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The Bahama Islands
our nation of shallow seas
our archipelago in the sun we live on
which the Lord our God
laid our foundation of life
upon the shallow plantations
of The Atlantic Ocean
We are a consecrated nation
the envy of our Greater Antillean siblings
the best kept secret
for in the eyes of our Creator
our seas as transparent
as the bottom of a glass window boat
and prickly coral reefs
glistening like Christmas lights
an easy targets for astronauts
to choose next year's tropical vacation
while spying from deep space
Columbus and the Spaniards
even called us "Baja Mar"
because of our glorious foundation
upon the shallow seas
from our Mighty Creator from up above
hence our area code being 242
OH MY JESUS SAVE US FROM THE FIRES.OF HELL AND LEAD ALL SOULS TO HEAVEN ESPECIALLY THOSE MOST IN NEED OF THY MERCY MY GOD PETE WHY DID YOU TELL ME YOU WERE IN HIDING THIS WAY LOOKING FOR A NEW IDENTITY TO HIDE BEHIND I REALIZE CIRO’S IDENTITY WASN'T A GREAT FIT ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU WEREN'T TWINS NO WAY YOU BOTH BORN IN 1934 YOU IN OCTOBER CIRO IN DECEMBER IT'S CLEAR ALL THE CARDS AND LETTERS FROM MA YOU WERE BORN 1937 UNLESS YOU AND CIRO WERE TWINS BUT THEN NO TWINS HAVE EVER BEEN BORN 2 MONTHS APART NOW HOW ARE YOU GOING TO GET AWAY WITH BEING BORN IN 1949 YOU SHOULD REALLY TRY SOMETHING NEW SOMETHING FITTING YOUR AGE YOU ARE A GARGANO FOR CHRIST SAKE WHAT ABOUT YOUR KIDS GRAND KIDS WHY ARE YOU SO ALONE IN THESE TENDER YEARS I DO FEEL AWFUL TRULY MY WONDERFUL HUSBAND AND I DONATES TO ST FRANCIS XAVIOR OH PETER ARE YOU WELL HOWS YOUR CANCER YOUR HEART WOWBI MUST PRAY FOR YOUR SOUL RIGHT NOW AND YOU PRAY TOO HOW'D YOU SURVIVE CIRO’S MADNESS HOLDING ON FOR DEAR LIFE JUST ANOTHER BIRTHDAY WHY YOU'RE ONLY 88 YEARS OLD I DON'T KNOW HOW I COULD HELP YOU I AM SURE THE KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS IN SAN CARLOS BEACH AND YOUR WONDERFUL FAMILY CAN PROVIDE YOUR CONTINUED CARE HOWS SANDY AND CHRISTINA WHAT A BLESSING TO HAVE SUCH A HUGE FAMILY OF LOVED ONES MOST OF ALL YOUR LOVING WIFE WHY YOU GUYS HAS BEEN TOGETHER OVER 60 YEARS NOW PETE TRUE PIONEERS ALL THE BEST WOW 88 YEARS AND STILL STRONG AS EVER KEEP STRIVING PETE GOD BE WITH YOU ALWAYS
"You can never cross the ocean until
You have the courage to lose sight
Of the shore". Christopher Columbus
There are things I have done and places
I have gone that I don't know that I would
do and go again. I'm referring to good things
Done and dangerous places gone.
From 1968-1972, I was a college student
in Chicago preparing for Christian ministry.
The faith and confidence exercised by me
On the streets of Chicago's West And South
Sides in the late 60's and early 70's, was
Indeed a 'God Thing'. I don't believe that I
Could do it again.
Indeed, my young life back then and there
Could best be described by the words of
Christopher Columbus. "You can never cross
The ocean until you have the courage to lose
Sight of the shore". Sometimes, looking back,
I say to myself, "Did I do that? Did I go there?
Surely, I walked on those dangerous gang and
Drug infested streets, but God protected me.
With heart-felt memories, I must honestly say,
Surely, that was then, and this is now.
Again, looking back, I can express or share a
Phrase of my own that well describes the
Path of my life. "May the tracts of your past
Reveal a forward mobility".
"Turn on the television",
Says an angel munching popcorn,
At the end of each century
"What are the humans up to?"
15th Century:
Columbus exploring lands on unending voyages
Enchanting symphonies of musicians
Words printed publicly
On yet another note,
Empires waging wars for supremacy
16th Century:
Shakespeare sprinkles an era of Literature
Novel religions blend together
World marvels at inventions
Oh! Their foolish twist,
Struggling against man made plagues
17th Century:
Pascal, Boyle, Newton bask in glorious Science
Folks marvel at exquisite cuisines
Discover how universe expands
But humans need a change,
How about propagating slavery
18th Century:
Darwin and Berkeley penetrate philosophic minds
Austen explores societal strata
Mozart floats among harps
Well enough, humans think
Let's plot royal conspiracies
19th Century:
Civilizations soar with industrial revolution
Pasteur creates life-saving vaccines
Giant machines uplift cities
Isn't that much for now
Time to expand slave colonies
20th Century:
Theories leave immortal traces in all fields
Carbon dating, electromagnetic rays,
Nuclear reactions building spaceships
Humans have a different need
Devastating nuclear bomb thrills
Bored, angels switch to channel Earth
Only two decades past 21st century,
Interstellar voyages, flying planes,
A primitive human wouldn't believe,
But oh they can never change,
Bubbling venom of cold wars,
Dead humanity, tortured nature,
Cheap thrills of pointless debates.
"Okay that's been a while I say,
It is time to give them a taste.
At regular intervals in this century,
Humans with their wolfish greed
Surpassing idiocy need a pause."
Combating over money, religions,
Nature, opinions, nothing else
While humans oppose each other
Forgetting to ponder their doings
Angels and demons dance together
Letting nature throw up for a while
God laughs as he tunes for showtime,
"And now for something completely different..."
May 20, 2020
Limited to one change in my past.
Tricky idea
There are so many mistakes I would like to correct.
Wait! Here is the one that started me on my life of crime.
The day I yelled NO in a mean, loud way to my teacher.
And she made me sit in the alcove for an hour wearing a dunce cap
So all the kids could make fun of me.
1958. Chariton, Iowa, Columbus School.
I would go back and bomb that school
So no one would laugh at me.
No. wait. Maybe I would go back and just try my damnest not to yell no
to my first grade teacher.
I doubt if that would work though, because I remember trying not to do it.
Wait!
I would go back to November 22nd, 1963
Columbus School , when I came back from lunch at home
And some big kid yelled from the top floor
“Hey, the President was shot!”
and I yelled back “The president of what?”
I would like a redo of that moment.
Then I would feel smarter somehow.
Ethnicity
When I came to England
I couldn`t get a job opened a café instead
in a district called Wavertree, Liverpool
Someone said Jews live there I didn`t see any
the people I befriended told me they were Jewish
that made no difference to me.
I never cared what ethnicity people, have never had.
But I`m highly critical of Israel which I regard as
racist country an apartheid state
that treat the Palestinians
the way the Nazi did to the Jews
and other minorities.
It is therefore offensive
to call the Jews an evil race
as they are victims
of the Zionists just like us.
History, Columbus and Friends
To be on the right side of History you must make friends
History is the study of the past
Sponsored by political winds and spins
Lincoln sells cars on TV and kills vampires in movies
George Washington makes dollar bills
“Cesar” was a salad
Kansas is Central America…. (not sure what country)
The rest of the world does not exist
Columbus sometimes discovered America
With his Master card and Visa
Other times it’s Leif Erickson who found the USA
Or some ancient Asians but I can’t pronounce their names
And they don’t have parades
So Happy Columbus Day
I’ll have a beer and another slice of pizza
7/24/21
She ain't got a clue
And neither do
The rest of you
All this dumb s***
A continual ruckus
Spreading like a harmful fungus
Very little if any justice
Always in a state of numbness
Sometimes it all makes me sick to my stomach
While at the summit of a cliff
Feeling like I want to jump it
And plummet
Will suffer on or I'll be done quick
Don't sound the trumpets
Or act like Columbus
Animals and materials becoming scarce, no longer in abundance
At times it can be loveless
Yet sometimes wondrous
While going your own way or following a compass
Either nothing or something below and above us
Haven't found what I'm needing
Searching every day and evening
After whatever it is I'm seeking
Trying to grasp the true meaning
Of it all before I'm leaving
Beauty and terrible things I'm seeing
More than just a human being
Always taking a beating
Continually bleeding
Difficulty sleeping
Sometimes wheezing
Having trouble breathing
I use to often be dreaming
And scheming
It's all become displeasing
Despite what I was believing
Not doing well at stacking money to the ceiling
I've been in more than my feelings
It's gone past the point of screaming or weeping
Constantly reeling
And freewheeling
Before the paint starts peeling
Connecting the dots
This all has got to stop
I want a lot
Far past time I shot my shot
And pop it off
Right on the spot
"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, "I'm possible!" ~ Audrey Hepburn
Two powerful words both very shockable.
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." ~ Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus opened wide the door,
to see and hear the ocean roar.
"Life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent of how I react to it." ~ Charles Swindoll
In life I will not quit,
for God gave me the wit.
"If the wind will not serve, take the oars" ~ Latin Proverb
Will the wind open the doors?
Maybe showing sea dinosaurs.
"Fall seven times and stand up eight" ~ old proverb
What will be my fate?
Getting back up will make me great.
Each one here has a different meaning,
some from life and some from dreaming.
"Fall seven times and stand up eight." — Old Proverb
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." — Christopher Columbus
There dawn full oft an undiscerning hour
When every charter yieldeth unto mist,
And Confidence, relinquishing her power,
Must sue to Faith where Reason doth desist.
Yet Providence, whose counsels never sleep,
Keeps hidden harvests for the souls that keep.
Then from antiquity there soundeth clear
The ancient benison no years abate:
"Fall seven times and stand up eight."
Not as a charm to banish grief or fear,
But as the covenant whereby we prove
That steadfast hearts outlive the wounds they move.
For overthrow is but the sterner school
Wherein the unconquered spirit learns her art;
Adversity, though tyrannous in rule,
Refines the adamant within the heart.
The oak's dominion, vast against the sky,
Was once a hope no eye could descry.
Thereafter comes another sovereign word,
Whose summons biddeth timid spirits soar:
"You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
No mariner hath any kingdom won
Who hugged the haven fear had sanctified;
New continents await the faithful tide.
For every noble vocation asketh this:
Some cherished certainty must be resigned;
No higher benediction comes amiss
Unto the soul still fettered in the mind.
The eagle claimeth not empyreal air
Until it trust the currents hidden there.
Thus have these venerable sayings wrought
A jurisprudence graven on my breast:
That every trial beareth secret thought,
And every tempest laboureth our best.
The darkest vigil, faithfully endured,
Leaves inward realms for evermore secured.
Therefore I leave one sentence of mine own,
Not born of ease, but long affliction's fire:
"Whoso keepeth faith with the highest good, though every visible warrant perish, shall discover that Providence hath already builded the bridge whereunto his steadfast feet were called."