ossifrage

Ossifrage Revisited
5-22-17

Some complain about repetition
Doing one no such good in the neighborhood
Let us lift up our hearts with our hands unto the God in the heavens
To compass me with surrounding gall and travail on the losing end
And the winner's straight edge to take up each morning
Yielding not wholly to his arm
Then you were in love
But now you claim to be as the same
I'll make it somehow
for Ossifrage and eagle
Among mandrakes purer than snow
In case you didn't know for ostriches
That don't want to hide their heads in the sand....





Never Knew Rightly
5-22-17

Slain by sword better than to be slain by hunger
O, good Lord we're not getting any younger
Visage black as coal
As to satisfy ones soul
Eyes fail for vain help
Soon raring to go as glaring for this show
Daring doing what I know
Helping her hand for a memory longer our love
Has made me much stronger
Irresolutely coming to Him from time to time
As these pine away and flow out
Given so much more to say about what we believe
That drowns the enemy of doubt
Good homework, good warfare
Consecrated whiter than milk
How is gold become dim!





Foxes Have Holes
5-22-17

In a mind declining from the proposition
To set it straight but not to hate
But because I choose not to go
For our eyes have failed for our vain help
For coral and for kelp
And seahorses drawing out breast
To give such to young
Being aliens from the commonwealth
Consider and behold our reproach
Rejoice O daughter of Edom that dwell in Uz
Not just because
We used to go out together
And in fact we never said goodbye
To renew our days of old
If a fox go up
Tell him to be prudent
In all of his ways....