To care for a sheep’s not an executive task
for such a position few men ask
It lacks any prestige and pays so little
shepherds outearned by subway fiddlers
Yet Joseph’s brothers all tended sheep
as did the celebrated Little Bo-Peep
And God chose Moses to lead the Israelites
When Moses rescued a lamb low on electrolytes
Great leaders have made their mark tending sheep
Their incomes and hours who would want to keep
Beware the catch 22
You're damned if you don't, and damned if you do.
Take a drug so cancer won't restart
Side effects give you a congestive heart
Thin the blood so a stroke won't begin,
Internal bleeding and you just can't win.
I got a wolf by the ears
Can't bite me yet, but I'm shedding tears.
When I let go, he'll take a bite
I'm losing my grip, I'm turning white.
You're sorry for those single Mothers
Didn't have husbands, just "significant others"
So you subsidize them with taxpayer billions:
Now more on welfare, about six millions.
You need the cops to pursue a story, to prove you're not mad
But the story is extreme, so no investigation will be had.
Between a rock and a hard place, you're stuck in a bind
I don't blame you for going out of your mind.
You need experience to get a job, but there's a Catch22
Without a job, can't get experience, so what can you do?
Life writes riddles that are hard to circumvent
The path you thought was straight was crooked and bent.
Turn to the left and the trouble grows,
Turn to the right and the same wind blows.
So you laugh a little, though you really feel blue:
That's the strange world of Catch-22.
My contribution to this Christmas
is taken from Joseph's point of view.
As he was not allowed
to father his young
betrothed Mary's son
he probably saw it for himself as
the 'Immaculate Contraception'.
If we can have, 'Good will toward men,'
women too
at Christmas,
why not the whole year through?
For then we may
live to love another day
and all the while the world will smile
as war shall cease
and come to pass...
'On earth peace.'
A man who wrote with strokes so bold’ of the
Struggle of humanity.. Long may his excerpts
Be told’ he helped write the American constitution, all his writes are original; and Often Concerned with restitution.. Yet too much
To satan I see he gave, with that line on ruling
A error (most grave!) though he was only human as
Anne Lise put on shaky…Yet effects are far reaching, through many a century..’ As I will
Here put this man’s work on the whole was good’ yet I’d not give a whit to the devil..’ if
I do? Then condemn me, that things may be
That be well understood.’ Consider Joseph in
The Egypt of old, who gathered the grain and
Kept it as gold, slowly he took all the people did
Hold, then put them in usury.. Was God really
Glad? It says much of the world that he”s a
Hero at all. Do we have inbuilt moral decrepitude? What say ye all.?
Demilade Ayomiposi Malia Joseph by Adejola Joseph an award winning poet. Author of Cracks On The Walls .
Demilade
Spring out of ocean
Water in the desert
My sweetest princess
You are the epitome of beauty
Virtuous than all the glamours of rubies
My daughter
My pearl
I love you so much
I love you.
Pageantry
(I TOO AM JOSEPH SON)
Speculatory travesty
I fell down on my knees
I stood before the tree
I should have been on the tree
But the grace of Jesus the grace of my Father El Shaddai found me
And maybe I should have been blind after I came after brother him 9 months
Too separated but we were close like skin Maybe we too should have been twins
Troubled by and in this world
Pageantry
Been giving breath of life you see Daily Grace
What's up positivity
I seek to sail I walked underwater seas
As my Father’s Cries Out come out walk with me
Like Joseph's father told his brothers come Adorn
Pageantry
Him with the purple robe and they all gathered and my Father was there
And we all celebrated with food and celebration
We stood apart
But together with one heart and in ... Pageantry
I am of royal priesthood
Roger Joseph Ebert
on film judging was an expert
so, upon his review
would he give two thumbs up to my clerihew
Joseph William Namath
was known to be bold and brash
predicted a major Super Bowl upset win
then modeled Beautymist pantyhose with a grin
Trump Tosa and his musky rat
Top buddies - (we’ll see about that)
Trump’s proved he’s not quitter
Counting votes from X (twitter)
Next Potus should be Democrat!
Con Trumpster has fallen from grace
He’s pleading “Launch me in to space”
Send me off to Mars
I’ll escape prison bars
And Musk Rat has a smile on his face!
Soon spaceman Trumpy’s in a rocket
‘Pal’ Elon tampers with a sprocket
What Trumpy doesn’t know
He on a one way show
The ‘return’ button’s in musk rat’s pocket!
But sadly, this poem’s a dream
Trumps got ‘Musky Rat’ on his team
The earth is in crisis
These guys roll the dices
I’m sorry for letting off steam!
I took a ride today
Stopped at the cemetery
And looked to the skies
Then lowering my head and hands
At the American Legion section
I saluted the remains of those soldiers
WW1 WW2 Korean Vietnam
All the vets!
Hallelujah thank you for your service
Salute
Praise God for you who now sleep
Ever present
with the Lord Our God
You remains bones in the grave
Not your true self
Thank you for your up bringing
Co providing, ever fighting
For our liberty
We life you up before God
and man
Heavenly birthday Joseph Lee
My earthen father , my dad
To you and your comrades
We thank thee
Fellow soldiers, brothers, uncles, grandfathers
In God you'll all take your lead
Now inferred in Our Heavenly Father's Army
9/09/24
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024©
You are old, Uncle Joseph,
your short stepping gait
has aroused much comment
in the media of late.
My steps may be short
but I still get along.
Like Johnny Walker
I'm still going strong.
You are old, Uncle Joseph.
If I err, please forgive..
Your memory, they say,
somewhat resembles a sieve.
Being forgetful isn't so bad
and let me tell you why.
It often avoids the embarrassment
of having to tell a lie.
You are old Uncle Joseph,
you look like a clown
on certain occasions
when you nearly fall down.
Young man, whatever you say
i can still pull a mighty hard punch,
so why not take an old man's advice
and leave straight away to have lunch.
Who do you call
when there’s nothing to share
How do you act
with tomorrow unfair
What do you dream
when your sleep is deprived
Why are the questions
though answered, contrived
When did your wonder
wander away
When did the path
eternally stray
How did the moment
slip over the line
How will you tell me
— your memory gone blind
(North Wales Pennsylvania: January, 2024)
Well "Hello darkness, my old friend,"
Time for the sea and sky to blend.
Daytime work will come to an end,
And now homeward bound I will wend.
At night with tired workers, I blend.
Well "Hello darkness, my old friend."
"Through narrow streets of cobblestone."
In a crowd and feeling alone.
"Are written on the subway walls",
Phone numbers that no-one recalls.
Well "Hello darkness, my old friend".
Stay with me til home I ascend.
With night I draw an alliance.
"Whispered in the sounds of silence."
We’ll be together til night’s end.
Well "Hello darkness, my old friend."
Words from "The Sounds of Silence" By Paul Simon
Joseph Biden, President,
Current White House resident.
His faculties are in decline,
But his handlers say he's doing fine.
Had Joseph Haydn
Thought that a French «poet»
Would listen to his symphony number 7,
In a car facing a lake,
In July 2023?
The answer is NO,
Had Joseph Haydn
Thought,
That his music would be heard
By so many people
On records or CDs?
The answer is NO.
Would Joseph Haydn
Have imagined
That an Austro Hungarian orchestra
Would play his music in Los Angeles,
Play For quiet melomanes?
The answer is NO.
Basically, a genius
Don’t think he’ll change the world,
Or that it will change people’s lives,
He has no idea he’s a genius
And that time will prove him right.
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