The night I spent at the homeless shelter
Was due to fear of being helter skelter
By my aunts husband a retired marine
Who pointed a shotgun as he screamed
I was a guest in their habitat house
It took much less for me to get out
He won’t do it my aunt would say
But I didn’t trust and had a babe
In my arms my curly brown infant
His smile charms except the demented
So I left went by taking a bus
No place to go no one to trust
Eventually I called my father
Despite his addiction he did bother
A friend he knew for us to crash
Live at his home sleep in his pad
Hurricane Hugo hit Charlotte hard
I was blessed despite it by God
During the storm I breastfed
Kept baby warm in quilt red
Sometimes storms are to guide
Despite my circumstances I would fly
Graduate college not once but twice
Lost my desire to sing but instead write
Looking back I know God is a way maker
That me and my son were blessed by Savior
Frazzled freakish freckled Flo
Generously gives gifts on the go
Huckster Hugo has eyes for Flo
If they get together, who will know?
Just Jeremy, Jenny, Jimmy and Joe
Kindly crazy kin set up a glow
Lighting the meadow for Hank and Flo
Midnight merriment, a fireworks show
Hugo was a huge hurricane in Carolina
Unfortunately I was homeless then
Right then God being the designer
Red shelter found with kind garbage man
I had a three month old baby boy
Cherry cries for he felt my fear
Angels seem to fill amber void
Needing grace God kept us near
Embrace of His hand so dear
Your thick neck and graceful eyes,,
Zafar Khan you are a tiger with ties.
Zafar Khan Down do you pay your taxes?
Why are you interested in different sexes?
this great story is comparable ~ to parables in holy writ
A judge ruled a man is not cursed
By the name by which he was nursed
So his wife's not to blame
That his friends cause him shame
When she tells them all, "Hugo first!"
Poor huge man who believes
further large...
In front of Everest,
or grand canyon
it's simple dwarf,
In the immense desert,
it's tiny grain... !
Victor Hugo "Love Stronger Than Time"
Translation by Michael Burch
Since I first set my lips to your full cup,
Since my pallid face first nested in your hands,
Since I sensed your soul and every bloom lit up—
Till those rare perfumes were lost to deepening sands;
Since I was once allowed those pleasures deep—
To hear your heart speak mysteries, divine;
Since I have seen you smile, have watched you weep,
Your lips pressed to my lips, your eyes on mine;
Since I have sensed above my thoughts the gleam
Of a ray, a single ray, of your bright star
(If sometimes veiled), and felt light falling stream,
Like one rose petal plucked from high, afar;
I now can say to time's swift-changing hours:
Pass, pass upon your way, for you grow old;
Flee to the dark abyss with your drear flowers,
but one unmarred within my heart I hold.
Your flapping wings may jar but cannot spill
The cup fulfilled of love, from which I drink;
My heart has fires your frosts can never chill,
My soul more love to fly than you can sink.
Poem Eviradnus By Hugo
Wherever you may go either fast or slow
Eventually always will have run into Hugo;
A poem created;
Consummated,
And tried and true and then to and fro.
Jim Horn
Will you go, Hugo, a-marching with me?
Will you go, Hugo, way down to the sea?
Over the hills we go, into the sun
(Shining on flowers and kissing each one).
Into the wind we go, singing so fair,
Skipping a song on the bright summer air!
Under the bridge we go, hollering loud;
Hollering, hollering, hollering proud!
Down to the sand we go, down to the shore,
Down where the waves are a lion a-roar!
Over the hills and on down to the sea,
Will you go, Hugo, a-marching with me?
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