Long Unfruitful Poems

"Who Put Luebella down the Wych Elm?"

There are rumours
about me, some 
come seeking me
with their geiger counters
and ouji boards
with their heart 
shaped planchettes

unanswered questions
in the woods, crackling
within the sounds of leaves
invisible dead things speaking 
underfoot...

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It was the weekend, and I was sleeping late that day,
Alone with the morning, while savoring marvels of May.

As I drowsed luxuriantly, at the outskirts of dreams,
I heard a strange sound, while soaking in gay...

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I talk with indigenous treed elders;
Tell them about my distractions
divisions
severance in-between
secular and sacred beings,
between human nature and divine spirit,
between ecological relationship
and theological redemption.

Communing cultures
and structures
return a secularized version
of theological Earth/Heaven
humanely rooted
and divinely radiant
empowering
enlightening relationships

Popularly seeded...

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Parent-like, I looked at my past and the Resolutions
 once made.
In doing so I asked myself: "What are Resolutions
anyway"?
Are they initial Collections of thoughts, plans, 
Plots, fine proposals, investments and more,
That were all carefully thought...

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O beloved Christian Pilgrim, as you are busily traveling heavenward,
on your's life's journey's.  Please tell your beloved Lord and Savior
very clearly as it can possibly be.  When your journey ends and you
enter into...

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They all used to be in the 'Kwaya'.
Every Sundays and even Midweek,
Ate the bread and drank the blood at the altar.
Sang like angels but spiritually weak.

They are the saints during worship sessions,
Sweet-sounding tongues that thrill...

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Common Sense

Common sense putting dents in ya system,
Upon Zen, forgotten Presidents and Christians,
Yeah I dismiss them, I’m a contender, defender of my realm,
Surrender ya pretender, center of reality? Fallibly conceptualized, 
Here ya find my rhymes,...

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Just let go! Let it flow! Let it flow! Let it flow!
Everything’s gonna work out right you know.
I’m looking for a better day. You’re still looking at my yesterday.
You’re playing the same old lame games...

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GOD ABSOLUTELY LOVES COLOR!!!

Have you ever really contemplated the varieties
of colors in flowers, fish, birds, animals even
the beautiful sunsets in the heaven at times?
Then why don’t we appreciate the colors GOD has
made in creating man?...

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Death orifice my Libidinous command,
I contras life's ecumenical demand!
Now reach down in this thistle grim,
Desolate me with the edged limb.
Grant this voyeur that glimpse of dead,
A comatose where life and I unwed...
As minutes kiss my...

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September 3 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Zechariah 11-14

Key Verse – Zechariah 11:5 Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY GOOD...

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 God as conscience is that inner voice within me,
the infinite spirit that has formed my morals;
a holy power that reminds me of my duty and scruples,
and each day I thank God for his divine...

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i wake up every morning
 questioning my entire existence
 they say i must be persistent 
 but i ask myself is god really present or absent
 you folks say to make it i have to...

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Can your calluses callus enough that God’s touch
will not touch a nerve ending (to reach you) if God
wants to kiss you (wants contact?) Yes, there! I’d guess not!
But that does leave unanswered if God would...

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Steal away the idol children
Work ‘em to death,
give them no pay
Carry their cries 
	      on a plaintive wind

Pilfer their graven image mind
Then fill it with empty thoughts
of caste assimilation

Melting pot...

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This poem was written for my friend Sonya Mako Wong



Kung Fu Chop Suey

On my twenty-fifth birthday off to China's best travelled I went
So very unfruitful and unaware I enormously lost all my money thus spent,
Then...

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Have no fellowship with unfruitful dark                             ...

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I stood by your side through good and bad times;
I comforted, loved and cared for you-
Doing my best to see that, together, we would make it through
But you took our vows for granted and went...

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And let me have all the freedom I need
Let me write my scarred frustrations 
on this paper and make the pen bleed
Time wounds all heels and sowing this literary crop unreaps the mighty seed

I hung...

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Cleaving to truth has established my soul
For heavenly and eternal goal
Toward triumphant endeavor so blest
In fulfilling God-assigned sublime role.

Practice of prayer is settling my best
Along God’s throne, drawing nigh to His breast
Seeking for revival of...

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An unfruitful fruit                                ...

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Married and full of hope
She dressed herself for fruit
Not knowing a war raged inside
And the enemy had taken valuable loot

Year after year she waited
As many celebrated life they'd produced
While she sat on the lonely pew
Cursing...

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I can see.
Flood of tears streaming down your delicate face.
Your rosy life replaced by a topsy turvy one faught with failure.
Filled with disappointments that have deprived you of precious sleep.
Laden with bouts of miscarriages and...

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The night sky is a vibrant green with a yellow haze,
Ever since the dropping of the bombs there is no more blue for us to gaze.

The fields lay barren, no crops can they produce, it’s...

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Lord please don’t forsake our country,

We once were the home of the brave, the land of the free.

We’ve closed our eyes and have covered our ears,

And fallen shamefully from Your grace, in this day of...

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