#298
Apocalypse
Christ may come in glory
Out of such a sky,
Stepping from the sun to earth
With a resurrection cry.
Thoughts while walking in the woods...
#297
Rat Snakes
Snakes are agile, swift and small,
Yet they cannot walk at all;
Gravity keeps them on the ground,
Except of course where trees abound.
Deadly Sin #3: Wrath
#296
Marital Conflict
Anger is a weapon
In a war that's often waged;
Who wouldn't tremble at the threat
Of Medusa when she's enraged?
From a Flannery O'Connor epigraph...
#295
The Way
Lurking by the roadside,
A Dragon name of Sin;
We go to the Father of all Souls,
Unless the Dragon win.
The adventure continued...
#294
The Fall
Every time I think of heights
I give myself a case of frights.
Standing on the very edge
Of a high and windy ledge,
Even with a rail around,
I know the terror of the ground,
Meeting it with every bone,
No time to hear my final groan.
Adventures for a fall day...
#293
KY 9/19/12
Yesterday I took a chair
Up a high steep mountain,
All to see a Natural Bridge,
No Supernatural Fountain.
Or is it elephants...?
#292
Elements
I do not like the water,
I do not like the rain;
I do not like the earth and fire,
And air gives me a pain.
Such thinking of the elements
Gives me cerebral drain.
Upon reading Ironies of Faith, Anthony Esolen
#291
Isaac on the Way
I bear the wood,
The wood bears me,
As I stagger up the hill;
Faith and trust have mostly fled;
All I have left is will.
"It will suffice."
From Simon's point of view...
#290
Sounds
Each night my master comes to me
Before he goes to bed,
Bends down and puts his bushy lips
Upon my hairy head.
He pats my butt and whispers sounds,
Sounds I never dread,
Unlike the rolling thunder
That echoes through my head.
I love the sounds he says to me,
Followed by my name,
For then I close my eyes and sleep,
And let the dreams me claim.
"I love you, Little Guy."
Clocks on the walls...
#289
Kneel?
Tick Tock, Tick Tock
Sings the merry cuckoo clock,
As it swings to and fro
In the Painter's studio.
Now the Artist dons his smock,
Listening to the merry clock,
Dips his brush, applies the paint,
Searches for the hidden saint;
First the halo, next the wings,
Last the choir that Gloria sings.
Now that which had been concealed
Stands at last wholly revealed.
Glory Hallelujah
Bark, Bark...
#288
Dachshund
Gesundheit!
Simon is a Little Guy
Whose heart is big as starlit sky.
He's never let a rainy day
Or bigger dog get in his way.
"Let us go then you and I..."
#287
Dissociation
Insanity's victorious
When it splits the mind in two,
Puts Reason in a stuffy bag,
Lets Emotion spit and stew.
Who's out there?
#286
No Such Thing
I know I'm never going to die;
I'm going to live forever.
The world will simply disappear,
And I'll expand; however,
More light on the subject...
#285
Daybreak
Miles beyond the towering trees
Shines the rising sun,
Not yet clearly visible,
But clearly set to stun.
Seeing is... (analogy)
#284
Believing
No one can look straight at the sun
Without a loss of vision.
The sun enables all our seeing,
On clear days with precision.
Not quite Shakespeare...
#283
Musings
The whirligig of time spins round,
While the Earth stands still;
Or is it just the other way?
Such motion makes me ill.
More Bug Verse...
#282
The Questing Ant
Each day I find one small red ant
Climbing a bathroom wall,
Looking for sugar, I must suppose,
And not for an empty stall.
Pacemaker Implant...
#281
Cyborg
Modification's the medical rage
For those who've reached a seventies age.
I'm part machine with a human heart,
A scar on my chest where they took me apart.
Now every night while I'm sound asleep
A machine sends a record of how my heart beats.
War: AFGHANISTAN
#280
Loss
That boys should die so far from home,
Their spirits lost in the wind,
Who can see what they might have become,
Who will forgive if they've sinned?
Napping with the Creatures...
#279
Caught Napping
Simon sleeps well under my arm,
Pinkie will sleep on my chest;
In either case it's a soothing way
To snag a mid-afternoon rest.