Hit Or Miss

From their splendid new homes unto my brush The cascades of colors come To celebrate vines, fruit, healthy branches For four and five hours' meditation On John's Gospel (Chapter 15) Meanwhile back at the ranch Folks love the cross - as jewellery - not on canvas Was I too loud, in your face, with my pretty trellis? After all vines are most productive on trellises, Or hidden crosses. Aren't they supposed to bear fruit? Those who buy my acrylic crosses on Psalm 23 Or the more ubiquitous John 15, are few They are wonderful Christmas & Thanksgiving gifts (That pleased a dying Bill Diles in Athens, Ohio, years ago) Yet any words of encouragement are welcome For the four and five hours each canvas takes on days When time oppresses with threats to excite with sins That were usual in my youth, sex and such boring things, So these meditations are welcome, LORD, for they say You are changing my heart and renewing my mind In my art, am I a little David, a man after Thy own heart?