____________________
When darkness
Falls,
Cry not
UNHOLY!
But,
Please come early,
Blessed Morning,
With your
Wading wings.
Pluck me
From this
Dark ocean
Named
Night.
--011510--
Friday, January 15, 2010
When Darkness Falls
Thursday, January 7, 2010
War Poem
___________________
Hang not thy head, soldier;
you have yet to collect
the grand fortunes of war.
Make your courage bolder,
standing firm and erect
'til you've settled the score.
Unleash no sad remorse
nor profound regret; let
celestial joy take its course,
leaving chance to the better's bet.
--010710--
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
HIS Banner Over Us
____________________
Where do you
belong?
Do you worship
the moon
to steal
the sun?
Do you swallow
the sea
to float?
These walls bury
me in the past
as they carry me
into tomorrow's
tomorrow
with hands
trembling.
These lines wrap
around my neck
like a gallows wire
and hang
my head
on the universe.
These borders,
these two seas
are only
visions,
only clouds,
only walls
we walk through
like ghosts.
Freedom
here
is
freedom
there.
The same heads
roll.
The same plunder
escapes
in the arms
of the saints.
The same blood
buries
our broken
streets
as the
newborn creation
raises
its soprano
to sing:
His
banner
over
us
is
love.
--010210--
Saturday, January 2, 2010
New Year's Evolution
______________________
He who thinks
in years
wears the rusty
chains of time.
She who obsesses
over decisions
dies in the cradle
of the present.
Tomorrow wears rags,
makes promises
she cannot keep,
waxes politically
singing,
Change!
Change! Change!
while only delivering
nature's classic refrain:
There is nothing new
under the sun.
--010110--
Friday, January 1, 2010
While Others Lie Waiting
_________________________
"It's been a long December
and there's reason to believe
maybe this year will be
better than the last."
- Adam Duritz
Darkest new morning
of premature dawn
welcomes the desert
in its arms
while others lie
waiting for the light
of the sun
I've been here before
Had regrets before
Have looked back as
my shame turned
this flesh to stone
This night I
am picking up the pieces
as I circle toward
the morning,
as I slay the past
the rastaman told me
not to forget
I have a foot
in both worlds,
wearing two faces
on the same head:
to fight
and
to forget
I steal away
the plunder
before the first
head rolls
This is my hope
my song
The life given me
by
Father
--010110--
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Best Songs of 2009 (in my humble opinion)
"Always" by Switchfoot
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85vi2pB1T5c
"Beggars" by Thrice
"Every Thought a Thought of You" by Me Without You
http://www.last.fm/music/mewithoutYou/_/every+thought+a+Thought+of+You?autostart
"Poison & Wine" by The Civil Wars
Two Seas
____________
Life
is a dream,
a child
sleeping sound
in the shadows
that billow
then fade.
Death
is a mother
shaking her little ones
awake.
Why wait?
--123109--
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