tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19467387731838697822024-03-13T03:07:18.994-04:00Crawling Through the Darkpoems and thoughts on life and death.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-52005051435132323512014-07-29T16:36:00.001-04:002014-07-29T16:37:08.359-04:001:57 PM<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
- <i>We're two minutes late!</i> -<br />
<div>
say some passersby.</div>
<div>
I am one of them</div>
<div>
as I marvel at</div>
<div>
their odd meeting time.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
Rain falls like dark angels</div>
<div>
from eternally </div>
<div>
grey skies. Tomorrow</div>
<div>
will be better I</div>
<div>
silently surmise.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
You are far from here.</div>
<div>
Somewhere warmer, some-</div>
<div>
where gold, giving no </div>
<div>
thought of me on some-</div>
<div>
one else's shoulder.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<i>--040714--</i></div>
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<br />
<br /></div>
<div>
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-67232891314737559872014-05-21T18:53:00.000-04:002014-05-21T18:53:21.370-04:00Crime & Punishment<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Justice is forgiveness <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">–</span><br />
it is surely heard<br />
in the bishop's song<br />
to the con Jean Valjean;<br />
<br />
for the brave melody<br />
he sings to the cops <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">–</span><br />
that climbs like a prayer <span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">–</span><br />
is the same sung by Javert:<br />
<br />
the restless pursuer,<br />
<div>
that relentless judge</div>
who sorely assumed<br />
justice equals judgment<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">.</span><br />
<br />
And justice surely does.<br />
But where does it lie,<br />
this judgment? On the<br />
back of a thief or a<br />
<br />
Priest? And who possesses<br />
the privilege to try<br />
and to deal out death<br />
but God and God Himself?<br />
<br />
<br />
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-11581055994080976942014-05-20T17:56:00.001-04:002014-05-20T18:00:23.516-04:00Researching Moliére<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /></div>
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Oh, the drama! </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Oh, how tragic!</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
That one would die</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
of a heaving cough</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
while playing a</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
hypochondriac.</div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
Oh, what irony!</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
What a discovery!</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
How Argan's ghost must</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
have swooned upon seeing </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
his imagined malady </div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
was not so imaginary.</div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: left;">
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-83749199274114220822014-05-19T11:07:00.000-04:002014-05-19T11:14:29.355-04:00Coffee Shop Talk<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A crush betrays you –</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">your heart turns your face red</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">as you laugh off the truth </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">like a child who just </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">pulled his hand out </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">of the cookie jar </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">mommy told him </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">not to touch before dinner.</span></div>
<div style="min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Your lukewarm coffee sits</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">waiting beneath your shy chin,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">desperate for another chance</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to be thought of,</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to be bought with the tongue</span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">and enjoyed like water</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to a desert rose – </span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">your countenance sharing it’s subtle</span></div>
<div style="min-height: 14px;">
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">shade of color – pink like blush;</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">red like the heart’s thunder.</span><br />
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div>
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">© 2014 vagrant moon</span></div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-55688051545218725542014-05-18T17:45:00.000-04:002014-05-18T17:45:01.823-04:00Our Love is a Slur<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Our love is a slur;<br />
I gotta walk away.<br />
I've been grabbing at straws<br />
And only leave with tragedy.<br />
<br />
Our love is a slur,<br />
can't you see it slip away?<br />
It's drifting along like an<br />
atmosphere in jilted space.<br />
<br />
And I don't wanna<br />
wake up like this,<br />
With nothing but a<br />
superficial kiss<br />
<br />
on my lips.<br />
<br />
<br />
© 2014 vagrant moon<br />
[written in March 2014]</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-28816848965461255872014-05-17T05:41:00.000-04:002014-05-17T05:41:07.719-04:00Threshold of Heaven<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
When we cross over<br />
the threshold of heaven<br />
I suppose our love will<br />
be truer,<br />
purer,<br />
richer,<br />
deeper,<br />
immediate <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">–</span><br />
<br />
Immediately.<br />
<br />
I suppose I won't care<br />
when you don't write,<br />
or rather visit me in<br />
my marble mansion,<br />
though I'm thinking<br />
I'll be in a tent <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12pt;">–</span><br />
<br />
this is partly due<br />
to how I view myself,<br />
and partly due to how<br />
I wish to live:<br />
<br />
simply and with abandon.<br />
<br />
I suppose this dream<br />
will be easier to live<br />
in paradise,<br />
<br />
above the vacant skies<br />
we now live under.<br />
<br />
<br />
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-63309319569360435622014-05-16T05:44:00.001-04:002014-05-16T05:44:27.355-04:00Promise Keeper<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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________________</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>"I am still livin' with your ghost,</i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>lonely and dreamin' of the west coast."</i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<i>- Art Alexakis</i></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I visited you before</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I flew across your</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
distant cousin</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
nearly two years ago.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I never dipped</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
my hand or foot</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
in you because</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the air was cooler</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
than expected;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
It's the same here.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
Before I left</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I told you</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I would return</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
someday, to live</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
or simply visit,</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
to stroll</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
the bohemian streets</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
that bustle beside you.</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
I am keeping that promise;</div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
come fall, I will deliver. </div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-2554634600425064112014-05-15T10:00:00.000-04:002014-05-15T10:00:09.580-04:00Constant Fairies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
Mercy.<br />
Temperance.<br />
Patience.<br />
<br />
You taught me these.<br />
<br />
Acceptance<br />
& perseverance.<br />
<br />
These grace you<br />
like constant fairies<br />
filling the space around you,<br />
<br />
sprinkling the air<br />
with newness,<br />
<br />
telling <i>Tomorrow</i><br />
it's just an excuse<br />
<br />
to wait.<br />
<br />
<br />
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-28724745350896023372014-05-14T09:02:00.003-04:002014-05-14T09:03:19.930-04:00Music Can Be Like That<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
The pale headphones<br />
fall from my hands like ash<br />
<br />
and hover above a blue<br />
shadow on the ground;<br />
<br />
Something exploded here<br />
in recent past,<br />
<br />
now leaving a dim powdery<br />
stain on gravel.<br />
<br />
Music can be like that -<br />
both abrupt and subtle,<br />
<br />
exploding in the ears<br />
like a bomb,<br />
<br />
then settling upon<br />
a blistered soul<br />
<br />
like a wayward swallow,<br />
leaving only the<br />
<br />
faint melody of song.<br />
<br />
<br />
© 2014 vagrant moon</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-32736866799800630572014-05-13T04:17:00.000-04:002014-05-13T04:25:45.316-04:00An Exercise in Hope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br />
'Finish the psalm,'<br />
they rant,<br />
these shadows of the past<br />
<br />
that still hang upon<br />
the walls<br />
of hope and circumstance;<br />
<br />
these voices of my friends<br />
that calling<br />
left behind,<br />
<br />
'Strap on your boots,<br />
return to your roots,<br />
and finish the psalm,'<br />
they chide.<br />
<br />
'Let the sunlight be<br />
your guide,<br />
keep the shadows as<br />
your friends;<br />
<br />
but when clouds abide<br />
and you lose your stride<br />
never keep the<br />
darkness in.<br />
<br />
Be a mirror for<br />
the cosmos,<br />
be it all gaseous, marvelous<br />
and bright;<br />
<br />
let the blast project<br />
and the glory reflect,<br />
then you, simply<br />
paraphrase the light.<br />
<br />
Let the future remain<br />
a mystery<br />
never let it lead<br />
you on,<br />
<br />
And to the Creator<br />
ever address,<br />
as you cry out in<br />
your distress,<br />
<br />
and as your back's<br />
still bent<br />
don't you ever forget<br />
<br />
to pick up<br />
your pen and<br />
finish the psalm.'<br />
<br />
<br />
© 2014 vagrant moon<br />
<br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-9227681219782806982011-11-04T23:22:00.009-04:002014-05-16T05:44:13.802-04:00Peter & John<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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______________<br />
<br /></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-style: italic;">We smoked the screen</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">to make it</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">what it was to be</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">now to know it<br />in my memory</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"><br />And at once I knew</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">I was not</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">magnificent</span><br />
<br />
-Bon Iver<br />
<br />
<br />
I broke the line<br />
back broke my spine<br />
it's not significant<br />
<br />
Now thoughts cloudy<br />
as the mire<br />
scoliosis of the mind<br />
<br />
But I am not<br />
repentant<br />
None of us is<br />
innocent<br />
<br />
Voice of God<br />
mind of Christ:<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">What's it to you</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">if I take a life?</span><br />
<br />
We walk beside<br />
we stand in line<br />
my brother in mind<br />
<br />
I would rather<br />
die in twos<br />
than die as one<br />
<br />
Essence of God<br />
life of Christ:<br />
The cornerstone.<br />
<br />
Body fight<br />
spirit strive<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Follow Me!</span><br />
<br />
Voice of God<br />
mind of Christ:<br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">What's it to you</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">if I keep him </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">alive?</span><br />
<br />
Yet I am not<br />
repentant<br />
None of us is<br />
innocent<br />
<br />
--103111--</div>
</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-57041408237416872242010-12-17T14:43:00.002-05:002010-12-17T14:48:30.884-05:00The Rose Garden<div style="text-align: center;">__________________<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Courage doesn't always roar.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Sometimes courage is the quiet voice</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">At the end of the day saying,</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">'I will try again tomorrow.'</span><br /><br />- Mary Anne Radmacher<br /><br /><br />Try again<br />Tomorrow,<br />Wrestle with despair<br />And win.<br /><br />Sin shall not<br />Be master,<br />Shall not provoke you<br />To do things you cannot do.<br /><br />The little lion can scratch,<br />But he cannot kill.<br /><br />The thorn in your flesh<br />Will yield a rose garden<br />Come morning,<br />Will smell of<br />Sweet sunlight<br />And dragon’s breath.<br /><br />Let the enemy’s sword<br />Break upon the chainmail<br />Of your chest<br />Like an arrogant ocean on<br />A steadfast shore.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Come no further,</span><br /><br />Says the Light.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Consume no more.</span><br /><br /><br />--121710--<br /><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-65606637546960178482010-12-07T14:43:00.004-05:002010-12-07T14:47:34.217-05:00Yesterday's Friend<div style="text-align: center;"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }table.MsoNormalTable { font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Times New Roman"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }</style> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">___________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Yesterday’s friend,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Now I know how you</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Felt, how the years of silence</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Must have pierced</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Your heart like a</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Needle going through</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">The eye of the camel.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">If the rich man cannot</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Enter heaven by limousine</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">How can the beggar</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Simply walk right in?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Are there still prayers</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">To pray? Is life itself the</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Indulgence one must pay?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">I don’t know why you</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Tossed in your sleep</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Those many dark nights.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Where did you seek the change?</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">It is hard to live with ghosts,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">To make deals with the devil,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">To bury the only life you have</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">To only have it raise up</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">To strangle your ghost on the</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Last day.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"> </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">--120310--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-72161233415122182712010-11-04T23:57:00.003-04:002010-11-05T00:02:31.683-04:00The Past Will Have the Last Word<span style="font-style: italic;">_____________________________________<br /><br />History repeats itself.</span><br />– unknown<br /><br /><br />And this is how it ends,<br />How it began last winter.<br /><br />The sun sang his final<br />Song before dipping down<br /><br />Out of sight. Will we<br />See him again? Will<br /><br />Our brows again be<br />Kissed with his holy<br /><br />Blood? <span style="font-style: italic;">Fall</span> has been<br />Here before, has tip-<br /><br />Toed away from <span style="font-style: italic;">Summer</span><br />on ruffled leaves, has<br /><br />signaled <span style="font-style: italic;">Winter</span> to start<br />her annual dirge. <span style="font-style: italic;">Fall</span><br /><br />has fooled us all again<br />into crowning <span style="font-style: italic;">Compromise</span><br /><br />king for another term,<br />into meeting in the middle<br /><br />and giving none of our<br />possessions to the poor.<br /><br /><br />--100810--Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-64502049709157662052010-11-04T11:14:00.004-04:002010-11-04T11:19:18.370-04:00Something New<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-style: italic;">_______________<br /><br />Where can you run to escape from yourself?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Where you gonna go? Where you gonna go?</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Salvation is here.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">-Jon Foreman</span><br /><br /><br />This is where I stood<br />This time<br />Last year.<br /><br />This is where the rain<br />Fell.<br />Where the vultures<br />Gathered death<br />Like food.<br /><br />Where <span style="font-style: italic;">Darkness</span> gripped<br />My hand<br />Like a fond lover,<br /><br />Only to whore itself<br />Out to a hopeless<br />Humanity.<br /><br />I was not fooled.<br />Only lost.<br />Only wandering.<br />Only on a vacation<br /><br />From <span style="font-style: italic;">Joy</span>.<br />From <span style="font-style: italic;">Purpose.</span><br />From <span style="font-style: italic;">Life</span>.<br /><br />Would these three<br />Ever find me?<br />I could not tell.<br /><br />But today,<br />As I look back<br />Over the glaring precipice<br /><br />Us four dance<br />On the grave of whores,<br />Those who promised<br />life<br />But only delivered<br />Disease.<br /><br />Only longing.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I dare you </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">To</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Move,</span><br /><br />Sang the <span style="font-style: italic;">Light</span>.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">I dare you to</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Become</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Who </span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">You</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Are.</span><br /><br /><br />--100710--<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-81545418947220354412010-08-29T15:00:00.006-04:002010-08-30T00:14:49.449-04:00Unless it Falls<div style="text-align: center;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:documentproperties> <o:template>Normal</o:Template> <o:revision>0</o:Revision> <o:totaltime>0</o:TotalTime> <o:pages>1</o:Pages> 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mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i>Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.<o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i>-Jesus</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><i><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Today<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><i>Hope</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> wears black<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">and carries a casket <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">of thorns.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">I did not wish it to be this way.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">How things change<br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">so soon. <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">How Winter swallows up<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Autumn<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">on the last night <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">of Summer.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">I hold a plane ticket <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">in my hands.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Eighteen million are homeless<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">at my former destination.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">Now 18,000 of my<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">cousin’s days are dead.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">It all happened overnight.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">I can still hear<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">my uncle’s voice<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">on the phone those<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">ten years ago.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">I was just a kid<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">trying to find my way<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">in this world, <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">just a man <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">trying to make sense<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">of silence.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">I see him standing <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">in the corner<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">of next week.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">He too wears black,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">like <i>Hope</i><span style="font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> <!--[endif]--><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center">--082910--</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-68210442151148917422010-05-19T00:12:00.007-04:002010-05-19T00:20:23.162-04:00The Returning <div style="text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">__________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">I spoke too soon.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Tonight,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> The sunken moon</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Kissed me</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> With starlight</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Before I could</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Cry into the</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Lonely</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Pillow.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Tonight,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Darkness knows</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Bounds,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Like the ocean’s</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Mighty waves.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> “Come no further!”</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> <o:p></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Crashing into the</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Light</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> In my brother’s</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Heavy eyes,</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> It broke its</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Bloody knuckles</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> On tomorrow’s</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Steadfast gaze.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> “I would have</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> Despaired</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> Unless</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i> I had believed</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> I would see</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> The goodness of the LORD</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> In the land of the</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i> Living.”</i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Take heart;</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> I am</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> Returning.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">--051810--</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-88708679994564279492010-05-17T18:46:00.005-04:002010-05-17T18:51:44.861-04:00The Lifesaver<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRBdG19bg-y4KA_22C4J51twCqgCjp9wjTxXcTmUQZG0LU2itRPO-fYkx7218IL9gCYzfVkgMPW3999biRfTH5yCJ16mPTpImtBTP9xNvNO5H6q6rfkblflPQUh8bEiwQxssCq2ahCzuh/s1600/Lifesaver_051210.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRBdG19bg-y4KA_22C4J51twCqgCjp9wjTxXcTmUQZG0LU2itRPO-fYkx7218IL9gCYzfVkgMPW3999biRfTH5yCJ16mPTpImtBTP9xNvNO5H6q6rfkblflPQUh8bEiwQxssCq2ahCzuh/s400/Lifesaver_051210.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5472374374354750642" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The life in winter</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Which froze fragile bones</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Is now hot like ash.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The flames caught wind</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Of you pouring gasoline</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">On your past,</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">So they kissed your</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Black boots</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">With hot hell.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Now you dance</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">In the garden’s</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Man-made purgatory,</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Shaking the dust</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Of this world</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Off your feet</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">As you learn to</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Live and love</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Again.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> --051210--</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-39285094117052306572010-05-14T15:59:00.005-04:002010-05-14T16:09:41.650-04:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaOXLeSk34pNsDQ7IyEAPjLtcZu0Pb8iwWiIATFzpwkDQtMDPr_l5sIlVbFBdacK_rOepWkTk7BcezpvyfNnt-q6GpBMQUYQN4RoUvF19Yl3OX8PenCSSKapveJgD6qiJSXDFnbYc2kw6/s1600/AlienInGarden_051110.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 175px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtaOXLeSk34pNsDQ7IyEAPjLtcZu0Pb8iwWiIATFzpwkDQtMDPr_l5sIlVbFBdacK_rOepWkTk7BcezpvyfNnt-q6GpBMQUYQN4RoUvF19Yl3OX8PenCSSKapveJgD6qiJSXDFnbYc2kw6/s400/AlienInGarden_051110.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471219693811573490" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEP1pBAMK7FBuLlFRnRp6hMZvgsAObWssiVZe7Y722JS2j-eQqqD5Mw_4Om8JBSP-JHiG1yywFOu_ZkVXPVM18jawD1f-fhD9rIdffZNz9qYjG-_FxRIS9NP-3FBdL78pSvH_Rp7D3UAJ/s1600/AlienText_051110.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 180px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIEP1pBAMK7FBuLlFRnRp6hMZvgsAObWssiVZe7Y722JS2j-eQqqD5Mw_4Om8JBSP-JHiG1yywFOu_ZkVXPVM18jawD1f-fhD9rIdffZNz9qYjG-_FxRIS9NP-3FBdL78pSvH_Rp7D3UAJ/s200/AlienText_051110.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471218125951872322" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I’m an alien in the garden</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Walking tall, thin and proud.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Not all are lost who wander;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Not all the lost are found.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> I make my home in Evergreen,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> Colors from long ago,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> This pale afternoon sending water</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"> Upon an ever thirsty soul.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">When I arrive I’ll write you</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">From wherever it is I go.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Until then,</p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">I wear the sky as my robing</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">And the earth as my home.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">--051110 and 051210--</p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-67335754337328135612010-05-12T20:00:00.005-04:002010-05-12T20:06:07.050-04:00Snow Fountain (Weeping Higan Cherry)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuNHTQ9waga3nrdzs52U2pSib-XEwfOvUHT7st0egOdiT8Hxv5M3tWE-e5wToh6fEetIfzMbBCNvZJwZpYb6EibPh_pdpFVbgWgHt6MqWp-q1PIorWQSoP17_NPQzBKT4VdCsa_TsiGBRb/s1600/WeepingHiganCherry_050810.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 325px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuNHTQ9waga3nrdzs52U2pSib-XEwfOvUHT7st0egOdiT8Hxv5M3tWE-e5wToh6fEetIfzMbBCNvZJwZpYb6EibPh_pdpFVbgWgHt6MqWp-q1PIorWQSoP17_NPQzBKT4VdCsa_TsiGBRb/s400/WeepingHiganCherry_050810.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470537925446010834" /></a> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>I've recently started intentionally drawing in natural settings (mainly in a botanical garden) and writing poems to go along with the drawings about once a week. Enjoy the journey! </i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><br /></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Snow Fountain</i><span style="font-style:normal">,</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Green winter<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Has come and bowed<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You down like ash.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Why are you weeping?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Or are you simply resting<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the arms of the older<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Tree, playing dress-up<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">With his hand-me-down<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Clothes? You who are<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Cradled in wind and waves,<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Do you still feel alone<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In the shade, not knowing<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ancient light crouches<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Behind you?<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">--050810--<o:p></o:p></p> <!--EndFragment-->Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-3555218592493250602010-04-12T17:11:00.005-04:002010-04-12T17:16:14.915-04:00Even the Very Wise<div style="text-align: center;"><i>_______________________</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>“Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them...? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends.”</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">– Gandalf the Gray</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Soul</i>,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What do you think</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You deserve?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And why?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If your skin </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Was pricked</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would you cry?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tell me,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Why did Jesus </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Die</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Before what many</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would call </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>His time</i>?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Did not Gollum </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Have his part</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To play?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Did the ring</div> <div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">of power </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">have its way?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Remember,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Everyone who is born</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Has their price to pay.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There will be </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">An answer.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There will be </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A time</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">For everything</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Under the</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sun.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--021010--</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-14252378875548619862010-04-09T00:07:00.006-04:002010-04-09T00:13:52.578-04:00These Three Remain<div style="text-align: center;">________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If I speak,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would you listen?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Would ears</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Lie prostrate</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">In worship</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">On the highways</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Of my tongue?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">This town is </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hearty,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But peaceful</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Compared to the scattered </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">War zones,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The tiny hospitals</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And shacks</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tucked away in the </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dusty brown </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hills </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Of tomorrow.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Yet, </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Blood. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My boots kiss</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The invisible residue</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Down </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Monument Avenue.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">There is history </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The same struggle.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The same</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">War</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That never</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ends.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That never</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Will.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not in this</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Life.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Peace,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Prosperity,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Power. *</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These three remain.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">But the greatest </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Of these </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Is </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">None.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">__________________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>*Regards to author Ted Dekker for the three P’s.</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--040910--</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-89719038162069276872010-04-06T21:36:00.007-04:002010-04-06T21:59:54.683-04:00To Marry a Whore<div style="text-align: center;">___________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>- for Hosea</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>I.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Return to me.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You who wears darkness</div><div style="text-align: center;">Like a wedding gown,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Who calls dust and</div><div style="text-align: center;">Ashes <i>sweet friends</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Exchange your wasteland</div><div style="text-align: center;">For <i>Eden</i>,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Your thirst for <i>Plenty</i>,</div><div style="text-align: center;">Your wars for <i>Peace</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Dance like David</div><div style="text-align: center;">as the tent of</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">YHWH returned</div><div style="text-align: center;">From the enemies of God</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">With rolling heads</div><div style="text-align: center;">To pave the weary way.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The nations did not know.</div><div style="text-align: center;">They did not turn.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It is not so</div><div style="text-align: center;">With you.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>II.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You have been</div><div style="text-align: center;">Bought with the spoils</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Of the universe, with</div><div style="text-align: center;">The wine of heaven.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I sold myself</div><div style="text-align: center;">On our wedding day.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Sold my anger,</div><div style="text-align: center;">My fairness, my wrath.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">What do you hold</div><div style="text-align: center;">In your hands</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">That I did not</div><div style="text-align: center;">Give you?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Even your very name</div><div style="text-align: center;">Is borrowed.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Not even <i>life</i></div><div style="text-align: center;">Can you claim.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b>III.</b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">You were led</div><div style="text-align: center;">Into darkness</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To see <i>Light</i>.</div><div style="text-align: center;">This is why you are here.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Do not trade a complex</div><div style="text-align: center;">Question</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">For a simple answer.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Neither stop the asking.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Only remember:</div><div style="text-align: center;">life is a</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Rolling shadow</div><div style="text-align: center;">With fire behind</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And an ecstacy</div><div style="text-align: center;">Unnamed </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Ahead.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--Fall 2009--</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-32772427458690846432010-04-05T21:54:00.005-04:002010-04-05T21:57:53.013-04:00Eternity's Tongue<div style="text-align: center;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">_________________</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Sorrow is the mortal’s</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Food,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">But only for a time.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Then he shall fast.</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">The ravens</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Will feed him with</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Sweet death</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">By the bitter</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Brook.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">It will drop</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Like a worm,</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Dissolve like </p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Sugar water</p> <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Upon</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">Eternity's tongue.</p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">--032510 & 040510--</p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1946738773183869782.post-50665018905176037232010-02-08T23:42:00.003-05:002010-02-08T23:45:11.326-05:00Still the Snow<div style="text-align: center;">_________________</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe I stay awake to write.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Maybe I write to stay awake.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Whatever it is</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">I hear the darkness</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Tickle the belly of</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The morning </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Hoping</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">He’ll cry <i>Mercy!</i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mercy!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Why the dark</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Every night?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Why the cold bed</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">And feet?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Still,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The snow</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Reminds of God’s purity,</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Of His unfailing devotion</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">To keeping us alive</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Until</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">The night is</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Complete.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">--020810--</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0