Poetry
One Of Us
by Joan Osborne (written by Eric Bazilian) If God had a name, what would it be And would you call it to His face If you were faced with Him in all His glory What would you ask if you had just one question Yeah, yeah, God is great Yeah, yeah, God is good Yeah, […]
A Piece Of Plastic Clay
I took a piece of plastic clay And idly fashioned it one day, And as my fingers pressed it still, It moved and yielded to my will. I came again when days were past; The bit of clay was hard at last, The form I gave it still it bore, But I could change that […]
The Lucky Poor
“Blessed are the poor in spirit” A beech tree in winter, white Intricacies unconcealed Against sky blue and billowed Clouds, carries in his emptiness Ripeness: sap ready to rise On signal, buds alert to burst To leaf. And then after a season Of summer a lean ring to remember The lush fulfilled promises. Empty again […]
The Lucky Sad
“Blessed are those who mourn” Flash floods of tears, torrents of them, Erode cruel canyons, exposing Long forgotten strata of life Laid down in the peaceful decades: A badlands beauty. The same sun That decorates each day with colors From arroyos and mesas, also shows Every old scar and cut of lament. Weeping washes the […]
The Lucky Meek
“Blessed are the meek” Moses, by turns raging and afraid, Was meek under the thunderhead whiteness, The glorious opacity of cloudy pillar. Each cloud is meek, buffeted by winds It changes shape but never loses Being: not quite liquid, hardly Solid, ‘in medias res’. Like me. Yielding to the gusting spirit All become what ministering […]
Lord, Teach Us To Pray
Refrain: It’s been a long and cold December kind of day, with our hearts and hands all busy in our private little wars. We stand and watch each other now from separate shores; we lose the way. I need to know today the way things should be in my head; I need to know for […]
The Lucky Hungry
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness” ~~~ Unfeathered unbelief would fall Through the layered fullness of thermal Updrafts like a rock; this red-tailed Hawk drifts and slides, unhurried Though hungry, lazily scornful Of easy meals off carrion junk, Expertly waiting elusive provisioned Prey: a visible emptiness Above an invisible plenitude. The sun […]
Jesus Weeps
There is but one face whose holy eyes won’t turn away, but focus on us and weep. Jesus, you! like a mother hen yearning to gather us to you, but we would not. for we have killed the prophets and stoned the messengers. Now abandoned and empty, the stones of the temple waiting to fall […]
Spool
7/26/2002 Dark, inky urban night City that never sleeps, don’t let them fool you Sleight of hand, we sleep with one eye open, My father does that, He’s a retired fireman, engine company 243 31 years, every fire could be one’s last, Kind of like what Jesus told us, We know not the time so […]
The Times They Are A Changing …
“The times they are a changing … For the loser now Will be later to win … He that gets hurt Will be he that has stalled There’s a battle outside And it’s raging. It’ll soon shake your windows And rattle your walls … Your sons and your daughters Are beyond your command You old […]
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