confession

Choosing My Confessions
3-6-17

Sitting at our table
I allow all misgivings to be made known
Bring me my white stone
O, Phoenix a name not to be mentioned aloud
Alas, twas but a dream
Of one whom is spurned
In such a pride as that we do but allow and condone
O, Erin joy with all of such glory
Bound to be in all of this
For the Irish heat
Whether it may be of Christian Spirit
To church that idle treachery
And the voice of man's waters
Before God I would not murmur
For the wind of the willows...




Parking It
3-6-17

Turning off the gas at Market and Main
Making another pass
I park it but not in vain
Outside my favorite café
Looking for the muse
Nothing that we can't handle
So he says there must needs be cast off
Isn't that fire?
What about it?
On the ship of fools
I lay me down for a half an hour
In that it only took five minutes
To get it back in perspective
To clutch the idol of consolation
As if she were my own
One glory
The memory of a lady friend
I danced with and still do....





Taking The Truth To Be Hard
3-6-17

According to the truth
The wicked take the truth to be hard
And she tells me to draw a card
To give me words of wisdom on a lost highway
In a simple fair bodice
The waves and great gain that our king fares
Pok! the cork flies upon rock
A jester lies taking strength from its water
As we strike it twice
So she says, "Don't deny me"
As Peter did Christ thrice
And there's only one key
Last declared to us hard things....