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...