The Heavenly Host

I stand by a tree, who is my friend;
I met him long ago--many eons--
And upon my millennia strolls
I came upon this tree, and it saluted me.
My heart in childish glee played jump rope
And ate the berries from its boughs
And we for long times communed
In the way a man communes with nature.
I told him my joys, and it made animated breaths
And shivered, and was happy and carefree as me.
And when I parted from that tree
I had the heart of a little joyful child
And wandered my way, to meet my friend
Many eons and infinite would be our meetings
And every tree I met, that clapped for me
I shall meet and speak, for time is eternal---
Understand this concept. Every heavenly bouth
All infinite of them, I shall befriend and meet
And infinitely be pleased by their fruits
And so with the kine and children of God
Whom every heavenly host I shall meet
And infinitely meet them for infinite time
And each personality shall I know
And every fruit tree, animal, fish, and bird
Shall I know, and scatter the seed of joy
Throughout the kingdom wherever I walk
It shall be claimed.

Bonhoeffer

In you was a heart of gold
And lead tongue.
You were a man who lived the Gospel
Not one who preached it very well.

The Ballad of Matilda

Ah, Matilda and David, you have
Gained through Scythian war the world.
Ah, Ferguson, Matilda Maeve,
You three gained possession
And took the burden off of my yoke.
I did not want it... you may infinitely have.
Make many children, and sire many young
And remove the curse far from me
As far as the East is from the West.
You have fought well, and gained it.
And I thank you, for now I do not hold
The contemptible office my soul dreads
But you do, for many ages and eons
May your reign last forever!

On Christian Law

I've never seen people righteous without faith. I see so much awful sin, and hear about it, I'm crawling with disgust and anger and restlessness. It's not even that people have good hearts; they're abominable without the LORD's righteousness. And history proves that, too. Even the religions such as Hinduism and Islam and Buddhism are saturated with Christ (As the colonists exported the religion's ethics to them), and that's why they can sometimes have something like righteousness. Without God's law, the whole world would suffer.

Wisdom

My cherished cherry blossom
With the petals of silk,
Thy allure is thy beauty
And my children's thy milk.
Come find me, o Wisdom
Find me swift and strong
For if another finds you Wisdom
I shall for ever be wrong.
God, bring me the cherished beauty
Of Wisdom Grace and Peace.
Oh Cherry Blossom,
My promised Heifer
My all I shall sacrifice for thee.
Ask me to lose life and limb
I shall... ask me to give up 
The Riches and Talents of Solomon
I shall... just, do me one thing
Never let me lose my Wisdom
So she can be wedded eternally to me.

That Perfect Day in May

Heaven shall be that perfect day in May
When the leaves have newly unfolded
And they impress upon you a sense
That the whole world has changed in one instant.
The roses shall be in full bloom
And scent the forest with subtle perfume
Not overbearing, but natural.
The black snake shall slither upon the path
And it shall have a joyful jubilance
And a tiny little life imbued within it
And feed upon the dust;
No one shall be frightened by him.
The ivy shall not be poisonous
And shall give forth its hips
In scrumptious berries, 
Twelve kinds, to the ever changing
Seasons of Heavenly flora.

The Vain War

Armies railed against
Each other for forty
Years. Their ships
Beaching upon shores
Their planes bombing cities
There men women and children
Laying dead in valleys.
Waves upon waves collided
Into each other, numbering casualties
In the billions.

The only thing that stopped it
Was that both countries had nothing
Left... both economies in shambles
Their natural resources expelled;
The Oil and Natural Gas wells dried,
The fish depleted,
The farmland all made marginal,
The wild game destroyed,
The shelters all broken,
The walls all torn down,
Their silicon no more,
Their gold all spent...

There was no winner.
There was no loser.
It was just an awful draw;
And who suffered?
Was it not everyone
Save those who perished in the waves?

I Worship a God Who

I worship a God who drowns the world because it’s painting cave walls with paints made from human blood, and pottery, and keeps dead relative’s corpses with them as decoration, and does who knows what else.

I also worship a God who tells the Israelites to destroy nations that cannibalize their own children, and have orgies just so they can cannibalize their own children, to practice gross satanic rituals.

Mrs. Elena

Do you hear the subtlety of her breath?
The terse, spondee sentences? 
Declarative, and so direct?
Do you hear how she makes
Me like Thomas Chatterton
And with lies, demolishes an entire career?
The Special Education Teacher
Meets the Poet, the Essayist and Novelist
And she in one utterance undoes it all?

Yet. I still write.

For if I wrote by her rules,
I'd have little joy.

On My Sin and Theology

I'm like a hybrid Protestant and Catholic. I get my Old Testament from Baptists, my New Testament from Lutherans, and my Creativity and Aesthetics from Catholics. My aunt was a Catholic, and she taught me the value of beauty (but so did my school, when they brought in paintings to look at). I [...] don't answer to a church authority. I'm kind of like a monk, that I detail a lot of interesting proof the Bible is true. I don't fit well into systems. I'm not a Rogue Priest, as my authority comes from Christ. But, I'm a friend to Catholics and Protestants, and would like the religion to be strong into the future, which I have a feeling if it takes certain directions that's not going to happen. I'm afraid the great falling away will be in my lifetime, and I'm called to preach against sin. Like Christ called Herod a fox, like you said in another sermon, we have to hold our governments accountable for the evil they do. But, we cannot accept LGBTQ as a church. We just cannot. We also have to understand Jesus wasn't necessarily someone who was fascinated with high ritual, or doing everything according to the book. And Christ liked to use insignificant losers like me. Paul was a murderer, so was Moses, David committed three unpardonable sins in the world's eyes, rape, adultery and murder. I mean, the whole world can be against me, but I know God is for me. I didn't do anything like that. But, in the world's eyes I did awful things. Like, I think if there's going to be a Bible verse written about me, it's that my sins were exposed, so the world rejected me, but they were none of them uncommon among men. It's just the flamboyant nature of some of them... it's like, I know what my sins are. I know I sinned. It's just, most people's sins nobody knows about. How much murder is in the average person's heart or adultery? It's just mine could not be hidden.