Long St james Poems

Healing Win/Lose EgoNomial Intent

We belong together
Through all kinds of colonizing corporate weather,
We belong creolizing together.

So sings my mitochondrial DNA
when I listen deeply
to all prior matriarchal regenerations
speaking in still 
soft 
timeless win/win voices

Especially about polycultural outcome...

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A rising sun burns like a solar flare
  from St. Augustine to St. Clair,
to daze me from sleep’s tranquil hold
  and dreams of serendipities of old -
to rise again the boy I was...

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From north, south, east and west 
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend. 

Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims...

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"Exegesis"



At 7 he was 
thrown to the wolves

Bede marked his territory
hidden secrets 
kept in the abbey

he escaped
went to war
where the unwanted trod

First regiment,
Vietnam
he took with him
like a comfort blanket
his Nicene creed and God

and on returning...

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A Priest Who Had Schumer Humor

Our priest had almost been a baby boomer,
Who is religious and we even heard a rumor
He did dodge,
Having a massage;
Has friend named Schumer with much humor.

Priest always thought he was...

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Death and Dying in Dallas

Death and dying in Dallas seems to have all 
started with the death of President Kennedy.

The following is all true and actually, recently
happened in my life. The essay was written
to describe...

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Feeling very trapped 
Dungeon canary getting ready to be zapped 
Proceed down a level 
Only giving a quotable shovel 
Building a winning case 
In a better place 
Riding in a vehicle to transfer 
Something in...

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Marcus, as a child heard it all, the oral stories
Ancient in glories quickening his vein. Like blood
Rolling where the Roaring river runs, peonies
Calling up ancestral history in dream and flood
Unfold desires of in streams of...

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            Containers come with different purposes 
            as they hold, wage, measure and...

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37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love...

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The Pelican 
such a comical clown
A stranger bird 
I’ve yet to have found
The longest beak
The  largest mouth
Though not too many
Here to be found
St James’ Park London
Where a trio can be seen
A gift from Russia...

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St. James Discernment Question Answers
Thank you answering these questions and helping the Discernment Committee
with it's work.

From: James Thomas Horn 
#1 Remember a moment that was a high point, when you felt our church was doing...

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Dying Is Horrifying

Has been sad to me;
Dying is horrifying;
Will never forget.

My wife Jill is in intensive care right now
under sedation. Sunday morning she had
shortness of breath. An aide car came out 
and gave her oxygen...

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Sunday Horn Haiku
Written on morning
of January 19, 2020
at St. James Episcopal
Church, Shallotte, NC

With God and His hand
We began to understand
Why minds will expand

We remember monk 
Who always would have much spunk
Slept in bottom bunk

God miracle...

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We were given pictures to use to orint poems around.
Here are the notes that I wrote to myself regarding this.

God a glorious path to me would show. Should have a     ...

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Should Have Seen

You should have seen what I saw;
Looked just like my mother in law;
Had been devoted;
Body badly bloated;
She called me a turkey in the straw.

Jim Horn

Think Turkey in the Straw is a dance.

Holy Rollers...

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And Remember Me In This New Heavenly Flight

Last night, I saw her dancing in the Milky Way.
Her singing, while walking along Montego Bay.

And when seeing me her voice gave a low quiver
Hers tears sent a...

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Church Vestry Meeting Horn Haiku

I am the vestry member in charge
of the church exterior and landscaping.
They requested a presentation from
each vestry member. This is mine so
I can print it out and also email. It
does not...

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She had an almost insane love of life,
Her attitude exuded abject fairness,
She was the abominably busy butcher’s wife,
Cancer treatments turned her suddenly quite hairless.
 
Her love of God and Savior was her guiding light.
No matter...

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Was listening to the 23d Psalm as we read it at St. James Episcopal Church in Shallotte, NC.
Went to Arbor Landing and attended Poetry Revisited that afternoon. I could detect a sense
of depression present there....

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Horn Haiku Splendid
Wish it had never ended
really intended

always will exhort
having to go to court
paying child support
(selling myself short)
(trip had to abort)
(taring down the fort)
(ship sank at the port)
(type of court was tort)

wort on skin -...

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Horn Haiku Splendid
Wish it had never ended
really intended

always will exhort
having to go to court
paying child support
(selling myself short)
(trip had to abort)
(taring down the fort)
(ship sank at the port)
(type of court was tort)

wort on skin -...

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Thing About It for a While

St. James is determined to be demanding
Resulting in a mysterious misunderstanding;
At Midway and Two Eleven much wind blows;
Have heard there won't be the likes of Lowes.

Also, is some news about...

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Read My Poems Will Not Wait

Put poems in church newsletter, I certainly do dare
All poets say mine have become beyond compare
Can constantly forever hold you in suspense
Give in by reading poems and be one that...

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Garden Golden Glove Award
(Or should that be Globe?)

Just dropping by St. James the Fisherman Church.
There was Father Dave doing all of his usual landscaping
work. He is really incredible. Not only does he help us
grow in...

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