jumpstart

Jumpstart
8-8-15


Last night's mud and a fresh batch
Jesus' blood
He makes my future mate and match
Out again at quarter till three
To meet a distant brother
Feeling actually rested for a change
As one to monopolize
And to obtain exclusive possession
Of what I hold in my right hand
Inky of blue, I think of you
In the sink, morning dew
For exclusive control
All is well with my soul
God has the right people already set up for me
Is that all you want from me
Another mild expletive
And another U2 album
I play to jumpstart my consciousness....










Dame
8-8-15


For my interjecting word and expression profane
Using proper prudence and discretion
Another king is slain
Our exclamatory oath
Why choose between the two when we can have both
I'm ready to take it to the street
To touch a lot of people
The dame equivalent to the knight
All the same I live for the dark of night
Our matron, our human right
Our bird in flight
Pray for it and yield
Don't slay for it
As God is your shield
Get a Farmer's Almanac
And study up on your crops
Face pressed up against the glass
Low in valleys and high upon mountaintops....










Swag
8-8-15


Used only with the definite article
Another study
You're the real thing
Which is why the cross is still bloody
To swagger and strut while in doubt
To force by blustering
In our ostentatious display of such a pride corroded
Yet to lurch and to sway
Tomorrow I go to church and pray
Holding off on the basic essentials closer to daylight
Will it make it easier on you
Now to hang loosely and to sag
In the middle of our festoon
And our suspended garment
By the view of another crescent moon....








Ministry
8-8-15


Prayer is my ministry
I want to pray for you to carry a bundle
And to travel with ones belongings
We're one but we're not the same
Love is a temple
In our low places in tracts of land
Producing ranker vegetation
We get to carry each other
Offering is all set for my tomorrow
Where low places are quite fertile
And high places will be deficient for the coefficient
Our festoon, our string and chain of flowers
Our foliage and ribbon
And all manners of knowledge
Of such powers yet to leave in a lurch and desert
When help is needed
The most in ones awkward swaying motion and gait
Prayer is my ministry...










Arabah
8-8-15


Lord quicken me according to thine word
Spilling over the brim
Is the juice from my curd
I take not credit for what I do
Yet still accept the compliments graciously
Four hours of sleep last night
And three the day before
I actually feel alive and quickened
And I want more and more
Of the God that I adore
For festoons and chains of flowers
For crescent moons
By gains of captured hours
To lurch, to steal and filch
To go to church, to kneel
To lurk near in a state of watchfulness
All is well with my soul...

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Released
8-8-15


No, I don't know what you are going through
Come eight after two my other wristwatch chimes
To let ground soak the bottoms of my pantaloons
In modern pantomime
It is something I need learn how to perform
As a viscous man, the bust of and accomplice of a clown
As an object of witticism and ridicule
A target, a goal
And my limit upon my hill
On the top of my butte
Rising abruptly above the surrounding land
I will know the joy of the Lord today
If this is what I believe
As Jeremiah is released from prison....










Hogshead
8-8-15


Sixty-three gallons to a hogshead
For eagles' trying quite underfed
She is hungry in that I know not that I am
Our quip clever and witty remark or comment
I scribble these lyrics in the halflight
And I'm in a need for a jumpstart
For a remark sharp and sarcastic
To quibble and to cavil
There's a fire in me by Quotidian writings
I know not what I say
But I'm getting somewhere with it
Of ague and fever recurring daily
I ramble on and one day I play my available Zeppelin archives
I step out into the night when lonely
Quotidian....










Agueweed
8-8-15


Open the door
Because I want a little more
To find out what it's all for
I pray for a sister in need
In Jesus' name I pray that she will get some rest
For agueweed and boneset
Of white flowers in a flat opened cluster
O, Tuesday again I will pass muster
Of gentian yellow, white and red
God has a purpose of me being up early today
Another tonic far from ironic
Of boneset composite
God is finally doing something in me
For another thorough most
Superfluous
Where do we go from here
Only God knows...










Wasted
8-8-15


I need make sure I don't repeat the matter
Where gossip tears down relationships
Wasted time gone by
Tasted is the crime of the cry
Shout it out
But not too loud
At this time of the morning
When almost everyone else is asleep
Of land wild and desolate
Another good start
Yet to enfeeble these knees
Physically debilitated
Useless and unavailing
I wish you were here
Yet to engross oneself in U2 cassettes
To occupy the mind
With all that is apart from the unprofitable
Breaking down the walls in the plain of Aragah
We will find our way...

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Delectation
8-7-15


It is just to look for challenges
And to pray for the patience
Get the trail and prevail
It is right to seek judgment
And on stormy seas set sail
As the universe had opened wide
For much delectation, delight, enjoyment and pleasure
Passengers are flying but not to fight
Writing one for the delectus
Dreaming of the Titanic
Singing to represent today's challenge to communicate
And now being made free from sin
You derive your fruit unto holiness
And by faith I will endure our winter much inevitable
As she strikes like a viper in the grass
O, alas!










On Romans 6:23
8-7-15


For the wages of sin is death
But the gift of God is eternal life
Through Jesus Christ our Lord
O, hold out your sword
A new member
My old friend is invited
O, Tuesday, death is on the rampage
But my heart is today in peace
I think I'm going mad
I lost my mind already
So Jeremiah sank in the mire
Where petals fall from flowers
And for God we use all abilities and powers
O, what offense have I committed against you
I'm just making sure that all is good with us
Unwelcome to an unreasonable optimism
But still we take good courage
To believe that it will all work out in the long run...










Eyes On The Prize
8-7-15


Keeping my eyes on the prize of tomorrow
Innocuous according to all joy and sorrow
Having no adverse effect
To lend and not to borrow
Not likely to defend or provoke to strong emotion
Insipid, lacking flavor and zest
Day to day we are put to the test
And no more such insipience
Ignorance is no longer an option
Shine your light
You burn so bright
Roll on John
Know ye not brethren
For I speak to them that know the law
And its dominion over a man as long as he liveth
Looking forward to Tebeth
I will need to learn how to walk on ice
God be with us
When such a time comes to pass...










For Tisiphone
8-8-15


Up at two for a reason
Intercession is in season
Caught a young men
Of men of Succoth
Rebuking of him our princes
Missing Gloria
Taking elders of the city
And thorns of the wilderness
Even threescore and seventeen
We are where we are for a reason
On the fourteenth day of Tishbi so our Sukkoth
God has me awake now for a purpose
I pray for a sister with her need
I believe that it will all work out fine
Greeting again my Tisiphone
I want to stay up when I wake up
It's going to be another prolific one
Even when painstaking and fastidious....

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Scroll
8-7-15


This is the scroll for froth and fizz
Again I'm on the roll
And it happened when Jehudi read three or four columns
That the king cut it with the scribe's knife
And many become friends today for life
Casting it into the fire
To relinquish all of such strife
Staying safe and cool
Still abiding by the golden rule
I tell them have a wonderful day
And they tell me to take care
That is, the scroll
As Jeremiah is falsely accused and imprisoned
Come back baby
I hurt your feelings and I apologize
I pray for wisdom before I begin speaking
Down at the bench
I speak after the manner of men
And again take up this pen
But God be thanked
That ye are servants....








Joining Brother John
8-7-15


Joining brother John to another smoke
Talking music and vinyl
I pray for wisdom to say the right thing
Such is a name I can mention
Thus saith the Lord
You have burned this scroll
Saying why have you written in it
For the arrangement of Jeremiah's prophesy
I today contend quoting verses that stand out
Wanting to shout of what it's all about
At the chime of three
I tell him to have a great day
And he says take care
As I shake the dust from my feet
The seeds are planted
And it was a trip worthwhile
For our Jechoniah
And it happened
When the army of the Chaldeans left the siege of Jerusalem
For fear of Pharaoh's army
I turn it over to Dylan
On this forever Friday afternoon...








Prebendary
8-7-15


If you see me go by
Pull up a prayer
As time would fly when she pulls up a chair
Insomnia rages
But eventually I doze off
Into my peace for the five steps in Jeremiah's prison
Experiences are recorded
Here is the fundamental reason
For all that is written today
Without the nobility of the ancient race
I feel as if today I'm in a better place
It has been a worthwhile journey
Our reason for prophetic warnings
He is carried in chain from the city
Where pollution can be quite pretty
I will ask you something
Hide nothing from me...










Smatter
8-7-15


For when you were servants and slaves to sin
You thought to be free
As you considered yourself to both lose and win
To smatter and speak the language without fluency
People don't care what you know
Till they know how you care
Superficial and piecemeal knowledge
Of small and scattered amount or number
Soon I will know peace and slumber
Tomorrow's another day
And I know not how or when to put the books down
What fruit had ye then
In the things whereof now you are ashamed
On the twenty-fourth day of April
We had to say goodbye
Your close friend have set upon you and prevailed
Your feet have sunk in the mire
And they have turned away again....

Apostle

Apostle
6-7-12


Receiving apostleship
With the grace to give us strength
To run before us a good race
When we won't understand the book
When we don't know the author
He is the author of life and love
In that we thrive upon the milk of this word
Appreciated even when it was expired
For a day or two
In our receiving of apostleship
To be witnesses of what we learn in the dark
So we can teach in the light....








Trimming Hedges
6-7-12


Crusados and pesitoes in my pocket
Of a pair of jeans on my bedroom floor
Yet with no regard to what is material
In that I am content in no need to seek out more
Where all I have to offer is a prayer
Yet at least this is something
As working men trim the hedges of the adjacent façade
That I take upon my face for their prosperity...








Flavor
6-7-12


Potations of sherry and negus
Make up the consistency of the broth delicate and pleasing
To a palate of propensity
Where I will intercede
For all at their work
In advocacy of the needy
This will be my work today
In garrulous and loquacious rhythm and rhyme
By way of the ink I still take for granted
Knowing my abilities
In that we are not alone...










Lucky Number Day
6-7-12


Yet to be a debtor
To intercede for those at work
To wish them all well on their way
When they trim the hedges and do their things well
To see that these branches serve their purpose
In the plan of pleasure and productivity in all of this
Like an alibi in the volume of the music I play
As these sounds blend together for the better
On a lucky number day
Of sunshine daydreams euphonious and bright...










Where There Is Much Water
6-7-12


It seems that I drink my tap water in its excess
Wherein there is hydration of my sustenance
In questions answered about today's events
As I request many blessings
Upon those at work in the neighborhood
Wherein there is excess
To be content in the remembrance
Of such nights where I would chase after productivity
As my main objective renounced
To take up a life of being awake by the light of day.....












Meaning Well In My Absence
6-7-12


It seems that I forget
What manner of man that I am
When I walk away from my reflection
In the looking glass with no intentions of antipathy
In my absence from the fellowship
That I already possess in the company right at home
On this lucky number day
If I choose to follow this meaning
Only figuratively forgetting who I am sometimes
Yet still taking steps toward the prize that I already possess.....

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Ambassador
6-7-12


Yet to be the ambassador and the diplomat
Content with coffee cold and carbonation flat
Yet to be the witness of the day's events
In a loftier position
Where the man of the house repents
Yet to be the path and the Way
Given the sustenance of much more today  I can say
Given the number of perfection
To bring the hope sufficient
As the anchor in being true
To the you in me....








Pilate Inquires
6-7-12


Pilate inquires
Just what is the truth in the matter
Of the things that are
That reinforce what is not
When we find that these are one and the same
As we find our white stone by the way
With a new name
As Pilate finds no fault
In the Savior still on his throne
When today I am by myself
Yet not standing all alone....








Perfect
6-7-12


Jesus was a man one hundred percent
As it is said we cannot come into the world
If we are not from it
This is a truth to learn of
When we are just passing through
Accepting yesterday's declining of a proposition
So that I might discover the road ahead
That would lead to my calling
Meeting other wanderers on my path
Of which I was meant to minister
To with the gift of power that is in me....










Secular Approach
6-7-12


The secular approach of America
Is as well needful
In our ways to apply to the life today
We are freely given
As the flesh is as well expedient
To the work assigned
To the poet to be the witness
Of what he hears and sees
As so this humanistic philosophy
Is as well part of the picture and plan
When Jesus was one hundred percent God as well as man....










Fetid With Favor
6-7-12


That which is noisome and fetid
Is found to be pleasing to my olfactory sense of appreciation
Where it's not so bad to have a thumb up my ass
When I like the way it smells
She is with me in my being of dreams that come true
Of finding the love at both hands
Like a candle I blow out again
To make my wish for the love
To see us all through....

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There And Here
6-6-12


It is spoken that if you're not with them
Then you're against them
Yet I must be true to this day of compromise
With the burden that prophets do see
In declining from a proposition
To be truthful in my intent
Not against them
Yet choosing to be separate
While present in spirit and heart
Feeling worthy in that they want me there
As I wish them well
Just the same in my intent....








Happy To Be Square
6-6-12


Called a coward by the critic within
Yet choosing to reinforce this judgment
With an affirmation of encouragement
Reflected in the remaining light of day
As such a critic says be there or be square
Yet I heed not such a reputation
According to what I might be called
In choosing to stay home from the picnic
To partake in what is here
Without a need to seek after
Anything more than what is Now...








I Seek Other Hermits
6-6-12


In the bible I look for a man that is set apart from the flock
As a nonconformist
In that he will choose to go his own way
Like Jonathan Livingston Seagull
In the idea of breaking away to eat beans at home
Instead of going to the picnic
To love the aroma of his own flatulence
Later this evening
As my brother compares my life to that of Noah
Just to be in jest
A friend even when I am distant
Seeing that in truth I did not miss out...