Plan, in the process of hatching, gave romantic pleasure.
The Macbeths decided to dig deep for their dream treasure.
While honey dripped through their words, poison brim-filled their hearts,
Environs warned of the consequences of their misstarts...!
Were they not conscious enough to listen to their conscience?
Before the murder, to their hearts, they gave the death sentence.
Shining dagger mocked them, while it kissed the heart of Duncan.
Their physiques acted drunken, while minds stood like silk-shrunken...!
Deed done; glamor gained; power like domes of illusion stood,
They could not cover their shame and guilt within mammon's hood;
Wars lost! Lies of hex proved! Castles collapsed! Disillusioned;
Madness ruled! Bloodstained! Existence, endmost, confusion donned...!
Cain or David or Absalom of the Holiest Book,
Ted Bundy, H.H. Holmes, or Hitler of the civic hook;
No bloodstained has ever flourished in life, history says.
The full measure of every deed pressed down, the doer pays...!!!
27 January 2023
Categories:
absalom, murder, sin,
Form: Rhyme
I love my daughter
My God loves her you know
We all have an Absalom
A little in you and me
a little in those we love
And to my dying breath you know
Absalom will be with me
I'm so tired so tired answering questions
Ends with Absalom holding my hand
Away from here at last, tomorrow at last
Today at last you know
We will pick flowers together
in the garden with the Gardener
we will pick up the pieces
and put them back together
not like we tried before, you know
I looked in her direction she smiled
I've seen it before maybe more than once
I woke up and looked in her direction
You know It's all in a dream what can I say
Maybe it will happen again
Categories:
absalom, bible, christian, emotions, hope,
Form: Free verse
A man I believed was just venturesome
But to his old enemies meddlesome,
To newly made ones quarrelsome
And to even his best friend worrisome
Proved them, all right with The Irksome:
In a crusade for Christ The Awesome,
Openly kissing a man who looked handsome
Like king David’s charming Absalom,
Evangelism describing as cumbersome
And concerned brethrens as troublesome!
And as though food Demons had him bid,
To their cauldron walked up for its lid,
Waiting to pounce on the solemnly hid;
Of his educated fears rashly rid.
Categories:
absalom, character, christian, confusion, evil,
Form: Rhyme
DAVID’S LAMENT (FOR ABSALOM)
What voice is that beneath the wild thorn trees,
Where birds go up and broken branches swing?
Ah, words out of a dead mouth cannot reach
The ears of a waiting king!
And the frightened mule runs on alone,
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son!
Behold! And what a vision here I see
Before the frightened animal is met–
A figure hangs upon a tree,
With head befouled and bloody yet!
And the frightened mule runs on alone
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son!
It is a dreadful thing to lose
A son and heir so featured and so young,
And were it given me a head to choose
Mine own beneath that bough was hung!
But the frightened mule runs on alone,
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son!
Let him who thinks this death were somehow fair,
Let him give over kith and kin
To dangle upright by a hair
And be an awful plaything to the wind!
And the frightened mule runs on alone,
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son!
I see the coming ages yet unborn
Where kings from out my house take their stride–
And all within are capped by a crown of thorn
And bloodied at the side!
But the frightened mule runs on alone,
Oh, Absalom, my son, my son!
Categories:
absalom, angst, bible, death, jewish,
Form: Ballad
Like humans have a life,
Although people don’t face a murder charge
For hacking them down.
Like humans indulge in strife
But don’t wear their animosities like a barge
Nor noise them in the town.
Like man, parade a breathing mechanism,
Though it is carbon dioxide they cherish
And like him answers an organism
Granted that they don’t oxygen relish.
No tree ever halts the knives
About to be driven into its bark
Nor mourns their piteously lost lives
To axes operating before dark;
Scarcely panicked by wanton disturbance,
The very contrast of African Presidents in countenance.
Above King David cutting gallantry
That earns a subject panegyric commentary…
The monarch by his Absalom was mortally scared;
The barks of all trees are to their enemies bared.
Categories:
absalom, creation, environment, fruit, life,
Form: Rhyme
Accursed thing-cravings
Covetousness that prevails
Abiding not in God’s will
Cleaving to self-might
Absence of God’s leadership
Cause my spiritual defeat.*
*2Samuel 17:14 … For the LORD had appointed to defeat the good counsel … to the intent that the LORD might bring evil upon Absalom.
July 9, 2019
Categories:
absalom, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Choka
Through the gates of Absalom,
steed and gate did ride,
charging fast and furious
o'er centuries gone by;
peace did shout in vain,
the Lidless Prophets...
must come again,
nigh is the evening sky
but full of hope
The ramparts held fast, ballast and beam,
cannon-fire bombasting flesh and bone,
groans of death ---
such dreary breath!
of decay centuries old
The Rose of all that is Earth,
her petals unsheathed,
torn for time ---
tear and antiquity ---
her red sheen lilts in the new day sun,
begging for Love, she asks:
Shall they come?
Categories:
absalom, hero, hope, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Abraham the father of the faithful
Barnabas the encourager so graceful
Caleb who believed victory to bring
David the shepherd boy became king
Exodus the book containing God's law
Felix reasoned with Paul found no flaw
Genesis tells of God's work of creation
Habakkuk rejoiced in God of his salvation
Isaiah prophesied the suffering of the Lord
Jacob succeeded in prevailing with God
Kidron brook where David from Absalom fled
Luke the gospel writer and physician well read
Matthew followed Jesus call to leave his tax
Nehemiah sought to rebuild city wall no time to relax
Obadiah a chief in house of king Ahab
Paul the chief apostle so very fab
Quails God's wilderness dessert to eat
Resurrection of Christ our heavenly seat
Satan hater of God's church constantly lies
Tomb from where Jesus indeed did rise
Uriah wrong by King David for Barsheba
Veil was torn it's meaning so deeper
Whale where Jonah was for days three
Xerxes was king when Esther set Jews free
Yoke which Jesus spoke of his being light
Zechariah was God's prophet to tell what's right
Categories:
absalom, bible, god, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
King David and Bathsheba…
David was a great king,
who sinned and took a great fall.
As lust grabbed his heart,
When Bathsheba he saw!
In his heart... he sinned as
lust was conceived.
A plan of murderous lot
was soon achieved!
This sin led to another!
King David planned….
To have Bathsheba's husband
killed by his enemies’ hands..
The consequences of his sin
was later explained.
His first born died, and his
son Absalom was slain.
Once his sin was conceived,
it brought heartache and death.
Sin is always this way--
until you take your last breath!.
Think of the consequences
sin always brings!.
And think of what happened
To David the king!
By Jim Pemberton UNSUPPORTED CODE
Categories:
absalom, dedication, depression, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Fleeing Temptation's Grasp...
There was a great king,
whom did sin and fall.
David. When from his balcony,
Bathsheba he saw.
In his heart... he sinned as
lust was conceived.
A plan of muder in his heart
was soon received.
This sin led to another
and had soon willed.
To have Bathsheba's
husband to be killed.
The consequences of his sin
was later explained.
His first born died, and his
son Absalom was slain.
Once his sin was conceived,
it brought lust and soon death.
Sin is always this way--
until you take your last breath.
Think of the consequences...
and flee tempation FAST.
Enjoy a victory and blessings
from God that will last!
By Jim Pemberton
Categories:
absalom, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
There was a great king,
whom did sin and fall.
David. When from his balcony,
Bathsheba he saw.
In his heart... he sinned as
lust was conceived.
A plan of muder in his heart
was soon received.
This sin led to another
and had soon willed.
To have Bathsheba's
husband to be killed.
The consequences of his sin
was later explained.
His first born died, and his
son Absalom was slain.
Once his sin was conceived,
it brought lust and soon death.
Sin is always this way--
until you take your last breath.
Think of the consequences...
and flee tempation FAST.
Enjoy a victory and blessings
from God that will last!
By Jim Pemberton
2007
Categories:
absalom, faithsin,
Form: Rhyme
There was a great king,
whom did sin and fall.
David. When from his balcony,
Bathsheba he saw.
In his heart... he sinned as
lust was conceived.
A plan of muder in his heart
was soon received.
This sin led to another
and had soon willed.
To have Bathsheba's
husband to be killed.
The consequences of his sin
was later explained.
His first born died, and his
son Absalom was slain.
Once his sin was conceived,
it brought lust and soon death.
Sin is always this way--
until you take your last breath.
Think of the consequences...
and flee tempation FAST.
Enjoy a victory and blessings
from God that will last!
By Jim Pemberton
05/14/08
Categories:
absalom, devotion, faith, family, father,
Form: Rhyme