Best Overseers Poems

They sit high – very high
in their echelons of such great importance,
where they can look down 
on us
(all the millions of us excluded
from their exclusive...

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The puppet pranced
The strings frayed
A jackass brayed
As poppin’ hoppys
Sat and rose
In ballet dance
Of well browned nose
Applause and “clapture”
of Stockholm rapture
A mocking strut
Of failing stature

Overseers jaundiced...

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Ghetto me be a bleating poor refugee,
albeit I’m Goshen rich in faith
Got a manger stall in the USA,
Pilate shepherd of the Cesarian peace

Time stamped stillborn...

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Tears of our fathers of old
A silent cry through whips of toil
In rain and in the frozen cold
They work the harvest of the soil.

Tears of...

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I aim always to make money
My plantations have made me wealthy but
Along the way I might have lost my humanity
In the meantime I will love...

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WAKE UP CALL

Wake up Congolese, wake up
It is morning, the sun arises from the east 
Open your eyes and wake up. 
I am Kongolo Congo,...

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GOD NEEDS A GREEN CARD

God had a green card
But cannot get back in the gate.
The Bricks are thick
But not so tall, I think
God may need...

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Weep

When will you cry?
Will you cry when they kill all your dreams
or when the sun stops
setting? Or when you cannot have kids,
or when they cancel...

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I once heard of  an old man who lived in a faraway land.He built his castle on a hill so that he could keep...

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The original version of this piece is too long for me 
to post in its entirety, so it had to be sectioned off. Of 
all...

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The story of my unique biosystem
goes back,
as does yours,
through six degrees of separation,
each with its own dominant culture,
tincture,
color,
taste and feel.

Feedback loops began with rainbows
and tidal...

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There was a aseason

When love was love
the educated are uneducated
hunger was hung in daylight
when sins were seen in scenes

There was a season

when poverty was prohibited
obscenity...

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Even--------when life is like a vapor, and uncertained
When-------the day of death shall come
I------------remind myself, I am not dead...I...
Am---------not...
Dead-------; I never had my grave
I------------know my life...
Shall-------come...

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Think of the first world war
think of young Princip
his mud floor house 
with stones for walls

Poverty and shame
it was hard to make an existence
it was...

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Commitment to Christ and to His church* He cares...
Calls for courageous devotion to the Creator God constantly
Carrying Christians toward communion midst His concern
Ceaselessly championing Christian...

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