a few poems?
she elicits from me galaxies unimaginably huge playing my heart not Aeolian but a Stradivarius my fret less fingerboard pressed in harmonies fugues savage ballads of passion self immolating incandescent burning thru bedrock a hole in eternity Splat the infant road kill left in a paper sack on a back country road out in the sticks run over by a car load of teenagers tossing beer bottles out windows wake streaming in the cool spring nights Senior Prom screaming in laughter's oblivion the child a greasy smear A giantess Empress meteors silently crashing into an through resurrecting the child that was Surely god must like Jesus be perfectly balance between genders for She looking like all women is to me more divine in origin than I can speak of in meek words but speak the words nonetheless unspeakable love nonesuch my mouth sibilant weeping eyes burning coals God can be found anywhere within without in any form love wants the unwanted child speaks
120827 21:18 she elicits
Passing dayflies single night upon a sea passing too close the glow our life illumed each other in fright then gone forever destinations unknowable looming on the cusp of the seas crust tuning round this world are many others faintly glowing with life too short too distant to hail farewell or safe home being well
120828 04:20 ships of state
burnt to a cinder unknowing in adoration prayer those answering the call "who can I send?" with 'send me' now discover the witness is sent sans robes of authority to subvert empires into humility and service to need not greed tunneling
120828 04:37 kirk
within there is a garden of stones some small a few large upon which i gaze unconscious of time their estate meditated upon those who past leaving glorious words and wonder their behavior the only measure of glory in time a soul bled out for others or hoarded the bodies of others
120828 04:44 truth
cloaked in ermine and purple figures of known wisdom said, "God only helps those who help themselves" yet i shrouded in ash and rags rage and suicide find myself helpless no more crowned content
120828 05:00 helpless
when in doubt whether to take another breathe allowing my heart to stop finally succumb to the dumb I seek not exclusively those who purport to follow Jesus but betimes a good atheist or jolly agnostic as well for all the facets of God's wisdom reside in far flung and astonishing places e.g. “I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road." --Stephen Hawking
& by this learn that those who purport to listen or be by God blessed are too often not.
120828 05:11 doubt
THOSE OF OTHERS
--Paul Dickson"Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train."
--P. Hill
“Knowledge is Freedom: hide it, and it withers; share it, and it blooms”
--Stephen Jay Gould
"Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory"
--Stephen Leacock
"Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it."
