Short Methuselah Poems

Wisdom comes with age to those who live long enough!...

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Captain Kirk told God, "I'm exploring
So you are bound to see me soaring
But man alive
That damn warp drive
Sounds worse than Methuselah snoring!"...

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embalmed in the roots
                                  beneath the methuselah
                                    muffled her still cry




20\8\19
Howmanysyllables...

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I have lived for Thirty years
Yet I feel antiquely old
Aged and grey, my youthful fears
That my Beauty may grow cold
Am I as Awful as I appear?
I've no more Suitors in the fold…...

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The Willow


Rhododendron,
Baobab,
Methuselah.
Steadfast. Unbent. Pliable.
Wind. Water. Fire.
Arrow. Sword. Brick. 
Cupid’s missile.
Weeping Willow.
Rigid. 
Frigid.
A ladder. 
The tower.
Faithless Leap.
The salt water stings. 
Weeping Willow....

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As Yggdrasil stretches into heaven
Hyperion watches a new Armageddon
As General Sherman towers above
Methuselah cradles a mourning dove

Old Tjikko refuses to bend
The baobab thwarts the wind
The Tree That Owns Itself
Will never, ever be compelled

The Cedars of God remain
Despite any flood or hurricane...

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OLD MAN THUSE

Was Methuselah an ancient astronaut?
Did he live nine hundred years?
Yes to both say a few enlightened seers

Did he visit Earth in a rocket ship?
Did he wear a space suit?
Possibly    and used a laser gun to boot

Did Ezekiel really see a wheel way up in the middle of the air?
Was old Methuselah piloting that space ship?
Had he taken an impossibly long trip?

Truth is    no one really knows
Witnesses     though many    are all dead
Belief must be taken on faith    enough said...

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