
And austere forms of modernism
Where the frog was the prince
And I have many to convince
But is this my ego, I must inquire
In a want to be right in doing what I do till the night
By the use of the historical and vernacular
O, do I even have this right
Another agon where soon again they mow the lawn....





To Thirst In Dry Dreams
6-22-15

O, does God want us to be freaked out about the extremes
As so our pail with its hole hath but leaked out
And we yet thirst in our dry dreams
In thee they have taken gifts to shed blood
As I take in hypnotic riffs to chew the cud
As thou hast taken usury and increase
Just to maintain all order and peace
O, what am I trying to say
Other than my making of these words
For sport the House of Israel to me has become dross
As tin, iron and lead
In all there is left  to be said
O, watch every day
It's a spiritual battle...





On Matthew 26:43
6-22-15

He comes to find him asleep again
By the beating of drums our teeth grind
As if it were a new den freed to get back home by ten
Having the rest of the day to but prophesy
The Spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak
As it is our human nature to share and more yet seek
Why could he not watch but one hour
When the very act was in your own power
I never seem to finish what I start
Namely books and more books
Given the next, declare Lord willing
To get back into the ring to fight...

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Straitened
6-22-15

In thee have they set light
As the gentle giant pulls his punches
He would rather not fight
As in dark shadows
Weakness is brought to light
In the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression
With the stranger
In thee have they vexed the fatherless
But we must know no such a danger
And in thee they discovered their father's nakedness
To humble her that was set apart for pollution
Man sees the problem and God sees the solution
With plenty to work with
Another agonist speaks engaged in conflict
Where the bucket leaks
Straitened and narrow
Are the ways of he whom is without care...





Frontispiece
6-22-15

Digging one word titles
Prying windows ajar
Checking out my weight and vitals
I comply as would a rock and roll star
For our agon and conflict
I examine her from afar
Between the antagonist and the protagonist
The story has need of both
Quitting cigarettes seems to be a pipe dream
I will not make the oath
By the frontispiece of his fury
He is angry because he loves me
Come the arcade of my new building
Yet in the making
And an architect in his understanding
Digging one word titles still....

Gain Power

Gain Power
6-22-15

I do one for her tonight
I rise again before the morning light
To return to the coffee joint
Unleaded for my palate's might
He will bless you in all the work of thine hand
He will have you to love and understand
He'll lead you
He knoweth thy waiting and thy sitting
Telling it like it is
And no black hairs to be splitting
Read the book and gain the power
Bait the hook in spite of the sun shower
Come the fragrance following the rain
To live is Christ and to die is gain...




Prayer Of Jabez
6-22-15

O, pray the prayer of Jabez
O, enlarge our coasts
Not according to what One boasts
But to put forth today my posts
Praying for God's favor
In promoting the work I do here, Now and today
Savoring the flavor of what is more than come what may
He'll bless you in all of the work of your hand
O, prophesy and say thus saith the Lord concerning Ammonites
Say thy sword is drawn
Settling down in Cheapside
But not for eminence or for pride
The city shed blood in the midst of it
And we are yet to but confide...






Satisfied
6-22-15

Making idols against herself
To be yet defiled
Breaking bridles upon my bookshelf
As my hair is volumnized and styled
Hitting the note for compositions stacked and filed
I'm going to have to mend my ways and quit ye like men
You are clothed with honor and majesty
For inspiration of this pen
And I will rise at five tomorrow
And do it all again
The earth is satisfied with the fruit of your works
O, wilt thou judge the bloody city
Ye, thou will show her the way....





On Ezekiel 22:5
6-22-15

You're the life of the party
And everybody's host
And you get just what you believe in the most
Behold the princes every one in thee
To their power to shed blood
Where all I can do is ponder
And chew the cud
In thee they have set light in the midst of thee
They react by opposition with the stranger
I won't be put six feet in the ground
But instead have my ashes scattered
In my favorite place of my day of excess
Don't look behind you according to those who be near
Which art infamous and much vexed
Today I let it fly in quoting verses
Through all blessings and curses
You're the life of the party....





More Blessing
6-22-15

You're a very sick individual
So says my ego as if it were a good thing
There the ships sail about and the albatross takes wing
By us the birds of heaven will have their nests
Where everything is interconnected
Of whole notes and quarter rests
Playing old school Genesis cassettes
O, you ministers of Him whom do His pleasure
The servant invests
O, bless the Lord and his works in all places of his dominion
But not according to opinion
Where the rising tide absorbs them
Such needs not be a burden
Where there is much more blessing....

undeserving

Undeserving
6-22-15

Undeserving, that's what we are
So went the hymn
Sold for enough money to buy a car
I'm sitting on gold
Now that I have come this far
In why Moses reflected
The truth is worth repeating
All verses we pick and choose
By what we want to hear
Selected to declare the Word of the Lord in Zion
About our Messiah resurrected
He will not always strive with us
In our city dump portrayed as a our hell
Prayer ought to be a work done in secret
Still going around in circles
Yet with stories to tell
Undeserving....





Turn Ye Northward
6-22-15

Prayer is work
In my chair I yet linger and lurk
With matted hair and a need of a perk
Becoming complaisant and stagnant and no more fresh
We need to stir it up with the music of Weir and Lesh
Man lives not on bread alone
Turn ye northward
You have compassed this mountain long enough
For one day I'll need to leave behind all of my stuff
Dangerous to get comfortable
The road gets rough
Prayer is hard work
Stay excited
Remember where you came from...




Review (Part 2)
6-22-15

Twenty minutes to spare
I would like to be able to say that I don't care
Walking over to my appointment with matted hair
There's a lot of water under the bridge
O, why Moses reflected
The truth is worth repeating
Deuteronomy is a book of review
So I turn the page and get my preview
George Washington said
You cannot govern without the book
O, read it and gain the power
And practice joy for yet another hour
In a need to live above routine....





One To Brooks
6-22-15

I play my song for Jessica
I can mention such a name
For she is in the past
Choosing five smooth stones from the brooks
To have my sling to cast if One quits
Walking in circles
He will have God's favor
Turning down my A.C.
To savor the coolness and her flavor
I will be with you
As I have been with thee
A pretty instrumental composition
Suitable for the happy mood at hand
Step out on faith
My mother says that going places
Makes me who I am
As Jabez prays, O enlarge our coasts....

tassel

Tassel
6-22-15

He executes justice
For all who are oppressed
Soon time to get out clean clothes
And for a bath get undressed
Soon time to turn and face the day
And to be someone's guest
And their descendants will be established before you
By my pendant ornament and tassel of its knob
When it all belongs to God
There's nothing to lock up
And nothing for anyone to rob
God will take care of the hornet's nest
In crockery and earthenware
In classic Yes of truth or dare
I can still write of fungi and mushrooms
When I know God's promise of a mansion of many rooms....





I Smell Fish Sticks
6-22-15

My heart is stricken and withered like grass
My hair doth thicken
As I saddle up my ass
My plea, my unchanging God yet green
Yet unfledged yet crude and crass
No better state than to be compassed with the friction of the day
Ye compassed Mount Seir long enough
Turn ye northward and get on with the day
Undeserving, that's what we are
More than come what may
I smell fish sticks
Where I make wish tricks
As in my ravenous days of all superfluity
God wants us to live life more abundantly.....




Review
6-22-15

So the hornet's nest was my self fulfilled prophesy
Slept in till almost ten
Just wondering is a wasp capable of such fury
He weakened my strength in the Way
And shortened my days
One hour before my divine appointment is made
Yet to appear in his glory
Turning the podium over to Gregg Allman
I have not come to testify
But just to share a word or two
Of all that I've been through
Needing to quit going around in circles
Voices say take a walk
But common sense stands
That I ought to stay in and stay cool
As in us is the savor
Of our Wonderful Savior...

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Liniment
9-17-15

Piercing even to the dividing asunder
May it be according to our spoil and plunder
Jesus, I pray for a breakthrough in the conversation
Let us hold fast to this profession
And continue with one accord
The Word of God is quick and powerful
Sharper than any two-edged sword
Come all liniment
Ones semiliquid
No man take this honor unto himself
Our preparation for rubbing on the skin
To relive the sight as it is sore
Of Jesus today I ask for more
The firstborn will feed
Yeah of the poor...




Wandering
9-17-15

As said in another place
After the order of Melchisedec
Thou art forever a priest
As so I wait patiently with my back towards the east
With the lowest rank
With military designation
As an impetuous, dashing and spirited man of youth
My heart will cry out for Moab
His fugitives shall flee to Zoar
Like a three year old heifer
The saw will prune the branches
So that I might bear more fruit
From Sela to the wilderness it shall be as a wandering
Where we will rove for pleasure...





Oxford
9-17-15

Wanting to buck up
I hope I don't **** up
Jesus makes me more cheerful
And much less fearful
Yet to buck for encouragement
As I strive and compete
I gamble and take that risk
I ramble and put on another disc
Casual Oxford thee made of buckskin
Dashing and impetuous
Hang in there for one more hour
We have to talk
I pray as well for the sawhorse
Used in gymnastics for vaulting
Does the buck stop here
Or am I only overreacting...

turbid

Turbid
9-17-15

Muddy and obscure
As Christ bloody and as pure
Vague as thought or expression
Making it turbid
God knows my thoughts
And he knows I don't really mean the words that slip
For he entered into his rest and ceased from all his works
The firstborn of the poor will feed
As Jesus still has need to bleed
Like the angry tigers that decide to make peace
Cutting off from Babylon the remnant and the name
This is real even when you might say it's a game
For the burden of king Ahaz
He hath not died in vain...





Of Who Shook Kingdoms
9-17-15

Have you also became as weak as we
Have you grown much too meek to simply be
No creature in his sight not manifest
All things naked and open unto the eyes of Him
Counting himself free
Piercing even to the dividing asunder of Spirit and soul
You will not be joined with them in burial
For your ashes will be scattered along the coast
For out of the Serpent's roots will come forth a viper....





Piercing
9-17-15

Pruning your branches one by one
The saw is at it again in a world full of lies
It is why I take up my pen
The rod that struck you is broken
Following dreams into the blue and of joints and marrow
Silent is the sparrow
Having a great High Priest passed into the heavens
Getting lucky in rolling sixes and sevens
As a discerner of thoughts and intents of the heart
The Word of God is quick and powerful
Sharper than any two edged sword
Today I must say Just will be the Lord....

Magos

Magos
10-5-15

God won't give you anything you can't use
Looking back to the days when my rights I still abuse
Our Sirion
Our peak at Mount Hermon
Our inheritance incorruptible
In and out of consciousness
In Jesus whom ye have not seen ye love
To rejoice with unspeakable joy and full of glory
To the strangers scattered throughout Pontus and Galatia
A trial of faith more precious than gold that perishes
Awake for nine hours so far
I know I am going to make it good
Into Lystra into Derbe through Galatia
You will not suffer your holy one to see corruption.....




Lamb Without Blemish
10-5-15

Thirty-five bucks
This evening's limit
Excuse my religion
I write it in my book for Shenir
Our district of Jerusalem
Kept and protected by his power
I was the man of another hour
Being separate not conformed to the image of this world
Through Pamphylia south into Lycia
You are my son, today I have begotten you
I can feel that they are pulling for me
But I have not the mind to call it camaraderie
I will give you the sure mercies of David at Antioch in Pisidia
I'm drifting back.....




God Is My Record
10-5-15

Women's multivitamins
This does not look good
But I suppose they can work for me
All flesh is as grass
And glory of man as the flower that fadeth away
But the Word of God endureth forever
Foreordained before the world's foundation
Far east into Cappadocia
Justification by a faith that goes a long way
My main man
Then to Procosul believed when he saw
What has been done
Elymas withstood them
And only God understood them
As my cat still uses my bible for a pillow
Our prayer for your fellowship in the gospel
God is my record....





On Philippians 1:11-24 (check this out)
10-5-15

Yet finding my religion
I might be a pagan
Whether in pretense or in truth Christ is preached
And many today I pray will be reached
The one preach Christ of contention
The other in love
To be filled with these fruits of all sweetness
In nothing will I be ashamed
What we as Christians must say openly
She's looking for a good time
In a strait betwixt
The desire to depart
And to be with Christ, far better
To abide in flesh is more needful for you
I drink my poison
She is the remedy
Betwixt....

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Gorse
10-5-15

Rudimentary leaves
Are yet to fall from a tree
Across a street with no name
Looking for the love at third sight
We also bring up our company bound for each other
Like the comets that miss the earth by an inch
You mother was a Hittite and your father an Ammorite
Put on your boots and follow me
Meet me for a cigarette
For the moment I call quite free
Set apart by the Spirit
On the first missionary journey
For a little touch of love for the church at Antioch
And Christian, the new name
Another day to play the game....





Making The Mountain A Plane
10-5-15

In keeping shoes off
I mean defiance against my hundred and fifty dollar habit
Who had been brought up me
My foster brother and the soul of a woman that so covers her man
For squads of four men each
Later on I reach for a peach hoping for such to ripen
Get back to the country in and out of consciousness
By the riches of his grace
Praise God I don't need to run that rat's race
Who art thou, O great mountain
Selling possessions to lay the money at their feet
And soon a brother to greet
Set apart by the Spirit....





Rich Man Begs
10-5-15

Till the cows come home
And till the chickens hatch their eggs around your head
You can roam here
Even a rich man begs
Because of her gladness she did not open the gate
Warning reads not to receive the grace of God in vain
Keep it up and humble yourself
Needing not physical strength to do spiritual work
They're only here to lend a hand
Where grace was the power to conquer the world
Ones flesh and the devil
As so today I can say this on a whole new level
If you get this grace do something with it
In our southern Pacific and silver rain through the moonlight....





All Aboard To Cyprus
10-5-15

All aboard
Get as much as you can afford
Laughing at the price tag
We've got so much to be happy about
As the Word of God grew and multiplied
Come another crazy map of Paul's first missionary journey
Across the sea into Cyprus
Where nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan
From Salamis to Paphos
I do the best I can
And the islands of the Aegean
West of the mainland
We've got so much to be happy about
As He whom God raised up saw no corruption
I hope I meet you there to say something....

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Of Tongue Or Pen
10-5-15

We're all broken
Yet we can be fixed
Our sin as our true token
And another good drink mixed
There's love in this
In picking up stones and sticks
The law of Spirit made me free from the law of sin and death
The devil is spelled with a small 'd'
In being perfect and complete
It's not a crime you know
As Christ dost stablish, strengthen and settle
Even by the piercing of the nettle
Fifth persecution
Peter arrested
Are you ready for the country
Departed for Tarsus to seek Him
Travelling as far as Phoenicia
Miraculously released
In need to draw from Christ's strength to survive....




You'll Get It Back
10-5-15

Tearing parliaments to pieces
Need to receive it to believe it
For another bag of Reece's
Let's not go that far this evening
Soldier on, grocery shopper
Receive it like a Christmas gift
I set up my lights and tree early this year
Can't outgive God
So won't you share a square
You'll get it back
Claim these verses
Going treasure hunting out there
Who wouldn't
At Antioch making the valley a well
Of gorse and furze
Of course it's all her's
O bawd, o madam
I wish you well on your way...

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Integral
10-5-15

Paper cut blood stains on my previous page
All for loose change integral
O, Jesus I pray for consolation and wisdom today
Some roads promise everything
In stealing your fuel away our integral whole
Composed of parts that together constitute a whole
Necessary to completeness
Pumpernickel on the new burger
I stood on the sand of the sea and I found it grand
Just to be not sifted
Not a grain of unbolted rye
Consistent to live and to die....




Rise Peter Kill And Eat
10-5-15

Such is a time to conserve
Such is a time to cut something
With forks and knives
And a good steak at the table
For fact and fiction, farce and fable
The blood on the previous several pages
Was from a bitten down hangnail
I think that I will pull through
As Peter vindicates his ministry to the Gentiles
Doubting nothing
Making no distinction
Where she is nourished for a time
Seven years cut in half
Out of character ones TMI and FYI
Never a dull moment in the Scripture
I will not tell a lie
Peanut oil or not
All is well by and by
Such is a time to conserve
For fowls of the air and birds of heaven....






Book Thirty
10-5-15

Book thirty, True Blue
I can and will get dirty
As one of few
In heaven we know each other a whole lot better
But according to who's letter
God has no favorites or is there?
Isaac favored Jacob and it seems quite unfair
Get the story straight
Or don't meddle in it at all
Now this is repeated thrice
And the allegory was more than nice
What God has cleansed
You must not call common or unclean
The law by Moses and grace and truth by Jesus
Grace for grace, Word made flesh...





I Am Their Musick
10-5-15

Sent to bear witness of Light
Looking into these vacant eyes and skin so white
Brought up in the scarlet to embrace dunghills
I feel a whole lot better than I did earlier this morning
I will be their musick spelled with a 'k'
Grace for grace we can draw from it
Grace, a teacher
If you don't know the words just hum it
But what about faith, O what about it
Only so that one will not doubt
I pray to process it
It blows my mind
Favor produces wisdom
Ask for it seventeen more times
Once for every square available to us all....





On Acts 11:16
10-5-15

I was in the city of Joppa praying
Baby, what's wrong with me
I was walking down the street just straying
Carrying this little song with me
The Spirit told me to go with them doubting nothing
Grace defined as the power to do what God wants
This unmerited favor like a ghost that haunts
Appropriate for the season and such a pagan holiday
In Him dwells all fullness of Godhead bodily
And Christ in person
John indeed baptized with water
But you shall be baptized with the Spirit and with fire
To yet winnow and set ablaze...

cram jam

Cram Jam (For The Exam)
10-5-15

Much good stuff
I cram for the exam
I got a forty percent
And the teacher said it was good
As raiment rent
This pasture is still green
Come to Jerusalem at least in a spiritual sense
O, Dorcas my gazelle
I almost forgot how to spell
Sixth hour, high noon
It the blood so is the power
And it seems it's much too soon
Peter's ministry resumed Aeneas healed
So much coffee as of Now consumed
My lips are sealed....





On First Peter 3:11
10-5-15

A wee bit possessive and obsessive
With my evil ways
Seek peace and ensue it
Do well and suffer for it
The farmer grew it
She became sick and died
Peter raised her from the dead
I said I could not sleep and I lied
There's not that much of it to be said
For Peter's vision of a great sweet husbandry
Give honor to the weaker vessel
Christ suffered for us
For us to follow this example
Whom did us no wrong
He could have kicked their butts
But he turned the other cheek
So it was that he stays many days in Joppa
With Simon, a tanner....





Repeat Or Reheat
10-5-15

The phones were ringing in my pink hotel
Lodging with Simon, my tanner
Whose house is by the sea
Lay aside all malice and guile
Fill again the golden chalice with style
As newborn babes we desire the milk of the word
That ye might grow thereby
A repeat of a reheat
In sitting on the edge of my seat
Focus on three things
Litter, milk and coffee
You are the chosen generation
Of the royal priesthood
Holy nation, peculiar people
For this crazy condensation
On windows pried ajar...





"Yes, I Am He Whom You Seek"
10-5-15

Working on a bridge
One day submit to law of men
Looking in the fridge
Today I get my expired milk all over again
In Sion, chief cornerstone
He that believe is not confounded
A living stone disallowed
Talking about a friend of mine
And the snow the future trucks have plowed
Talking about the big time
A saved man is as a precious stone
And you won't need to go this alone
I beg you abstain from fleshly lusts
But as for me my chrome yet rusts
Froward or forward
Willful or willing
It's called discernment....

Ananias

Ananias
10-5-15

Did I lose my tolerance to the common stimulant
It's the price you pay for going away
Then Saul still breathing threats
Says go ahead and place your bets
Condensation on my window pane
I crack it open with no such time to gain
Don't need no more lies
A grammatical error meant to be
Trembling and astonished
How to you pay for war and leave us dying
Is this what it is to be at last
Normal, whatever that is
Ananias, dig my froth and fizz
I can handle this
We're all in the same boat to Sydney
The coffee is on me
For efficiency and pace...




There Doesn't Always Need To Be A Title
10-5-15

These must be more than just page fillers
Back in the days of shock and awe
We come to liberate them all
Saul preaches at Damascus but for what
But to get stoned someday
I know this is O, so wrong
Saul escapes to Jerusalem
The word is the sword without the 'S'
Saul returns to Tarsus
Disputing against the Hellenists
But who are we to judge
And since Lydda was near Joppa
Another rabbit trail I suppose but for what
But another shaving cut
Not today, at least
The devil hates what we are doing
Rise, Peter kill and eat....





My Riches Of Such Poverty
10-5-15

Here's one for my O.C.D.
And as well for my A.D.D.
What God has cleansed you must not call common
It's Monday and that's reality
Doubting nothing
Making no distinction
Crank it up man, so says the devil
Come the ninth hour at three in the afternoon
We must survive the third hour first
Feeling useless
This is all I know to do
Peter goes to Caesarea
You've got the idea
Here's one for my B.P.D.
Yeah, we've got our election
We always have a choice
Brother, did you miss me
O, Cornelius the centurion
But to prove what
That I still care about it
Here's one for my P.D.S.D.
Tonight it's all about grace
Come on over and sit on my face....

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Take Refuge
10-5-15

One takes refuge and generates Bodhicitta
The heart of the enlightened mind
Can this mean anything to me
In a world of bias
Come the goal to benefit other beings
It is a hard act to follow
As I attempt another heavenly swallow
Taking refuge, the gateway to the dharma
Faith, a technique rather than the goal
May it be a practice for all is well with my soul
Take refuge out of compassion
Immediately there fell from his eyes, scales
As so still bleeds those hard driven nails....





Plenty To Work With
10-5-15

Go, for he is a chosen vessel to yet reach
In order to learn so one might teach
Then Saul breathing threats
Cause the people to place their bets
Still too early to tell
The sun not quite up
I was amazed with one word
Where will people to go
Plenty to work with
Saul filled with the spring
Trying to block out the sirens
With some Neil Young and Crazy Horse
Cheer up man you made it home in one piece
Go near and overtake this chariot...

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Action
10-5-15

As so our karma means our action
For magic visions stirring
Not for our own satisfaction
Our actions, our seeds will eventually bear karmic fruit
I don't have much to give
I sit on a box not knowing that inside of it is gold
O, karma the fuel of Samsara
Yet I will not leave my Christ behind
As action needs to be performed
And a need for a sense of satisfaction
At having completed it
Take it from Jesus
He has been there and done that...




Sutras Say
10-5-15

Four criteria of ones mass hysteria
In the need for the preparation
And a need for the predetermined intention
Heaven sent the promised land
It looks alright from where I stand
I go home again on the weekend of Halloween
To get away from the party
Purification in such Tibetan sayings
Let me in from the cold
Four powers
Regret, support, antidote and resolve
And no such fault that cannot be purified....





Saul's Conversion
10-5-15

Phillip opens his mouth
Beginning at another passage of Scripture
To explain how it works if you believe with all your heart you may
I ask you of whom does the prophet say this of himself
Or of some other man
Toward the south at noon
Go ahead and open your mouth
And with daybreak get back in tune
Saul, Saul why are you persecuting me
Arise, go into the city and you will be told what you must do
Hearing a voice but seeing no one
It is hard for you to kick against the goads....

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Tonglen
10-5-15

Out of Joppa into Antiratris
And many new places to see
It's new to me
What is so special about me?
Why do I strive for my happiness alone
May I see myself as less than others
Yet to consider difficult people as precious and dear
As to see that love will overcome all fear
So just stay and help me to begin another day
Regard those who do you ill to be as teachers
For the midnight blue and the morning gold
Regard him as a sacred friend and embrace the cold for Tonglen
It all works out for our own best interests....





Counterclockwise
10-5-15

Counterclockwise back into Samaria
For giving and receiving your enemy is the true provider
Of all your virtue
Challenging is to develop ones strengths
Do you understand what you are reading?
O, how can I unless someone guides me
If you believe with all your heart you may
O, what hinders me today
Being planted again while praised
Taught to stop viewing our circumstance
In terms of good and bad
In that it just is...





Sames Attract
10-5-15

Becoming happy upon achieving fame or success
To be free from the bondage of opposites
Where in reality the sames attract
At the chime of four I make the most of the morning glory
Right before God's amazing grace
Hoping to be more effective in helping others
As One today to gain brothers
To actively transmit happiness towards the world
Instead of receiving it from it our holy secret
Exchanging of self for others
For this tonglen of giving and receiving.....

welter

Welter
9-17-15

The fox was asleep in his lair
Far off the chaste shriek, "revenge"
To welter, roll and toil and heave
As so today I take sick leave
Due to no coffee money
To roll, writhe and tumble about
Our dream and goal
Ten percent, our tithe
Still we doubt of tumult and upheaval
To life up and raise aloft
Becoming deeply and extensively involved
Another hairy equation is solved
Dawn saw the white mounted shaded with orange
Another heatwave it is to us
To fill the face of the world with fortified cities....






On Isaiah 14:21 (check it out)
9-17-15

Hey brother
These days I do posts
Love one another
As pirates invade our main coasts
See a rippling spring lest they rise up and possess the land
The trumpets sound
My whole world crumbles down
Don't leave me stranded
O Jesus of renown
Prepare slaughter for his children
Provide water for the least of the kingdom
Come Ahaz our possessor of Jotham
The twelvth king
Of sway we swing....





Bloody (At The Chime Of Eight)
9-17-15

Because you have killed and destroyed
In your holy habitation at the chime of eight
I make it work and soon return to my post
Leaving me here temporarily
Hello, this is the hand that is stretched out over all the nations
When those in their rut are in need of a vacation
Like a corpse trodden underfoot
Come the judgment on Philistia
The rod that struck thee today is broken
As tribulation is ones true token
Thrust through with a sword
Whom go down to the stones of the pit
I will meet you there
Turbid and muddy
Merciless and bloody....





Muddle Through
9-17-15

Making progress
Despite of lack of knowledge skill or direction
We muddle through and wait for the green light
To cross our dangerous intersection
Keeping outside the night to decorate the debt
Dull as ones complexion
You are there
Not clear because of sediment satiety in sincerity
In all sentiment
Stupid with liquor
Inflamed with wine
May it be our true token
And just sigh
O, how I want a drink
The brood of evildoers shall never be named....

wilder

Wilder
9-17-15

Yet to puzzle and perplex
Yet to muzzle and to vex
The night brings shadows to the streets
You're concealing every feeling
But still we can see it clearly
Carcusses fall in the wilderness
And many grieve forty years
The gentle rain will fall
To deter our jaunt
Down to the bench
Many died before the entering
As a picture of souls dying without Christ
We see that they could not enter in because of unbelief
Then you might take up this proverb against the king
And say how has the oppressor so ceased....




God Bless Groundkeepers
9-17-15

Night is a time to chase away the hounds
As I pray, O bless the keepers of the grounds
We are made partakers in Christ
To smell the colors and to taste the sounds
Steadfast till the end
If we hold the beginning of our confidence
Exhort one another daily
And watch what you say
Down there where it all begins again
In peaceful hopes of yellow and red
The leaves are blown every which way
For the living and for the dead
He spake in a certain place on the seventh day
And he rested from all of his works....






O, Enter In
9-17-15

Need more tablets
Need more pens
In this avarice for good eggs
Sat upon by happy hens
Still looking for someone
And now I've found myself a new name
My white stone much more to me than a game
There remain therefore a rest for God's people today
If you hear his voice
Harden not your hearts as in the day of the provocation
For we as believers do enter after all
By the overthrow of Lucifer because of his pride
He wants us to be the center of our universe...

supplanter

Supplanter
9-17-15

For Jacob the supplanter
And jackals in their pleasant places
Her time is near to come
God is grieved with those generations
So I sware they would not enter into my rest
Time for an Irish Spring bath
To volumbnize my locks
As a son over his own house
As a child I was fascinated with rocks
So I turn one over in search of a salamander
And find only an earthworm
How you are cut down to the ground
You whom strengthened the nations!
And I look for something else...





Medo-Persia
9-17-15

The tiny soul that hides from me
As a Son over his own house
I wish you could see my love
The night reveals your star filled sky
O, the joy I've found
God grieved with the generation that murmured
I look into the sun and I see her reflection
To bewilder and bemuse
They told me things about me
That I didn't know to wilder
And to lose ones way
How the golden city has ceased....

disheveled

Disheveled
9-14-15

It has begun
I'm in the hands of faith
Soon up comes the sun
Burning with power uncontrolled
And it's checkmate
The rook will capture the queen
And I don't even know what I mean
O, hold fast the confidence
And rejoicing of the hope in a new beginning
For scattering mountains all around you
It has begun
O, my disheveled and rumpled mass of hair
We walk hand in hand
But love does not boast
Causing untidiness and disarray
If we hear his voice harden not your hearts
As in the day of provocation...




Reported For A Purpose Here
9-17-15

Forever drifting slowly towards a hazy emptiness
As shadows creep I awake from sleep
The trees defined the wind
You shook their leaves
Take heed lest there be in you an evil heart of unbelief
Exhort one another daily
Teach them all of what you know
In the wilderness where the fathers tempt themselves
To fall back on their companions
O, holy brethren be partakers
You're waking up to life
There is love in what we might fear
The hawk cohabits with the dove
Every house is built by some man
But he that builds all things is God
As Israel taunts Babylonian's fallen king...

formaldihyde

Formaldahyde
9-17-15


Indeed the Cyprus trees rejoice over you
He, by the grace of God should taste death for every man
Starting out with a fresh batch
My lady friend approaches me for a match
So I get out my Bic that does the trick
I will declare thy name unto thy brethren
For I love you even when you say you're sick
In the midst of the church
I will sing praise to thee
As children are partakers of flesh and blood....










On Hebrews 2:11
9-17-15


We are not ashamed to call each other brother and sister
Have you become like us?
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol
We boldly mention Jesus in public
And stand up to sing in the congregation
Getting our hands on whatever we find
He by the grace of God tasted death for every man
And even that which is contrary is a part of the plan
Everyone is searching for something they say
And I get my kicks on the way
For both he that sanctify
And they that are sanctified are One...










Ween
9-17-15


Taking upon him the nature of angels
But yet upon him the seed of Abraham
Heaven sent the promised land
And I'm glad to have my life back
After my flipped up dream
He suffered being tempted
So he is able to succor them that are tempted
To yet ween, think and suppose
To expect hope or intend it
Behoved him to be like the brethren
To be the High Priest in things pertaining to God
And we find it not odd
It looks alright from where I stand...










Consider The Apostle
9-17-15


To withdraw from such object or practice deemed undesirable
To cause to lose need with dough to knead
And Jesus still doth but bleed
To make reconciliation from the sins of the people
Someone sent the promised land
And I grabbed it with both hands
O, partakers of a heavenly calling
Consider the Apostle and the High Priest of our profession
Counted worthy of more glory than of Moses
We stop to smell the roses
For every house is built by some man
But he that builds all things is God....










Barking Laughter
9-17-15


Here me shout, come on in
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob
And will pardon the sin for the bark
For the abrupt explosive cry
In the pangs where on myself I get high
A brusque order and reply of ones external covering
Of woody items distinct from the wood itself
To strip and peel
And be not ashamed of the way we feel
What's the news
Where've you been
Gruff and surly
Even when I lose I win
As Christ is a son over his own house
We, the bride and He, the spouse....












Tousle My Hair
9-17-15


To rumble and tousle
To crumple into wrinkles our wrinkle and crease
And our cry for peace
Moses was verily faithful in his own house
As a servant for a testimony
Of things to be spoken after
O, bittersweet felicity
Hold fast to confidence and rejoicing
Of the hope firmly till the end
You who weakened the mainland
And strengthened the islands
The hyenas will howl in their citadel
We want you with us.....

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Circumfrance
9-4-15


Whose trust be as the spider's web
Like the tide yet to flow and ebb
Whose hope shall be cut off like a pruned branch
According to the Rhind papyrus
And all of these literary and poetic treasures we are entitled to
Of the great pyramid of Gaza
So are ones infinite pleasures
With a purpose to measure the land
And come to be as one to understand
Put me in my box out on highway twenty-four
You said that I wouldn't understand
I cried in laughter "Madness!"
O, what does it accomplish...








Life, But A Handbreadth
9-4-15


In a fortress strong
O, have I joined the dark side
O, have I gone wrong
O, have I chosen over love my pride
For words as working tools
And birds that sing to the wise as well as fools
As surely as the hands and eyes
And the truth just as relevant as the lies
Bringing all the good things out in me
Another red leaf for God's purpose dies
Start with what you can grasp
And befriend your adder and asp
A line of thirty cubits compass round about
If you hate it then blame Euclid
And pass on through...












It Shall Stand
9-4-15


Brim to brim, five cubits height
Hate not your brother without a cause
You don't like the sound and sight
I'll tell you further on up the road
And we will yet reconcile
I believe in a better place
I believe in God's love and grace
He builds a molten sea of ten cubits
He shall lean upon it but it will topple over
I searched once my heart to gratify my flesh with wine
And I begged for an auspicious sign
He that is green before the sun
And his branch shoot forth in his garner
O, I beg your pardon....












On Job 8:18 (check it out)
9-4-15


Paradoxes, eagles and foxes
I manage the problems I lay upon myself
Indeed it was vanity and grasping for the wind
Does this depress you?
I apologize two hours before the sunrise
His roots are wrapped about the heap
And we can see the place of stones
Everything worked out when I put it into the hands of God
If he destroy him from his place
Then it shall deny him
Saying I have not seen thee
There is a man whose labor is for knowledge
Yet we must one day leave it all behind
No one exempt....

Jonquil

Jonquil
9-4-15


By the selfish ways in me
And of this
We've had a few smoldering days
Far from what one might consider bliss
A pine of Cyprus family that one cannot miss
Achaia ready a year ago
For I know the forwardness of your mind
And it is not always going to be kind
As your zeal prevailed and stirred very many
I stop and think about them
Repercussion not always the power in its echo
And reverberation impact to rebound and recoil
Jonquil
Colored Narcissus bulbous of the Amaryllis
The sea is not full to the place from which the rivers come....








To Macedonia
9-4-15


On another forever Friday afternoon
A cold shoulder is turned in the heatwave
For cup-shaped corona and too much sun
I'll be glad when it grows cooler
Falling in love with his own reflection
In the pool for narcissism and inordinate fascination
With what God has made me
For in much wisdom is much grief
And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow
Soon again to give place to the thief
Setting my sights upon tomorrow
And erotic gratification derived from such an admiration
Damn it all
I only want the things I won't get
O, freedom
That's just people talking
Ones Macedonia, his region of north Greece
Still I will seek my peace
What is lacking cannot be numbered....










Of Quarrelsome States
9-4-15


O, lonesome whiporwhil
Feeling too low to fly
As time goes crawling by
The moon is waning
To hide his face and cry
I sent brethren lest our boasting be in vain
That as I said ye may be ready as with sorrow herself
I am going steady
Coming again on its circuit
Hastening to the place where it arose
May the wind whirl about continually for emptiness
The final result of all life outside of the God one still hopes for
Be not ashamed in this same confidence boasting
May it be my tear stained letter
At my personal Balkan Peninsula
Hoping to be feeling better....












Shotten
9-4-15


Today I let them call me
Shotten and ejected
Like the spawn of God's elected
For amphibians and mycelium
Of numerous progeny
And swarming brood crass and crude
First to the courthouse far from pure and prude
One generation passes away
But the earth abides forever
I write this letter of my own Now and never
Regarded of offspring
I'm better off alone
Yet to balkanize these blisters
Can the rush grow up without the mire
Can the flag grow without water
See this is new
We are still inclined to say
Tell them that I won't be long
It has already been in ancient times before us.....










Born To Toil
9-4-15


Vanity of vanities, all is empty
Is it not born to toil
As the ox treads out of the corn
That as well will spoil
Yet dissuaded to join them down there
With a humble heart on bended knee
I pray you take me somewhere
While it is yet in the greenness
Release these chains of darkness
Cut not down yet it withers
So are the paths of those that forget
I'm begging you please
In rue and regret
Come now, I will test you with mirth
As you are yet to find
What such a treasure might be worth...

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Confirmed
9-16-15


Salvation at first spoken by the Lord confirmed unto us
By them that heard Him
Let me help you fold your clothes later
We're meant to live and love together
Made a little bit inferior to the angels
Crowned with honor and glory
Last enemy put under him is death
Off on another mission
I want to get my message through
Five minutes to spare like a cigarette
That's not all I want to do
Leaving nothing that is not put under him
Set over the work of thine hands
One in a certain place yet testifies
All are teachers of what they hear
And speak to teach themselves....












Fashionable
9-16-15


In such a way you will awake
Live for today and never mind the snake
Another power play
Another goal scored is at stake
So let your reasons be true to you
Yet to die happily our prevailing custom and style of dress
Our etiquette our manner way and mode
So it is time to hit the road
Only one mile north
As I pour my words forth
To construct and to adjust
And to know that all will return to the dust
To adapt and to fit
And to never throw in the towel or quit....












Patronized
9-17-15


How you are cut down to the ground
O, morning star you've come so far
Stylish, modish and fashionable
My brand new car
I patronize to behave
In ones offensive and condescending manner
Towards one with a word out by our writing hand
I don't blame you if you don't understand
Of fashion sent and kind
You are not your mind
The time is near
For days will not be prolonged
The dentist gets me numb
But I am not wronged
To give a particular size or shape to
Patronized by the world of fashion....

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Look Alive
9-16-15


Stagecoach is parked down at J building
I will survive and thrive and look alive
As a vesture thou fold them up
And they will be changed
But thou art the same
They perish, thou remain
For pleasure and pain
Over to that Sunday side road
They wax old as a garment
And today there is no such law or code
Main and general plain and clear
Insane in my funk and fear unconfined
Free and unrestrained
Every which way
Indelicate and indecent
Of pronunciation strongly dialectical
Of extreme range or scope
Yeah, there is hope...


















We'll See
9-16-15


Like the slaughter of Midian
At the rock of Oreb
Half hour to spare
I resurrect two birds with one rock
As his rod was on the sea
So will he lift up in the manner of Egypt
Ramah is afraid of drama
The price again is paid
Pertaining to dialect
Used to denote regional
Or social language variation
Love must have made you on a Sunday
I go back to hear another sermon
Indelicate rather offensive to propriety unconfined
Lift up your voice, O daughter of Gallian and we'll see....












Desideratum
9-16-15


Offensive to propriety and decency
I'm talking to you
For such is profound
Broad is the way that leads to destruction
And many go therein
Confined in childbirth yet in ones parturition
It only took me three minutes to make that call
To my father according to the flesh
Desideratum
I wish and long for another good day
Your friends don't have the time
About to bear young my song is again out
Loud sung parturition
In coughing up a lung
I have a tale to tell
From my reply, such exact from the juice
As opium offensive to propriety...










Poppy Revisited
9-16-15


Plants not woody of leaves lobed and dissected
With showy solitary flowers
I need to get it out of me
If you know what I mean
With milky white and pinkish juice
And another weekend for Bono and Bruce
Behold the Lord of hosts will lop off the boughs with terror
Where there is mercy
Those of high stature are hewn down
I want that love again for yet a little while
Indignation will cease and we will know love and joy and peace
Against which there is no such law....

by inheritance

By Inheritance
9-16-15


Planted in the closet
Scratching at the door
Little baby roses punch you in the nose
These words belong to us all
And therefore it is not an infringement to quote them
Made so much better than the angels by inheritance
Obtained a more excellent name than they
Or shall a law itself against him
When cutting down that Christmas tree
He will kindle my burning
In my zeal that yet consumes
Shall the axe boast itself
Against he that hews down the cedar
For the Assyrians' advance and defeat
There is no such name for my street
A remnant of them will return....








Express Image
9-16-15


Come the express image of his person
A caution beginning line to another poem
Making his angels spirits
And his ministers a flame of fire
Thou loved righteousness and hated iniquity
We don't need to be on our own
Therefore God anointed thee
With oil and gladness above thy fellows
Sitting down at the right hand of the Majesty on high
As Lebanon will fall by the mighty one
Someone needs to turn the page
As our Davidic kingdom is to be restored
We have nothing to defend
In that which we heard
Come the express image....










A Remnant Will Return
9-16-15


If the word spoken by angels was steadfast
Surely this tabernacle would be built to last
How then shall we escape if we neglect such great Salvation
For every transgression receiving a just recompense and reward
All things are possible today in the Lord
Roll muddy river
I pour you down the sink and put on a fresh batch
For the Lord the God of hosts will make a determined end
In the midst of the land
And he will have mercy
If we go there and seek to understand
Where there's nothing left to do but count the years...










Shake A Fist
9-16-15


Yet to shake his fist
At the mount of the daughter of Zion
Our high hill
Shadow boxing in the apartments
As a vesture thou fold them up
As this morning I refill my cup
Esau holds a blessing
I expected something worse
We ought to take more earnest heed
To the things we heard lest we should let them slip
Yet again we're wandering the land
But thou art the same and thine years shall not fail
Still I look for my chateau
And make that commitment to set sail....

swallowed

Swallowed
9-16-15


Destroyed and swallowed up
But at least full again is my cup
Let us brush your rock and roll hair
Life is hard but God is fair
O, sweet mama knowing tribulation works patience
We still ask for it
We have access by faith into the grace
As patience works experience
For when we were without strength
In due time Christ died for us
To commend his love
In that while we were yet sinners
He paid the price
As a body without breath
It is dead so is a faith without works
I've been wandering for years
As I linger where the poor in spirit lurks....










On Romans 5:15 (to memorize)
9-16-15


Reconciled by the death of his Son
But I still don't understand
How his blood can assist us
Reconciled
We are saved by his life
No one will be able to resist us
I will give him change
To cease the spoil and take the prey
The truth to you I tell
The dead in Christ have a lot to be grateful for
If through offense many be dead
Much more the grace of God and its gift
Many abound by one man's obedience
It's a lesson to me...










All And Sundry
9-16-15


To reign in life by One
To praise the rising of another sun
Whistle through your teeth and spit
Say it don't spray it
And no more bullshit
God at sundry times and in divers manners
Spake to our fathers by his prophets
We will get by all in sundry
Everyone collectively and individually
It's no lie various and diverse
The blessing in the curse
Jaded a long time ago
In these last days
Spoken to us by the Son
Whom God appointed
Heir of all things
And the staff in whose hands is my indignation
For the taste of your eloquent pie...










Our Ancient Site
9-16-15


Soon time to purchase more tablets
This year has been the most prolific
By also whom he made the worlds
God makes the earth in seven days
As beef jerky at seven eleven spoils as it pays
At least I'm enjoying the ride
Being made in the brightness of his glory
Just so that the bible scholar can tell his story
In Capernaum
The center of Jesus' ministry
Shaking in the desert
Wherefore do you cry
Making his angels spirits
And his ministers a flame of fire
Where push comes to shove...

acceptible

Acceptible
9-4-15


It's the story of our time
And never letting go
Still we manage to make it rhyme
Given the green light now therefore perform the doing of it
That there is eagerness
So that there will be a performance
Also out of that which you have and lack nothing
I've found a paradise that's trouble proof
Not afraid of snow for her household
O give her of the fruit of her hands
Not therefore perform the doing of it
The bible scholar at last
And at first understands
Sancrosanct and inviolable
The soldier in his boldness stands
Prohibiting violation secured from violence
Free from infringement
Subject to science unassailable
For if there be first a willing mind
It is acceptable...










In Vino Veritas
9-4-15


It is according to what a man hath
And not according to what he has not
As so my desire to take an Irish Spring bath I forgot
But I see the need and take the lead
Regarded as being beyond criticism
Keep up the good work so she says to me
O, in Vino Veritas
In wine there is truth
Bear the yoke in your youth
I bathe again to start all over
To tell a yarn and tend to the beasts in the barn
I mean not that ye be burdened and others be eased
But by an equality
That now at this time
Your abundance be a supply for your want
O, give and take a few
I do it all again just for you....










Yarmulke
9-4-15


For skullcap and yarmulke
For the orthodox and the conservative
I wear it in a figurative sense
During my religious study
I know the truth and I cannot deny it
Give and take, live and slake
Sieve and snake
He that gathered much had nothing over
He that gathered little has no lack
And now that I've gone through it  again
There's no going back
Every smile for the man that held your hand
But you excel them all not to take pride
But to welcome the coming of fall
The times are changing
For indeed he accepted the exhortation
As blessing more forward of his own accord
He went in unto you....








Rattan
9-4-15


Forever Friday afternoon
Out of habit I turn it over to Cat Stevens
For its sweet nostalgia
With expletives and intensifiers
Thanks be to God which put the same earnest care
Into the heart of Titus for you
And I declare to go country instead
As I decline from the godforsaken phone call
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree and canebrake
If he calls again I will talk just to prove that I can
For all rattan, wickerwork and tough stems and palms
Some are born and some are dying
Vanity of vanities
All is vanity....










Whirlwind Revisited
9-4-15


God fearing
O, can I call myself
Such as with brother John
Again I get in touch
Where the needle tears a hole
Deeply pious and devout
O, can I claim such a position
And you can have it all if you just follow through
Interlaced for chair seats
I wear this crown of thorns
Yet unvanquished
You are someone else excluded from membership
By my own doing to bar my entrance phlegmatic
This is why we need to laugh and cry
O, no more indifference
Titus is my partner and fellow
Helper concerning you
Hate not your brother without a cause
The wind whirls about continually....












Conifer Revisited
9-4-15


Wherefore shew ye to them
A proof of your love
Giving it all away might result in boasting
As in dreams od bicycles down a steep acclivity
I'm coasting like a captive bird
That was there at my command
As touching and ministering to the saints
We're not always going to be on the top of the world
I know your joy would fill the earth
It is superfluous for me to write unto myself
All the rivers and unto the sea
Yet she is never full
Boasting on your behalf
By the liberality of Macedonians
Come the dry scales of ones conifer and scales arranged
Reach out and touch faith...