I saw you live on the Facebook portal today.
How we are not is the intention as we see
An Adam’s apple in gracious mode
in graceful absence of becoming.
We let you be, and it is still.
An ocean surge within every mode of “I second
you”
As the clock dials with three slender hands
with the ticking band width of an enormous
resonance
A speaker, and a speech and a witnessing door
in gathering morn, in gathering chorus, along the
seashore.
It was the IOWA victory speech, and I still ponder,
Should they initial IA, as we bless that God will
know,
I still find a silent line, as these three hands are
calm,calmer with the L for any fallible kind. None.
DEATH OF KING HUSSEIN
February 7, 1999 Amman, Jordan
Uncertain wings, Hawk of the Qureish fly
out of the night to meet the coming day
of certain mourning, he is set to die
as is uncertain peace that was his way.
Amman is crying, streets are washed with tears
of followers and tribesmen of his own
who've prayed for miracles down through the years
but he is all the miracle they've known.
The powder keg is primed, and set to blow
what peace he's made now hostage to the past,
and still the Jordan makes it's dreary flow
through all his world and time that can not last.
divided tribes are joining, aiming for
a swift, decisive act of holy war.
© Ron Wilson aka Vee Bdosa the Doylestown Poet
Barack Hussein Obama
would surely shake hands with the Dalai Lama,
the pope and Billy Graham - because now is the time
to rid the world of hate crime!
He respects the constitution
and understands what our forefathers meant
by, "We the People", but like a politician
he stays true 'long as it's convenient!
(THIS IS THE SECOND POEM DEDICATED TO THE US PRESIDENT IN HIS QUEST FOR A SECOND TERM)
Bit and bit together become whole,
And coin and coin fills the treasure.
Right and wrong never agree;
And little and little satisfies the measure!
Careless mischief is a dangerous thing.
Kenyans do cheerfully sing!
Here is advice for Barack Hussein Obama,
Unbeatable true son of the soil.
Sure and unbending must be your strategy;
See clearly there no chances to spoil!
Earnest and apt must be your plans,
Indefatigable must be your spirit:
Never lacking zeal, and dreaming deeds full of merit!
Our prayers we do say day and night,
By our firesides were rant our supplications,
And plead that you take courage in this fight.
May yours be a full and overflowing cup,
And may the Kenyan flag be always up!
DEATH OF KING HUSSEIN February 7, 1999
Uncertain wings, Hawk of the Qureish fly
out of the night to meet the coming day
of certain mourning, he is set to die
as is uncertain peace that was his way.
Amman is crying, streets are washed with tears
of followers and tribesmen of his own
who've prayed for miracles down through the years
but he is all the miracle they've known.
The powder keg is primed, and set to blow
what peace he's made now hostage to the past,
and still the Jordan makes it's dreary flow
through all his world and time that can not last.
divided tribes are joining, aiming for
a swift, decisive act of holy war.
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