Books I’ve Read

Be a Rebel.
Read a Chapter Book over ten years.
Read a Nonfiction Book in the same amount of time.
Read a poem, essay or a short story once or twice a month.
Read a life by Plutarch or Suetonius once a year.
Catch up on your mythology and fairy tales once or twice a year, too.
Read a random Encyclopedia or Dictionary Entry once or twice in a while.
Read a chapter of the Bible now and again.
Read an Epic Poem over a lifetime.
Just read... don't be afraid. It's not a contest.

The Bible More than Every Other Book, Probably Even Twice Combined
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Twice
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy Once
The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway Twice
Steinbeck The Pearl Once
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Four Times
The Communist Manifesto Three Times
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Once
Jane Austen Mansfield Park Once
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy Once
Machiavelli's Prince Once
True Believer Eric Hoffer Once
Frank Herbert Dune Trilogy Once
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn Once
Fredrick Douglass The Life of Fredrick Douglass Once
Lois Lowry's The Giver Once
C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity Once
C. S. Lewis The Abolition of Man Three Times
C. S. Lewis The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Once
C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew Once
C. S. Lewis That Hideous Strength Once
C. S. Lewis Perelandra Once
C. S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet Once
C. S. Lewis Dymer Once
1494 By Stephen R. Brown
Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine Once
Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Once
Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man Once
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 four times
Macbeth By Shakespeare Once
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Once
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie Twice
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare Once
Shakespearean Sonnets Once
Aristotle's Poetics Twice
The United States Constitution Five Times
United Nations Human Rights Charter Once
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Once
The Art of War by Sun Tsu Once
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Once
George Orwell's 1984 Three Fourths
Brave New World Once
The Complete Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot
Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia Once
The Catcher in the Rye Three Fourths
Civil Disobedience By Thoreau once
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Four Times
Conquistador by Buddy Levy Once
The Case for Christmas Lee Strobel Twice
The Case for Easter Lee Strobel Twice
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Once
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur Twice
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Once
Before and After Socrates by F. M. Cornford Once
St. Augustine's Confessions Once
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn Once
Voltaire's Candide Once
Seamus Heaney's Translation of Beowulf Once
Paradise Lost Once
George Orwell's Why I Write Twice
The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton Once
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Once
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Once
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Once
Animal Farm George Orwell Once
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Once
The Lotus Caves John Christopher Once
Complete Sayings of Ptahotep - Thrice


40 Poems by Wordsworth

1. Lines Written in an Album

Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
The Child of the Cavern Jules Verne

40 Poems by Wendell Berry
1 Essay by Wendell Berry
8 Poems by Robert Frost
30 Poems by Coleridge

1. Meditation on a Cataract
2. Religious Musings on Christmas Eve

20 Poems by Yeats
20 Poems by Keats

1. Hyperion
2. The Fall of Hyperion

60 Poems by Walt Whitman
30 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15 Poems by Seamus Heaney
20 Poems by Horace

1. icci beatis

3 Short Stories by James Joyce
1 Short Story by Herman Melville
1 Short Story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
9 Full Canterbury Tales
Rousseau's First Discourse
60 Irish Poems and Fairy Tales by Various Authors

1. Babylon
2. The Burial of King Cormac
3. The Lament of Queen Maeve
4. The Banshee
5. The Children of Lir (Poem and Short Story)
6. The Bells of Shandon
7. Lament of Poets 1916
8. The Exodus
9. The Famine Year
10. To Inishkea
11. To Maeve
12. The Herb Leech
13. Go Ploughman Plough

5 Complete Plutarch's Lives
8 T. S. Eliot Poems
5 Robert Southey Poems
5 Meditations in the Tao Te Ching
10 Byron Poems

1. Prometheus

4 Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
3 Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
1 Life by Suetonius (Nero)
65 Grimm's Fairy Tales
22 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
4 Essays by Frédéric Bastiat
6 Essays by Sigmund Freud
2 Essays by Carl Jung
3 Dialogues of Plato
5 Short Stories from Great American Short Stories
30 Poems from A Treasury of Poems in the English Language
2 Short Stories by Charles Beaumont
30 Great Tales from Great Tales From English History by Robert Lacey
1 Essay by Benjamin Franklin
15 Poems by John Donne
Thomas Paine's Letter to Quakers
4 Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant
22 Essays from Michael Montaigne
50 Aesop's Fables
20 of the Most Influential Speeches
Washington's Farewell Address
Washington's Inaugural Speeches
Jefferson's Farewell Speech
The Declaration of Independence
6 Books of the Old Testament Apocrypha
12 Books of the New Testament Apocrypha
12 Poems by Wallace Stevens
3 Stories in The True Fairyland of Old King Cole
10 Poems by Emily Dickinson
1 Essay by Francis Bacon

1. I Gave Myself to Him

12 Irish Legends
4 Welsh Legends
Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vaunaghut
Many Egyptian Fables and Stories from its Mythology

20 Letters from the Founding Fathers

3 Poems by William Blake

1. A Prophecy of America

12 Eddas from the Elder Edda
Athanasian Creed 20xs
Apostles Creed 1000xs
Nicene Creed 300xs


*If A Poem is Set Aside and Numbered, It's One I Recurrently Read

Books I'm in the Process of Reading

Virgil's Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphosis
Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy
Homer's Odyssey
Spencer's Fairy Queen
Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mozi's Meditations
Confucian Analects
La Rochefouchauld's Maxims and Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays and Poems
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Philip K. Dick 20 Short Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmarillion
Goethe's Faust
The Tale of Genjii Lady Murasaki
Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper
Caxton's Le Morte De Arthur
The Sayings of Mencius
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Romantic's Manifesto by Ayn Rand
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Dante's Inferno
Herodotus
Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations
The Social Contract by Rene Decarte
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologica
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
John Locke's Two Essays
The Federalist Papers
The Antifederalist Papers
The Complete Pythagoras
Globish by Robert McCrum
Fernand Braudel's A History of Civilization
For Whom the Bell Tolls Earnest Hemmingway
Brother's Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Writings of Martin Luther
Being Logical D. Q. McInery
On Tyranny Timothy Snyder
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology
Memoires of Chateaubriand
Emma Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
Child Harold's Pilgrimage Byron
Michelangelo by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis
Paper Towns by John Greene
Lucretius' On the Nature of Things
The City of God
Leibniz' Theodicy (One Snippet on Asymptotes Helped Me Completely Understand Calculus)


Compendiums I Refer To Often

Constitutional Law Casebook Fourteenth Edition
Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetic Terms
A New Handbook on Literary Terms - David Mikiks
Encarta Encyclopedia 2004
Euclid's Elements from Green Lion Press
Evidence that Demands a Verdict - The McDowells
2 Western History Textbooks from the 1980s and 2010s
Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker
A Reader's Digest of North American Birdlife
A Reader's Digest of North American Wildlife
Bulfinch and Edith Hamilton's Mythologies
Mythology A - Z Annette Giesecke
Myths and Legends by William Doty and Jake Jackson
1978 Lutheran Hymnal
Barnes and Noble's Illuminated Book Edition The Constitution and Other Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers
Matthew Henry Commentary
World Mythology in Bite Sized Chunks by Mark Daniels
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories and Things by Robert Solomon
Mathematics by Michael Willers

Scripture Translations I'm Familiar With

Dead Sea Scrolls Translated Into English
2 Hebrew Transliterations
1 Greek Transliteration
KJV
NASB
NRSV
NKJV
NIV
ESV
JPS
GNT
TEV New Testament
Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, J. B, Lightfoot
Old Testament Apocrypha, NRSV
Strong's New and Old Testament Concordances

Children's Books I Read When In School

Iceberg Hermit Arthur J. Roth
Island of the Blue Dolphins Scott O'Dell
My Side of the Mountain Jean Craighead George
The Hatchet Gary Paulson
The Cay Theodore Taylor
Wacky Wednesday Dr. Seuss
Go Dog Go Dr. Seuss
The Foot Book Dr. Seuss
Green Eggs and Ham Dr. Seuss
The Best Nest Dr. Seuss
The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Dr. Seuss
Monsters Come in Many Colors Jim Henderson and Jocelyn Stevenson
Meet the Care Bears Ali Reich
Kids Fun Filled Question and Answer Book Jane Parker Resnick
The Beginner's Bible: Timeless Stories Karen Henley and Dennas Davis
Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
Killer Angels Michael Shara
Tuck Everlasting Natalie Babbit
The BFG Roald Dahl
James and the Giant Peach Roald Dahl
A Comprehensive Photo Book on Gettysburg
American Tall Tales Mary Pope Osborne



Books I’ve Read

The Bible More than Any Other Book, Probably Even Twice Combined
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Twice
Anna Karenina By Leo Tolstoy Once
The Old Man and the Sea Earnest Hemingway Twice
Steinbeck The Pearl Once
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Three Times
The Communist Manifesto Three Times
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Once
Jane Austen Mansfield Park Once
Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy Once
Machiavelli's Prince Once
True Believer Eric Hoffer Once
Frank Herbert Dune Trilogy Once
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Alexander Solzhenitsyn Once
Fredrick Douglass The Life of Fredrick Douglass Once 
Lois Lowry's The Giver Once
C. S. Lewis Mere Christianity Once
C. S. Lewis The Abolition of Man Three Times
C. S. Lewis The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe Once
C. S. Lewis The Magician's Nephew Once
C. S. Lewis Peralandra Once
C. S. Lewis Out of the Silent Planet Once
1494 By Stephen R. Brown
Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine Once
Ray Bradbury The Martian Chronicles Once
Ray Bradbury The Illustrated Man Once
Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 four times
Macbeth By Shakespeare Once
Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare Once
How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie Twice
Julius Caesar by Shakespeare Once
Shakespearean Sonnets Once
Aristotle's Poetics Twice
The United States Constitution Four Times
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll Once
The Art of War by Sun Tsu Once
Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Once
George Orwell's 1984 Three Fourths
Brave New World Once
The Complete Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock T. S. Eliot
Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia Once
The Catcher in the Rye Three Fourths
Civil Disobedience By Thoreau once 
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird Four Times
Conquistador by Buddy Levvy Once
The Case for Christmas Lee Strobel Twice
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit Once
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Fall of Arthur Twice
John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress Once
Before and After Socrates by F. M. Cornford Once
St. Augustine's Confessions Once
Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn Once
Voltaire's Candide Once
Seamus Heaney's Translation of Beowulf Once
Paradise Lost Once 
George Orwell's Why I Write Twice
The Everlasting Man G. K. Chesterton Once
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Once 
Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift Once
Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy Once
40 Poems by Wordsworth 

1. Lines Written in an Album

40 Poems by Wendell Berry
1 Essay by Wendel Berry
8 Poems by Robert Frost
17 Poems by Coleridge

1. Meditation on a Cataract
2. Religious Musings on Christmas Eve

20 Poems by Yeats
20 Poems by Keats

1. Hyperion 
2. The Fall of Hyperion

60 Poems by Walter Whitman
30 Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
7 Poems by Seamus Heaney
12 Poems by Horace

1. icci beatis

3 Short Stories by James Joyce
1 Short Story by Herman Melville
1 Short Story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
8 Full Canterbury Tales
30 Irish Poems and Fairy Tales by Various Authors

1. Babylon
2. The Burial of King Cormac
3. The Lament of Queen Maeve
4. The Banshee
5. The Children of Lir (Poem and Short Story)
6. The Bells of Shandon
7. Lament of Poets 1916
8.  The Exodus
9. The Famine Year
10. To Inishkea
11. To Maeve
12. The Herb Leech
13. Go Ploughman Plough

5 Complete Plutarch's Lives
8 T. S. Eliot Poems
5 Robert Southey Poems 
1 Meditation in the Tao Te Ching
10 Byron Poems

1. Prometheus 

2 Short Stories by Edgar Allen Poe
2 Poems by Edgar Allen Poe
60 Grimm's Fairy Tales
12 Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
2 Essays by Fredrick Bastiat
6 Essays by Sigmund Freud
2 Essays by Carl Jung
3 Dialogues of Plato
2 Short Stories by Charles Beaumont
12 Great Tales from Great Tales From English History by Robert Lacey 
1 Essay by Benjamin Franklin
12 Poems by John Donne
Thomas' Paine's Letter to Quakers
4 Short Stories by Guy De Maupassant 
20 Essays from Michael Montaigne
50 Aesop's Fables
20 of the Most Influential Speeches
Washington's Farewell Address
The Declaration of Independence
6 Books of the Old Testament Apocrypha
12 Books of the New Testament Apocrypha 
12 Poems by Wallace Stevens
10 Poems by Emily Dickenson

1. I Gave Myself to Him

2 Poems by William Blake

1. A Prophecy of America

10 Eddas from the Elder Edda
Athanasian Creed 6xs
Apostles Creed 1000xs
Nicene Creed 300xs


*If A Poem is Set Aside and Numbered, It's One I Recurrently Read

Books I'm in the Process of Reading

Virgil's Aeneid
Ovid's Metamorphosis
Homer's Odyssey
Spencer's Fairy Queen
Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Mozi's Meditations
Confucian Analects
La Rochefouchauld's Maxims and Essays
Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essays and Poems
Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
Philip K. Dick
J. R. R. Tolkien's Silmerilion
Goethe's Faust
The Tale of Genjii Lady Murasaki
Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper
Caxton's Le Morte De Arthur
The Sayings of Mencius
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
The Romantic's Manifesto by Ayn RAnd
Anthem by Ayn Rand
Dante's Inferno
Herodotus
Adam Smith's the Wealth of Nations
The Social Contract by Rene Decarte
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
John Locke's Two Essays
The Federalist Papers
The Antifederalist Papers
Euclid's Elements
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories and Things Robert Solomon
Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Encarta Encyclopedia
The Complete Pythagoras
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetic Terms
A New Handbook of Literary Terms  David Mikics 
Globish by Robert McCrum
Fernand Braudel's A History of Civilization
For Whom the Bell Tolls Earnest Hemmingway
Brother's Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Writings of Martin Luther
Being Logical D. Q. McInery
On Tyranny Timothy Snyder
Edith Hamilton's Mythology
Thomas Bulfinch's Mythology
Memoires of Chateaubriand
North American Birds by Reader's Digest (c) 1990 Edited by James Cassidy
North American Wildlife by Reader's Digest (C) 1982 Edited by Susan J. Wernert
Emma Jane Austen
Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen
The Grapes of Wrath Steinbeck
Child Harold's Pilgrimage Byron
Michelangelo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  
That Hideous Strength C. S. Lewis
The Horse and His Boy C. S. Lewis
Paper Towns by John Greene
Lucretius' On the Nature of Things
The Complete Pythagoras
The City of God

Compendiums I Refer To Often

Constitutional Law Casebook Fourteenth Edition
Oxford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetic Terms
A New Handbook on Literary Terms - David Mikiks
Euclid's Elements  from Green Lion Press
Evidence that Demands a Verdict - The McDowells 
2 Western History Textbooks from the 1980s and 2010s
Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker
A Reader's Digest of North American Birdlife.
A Reader's Digest of North American Wildlife
Bulfinch and Edith Hamilton's Mythologies
Mythology A - Z  Annette Giesecke
Myths and Legends by William Doty and Jake Jackson
1978 Lutheran Hymnal
Barnes and Noble's Illuminated Book Edition The Constitution and Other Selected Writings of the Founding Fathers
Matthew Henry Commentary
World Mythology in Bite Sized Chunks by Mark Daniels
The Little Book of Mathematical Principles, Theories and Things by Robert Solomon 

Scripture Translations I'm Familiar With

Dead Sea Scrolls Translated Into English
2 Hebrew Transliterations
KJV
NASB
NRSV
NKJV
NIV
ESV
JPS
Writings of the Apostolic Fathers, J. B, Lightfoot
Old Testament Apocrypha, NRSV


A Watched Pot

1. The Amateurs

Stung in the breast by a ray,
Took the world by surprise...
Everyone loved him.
Very often I think of this
Entitled world of ours.

If the professional, who lived and breathed a thing
Really were that good, they should do the thing they love.
Without which, there is no order.
Interestingly, at his passing, the amateurs have now dangerously filled his shoes.
No one does it like he did, and that's a fact we have to reckon with.

2. Broken Paradigm

The Speed of Light
In Meters per second,
Is the coordinates of the Pyramids.
The Speed of Light
In Miles Per Hour
Has the Mark of the Beast
In its number, 616.
Did the Speed of Light get discovered
Or was it merely invented
To mould into these?

3. The Horses of Today

Long ago, our people were wild mustangs
Feeding cheerfully upon the sweet meadow grains.
Now, they are horses in a stall, fed their oats
By their owners, and told where to ride, and when to.

Though, the horses are run too far and too fast
The horses are run too much, and they wish to rest
So they buck, they break, but the rider reigns them in
And breaks them of their once free spirit.

The horses are left in their stables, so their members engorge
And they ride upon the backs of one another in obscure breeding;
All they go, impregnating, and fleeing away from their colts, where before
The breeding was done meticulously, and through marriage contract.

The horses have the blinders on their eyes, so they cannot see
What is around them, so they do not get spooked by the fiery world
And the wolves and mangy dogs surrounding them, or the pigs.
The horses love the blinders, though, for it is their idol which gives them a sense of ease.

4. Mr. Montag

Mr. Montag, when 
You rip those pages from my
Scripture, make sure they
Are my words, for they never
Belonged there in the first place.

5. I Wait on You My LORD

Oh LORD, strong are You my shepherd.
When I wait for golden treasures,
I shall by your hand wait, my friend.
For where do prosperous tides come?
From the north, the south, east or west?
If poor or rich in life, I wait.

6. Epistemology and Ontology; 
      a priori and a posteriori

Logic and---also
That Epistemology's
Arithmetic four---

Matter---which will be
That Number's ontology---
Is what does exist.

7. At One Time

At one time, every truth submitted to me
Which was a proof of God's existence
Was scoffed, or seriously made me doubt.
"How could there be proof? No, I must have faith."
Now, every truth I find is submitted to God
And I wonder what in this world is not proof of God's existence?

8. A Ray of Light

I know, little one, 
You can't help but get in trouble.
I know, little one, that that smile hides your fear.
Bring it to the zenith,
Smile a little more...
Let Peace overcome you
And sobriety and tor.

9. My Plough of Ink

They say to me this:
“Dasn’t take up thy pen thou
Sluggard!” Yet I plough.

10. To,

My muse for today...
You with such simple pride
Tell me your life.
It is a life I fear.
It is a life I don't want.
I see how the world
Sucked the marrow from your life
And put you in a devil's bargain.
I see what the world did to you,
Though you don't.
And I intend to speak against it.

11. A Meme and One Conversation

A meme and one conversation
Brought such clarity.
The meme, there were the Silent and Greatest Generations.
The silent generation disciplined their son
And the greatest generation disciplined theirs.
Yet, the next son, turned his back to his father's discipline.
He then coddled his child, so that it painted.
No... those children rampage through streets
Burn down our civilization
And demand that they sit idly...
Not even working like I am, figuring it all out.

Then the conversation brought upon the consequences of this.
A woman, who will remained unnamed,
Boasted of her life.
A child from a divorced home,
She worked such long hours,
She never had a family.
I recall my dad, having put all his time and energy
Into a relationship, and the result was ruin.
She asked, "I see all these women
"Getting pregnant, and living off welfare.
"I wonder if I did anything wrong."

These two things are very related.
It is the milieu we handed down
Found in the latter's dichotomy,
Of a world which rejected discipline
So therefore, could no longer truly love.

Then I see Yehude's beautiful life,
There, in a comic strip.
So beautiful, and is what I wanted to do myself.
To show the beauty of love,
And the immaculate life we should desire.
But, when I saw it,
The cherry rubicond on his wife's satisfied conception,
I realized it too was vanity.
It is not what the world needed.
So, I have a moment of perfect clarity...

12. I Give Up

You say I'm trying too hard
Get a job at a warehouse...
Maybe I am. But I'd suck
At stacking boxes, too.
You also say I'm aggravating you
More than usual, why call?
Maybe I didn't solve PvNP.
Maybe I'm just an idiot.
Maybe I didn't prove God exists.
Maybe a circle has a diameter of 2
If its area is equal to pi,
So I was wrong about a circle's degrees
Being the widest angle possible
To fit the most amount of space.
Maybe my IQ is 100.
But, I have faith because my life is poor.
And some day soon, I'll be somewhere else.

13. I Looked at the Pieta Today

I looked at the Pieta today,
And rather than be enthralled
By Mary's beauty, like usual,
Or seeing the chiseled perfection
Of its soft lines, and smooth and polished
Hems... I was disturbed and felt
Like I was seeing the world
There held by Mary in her optically
Illusive pose and stature.
There was something different.
It hit me, as gruesome,
And made me feel uncomfortable.
I saw God's wrath there
In Mary's arm, with the slain Christ
Gazed at by Mary's peaceful brow.
The wrath of God is satisfied;
For there it was, on Mary's lap
And it killed God.

14. Square and Square Roots

Take one square and take
A line, and cut it down the
Middle. Then do it
Again perpendicular.
See each line segment's a half.

Then, note that the areas of two lines
Is equal to one fourth the square.

Then note 3+4=5 is not
True. But 9 + 16 = 25 is true.
Thus, by square rooting the variables
You incur the dimensions of one dimensional
Lines of a right Triangle.

Also, the quadratic equation reduces
Polynomials to one dimension. 
How? By intuiting the axiom of
Of a square or rectangle, by the three
Coefficients. So that the equation
Breaks down into length and width
And represented by the two factors.
Know that length and width breaks down
To one dimensional lines.
So also, negative and positive
Numbers square into the same numeral;
Thus, also into length and width.

Why P won't equal
NP, is that some NP
Cannot be a square.

15. Equalities

What I'm noticing
About most explanations
Of basic truths, is
That they don't figure in the
Equalities, just the shapes.

Maybe that's the fundamental flaw in
Our reasoning today, and why few
If any, actually know what is true?

The mind, does not make a thing true.

16. Singh

My good friend, 
My gentle friend,
My stalwart friend
During a time of trouble---

I ate a peach today
And its sweet savorty
Was on my breath like a
Candy, which lingered there long.

Just like the savorty
Of my Cinnamon and
Ginger with tomato
Basil and Oregano.
Just like the savorty
Of the Thyme and Tarragon
In my Chicken Noodle Soup;
Or the Gumbo I make
With the Mint, Tarragon
Bay Leaf, and Three Alarm
Pepper, honey and lime zest.

I was taught to enjoy this.

17. What Debt Can Buy

A boy receives his
Puppy from his well postured
Grandfather. The same
Hands his boy a small puppy
Seventy odd years later,
As the spry family dog sits loyally at the boy’s side.

18. Fascists

Fascists on the left of me
Fascists on the right...
QAnon and Antifa
Skull and Guy Fawkes Masks;
The SS thunderbolt and raised black fist.
The swastika and hammer and anvil.

Feudalism, feudalism, it rears its ugly head again.
But, remember my loves, when they pushed too far
The heads of the wicked did roll.

We don't want your reorganizations of society.
Just that Old Glory and Star Spangled Banner;
Our Halcyon memories, we want them for all
And all the new generations.

19. You're a Fine Girl

"A whore I want to be;---
"What I really want I don't---
"While I'm disrespected;
"And that's your fault,
"Not mine."

20. Hey Good Look'n

"Make me a sandwich,
"And I'll pat you on the ass;
"You're a body not a brain
"A piece of meat and not my friend---
"Do me."

21. The LORD

Our good Father is in heaven
With flaming blue eyes of fire,
And a burnished sienna
Skin, with white light as a vestment
Of purest hue, and wooly hair.
Behind him is a rainbow of
Emerald, and around him are
Twenty-four elders clothed in robes.
Before the throne are Cherubim;
Each with the face of a man, calf
(Which is a cherub's face) Lion
And Eagle, with omniscient eyes.

22. Fairest of them All

Fairest of them all,
Do you wish to cause my fall?
Enticed I am in your trap of flattery.
How I would love to be thy friend,
And walk through my paths until the end,
Yet for all you are is all I ever wanted,
You are more dangerous than a Bear or Bobcat
In the woods. The Bear shan't attack
Unless her cubs are disturbed,
And the Bobcat, so long as you nare
Turn your back, you shall be safe.

23. The Last Poem on Earth

Our Halcyon peace is destroyed;
Oh, you obdurate nations,
You obdurate nations,
Like the sands of the seashore
March out to war against our King.
How did that ancient serpent,
How… O Uriel, did he ascend the pit?
Prophecy has ceased, and man was at peace…
How often they forget only a short while ago
We were at peace, and love abounded everywhere.
History is altered, the past is unknown;
Ancient generations have died
But now we stand at the crossroads—
The end of times—when after one Millennium
Of quiet and peace, a war erupted again
By that wicked prince who rallied many to his cause.
To where do we look? LORD?
Of the last battle of Gog and Magog?
When Your waves destroy Satan’s armies once more?
Hide me in your shelter, and from the hail,
For Your Fame is Great, and Your mercies Almighty.
This Lament I make, for Zion has been broken into once again,
Yet only for a short while… a short while.

24. A False Trichotomy 

Am I the Poet who is faithful to the scene, the man who succors another's verse, or the one who reclines and soaks in a sunset? 

This was the question asked to me. So I answered.

I’m a poet who describes a scene. I sit, with my globe and lantern to the right and left of my ancient laptop. Sea Shells, filled with common gemstones, lay atop a China tea saucer ornamented with blue paint, and my brass lantern resting in-between them. Polished Carnelian, Pink Howlite, Blue Granite, and Pink Zebra Coral resting in perfectly shaped sea shells are there, at the base of the lantern. The delicate things I have are common, but precious to me, for they are well appreciated and loved.

I read Wordsworth, succoring in every word, and his two hundred line poem gets pored over for two hours. Thirty seconds for every word, as a good poem should be. I figure for what the poem means, and do my hard work which I am called to do; find the hidden meanings of these strange and wondrous thoughts… of men who were mental giants, and far beyond our weak minded scholars today.

After typing up my report on my laptop, and after reading my book, I stare out into the rainbow sky of sunset. There is no green flash which will appear over the mountains… but the clouds are streaked with lightning bolts, red fiery clouds, which fade into a purple melancholy at the other edge of the world.

25. Pi Ramses

Pi Ramses,
You are named
Right when the
Prophet, good
Moses, lived.
You are proof
Exodus
Was written
Nigh the year
One thousand
Three hundred
Before Christ.
Right before
Moses would
See the land
That our God
Promised him.
Twenty years
Is within
A margin
Of error.

26. King Tut

Anubis sits atop a vessel
In the pattern of the Ark of the Covenant.
How the LORD God freed Israel
From idolatry, and gave them a pure law.
For, instead of Anubis,
It is the Law of God
Between the Cherubim.
The Curtains of the Tabernacle
Cry out that Exodus was real.
So does the Ark of the Covenant.
So does all evidence prove the LORD Jehovah Jireh.

How also the Covenants between Egypt and the Hittites
Prove Moses, for a learned man of Egyptian Royalty
Wrote the Torah. Only one of such education could.

27. Pastor A____

Walking down the path at the State Park
I saw Pastor A___. My eyes naturally look
At a person's chest, which is a bad habit of mine;
She shouted my name, and I stopped to talk.

"So, are you now a Methodist or are you still
"Preaching as a Lutheran?" I asked coyly.
A look of astonishment fell over her face,
Like she couldn't possibly ever be Methodist...
"I'm still a Lutheran, preaching at D____."
She said to tell the family she said hello
And that she wanted updates from me and my dad.

Though, I  wondered while walking up the trail
If her bewilderment was because of my shyness...
My bad habit of looking at people's chests
Which I also did up the trail, as I saw an older couple.
But, I realized, it was probably because I had mistaken
Her as preaching Methodism, and not Lutheranism...

To which, I was a little puzzled as to the great difference.
To me, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian
Are the faith that sings old songs, preaches platitudes for sermons
Sings Kumbaya, and accepts Liberal Theology.

But, to her, there is a great difference...
And that's why I'm glad I know enough about Theology
To not really know it myself.
As like Literary Theory,
Theology is something that knowing a little helps a long way
But knowing too much gets you lost in the weeds.

We parted on good terms. But, I wonder which
Of my bad habits was really the reason she
Seemed a bit offended?
I don't know, but felt a bit embarrassed,
And used it as a tool to keep two notes:
"Don't make assumptions;
"And look people in the eyes."

28. Apricot


My tongue is citrus,
It is buttery fat;—-
It is a tongue of
Apricot’s
Pleasant, resinous ash.

29. Divine Shadow

The divine shadow of the Law,
A shadow of judgment to come,---
Armies rape, murder, steal, destroy.
Why does the Bible have it thus?
Is it because God is that of
An immoral monster? Or, is't
That the Shadow must integrate
Within us, for which to be good?
Is it because rape, robbery
Murder and theft is within us
And there must be peace expressed through
Most barbaric human nature?
Subconsciously, the Law speaks masked
Natures of man and woman, so
That the shadow stays appeased by
Vengeance in the literary 
Form, and not corporeal worlds?

30. The Best Picture of Heaven

Diamond is a crystalline form of Carbon.
A base element. Gold shall be crystalline
And take on the appearance of Jasper stone.
Mount Zion shall be a holy city like
A city we have today, with towers tall
Raised from the foundation of twelve gemstones like
The layers of our earth today in sedimentary rock.
The towers shall be pearlescent rose and peridot
In appearance, and crystalline like a diamond.
The entire gemstone, which shall be Mount Zion
Shall have roads carved within it like a pure cavern
And mansions, and lakes of living water, and cataracts too,
And fire shall be the Holy Spirit's light, and the countenance
Of the Father, seated at His temple in Jerusalem.
It shall be an ethereal cavern, with no darkness
But only light. And one's mansions shall have petrified woods
For their crossbeams, gemstones for their stained-glass windows
And precious stones for their delicate things; their furniture
Shall be everlasting, to recline in beds with heavenly linens
Of which, we shall be clothed with raiment that feels
Like the Moon, Stars, Cataracts and Knowledge.
We shall walk with our Beulah, a perfect spouse
Whom we shall be made into nations and clans and mighty peoples.
This is a mystery, but is spoken of in the Marriage of the Lamb Supper.
There shall be suburbs and countrysides, libraries, and books
And fish, and all the animals we Christians loved
They shall be there, and populate this Heavenly City.
It shall be seeded with the Seed of Man and Beast.
There shall be heavenly beasts and no rapine;
Flora and Fauna which shall evolve, and studied;
The Trees of Fruit of Life shall grow into myriads of species
And every tree shall bear a fruit, and Sweet and Savory
Shall be the only tastes remaining. No bitter, no sour, no salt.
There shall be new heavenly tastes, and new heavenly senses.
The Fruit of Life shall be our Meat. And there shall be no sadness or tears.
Or fear, or mourning, but only joy, love and peace.
New colors yet unseen, and majesty and dominion shall be
Given to us by God, to rule alongside with Him for ever and ever.
Amen.

31. Mr. Caulfield

You said something interesting.
"If we all know Law naturally,
"Then there are no good people."
I stopped and thought about 
Why we cannot communicate.
When you say "Good people"
You mean good within society's context.
Because by knowing there is a natural law
Which we're born knowing,
You then realize the Gospel's message.
There is not one good, no not one.
And then you repeatedly say you hate me.
So, I don't hate you. But hatred 
Is itself murder, just not the actual act.

32. You Who Throw Ye Stones

Ye most likely to throw a stone
Have entertained the very sin,
And wish to hide it so by slaying
Another person with thine own guilt.

33.

Just took the official White Privilege test.
Turns out I have none.

34. The Four Winds of Hersey

The prosperity preacher sows nettles,
So that the outward man is a sharp thorn.
Do not be blown by Greed's winds of error.

The New Age teacher sows a heart of stone,
So that Salvation's joy is a dense spell.
Do not be swayed by an Idol's error.

The man who is cursed by Moses' law
Has rose hedges in his heart, and his mein.
Do not break the LORD's Sabbath in error.

The man who accepts the sin of Sodom
Has Roman Highways in his soul toward all.
Do not walk on that Sin's path of error.

35. A Christian Cannot Sin

The wisdom of a child,
One cannot disobey mother.
The same way is to be said
That a Christian cannot sin.
Nor does a Christian sin,
Because they do not want to.

36. The Poet Smithy

A cryptic conversation
Between the Silent Generation
Passing over a dinner table...
A retelling of Tchaikovsky's ballet...
Smithy has talent.
Though, he's pursuing vain persons...
And until he stops, he will never succeed.
A good poet... but following after
The coattails of pedants
Will never win the Crown.
Simply don't play the game.
Then, you already have won.

37. Await oh Washington

Await, oh Washington
Your time to lead the war;
Await, oh Washington
To lead your men to tor.

Dress in your color's best
And wear honor on your chest;
Await, Oh Washington
To lead your men to tor!

Say not a word to rise,
But sit and take your time;
Let those who see you're true
Come to honor you!

Await, oh Washington
Your time to lead the war;
Await, oh Washington
To lead your men to tor.

38. The Sacred Cow

Sometimes, the sacred
Cow needs to be slaughtered
So there can again be peace
And the hungry can feast on love.

39. Heaven's Twelve Foundations

Onyx---removed from
Aaron's Breastplate,---you're Judas;---
Heaven's twelve layers.

40. My Birth Stone

My birth stone
Is fully symbolic of me---
Associated with Wisdom and Love.
God says to forsake the stone, 
And choose a good wife
And to find wisdom.
I will cherish that.

41. Idolatry

Longest of times, I  could not understand why men bow to idols.

Yet, now I know 'tis
The vain life the idol gives;
Child sacrifice
Means sex with no consequence;
It means pleasure, drunk feasts  and
Emboldens orgies by a child's flesh.

Just like our modern idol
Means sodomy, unrestrained 
Sex and opulence. 

42. Holy Kiss

A holy handshake
Is like a holy kiss.
Brethren, work not
To please God,
For this dishonors Him--
Rather, in all things be kind
And respectful of Custom.
Love from the heart,
And your sincere joy
And eye's twinkle
Are a holy kiss enough.

43. The Descension of Babylon

Synagogue of Satan, from Jotunheim:
Thy lightbeams set ablaze our lush forests.
Thy crafts, with your beautiful forms descend
Upon our world;---the reporter is
Arrested. Why? Is it Republican's
Conspiracy to hide the truth? No. 'tis
A War of Roses.

44. Catachresis

To know a dunce,---
How obvious it is to me,---
Is to see 'em on a boat
Swayed about by a storm
Of Catachresis' golden beams.

45. To A Woman

I try to understand you...
But I see you do not know how to love.
Beautiful, but you've turned yourself into a toxic soul.

46. The Curse of Knowledge

Periods are the cause for women's rights
So said the feminist in her epic rant...
And the boys just out of high school not perfectly
Educated on Female Menstruation
Are narcissists.

The fact is, this can be applied to just about
Anything else.

47. The Golden Dark Age

"Science" they cry,
Like "Gold" in Beowulf.
"We do not know how the protein
"Gets absorbed by the stomach."
By the stomach.
So with Vaccine science
And now Antibodies don't exist.
The stomach breaks down food
But doesn't ever digest.

"Science" they cry.
Like a wolf howling in the night.
Maths are purely a product of invention...
After all...

Meanwhile, my dad noticeably suffers
As he aimlessly forgets how to pay for groceries.

48. Peter Singer

Oh, Song of Roland
You decried a slippery path...
How it was proven wrong...

Yet, this Ethicist proves
Oh, how he proves,
That all I said was strong.

No longer art thou embryo
An embryo, a clump of human cells.
It is now a child, as far as Peter Singer can tell.

So now by strange, and obscene ethics
A child born after thirty days,
Can be himself---like a depressed man in Canada---
Etherized on a table, and have life stolen far away.

Now you know why I believe in hell.

49. On Abortion

We beat them down so hard
That now they are trying to make 
Murder ethical.
Now we expose the blimey hypocrites
For what they always were.
Naked truth.

50. The Quadratic Formula

That Rene Descarte:
None other than he who said
"I think, so I am"
Is the man who gifted us
The quadratic formula.

Of course, Babylon
Had their own version of it
Too. Can't forget that.

51. The Black National Anthem

A Cherub choir, in their children's voices
Sing a traditional hymn, and the crowd boos.
An overrated Christian Hedonist
Sings the national anthem, and botches every note.
The crowd cheers... Personally, I was offended
By the absolutely third rate number she did
To my cherished Star Spangled Banner.
The children singing their hymn
Didn't offend me at all.
The word for that is hypocrisy.

52. I Like "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

That Song, should not be divisive.
It's as good as "America the Beautiful."
And it's a wholesome prayer to the LORD
For peace and liberty.

America is our native land
So don't drive us back to 
Europe and Africa.

53. America is Doomed

Warren died on Bunker Hill,
The martyr of our revolution---
The Sphynx sends his armies
Over those Atlantic Hills
And makes George Floyd
The martyr of his cause;---
Orc, Sphynx, oh Spirit of the Age,---
My temporal despair,---
I drop my pen at thy madness.
Should a bully replace a man,
Should a blackguard replace a poet,
Should the Sphynx of Albion rise
America is doomed...
Yet, Maria is not yet.

54. The Big Bang Theory

There was quantum nothing
And then it expanded
Infinitely in space.

There was a glob of hair
Smooshed between the vulva
Of a woman, and then gore.

Cosmic gasses were formed
Into clumps of rock; hot
Balls of gas; planets; stars.

The little infant writhed
And wriggled on the breast
Of her mother's black teat.

Comets brought water to
Our molten sphere, which cooled
And oceans birthed green life.

The child walks, and speaks
A few strange words. "Mama"
"No" and also "I want".

The star is born, a hot
Sun, and the moon cools down;
A comet makes Earth spin.

The child goes to school
To learn life's vanity.
She strives with all her peers.

The animals breed, they
Bring forth the seed after
Their kinds; sea and earth switch.

The teenager lies nude
With her male companion
Inside; they make their kind.

Then man evolves, and wo.
They frolic, until sin
Is once known in the field.

She goes to college; where
Is her child? She strives
Among everyone else.

There is no  rest in this
Story, for it is the
Ethos of modern day.

Grow old; sedentary;
She has a smiling
Face... impoverished of love.

55. Fetters

We are fettered to Free Verse;
Fettered to the very worse
Cackle and huffah of drought.
Poetry has not rained aught
For nigh half a century.
Platitude's cacophony 
And vulgar sexual fluids
Are the feces of druids
Modern,---speaking sinful spells
Makes our world modern hell.

56.

We are all, now, and only now,
Just blowing about by sails
Never truly knowing each other.
For our words cannot be known;
Nor our intentions...
Babel, Babel, Babel,
Logos, Logos, Logos,
The Tower, Tower, Tower...

57. The Man Who Could Listen

"I wander these roads
"Searching for one who understands me.
"How my curse, like Cassandra,
"Is to understand every word I hear
"But nobody knows what I have said.
"Do I stay silent, then?
"Like Pythagoras was wise
"Do I listen, and greedily soak in
"Every bit of wisdom I can from the fools?

"I speak, and not one knows what I have said.
"They speak, and a Hereclitian fire alights
"In my soul, seeing the mysteries upon mysteries
"Their very souls borne open to me...
"And just one I would like to touch
"And have them meet my own."

58. The Oil of Gerard

Hopkins, the oil from thy well
Of ink, which thy pen has dipped down
Deep into Salvation’s cistern

Is a beautiful feat. Poet
Thou hast been, for thy song’s grandeur.
Even one great poem is enough

If thou be remembered by it
For a thousand lifetimes. Poet
Thou art, all for thy one great song.

59. Hitler's Table Talk

Even when talking
About the weather, Hitler
Proved verily foul.

60. Hanukkah

Paul is explicitly clear--
As are the fathers of apostolic succession---
That we're not to be yoked to Judaism. 

That's what Jesus meant that His Yoke is Light. 

Hebrews states that with a change of Priesthood, 
From Levi to Melchizedek 
(An older priesthood 
Established in the Abrahamic Covenant) 
Comes a change of Law.

61. Words

AI cannot see the world
Through an imaginative lens.
It is simply a calculator
Which measures our preferences
And spits out its formulae.
It has no experience
On which to make others feel
Its perspective. No, its perspective
Is a cold, calculative machine.
It does not sense what is in the room
It only tells us what is in the room.
And that is why it does no art.

62. To: The Giant of Albion

That's not true that a writer cannot capture a thing as it is. Wittgenstein was wrong. Great writers, that's what they do is capture the subject as it is. I got to admit, bringing up Wittgenstein when talking about poetry is amateurish. Wittgenstein was wrong about mostly everything he said. He's not the man I'd cite in a dissertation about poetry. You were doing well up until that point. Wittgenstein is the other side of a nasty coin which dominates literary theory right now, and it's invariably false. Mostly due to readers' poor attention spans, bad ethics and lack of comprehension, that's why people believe it. But texts have definitive comprehension, and are understood beyond the literal words. They are also good at communicating the sense of how something actually is, and how it's perceived. That's generally the scope of all Sages in History, was attuning people to that fact. Confucius, Socrates, Pythagoras, Christ... All meant to say that a text has a universal sense, and ascribe to the Logos. As it is, Names have to be rectified. If they're not, that creates confusion and an inability to comprehend each other.

You, also, shouldn't steal. Borrowing the plot of Hercules or borrowing a theme from someone like Mathologer, is not theft. But you should never copy someone's idea. You need to transform everything you use.

You had two good pieces of advice, but derailed at Wittgenstein.

Borrowing themes such as alien bugs, underground cities and political manipulation from influential magnates, like in Star Ship Troopers, the Matrix and the Star Wars Prequels is not copying them. Or finding the Orc in Thomas Bulfinch and writing with that as an archetype. Because William Blake wrote similarly to me, and it's just because the Orc creates that archetype that it exists. That two writers, who know nothing about one another, can find it. It's the universality of communication. Which blows Wittgenstein's theories out of the water.

But, you're talking about "Copying". Artists shouldn't copy. They borrow things and elements from the universals of language as a construct, but they don't "Copy". Language describes only what's in the real world, and what's universally applicable to all human beings. And the building of contexts, and shared cultural heritages that allow a text to be fully understood. And using that, you can produce new works of literature.

Like, you got that idea about "Stealing" from T. S. Eliot, who wasn't actually stealing. He was borrowing quotations from his favorite poems, and transforming them into his own works, which corresponded with a large body of work. That's not "Theft" and that's not "Stealing" and that's not "Copying." He called it "Theft" but he meant it poetically. From borrowing the themes and elements. You should NEVER copy another artist. That's unlawful. There are universal strings of logos, and concepts that can be attained universally and without seeing other people. But, that's not the same as copying.

For instance Christ, Confucius and Plato can all find the concept of Logos. That's because it's a real concept that's discoverable. Just like the Laws of Mathematics. And there are human behavioral patterns, and underlying subconscious stratas and structures, that can be discovered. And that's what all artists do, is rediscover those old concepts, and communicate them to a new generation. But they never copy. Ever.

63. Flesh and Spirit

The fleshly world,
Come about by strife,
Is tied together
By Six Days of Christ
Evolving worlds
Through his holy word.

Adam and Eve in
That Eden's garden
Are genesised to 
God's almighty hand.
Their life genesised
To Zion's Holy Land.

For we either are 
Born of this world,
And sown our hearts, tares,
Or sojourning in 
This world, from fair
Gardens of great wealth.

For, Eden and Earth
Were tied together
In a holy knot.
We come from strife
And then so will rot,---
Or from paradise.

Our genesis is
Either Zion's Hills
Or this world's strife
Where man and beast kills
Their prey and enemy.
God now Chastened me,

For by a holy 
Glitch my poem was gone
To be rewritten
Into  masterful 
Song of a smitten
Heart, by this puzzle.

64. We Are Solipsist

"We are Solipsist, and we are many---
"All of us burdened by our own thoughts.
"What you or anyone else says matters not."
Thus putting an end to this writer's tyranny.
Live in a world where no one knows
Save the sin hidden behind your brow.
That is the only communication left
I'm afraid. You are Solipsist, and Literature is dead.

©2023 B. K. Neifert
All Rights Reserved









A Watched Pot

1. The Amateurs

Stung in the breast by a ray,
Took the world by surprise...
Everyone loved him.
Very often I think of this
Entitled world of ours.

If the professional, who lived and breathed a thing
Really were that good, they should do the thing they love.
Without which, there is no order.
Interestingly, at his passing, the amateurs have now dangerously filled his shoes.
No one does it like he did, and that's a fact we have to reckon with.

2. Broken Paradigm

The Speed of Light
In Meters per second,
Is the coordinates of the Pyramids.
The Speed of Light
In Miles Per Hour
Has the Mark of the Beast
In its number, 616.
Did the Speed of Light get discovered
Or was it merely invented
To mould into these?

3. The Horses of Today

Long ago, our people were wild mustangs
Feeding cheerfully upon the sweet meadow grains.
Now, they are horses in a stall, fed their oats
By their owners, and told where to ride, and when to.

Though, the horses are run too far and too fast
The horses are run too much, and they wish to rest
So they buck, they break, but the rider reigns them in
And breaks them of their once free spirit.

The horses are left in their stables, so their members engorge
And they ride upon the backs of one another in obscure breeding;
All they go, impregnating, and fleeing away from their colts, where before
The breeding was done meticulously, and through marriage contract.

The horses have the blinders on their eyes, so they cannot see
What is around them, so they do not get spooked by the fiery world
And the wolves and mangy dogs surrounding them, or the pigs.
The horses love the blinders, though, for it is their idol which gives them a sense of ease.

4. Mr. Montag

Mr. Montag, when 
You rip those pages from my
Scripture, make sure they
Are my words, for they never
Belonged there in the first place.

5. I Wait on You My LORD

Oh LORD, strong are You my shepherd.
When I wait for golden treasures,
I shall by your hand wait, my friend.
For where do prosperous tides come?
From the north, the south, east or west?
If poor or rich in life, I wait.

6. Epistemology and Ontology; 
      a priori and a posteriori

Logic and---also
That Epistemology's
Arithmetic four---

Matter---which will be
That Number's ontology---
Is what does exist.

7. At One Time

At one time, every truth submitted to me
Which was a proof of God's existence
Was scoffed, or seriously made me doubt.
"How could there be proof? No, I must have faith."
Now, every truth I find is submitted to God
And I wonder what in this world is not proof of God's existence?

8. A Ray of Light

I know, little one, 
You can't help but get in trouble.
I know, little one, that that smile hides your fear.
Bring it to the zenith,
Smile a little more...
Let Peace overcome you
And sobriety and tor.

9. My Plough of Ink

They say to me this:
“Dasn’t take up thy pen thou
Sluggard!” Yet I plough.

10. To,

My muse for today...
You with such simple pride
Tell me your life.
It is a life I fear.
It is a life I don't want.
I see how the world
Sucked the marrow from your life
And put you in a devil's bargain.
I see what the world did to you,
Though you don't.
And I intend to speak against it.

11. A Meme and One Conversation

A meme and one conversation
Brought such clarity.
The meme, there were the Silent and Greatest Generations.
The silent generation disciplined their son
And the greatest generation disciplined theirs.
Yet, the next son, turned his back to his father's discipline.
He then coddled his child, so that it painted.
No... those children rampage through streets
Burn down our civilization
And demand that they sit idly...
Not even working like I am, figuring it all out.

Then the conversation brought upon the consequences of this.
A woman, who will remained unnamed,
Boasted of her life.
A child from a divorced home,
She worked such long hours,
She never had a family.
I recall my dad, having put all his time and energy
Into a relationship, and the result was ruin.
She asked, "I see all these women
"Getting pregnant, and living off welfare.
"I wonder if I did anything wrong."

These two things are very related.
It is the milieu we handed down
Found in the latter's dichotomy,
Of a world which rejected discipline
So therefore, could no longer truly love.

Then I see Yehude's beautiful life,
There, in a comic strip.
So beautiful, and is what I wanted to do myself.
To show the beauty of love,
And the immaculate life we should desire.
But, when I saw it,
The cherry rubicond on his wife's satisfied conception,
I realized it too was vanity.
It is not what the world needed.
So, I have a moment of perfect clarity...

12. I Give Up

You say I'm trying too hard
Get a job at a warehouse...
Maybe I am. But I'd suck
At stacking boxes, too.
You also say I'm aggravating you
More than usual, why call?
Maybe I didn't solve PvNP.
Maybe I'm just an idiot.
Maybe I didn't prove God exists.
Maybe a circle has a diameter of 2
If its area is equal to pi,
So I was wrong about a circle's degrees
Being the widest angle possible
To fit the most amount of space.
Maybe my IQ is 100.
But, I have faith because my life is poor.
And some day soon, I'll be somewhere else.

13. I Looked at the Pieta Today

I looked at the Pieta today,
And rather than be enthralled
By Mary's beauty, like usual,
Or seeing the chiseled perfection
Of its soft lines, and smooth and polished
Hems... I was disturbed and felt
Like I was seeing the world
There held by Mary in her optically
Illusive pose and stature.
There was something different.
It hit me, as gruesome,
And made me feel uncomfortable.
I saw God's wrath there
In Mary's arm, with the slain Christ
Gazed at by Mary's peaceful brow.
The wrath of God is satisfied;
For there it was, on Mary's lap
And it killed God.

14. Square and Square Roots

Take one square and take
A line, and cut it down the
Middle. Then do it
Again perpendicular.
See each line segment's a half.

Then, note that the areas of two lines
Is equal to one fourth the square.

Then note 3+4=5 is not
True. But 9 + 16 = 25 is true.
Thus, by square rooting the variables
You incur the dimensions of one dimensional
Lines of a right Triangle.

Also, the quadratic equation reduces
Polynomials to one dimension. 
How? By intuiting the axiom of
Of a square or rectangle, by the three
Coefficients. So that the equation
Breaks down into length and width
And represented by the two factors.
Know that length and width breaks down
To one dimensional lines.
So also, negative and positive
Numbers square into the same numeral;
Thus, also into length and width.

Why P won't equal
NP, is that some NP
Cannot be a square.

15. Equalities

What I'm noticing
About most explanations
Of basic truths, is
That they don't figure in the
Equalities, just the shapes.

Maybe that's the fundamental flaw in
Our reasoning today, and why few
If any, actually know what is true?

The mind, does not make a thing true.

16. Singh

My good friend, 
My gentle friend,
My stalwart friend
During a time of trouble---

I ate a peach today
And its sweet savorty
Was on my breath like a
Candy, which lingered there long.

Just like the savorty
Of my Cinnamon and
Ginger with tomato
Basil and Oregano.
Just like the savorty
Of the Thyme and Tarragon
In my Chicken Noodle Soup;
Or the Gumbo I make
With the Mint, Tarragon
Bay Leaf, and Three Alarm
Pepper, honey and lime zest.

I was taught to enjoy this.

17. What Debt Can Buy

A boy receives his
Puppy from his well postured
Grandfather. The same
Hands his boy a small puppy
Seventy odd years later,
As the spry family dog sits loyally at the boy’s side.

18. Fascists

Fascists on the left of me
Fascists on the right...
QAnon and Antifa
Skull and Guy Fawkes Masks;
The SS thunderbolt and raised black fist.
The swastika and hammer and anvil.

Feudalism, feudalism, it rears its ugly head again.
But, remember my loves, when they pushed too far
The heads of the wicked did roll.

We don't want your reorganizations of society.
Just that Old Glory and Star Spangled Banner;
Our Halcyon memories, we want them for all
And all the new generations.

19. You're a Fine Girl

"A whore I want to be;---
"What I really want I don't---
"While I'm disrespected;
"And that's your fault,
"Not mine."

20. Hey Good Look'n

"Make me a sandwich,
"And I'll pat you on the ass;
"You're a body not a brain
"A piece of meat and not my friend---
"Do me."

21. The LORD

Our good Father is in heaven
With flaming blue eyes of fire,
And a burnished sienna
Skin, with white light as a vestment
Of purest hue, and wooly hair.
Behind him is a rainbow of
Emerald, and around him are
Twenty-four elders clothed in robes.
Before the throne are Cherubim;
Each with the face of a man, calf
(Which is a cherub's face) Lion
And Eagle, with omniscient eyes.

22. Fairest of them All

Fairest of them all,
Do you wish to cause my fall?
Enticed I am in your trap of flattery.
How I would love to be thy friend,
And walk through my paths until the end,
Yet for all you are is all I ever wanted,
You are more dangerous than a Bear or Bobcat
In the woods. The Bear shan't attack
Unless her cubs are disturbed,
And the Bobcat, so long as you nare
Turn your back, you shall be safe.

23. The Last Poem on Earth

Our Halcyon peace is destroyed;
Oh, you obdurate nations,
You obdurate nations,
Like the sands of the seashore
March out to war against our King.
How did that ancient serpent,
How… O Uriel, did he ascend the pit?
Prophecy has ceased, and man was at peace…
How often they forget only a short while ago
We were at peace, and love abounded everywhere.
History is altered, the past is unknown;
Ancient generations have died
But now we stand at the crossroads—
The end of times—when after one Millennium
Of quiet and peace, a war erupted again
By that wicked prince who rallied many to his cause.
To where do we look? LORD?
Of the last battle of Gog and Magog?
When Your waves destroy Satan’s armies once more?
Hide me in your shelter, and from the hail,
For Your Fame is Great, and Your mercies Almighty.
This Lament I make, for Zion has been broken into once again,
Yet only for a short while… a short while.

24. A False Trichotomy 

Am I the Poet who is faithful to the scene, the man who succors another's verse, or the one who reclines and soaks in a sunset? 

This was the question asked to me. So I answered.

I’m a poet who describes a scene. I sit, with my globe and lantern to the right and left of my ancient laptop. Sea Shells, filled with common gemstones, lay atop a China tea saucer ornamented with blue paint, and my brass lantern resting in-between them. Polished Carnelian, Pink Howlite, Blue Granite, and Pink Zebra Coral resting in perfectly shaped sea shells are there, at the base of the lantern. The delicate things I have are common, but precious to me, for they are well appreciated and loved.

I read Wordsworth, succoring in every word, and his two hundred line poem gets pored over for two hours. Thirty seconds for every word, as a good poem should be. I figure for what the poem means, and do my hard work which I am called to do; find the hidden meanings of these strange and wondrous thoughts… of men who were mental giants, and far beyond our weak minded scholars today.

After typing up my report on my laptop, and after reading my book, I stare out into the rainbow sky of sunset. There is no green flash which will appear over the mountains… but the clouds are streaked with lightning bolts, red fiery clouds, which fade into a purple melancholy at the other edge of the world.

25. Pi Ramses

Pi Ramses,
You are named
Right when the
Prophet, good
Moses, lived.
You are proof
Exodus
Was written
Nigh the year
One thousand
Three hundred
Before Christ.
Right before
Moses would
See the land
That our God
Promised him.
Twenty years
Is within
A margin
Of error.

26. King Tut

Anubis sits atop a vessel
In the pattern of the Ark of the Covenant.
How the LORD God freed Israel
From idolatry, and gave them a pure law.
For, instead of Anubis,
It is the Law of God
Between the Cherubim.
The Curtains of the Tabernacle
Cry out that Exodus was real.
So does the Ark of the Covenant.
So does all evidence prove the LORD Jehovah Jireh.

How also the Covenants between Egypt and the Hittites
Prove Moses, for a learned man of Egyptian Royalty
Wrote the Torah. Only one of such education could.

27. Pastor A____

Walking down the path at the State Park
I saw Pastor A___. My eyes naturally look
At a person's chest, which is a bad habit of mine;
She shouted my name, and I stopped to talk.

"So, are you now a Methodist or are you still
"Preaching as a Lutheran?" I asked coyly.
A look of astonishment fell over her face,
Like she couldn't possibly ever be Methodist...
"I'm still a Lutheran, preaching at D____."
She said to tell the family she said hello
And that she wanted updates from me and my dad.

Though, I  wondered while walking up the trail
If her bewilderment was because of my shyness...
My bad habit of looking at people's chests
Which I also did up the trail, as I saw an older couple.
But, I realized, it was probably because I had mistaken
Her as preaching Methodism, and not Lutheranism...

To which, I was a little puzzled as to the great difference.
To me, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian
Are the faith that sings old songs, preaches platitudes for sermons
Sings Kumbaya, and accepts Liberal Theology.

But, to her, there is a great difference...
And that's why I'm glad I know enough about Theology
To not really know it myself.
As like Literary Theory,
Theology is something that knowing a little helps a long way
But knowing too much gets you lost in the weeds.

We parted on good terms. But, I wonder which
Of my bad habits was really the reason she
Seemed a bit offended?
I don't know, but felt a bit embarrassed,
And used it as a tool to keep two notes:
"Don't make assumptions;
"And look people in the eyes."

28. Apricot


My tongue is citrus,
It is buttery fat;—-
It is a tongue of
Apricot’s
Pleasant, resinous ash.

29. Divine Shadow

The divine shadow of the Law,
A shadow of judgment to come,---
Armies rape, murder, steal, destroy.
Why does the Bible have it thus?
Is it because God is that of
An immoral monster? Or, is't
That the Shadow must integrate
Within us, for which to be good?
Is it because rape, robbery
Murder and theft is within us
And there must be peace expressed through
Most barbaric human nature?
Subconsciously, the Law speaks masked
Natures of man and woman, so
That the shadow stays appeased by
Vengeance in the literary 
Form, and not corporeal worlds?

30. The Best Picture of Heaven

Diamond is a crystalline form of Carbon.
A base element. Gold shall be crystalline
And take on the appearance of Jasper stone.
Mount Zion shall be a holy city like
A city we have today, with towers tall
Raised from the foundation of twelve gemstones like
The layers of our earth today in sedimentary rock.
The towers shall be pearlescent rose and peridot
In appearance, and crystalline like a diamond.
The entire gemstone, which shall be Mount Zion
Shall have roads carved within it like a pure cavern
And mansions, and lakes of living water, and cataracts too,
And fire shall be the Holy Spirit's light, and the countenance
Of the Father, seated at His temple in Jerusalem.
It shall be an ethereal cavern, with no darkness
But only light. And one's mansions shall have petrified woods
For their crossbeams, gemstones for their stained-glass windows
And precious stones for their delicate things; their furniture
Shall be everlasting, to recline in beds with heavenly linens
Of which, we shall be clothed with raiment that feels
Like the Moon, Stars, Cataracts and Knowledge.
We shall walk with our Beulah, a perfect spouse
Whom we shall be made into nations and clans and mighty peoples.
This is a mystery, but is spoken of in the Marriage of the Lamb Supper.
There shall be suburbs and countrysides, libraries, and books
And fish, and all the animals we Christians loved
They shall be there, and populate this Heavenly City.
It shall be seeded with the Seed of Man and Beast.
There shall be heavenly beasts and no rapine;
Flora and Fauna which shall evolve, and studied;
The Trees of Fruit of Life shall grow into myriads of species
And every tree shall bear a fruit, and Sweet and Savory
Shall be the only tastes remaining. No bitter, no sour, no salt.
There shall be new heavenly tastes, and new heavenly senses.
The Fruit of Life shall be our Meat. And there shall be no sadness or tears.
Or fear, or mourning, but only joy, love and peace.
New colors yet unseen, and majesty and dominion shall be
Given to us by God, to rule alongside with Him for ever and ever.
Amen.

31. Mr. Caulfield

You said something interesting.
"If we all know Law naturally,
"Then there are no good people."
I stopped and thought about 
Why we cannot communicate.
When you say "Good people"
You mean good within society's context.
Because by knowing there is a natural law
Which we're born knowing,
You then realize the Gospel's message.
There is not one good, no not one.
And then you repeatedly say you hate me.
So, I don't hate you. But hatred 
Is itself murder, just not the actual act.

32. You Who Throw Ye Stones

Ye most likely to throw a stone
Have entertained the very sin,
And wish to hide it so by slaying
Another person with thine own guilt.

33.

Just took the official White Privilege test.
Turns out I have none.

34. The Four Winds of Hersey

The prosperity preacher sows nettles,
So that the outward man is a sharp thorn.
Do not be blown by Greed's winds of error.

The New Age teacher sows a heart of stone,
So that Salvation's joy is a dense spell.
Do not be swayed by an Idol's error.

The man who is cursed by Moses' law
Has rose hedges in his heart, and his mein.
Do not break the LORD's Sabbath in error.

The man who accepts the sin of Sodom
Has Roman Highways in his soul toward all.
Do not walk on that Sin's path of error.

35. A Christian Cannot Sin

The wisdom of a child,
One cannot disobey mother.
The same way is to be said
That a Christian cannot sin.
Nor does a Christian sin,
Because they do not want to.

36. The Poet Smithy

A cryptic conversation
Between the Silent Generation
Passing over a dinner table...
A retelling of Tchaikovsky's ballet...
Smithy has talent.
Though, he's pursuing vain persons...
And until he stops, he will never succeed.
A good poet... but following after
The coattails of pedants
Will never win the Crown.
Simply don't play the game.
Then, you already have won.

37. Await oh Washington

Await, oh Washington
Your time to lead the war;
Await, oh Washington
To lead your men to tor.

Dress in your color's best
And wear honor on your chest;
Await, Oh Washington
To lead your men to tor!

Say not a word to rise,
But sit and take your time;
Let those who see you're true
Come to honor you!

Await, oh Washington
Your time to lead the war;
Await, oh Washington
To lead your men to tor.

38. The Sacred Cow

Sometimes, the sacred
Cow needs to be slaughtered
So there can again be peace
And the hungry can feast on love.

39. Heaven's Twelve Foundations

Onyx---removed from
Aaron's Breastplate,---you're Judas;---
Heaven's twelve layers.

40. My Birth Stone

My birth stone
Is fully symbolic of me---
Associated with Wisdom and Love.
God says to forsake the stone, 
And choose a good wife
And to find wisdom.
I will cherish that.

41. Idolatry

Longest of times, I  could not understand why men bow to idols.

Yet, now I know 'tis
The vain life the idol gives;
Child sacrifice
Means sex with no consequence;
It means pleasure, drunk feasts  and
Emboldens orgies by a child's flesh.

Just like our modern idol
Means sodomy, unrestrained 
Sex and opulence. 

42. Holy Kiss

A holy handshake
Is like a holy kiss.
Brethren, work not
To please God,
For this dishonors Him--
Rather, in all things be kind
And respectful of Custom.
Love from the heart,
And your sincere joy
And eye's twinkle
Are a holy kiss enough.

43. The Descension of Babylon

Synagogue of Satan, from Jotunheim:
Thy lightbeams set ablaze our lush forests.
Thy crafts, with your beautiful forms descend
Upon our world;---the reporter is
Arrested. Why? Is it Republican's
Conspiracy to hide the truth? No. 'tis
A War of Roses.

44. Catachresis

To know a dunce,---
How obvious it is to me,---
Is to see 'em on a boat
Swayed about by a storm
Of Catachresis' golden beams.

45. To A Woman

I try to understand you...
But I see you do not know how to love.
Beautiful, but you've turned yourself into a toxic soul.

46. The Curse of Knowledge

Periods are the cause for women's rights
So said the feminist in her epic rant...
And the boys just out of high school not perfectly
Educated on Female Menstruation
Are narcissists.

The fact is, this can be applied to just about
Anything else.

47. The Golden Dark Age

"Science" they cry,
Like "Gold" in Beowulf.
"We do not know how the protein
"Gets absorbed by the stomach."
By the stomach.
So with Vaccine science
And now Antibodies don't exist.
The stomach breaks down food
But doesn't ever digest.

"Science" they cry.
Like a wolf howling in the night.
Maths are purely a product of invention...
After all...

Meanwhile, my dad noticeably suffers
As he aimlessly forgets how to pay for groceries.

48. Peter Singer

Oh, Song of Roland
You decried a slippery path...
How it was proven wrong...

Yet, this Esthetician proves
Oh, how he proves,
That all I said was strong.

No longer art thou embryo
An embryo, a clump of human cells.
It is now a child, as far as Peter Singer can tell.

So now by strange, and obscene ethics
A child born after thirty days,
Can be himself---like a depressed man in Canada---
Etherized on a table, and have life stolen far away.

Now you know why I believe in hell.

49. On Abortion

We beat them down so hard
That now they are trying to make 
Murder ethical.
Now we expose the blimey hypocrites
For what they always were.
Naked truth.

50. The Quadratic Formula

That Rene Descarte:
None other than he who said
"I think, so I am"
Is the man who gifted us
The quadratic formula.

Of course, Babylon
Had their own version of it
Too. Can't forget that.

51. The Black National Anthem

A Cherub choir, in their children's voices
Sing a traditional hymn, and the crowd boos.
An overrated Christian Hedonist
Sings the national anthem, and botches every note.
The crowd cheers... Personally, I was offended
By the absolutely third rate number she did
To my cherished Star Spangled Banner.
The children singing their hymn
Didn't offend me at all.
The word for that is hypocrisy.

52. I Like "Lift Every Voice and Sing"

That Song, should not be divisive.
It's as good as "America the Beautiful."
And it's a wholesome prayer to the LORD
For peace and liberty.

America is our native land
So don't drive us back to 
Europe and Africa.

53. America is Doomed

Warren died on Bunker Hill,
The martyr of our revolution---
The Sphynx sends his armies
Over those Atlantic Hills
And makes George Floyd
The martyr of his cause;---
Orc, Sphynx, oh Spirit of the Age,---
My temporal despair,---
I drop my pen at thy madness.
Should a bully replace a man,
Should a blackguard replace a poet,
Should the Sphynx of Albion rise
America is doomed...
Yet, Maria is not yet.

54. The Big Bang Theory

There was quantum nothing
And then it expanded
Infinitely in space.

There was a glob of hair
Smooshed between the vulva
Of a woman, and then gore.

Cosmic gasses were formed
Into clumps of rock; hot
Balls of gas; planets; stars.

The little infant writhed
And wriggled on the breast
Of her mother's black teat.

Comets brought water to
Our molten sphere, which cooled
And oceans birthed green life.

The child walks, and speaks
A few strange words. "Mama"
"No" and also "I want".

The star is born, a hot
Sun, and the moon cools down;
A comet makes Earth spin.

The child goes to school
To learn life's vanity.
She strives with all her peers.

The animals breed, they
Bring forth the seed after
Their kinds; sea and earth switch.

The teenager lies nude
With her male companion
Inside; they makes their kind.

Then man evolves, and wo.
They frolic, until sin
Is once known in the field.

She goes to college; where
Is her child? She strives
Among everyone else.

There is no  rest in this
Story, for it is the
Ethos of modern day.

Grow old; sedentary;
She has a smiling
Face... impoverished of loved.

©2023 B. K. Neifert
All Rights Reserved









101 Allusions

1. The Saint and the Punished

The joys he'll enter into, in Zion, are beyond compare. Mansions, cities of gemstones raised the height of the earth to the moon, countrysides, rivers, mountains, valleys, lakes, the trees of the Fruit of Life, lush fertile plains, beautifully woven courts within the City itself likened to the most beautiful State Parks imaginable within its decadent cube; with flowing rivers and waterfalls; even all the animals of the Saints will be there, and all of our precious creatures we loved.  Streets paved with gold, and Pearl gates. Decadent food and drinks, with no hunger or thirst. And he'll be married to Zion, and call the Land Beulah.

If you do not accept Jesus, you'll be imprisoned in a cell of sandstone, licked with flame, and if you were really bad, will be tormented by a demon as your cellmate. You'll descend the tunnel of hell, into the grave, and appear in the caverns of hell, and meet the Satyrs, Dragons, Imps and Cockatrices, and they'll take you to your abode, where you will rot with worms in your wounds, being wounded, and have no thought, no wisdom, no activity, and have all your love stolen from you. You'll feel like a rolled up ball, being tossed around, and never at rest. And your only peace will be that you are where you ought.

2. The Music

The wise hate the wailing of the harp;
They hate the guttural chords,
And howling melodies.

In the society's decadence, 
The music turns to emotive phrase,
And guttural noise;
When at its peak,
The music was peace.

So also, does the harp and lyre
Fill every decadent room,
Every ear is held to the shell
So they can listen to the sea
Of melodies.
At their labor, art permeates every corridor.
The ubiquitous noise omnipresent
So that nowhere can you ever hear again
The pleasant noise of people's voices
In their bubbly hubbub.

Rather, all there is is the music
In its guttural noises, 
And strong, emotive sounds;
Filling all who hear it with stirring melancholy.
Or, with lusty anger and hot sex.
And everywhere it is...
You cannot escape it.

I had thought I lost this poem,
But providence desired it to be sung once more.

3. Jesus' Tunic

Do you remember Joseph?
His coat of many colors?
Made for him by Rachel,
His mother?

Jesus had a tunic
Made without a single seam
Woven from top to bottom,
By Mary.

I recall, that it was His 
Most prized possession;
A tunic. Which, having coats
Myself, I

Know the pride of a warm, well crafted coat,
How it keeps warm in the 
Bitterest of colds, if a tunic also lie
Underneath.

There is a pride to what keeps warm
Which Jesus referred to his Tunic
An awful lot. Being His most prized possession.
Love was stitched

Into this innocent thing; it was the source
Of many of His most difficult sayings,
Where we say, "That's not true,"
Lo, it is.

And that same thing was stolen from Him
On the day of His death, His only comfort;
The thing which was worn, made by His mother,
And He died

As was prophesied, with the garment
Cast lots over by the Centurion who killed Him.
Woe to that man's theft, for how can it be forgiven?
Yet it can.

4. Ancient Revelry

The tares, from their infancy,
Are sown into black soils,
And there they grow with 
Instruments of anarchy.
They stab, they fight,
They poison, they kill,
With the dagger, with fist,
With chalice, with sword;
Every object in their home is cursed.
They fly upon their broomsticks,
They dance nude and enter one another;
They only allow the poets who are naughty
To be spoken in their ancient Golden Era.
And to them, it is joy, the hellish stress,
For they remember their Garden of Earthly Delight.
And they wish to once more bring this age
To fruition, now that Christianity had abated that hell.
Do not acquiesce. Fight with words, and slay the dragon
With the breath of our peaceful prosperities.

5. Vile

Vile things are in every culture.
Vile things are in every time.
Today, it is mutilation of children.
Yesterday, it was chattel slavery.
Tomorrow, who knows?

The obdurate child gets taken from his home.
Stiff necked, and unapologetic, he'd rather
Be placed in foster care, to avoid his parents.
They don't want him to be permanently changed.

The men and women, walking in their rows
Of chains, shackled together, blood dripping down their backs,
A whip cracking, and a husband and wife torn apart
With the screaming infant between their arms.

What gross thing will tomorrow bring?
What invasive disease of the mind will it infect us with?
What horrible thing, will normal and sane individuals
Believe is right, and the rest of us murmur in half toleration? 
The fact of the first thirty years of my life
Was that we had finally gotten it right,
And didn't have any of this. What a shame things went so awry.

6. The Trial

Trump is on trial.
He reads "Before the Law"
He doesn't understand it
But I do.

One door, made for him,
One law, made for him,
One gatekeeper---
Just like all of us it seems,
It will be one day,
A law made for each man
And a sentence just as absurd.
And one man piously sits,
Unquestioning, for it is the matter
Of the State that this solitary law
Be followed, and so with every other man
His own solitary Law
With no rhyme or reason
Than the very fact that it is.

7. She Couldn't Save Me

In a dream, or a vision,
I was cleaning up my life.
My mother, my dear mother,
Was apathetic in her strife.
She would not pick up a broom,
She would not make haste.
So, I left upon my dream
For I could not tell if I, she hates.

Then, upon my bed, I saw a youth who was from my past.
I lay upon my bed, with my Pound Puppy at my breast.
And there was she, for whom I loved,
And my worst fear was seen
A nightmare had succumbed me
And I learned she was a fiend.

Then, at last, we were careening out of control.
I had no lover, I had no friend, so "Amarisa" I told
Shouting it, shouting it, "Amarisa" I did.
The truck crashed, and it killed all my friends.
Then I was ghost, hovering above the scene I dread,
I had not raised, I had not fell, but I knew I was surly dead.

Then, I woke in an asylum for the insane.
I thought I was on a movie set,
I found it all very strange.
I ran for the door, warning all of my insight.
A nurse had tackled me, and then "Jesus" I had cried.
I crawled upon the floor, I inched my very way
Every painful movement, I cried "Jesus" all the way.

At the last, I came to the end, it was a mall with open door;
A stadium was filling with children, who saw me in my state so poor.
Yet, at the end, I reached up for that door,
A voice said, "Brandon, open," and I opened up the door.
At that moment I woke from the horrid vision my mind aroused,
And I renounced that idol "Amarisa", and wrote this verse profound.
Only one name under heaven, I found tonight is true.
It is the LORD Jesus, and I come to caution you.
If by my writing you feel blessed, it is because it's all a song
Made for that one and only savior, not for Amarisa wrong.
Yet, do not worship---it is a tricky verse---
That Daughter of Zion, of which I'm well rehearsed.
It is just a fancy, a strange and idol thought...
Yet it shall remain, for Jesus I have taught.

There is only one name, that saves a man or child,
There is only one name, that can save murderer or pedophile,
Or rapist, or theif, or blasphemer or Jew,
Or Gentile, or Greek, and not a number very few....
It is that man named Jesus, who died upon a cross.
Let no accursèd cult spring from me, for now I know the cost.
I proclaim one Name, that is Jesus Christ my God...
Any other name proclaimed, leads to an awful loss.

8. Jorgia Erin Amaris O'Conner

I fell in love with you.
You became my obsession.
My Beatrice. My Amélie.
You became my idol. Yes, you.
In your blue dress, I saw you
With such godly joy. Like being
In the presence of God.
I must confess it was very strange.
But, I break that yoke for another.
A lighter yoke, that of my Friend.
For calling out to you at night,
It never once saved me. But Christ did.
You are a phantom, who I don't know.
But, I do still believe I will be married to Zion
In the eternal abode I shall one day inhabit.
I do say, if in life I am alone, it is the one thing which could make it worthwhile.

9. Why P Cannot Always Equal NP

It's the proverbial Squaring of the Circle.
The limits of Coefficients in a system,
Which would create NP, cannot always
Be described by P, due to the limitations on geometry.

Every system of equation is defined by a shape.
And simply put, there are limits to every shape
Which makes it impossible to conform some shapes into other shapes.
I think anyway.

In fact, through further rumination,
If P could always equal NP, 
It would break down the very notion of equalities.
P equaling NP 
Would be the same as saying
 πr^2=l*w.
Fundamentally, the axioms of one shape,
Cannot translate to another.
If they could, there'd be no use for mathematics.

In fact, I'd further say,
That if P equaled NP,
One would have a universal equation
And System for solving all axioms of Geometry.
Which, fundamentally, cannot be true.
As Pi is no more described in a square
As Length and Width  are described by a radius.
The shapes have different axioms
By which they must follow,
Which require new calculations on their part
To describe each geometric figure.
So with, any Nondeterministic Polynomial
Cannot always be equated into a Polynomial.
As each Nondeterministic Polynomial
Will be defined by its unique shape and dimensions.
Simply, it cannot be so.

Therefore, Some NP cannot be equal to P.

10. I Am By No Means a Mathematician

I am by no means a mathematician.
However, when I come to P = NP---
Dazzled by the complexity of the equations---
I look at each equation like a shape.
As if each equation represented a simple shape;
Or, even a very complex shape.

In my limited exploration of geometry,
I know a few very basic things.
One cannot take the shape of a Right Triangle,
And use the Pythagorean T heorem
To explain an Isosceles. 

And seeing that NP and P 
Can be reduced to this principle,
At its most basic level,
The most fundamental thing to learn
From this system, is that we CANNOT
Generalize a rule for all shapes.
We cannot, for instance, 
Call an equation a polynomial
If it has three dimensions, for example.
If there is a cubed variable,
The equation no longer is a Polynomial.

I think people approach the problem
From the angle of where I approached
Pythagorean Theorem.
It seems intuitive,
To think the proof lies
In the hypotenuse being like a crossed section
Of a quadrilateral. 
But, that is not why it solves.
It seems possible...
Even very likely,
To where you'll be duped into thinking it.
But, upon keen observations,
And studying the equations and dimensions,
You find it cannot be so
As it would break down equalities and the laws of algebra.

So, also, I think NP equaling P
Would be the same notion,
Of it seeming intuitive,
That a solution can be made.
But, generally, what's intuitive can be deceptive,
And what's more, you cannot define
The Pythagorean Theorem for a Circle,
Any more than Pi would apply
To a Square.
Sure, one can make equal anything,
But by means of deduction,
There is no way outside of empirical observation
To determine a shape, and how the laws
Of objective space apply to it.
Adding the dimension of time
Further complicates this, and makes even more complex shapes,
Which I believe, its geometry, must be studied independently 
For each individual problem.
Much like the philosophers of auld would study shapes
To determine axioms and principles.

Thereby, one must study the shapes
And derive new axioms for each individual shape.
And possibly, that will be the occupation of many brilliant minds come the future, what will.

11. God Defines Me

He's written my story from start to finish. 
My name is"Broom Tree on a Hill Crown Newpeace";
With my brillo head.
I decided to be a writer from the start,
So progressed into Poesy.
Southey and Coleridge wished to come to my reigion
---the Susquehanna valley---
in order to create a "Pantocracy", 
I write in a style similar to them
And also began writing with utopian visions. 
Not only that, Longfellow---America's finest poet---
Had married a woman named "Mary Storer Potter", 
And my best friend has a same last name.
So, there's definitely evidence of God working in my life, 
Particularly, to lead me into my profession, and also to my work. 
None of that could have been coincidental.

12. The Class Machine

No cleric can surpass the king
No, not even in democracy.
The fiefdom is set, as the cook
Makes Metalcore, and lives 
His worst life now.

Was not da Vinci a clerk?
Say we had more freedom then
Than we do now?

The modern Feudalism is set,
As the Wokies march in order,
Ushering in Communism.
That new generation rises,
One with the royal cavalcades
And the flying chariots...
The peoples worship them as gods.

Science is magic
And no man,
Whose own grandfather
Used to dig a hole in the ground
Can rise to the ranks of Poet Laureate;
No, not in this day.

The Laurel sings her rage,
That Boomerang can kill her
The minute she fires her Pineapple;
Though she wants to fight for her freedom,
Yet the mass graves shall be the cost.
Republicans in their rows,
Mowed down by machines and not men;
Waging their wars with Bow and Knife.

Yes, you crowned emperor,
This is a new generation...
One where you rise above all
In glutted fest, and say "I AM".
Crown the Empire,
The ashes of all I love are destroyed,
For to fight is futile.

So, let me die if I must.
And my Blood shall kindle the flame
Like Polycarp, and in Peace
Freedom shall persuade and win.

13.  Innocence

A squid tentacle constricts
A boat, moored on a canvas
Over a hundred years ago.

The decadent painter
Paints over the Baronry's 
Prized collection.

Is this not like the wealth
Of many generations, wasted
By the slogans of communism?

Is this not like the fool,
Whom, finding that Gospel Pearl,
Throws it back into the sea?

For once, the wealth was spread,
And the Pearl need not be hid
From the salacious Trusts;
.
It was there for the common man to shuck.
Yet he swallowed up the pearl,
And kept its shell, by entertaining his audience

With his vandalism.

The communist is like this man,
In that she paints over the canvas of
Civilization with her tentacles;

She covers wealth with her idle decadence.
She knows not Capitalism lifted the world
Out of poverty, and gave the common lay, even,

Priceless art. No... She paints over it
With her squid tentacles,
And spoils generations' worth of wealth.

14. Evolution of Thought 4/13/23

AI, is it smart? No... the mathematician proves it.
Cubed Rooted Negatives are impossible. 
But Quartic and Eighthic rooted negatives are not.
The fool says AI can be intelligent, because he believes
It already is---though, it is merely mimicry. 
Not creativity. It repeats the formulae of essays
Upon essays, and only knows how to simplify them;
It doesn't understand nuance.
 P cannot equal NP all the time---
Some NP cannot equal P---yet, it is not in my poem.
Someone is editing my work, without my knowledge.
I swear an oath, but it is not so. It is only my faulty memory.
I said, "Not Always" but not "Some".
Jordan Peterson wants to create a better world with Religion's Law,
But such a world would be unmerciful,
Save God reign, and judge, and preside over our hearts and minds.
Law without Grace is Hell.
I walk through the State Park,
The tree with an ear has a microphone,
So I believe, and the Bathroom too,
And the tree that looks like a boob.
It opens up to an underground base,
And in the lake, when drained,
They prepared for World War III,
And the rockets would ascend out of the waters.
I would wave my hand, and with faith it would all vanish,
And I would be left unmolested.
The Carpenter ant, so 
Giously walks across my path
Bold, and happy, with the little samara shivering in her mandible.
I wonder if God's eyes are not on such little things.
The plane with the red tailfin flies by, ever so silently,
So I wonder if it is a chariot from Jotunheim,
And the funny camera by the roadside reads my thoughts.
The preacher preaches a sermon on the most horrific child abuse;
She screams, "Where was God when my uncle had done so!"
Where was God when my best friends abandoned me
And showed no inkling of mercy toward my youthful offense?
Or when my peers bullied me? Or when my mother divorced my dad?
Or when all the mean and nasty things were said?
Yet not one hair on my head was ever harmed---
Where was God when my dad received cancer
From the shame and disappointment of his beloved son?
Yet God's providence has always protected me.
I know not why, but possibly because He knows I will never lose my faith.
A semi-circle also can become like a chord in Intersecting Chords Theorem.
Ah, Oh Grecia and Persia, you fight your twenty-five hundred year long war;
Still raging even to this day, and may be a cataclysmic end,
Northern and Southern Kingdoms; how Israel tossels between them.
For a very short time, did Rome Suzerain over Persia; possess the world.
Zoroastrianism morphed into Islam, yet the Northern and Southern 
Kings control the world, like a Yin and Yang ensign;
Though do not be fooled, neither are good, both are evil.

15. The Conflict of Creation

I will never mystify you with how I create.
Call it an inner voice, call it a conscience,
Call it the voice of God...
But, I don't seek to persuade you that it's anymore than
Genius, like such which causes the grapes to grow
Or the performance to be good,
Or the wine to accent meat with its berry.
I will never use mystic words
Or try to dupe you into believing this comes from me.
It comes from practice---
Not some bold power of self will.
Just practice, and a little help from God.

16. The Olive, The Fig, The Vine and the Bramble

Brother and Sister of the True vine,
That Olive and Fig---
The Olive with his fatness,
The Fig with her sweetness;
Gideon and Deborah,
Elijah and Mary Magdalene;
What distinguishes thou?
When offered a crown, ye cast it;
Ye forsake the world, and worldly authority.
Oh, the Vine, when pierced---
You True Vine, you who merry the hearts of God and Man,
You too had been lifted up,
And would not take Your Kingdom with the Twelve Legions of Angels;
Not before you were lifted up.
Yet, the Bramble with his Shadow
Says, "Give me authority,
"And I shall guide ye well!"
And he is a fire which burns like hell's black flame.

17. Fools and Philosophers

I look at all the philosophers handed down through history,
And I wonder, "How simple it would be, if their teacher were Christ alone?"
Then, I suppose, there would not be any confusion about the most basic truths.

18. Kaleidodream

Do you not know? The robot does not dream?
Do you not know, that it plagiarizes you, and yes me?
The swirling subconsciousness of a hundred million artists
Get copied and pasted over a sentence or line of text.
The author of that text believes it is the magic of mind---
He believes it is intellect, and creativity of the machine.
No... it is the intellect and creativity of millions of artists
Which the AI picks and chooses, and warps
Around a few platitudes of thought.
And the author of such thought says, "I can not do better."
Yet, I, being an artist, see only the wish fulfillment
Of having one's immediate, and simplistic fancy
Shown as a flashy, surrealist portrait.

No, my loves, the true artist is you who wrote the prompt.
For that subconscious thought then gets woven
By the machine, to create what is pretty,
But not sublime.

19. Otaku

Am I just an obsessed hobbyist?
Spending hours a day,
Surfing for inspiration...
Is it only money that makes a career?

Music,
Art,
Science,
Literature,
Poetry,
History,
Psychology,
Sociology,
Maths,
Theology,
Philosophy,

For what?

Would I have been better off
Learning how to play a video game real well?
To know nothing about our world?
Twiddle my thumbs,
And I could have made a fortune.
I could have been a good poker player,
Or a bad chess player,
Or a good COD player,
Or I  could play pinochle,
Or be a professional Magic The Gathering Player,
Or I could play Fortnite,
Or I could have made a YouTube channel
Where I got really good at Mario or Rome Total War,
Or playing Minecraft all day
And make my fortune?
To commentate on Comic Book fads
And react to some stranger's fifteen minutes of fame
Or classic rock songs I've heard a million times
And speculate on the latest celebrity gossip?
I could have beat myself,
Made a fool out of myself,
Like a Jackass
And give my exorbitant riches to the poor.

No, instead I chose to grow up.
And am punished for it,
By not being allowed to.

All my target audiences are trapped in eternal youth
Like I am the sole man left on Earth.

20. How to Read a Poem

Read once.
Read twice.
Then labor over every line.
Look at every comma, 
And learn every word in time.
Find every allusion,
Find every hidden word---
Read over a lifetime,
And you shall know that verse.

21. The Anti-Nietzsche Aphorism

The highest form in this life, 
Succumbs to work which sustains us, 
A true love,
The quest for knowledge.
And contentment with this lot.
Then, we die and reap whatever we have sown.

22. Historicity of Genesis; Flood, Nimrod and Battle of Siddom

Mid-24th Century Anomaly, 
It collapses all civilizations;
Almost like a global flood? Then
The Earth divides during the life of Peleg, and then
Sargon that Nimrod, built His empire, 
And three hundred years later, would,
Ride, Abraham! and pursue those Elamite foes.
Make haste to avenge Ur, to impose that Amorite King
Melchizedek, king of Salem, to instill Babylonian rule.

23. Two Black Maidens

Two black maidens set their minds to proof...
They do their math, and prove.
Calculus, they use, to prove Pythagorean Theorem,
Yet Calculus is proven so much, so
That Pythagorean Theorem is proven too!

It is a biconditional,
Two Tautologies that necessitate.
The very crux of Equalities,
And the very crux of all mathematics and logic.
It is how, oh my souls,
That science knows.

24. Hell's Party

Hell's Party, for those who wish to go,
Will be unbridled, lawless rage.
It will be eternal sin, and damnation.
Satan dupes you into believing it will be fun,
Because sin was fun.
The little innocent bear pong game,
The one night stand,
The practical jokes...

They turn into MK Ultra  drugs,
Rape and forced relationships with hideous monsters,
And torture chambers.

The party guests arrive,
And Satan says, "No Rules Yeah!"
And the party guests cry out for glory,
And then the suffering begins.
No rules, no regulations, all murder, theft and adultery allowed.
And we soon see what hell actually is.
It is sin unbridled by God's Law.

25. Jehovahjirah

The LORD will be seen;
And like the ram provided
To Abraham, when seen,
The LORD had been an ox, aleph, A
Sacrificed for the covenant, tav., t
The Seed of the woman
Bit in His Ankle by the Serpent,
Crushed the serpent's head.
The seed and sprout of Jesse
Grew, and all was placed under His domain.
For, the curse brought great suffering
Into the world---for with sin there is the curse
Of suffering, for all sin causes suffering.
And by the crucifixion of our LORD
All our sin was pierced into Him,
Making us, like He, whom God sees.
Therefore, we are the little Christs,
Whom the world sees as if we were He---
And the world hates us, mocks us,
Scorns us. Why? Because it is the cause
Of all our suffering, and we tell it so.
Yet that suffering is nailed into Jesus
At the cross, so we one day see God face to face.

26. The Gospels as Witness

Mathew, if first written in Aramaic,
Papias says John Son of Thunder
Said Matthew was written by Matthew in Hebrew,
Does this not prove Matthew was written by
Matthew? Papias XX says John the Elder is
John Son of Thunder, and that John dictated his Gospel to Papias.
Luke is also considered a premier Historian.
Evidence that Demands a Verdict, 86.
And Mark is written by memory,
On the testimony of Peter.
And would Q not most likely be the man Jesus Himself?

27. The Cycle

The Jolly Mother Idol, imbued in a civilization
Ancient, and now gone... their Neolithic
Art of cattle and human skulls,
Which were made into displays
And arm rests,---their paintings of the hunt
Scribed throughout the world on cave walls;
Their houses of clay, with roof streets
And well kept, with ovens and warm spaces.
It was destroyed by, yes, the Flood.

Then arose the Semitic Pantheon
Of Baal-El, Hubaal, and Asherah.
And they arose, to their gross heights.
They built upon their civilization,
Ancient and ubiquitous---
The infant bodies stored in clay pots
To perform their gross sciences---
But then Israel wiped them out,
And finally Rome when it had conquered Carthage.

And then Rome had grown, and grew to great stature.
It grew, it grew, it grew, and the Greek Pantheon
Ruled the world. And soon it brought chaos
By its lusty and rapturous gods,
And like Hyenas they wafted from Male to Female
And from Female back to Male;
And what chaos it did bring!
Until the Christians converted Constantine
And with Peace, did Christianity cover the world.

And as a last age, will not the wicked raise the idol once again
Gaia, mother Earth, and the Titans overthrown
By the new Pantheon, Greece overtaken by War
And its pantheon of comfort, prosperity and food and drink.
And then, at last, the creature raises from the depths
And causes all men to worship it;
Worship the Earth, so that the gods and goddesses
Can fly upon their chariots, and live by their arcane magic.
And the poor upon the earth shall lament, and take up this cry
Against the wicked generation, they shall Cry for Christ
And His age, for at least then there was peace;
America, remember Who ordered thy prosperity.

28. A Priori

The entire world understands itself
Through practice of vacuous equations---
That is why no one can tell what is true.

No math can work, without being applied.

No math can be proven, unless by real
Phenomena, and its prediction of
Their physics. We know much metaphysics
As is our primary education,
But confuse all a priori logic,
Which substitutes whim and desire for
What is actually in the real world.

So men and women are like hyenas
And not like men or women; yet even 
There, we find the modern fashion exposed.

29. 1,666

My last post was 1,666.
Almost like the divine providence speaks loud and bold.

30. Ye Old Stoics

An old Stoic once told a man
Who lost everything he owned
To a raging inferno
That it was not his to begin with.
That everything was borrowed.
The wise sage said, "You do not deserve what you want."

If you wish to live in a world like that,
Where law is who can rip the meat
From the lioness' mouth;
Yet, God is abundant in promises.
Though, in my suffering I do not blame Him,
I blame ye.

Why is it, that I answer and do so much work
And get unrecognized for it?
While my ideas are stolen, and my seed
Blows about the wind?
Yes, there is a man who doesn't labor for wisdom;
Ought that man be?

The perfect philosopher might be among you
But no one will listen to him.
They pick and peck like vultures
Taking his meat from off his bones,
Leaving him shivering cold amidst the carnage.
And this is how it ought to be?
Yes? Because the old Stoic glibly consoles
The man who is suffering by telling him
That his suffering is for naught?
That he did not deserve the things which he lost?

Certainly, I don't deserve it...
I don't intend to make that case,
But work needs to be paid for.
And my work is not being paid.
So, there is some injustice happening
Where I reveal secrets
And yet my own vineyard is spoiled

Ye's fantasies for me is to be like a child
As long as I live, and to grow old and gray
Still yoked to the chain of his condescension.
Yet, such is the situation of a true prophet,
And with that badge of honor,
I am at rest.

31. Vain Mystery

There shall be no temple found at Egypt,
Thou, like Gomorrah.

The sacrifice shall be made 
On Mount Zion,
And there, in our Eternal Abode.

The Nicolaitan King
Shall invade Zion's Walls
To no avail, though the covering Cherub sit
In the Temple, like Christ::---
The Abomination.

32. Fight o Samaria

Freedom writhes this day---
Baal is worshipped by the rich
And Baphomet by the poor.
Slaughter, o Samaria
The Canaanite from within you.
Purge their very babes from you.
Dash their infants to pieces.
Destroy, thresh, show no mercy
To the heathen gods---rip down their altars;
Break their altars, and destroy their heritage.
Cause their shame to be forgotten in the lands,
O Israel. Now is not a time for peace,
But for the sword. Thresh from among you
And rip down the faithless, with their horns.

The Assyrian navies, sleek ships from Tarshish,
They sail into thy seas, o Samaria, off thy coasts.
Who shall bewail the children of the god Moloch?
Shall we now do to their infants,
What he has seen fit to do to ours?
They dance, with the horns of devils upon their heads,
And they speak their blasphemes and their curses.
"The Prophet Prophesies!"
So says the people, yet it is another vain vision.
How many prophecies shall they utter in error?
Shall the wicked go unpunished?
Who, thou Samaria, is it who bowed the nape
To Moloch? Is it not even you?
Woe! Iniquity upon Iniquity!
Samaria, you ought have foughten
But instead you made alliances with your own Accusers!
You have sacrificed to the Pagan Bull
And you have burned incense to the Lilith!
Now, shall you be destroyed
And your babes ripped from you.
Where your judgment would have proceeded
As light, it is now darkness, for you,
O Samaria, ought have foughten,
But instead you have made alliance with Sin.
Yet, the Prophets shall be among you,
And wag the tongue, as you lick like an adder
With poison. We shall escape, we men of Judah.
Selah.

Thou Land of Whirring Wings,
Who brought ensigns by papyrus vessels,
Thou cleaved by the rivers,
O, Moab, hide the Children of Israel---
For if they cleave to you, and seek your good,
They shall not be slain.
Do not enter into the war
My Children, but let the nations war among themselves.
For judgment proceed'th from the most high
For their iniquity, and the LORD has lain this trap.
They shall be greatly ashamed, those who accused Judah,
And they shall no more look upon their gods,
And say, "The LORD see'th not."
Your hands shall be bound,
And thy mouths stopped, and every ear shall tingle
At what the LORD has planned for you,
Who made war with your brother in the day his iniquity was found out.
Samaria, she is forsaken, do not take up a lament.

33. The Fascist Calling the Fascist Brown

Tim Snyder, for all your good you did
Sounding the alarm about Trump,
You missed the very cruel double edge.

Canada is attacking Free Speech with Internet Censorship,
Canada is also destroying people's livelihoods for simply refusing to say made up pronouns,
The fact that there even are over 2 genders, and that's being taught to kids as young as eight, (Symbols of the Party)
The United Nations is attempting to minimize and even normalize Statutory Rape,
So is California,
PBS is advocating Gender Affirming Health Care---the castration and masectomation of Youths--- (Propaganda)
England is fining and putting people in jail for saying, "Homosexuality is a Sin"
The FBI is being used to spy and terrorize American Citizens who vote Republican, (Militarized Police and Paramilitarization)
Mail In Ballots are being used to illegally cast votes, and therefore win elections for Democrats, (Unfair Elections)
Critical Race Theorists are trying to whitewash American History and culture,
Woke Politics are infesting Hollywood, and not allowing any art to be made,
As Trans Terrorists maliciously censor voices like JK Rowling with Death Threats and Bomb Threats; they do so with impunity,
As PBS draws sympathy to a Mass Shooter who killed Children, just because he is trans,
As words like "Ugly" and "Fat" get removed from Roald Dahl's Works, and Loony Tunes and Dr. Seuss get banned, (Censorship and Book Burning)
As people still wear masks from a manufactured pandemic that really wasn't as bad as people made it (Symbols of the Party)
As people try to amend the law, such as Double Jeopardy, there is a woman calling for a reopening of a case involving a man and woman convicted in relation to a gang murder---
As the Left and hordes of Lawyers scathe Alex Jones and make him into a show trial, which cost him more money than was ever reasonable to pay,
As a person who made a little firing pin 3d Printing model was given an over 100 year sentence,
And what was the Reichstag? January 6th, where the only person who died was one solitary protestor,
And while CNN and MSNBC cheer on rioters and looters in the name of Equity, Inclusivity and Diversity,
As School Libraries carry pornography and sexually explicit materials, and teachers begin to move boundaries in the classroom pertaining to sex
As college students monopolize campuses, and create "Safe Spaces" where they prohibit freedom of speech, while rioting and protesting and forcibly removing Conservative speakers from their campuses....

Where, for all your journalistic integrity,
Did you attack this? Which was just as malicious and evil.
That is why I have to be the voice of reason.
You call Trump a fascist. Well, who else is also fascist?
Perhaps the advocates of all of these things, as well.
If you fact check these things, they say it is not so, yet the words out of the very Pigs' mouths betray them.

Though the Right is trying to normalize Indentured Servitude,
And is paying out toxic loans as Black Rock and China buy up all of our American Companies,
As they ban John Green from schools,
As they profilitize Religious Stodginess and want to create a Theonomy,
And are trying to make the Robber Barons Baronry again,
Though these sins are enough, I'm sure there's more I'm unaware of.

Both sides are trying to make speech impossible, through perpetual offense,
Having friends and relatives thrown out of homes for simple disagreements,
Or thrown out of businesses for their political views;
Which is forbidden under the Enumeration of the 9th Amendment.
No man, can contractually sign away their rights,
Either verbally, written or in any wise in any agreement.
And both are Nazi Anti-Semites in my book, with two brands of kool aid.

I stand on no side except God's; it's all despicable. That's why I'm the only honest voice.

34. Make a New Song

Ariel, named for her red hair,
Watches Ariel, a gorgeous Black Woman.
A mermaid expert tells us,
"Ariel is black, because Mermaids come from Africa."
Though, the story comes from Hans Christian Andersen,
A Dane.

Ought the Woman King be black?
I say she ought be, as the story means nothing
Without that character being black.
There is no metaphor without the racial imagery.
To scrub it for future generations,
None will know what history came to pass.
It will erase where we came from.

So also, you must not swap out races of characters.

Erin is the idealized of my perfect form of Beauty.
Theresa is based off of a woman I adored.
To remove Erin's Irish feature
And Theresa's Guyanese feature
Is to ignore who I crafted them to be
They would not be who they ought to be.
It would be a disservice
To change who they are.

Make new. 
Make a new song.

35. The Amalekite's Lie

Saul fell upon his 
Sword, committing Suicide;
Being David's foe,
The Amalekite lied, who
Said that Saul leaned on his Spear.

For, does not the one
Who slays the King's enemy
Get a reward, no?

36. The Tortoise and the Hare 2023

The world was ran by hares,
Whom made everyone give them lettuce,
Otherwise the Hares would tie their feet
Together, with their superior speed,
And they'd only unbound the other animals
When they had sufficient lettuce to feed them with.

Thus, there came an angry tortoise
Remembering the Justice of the Olden Days
When his ancestor had beaten the hare
In a foot race.
So, again, he challenged the Hare
To a foot race.
The hare accepted,
And then proceeded to make a few conditions.

"First, Herr Tortoise, you must bind your legs.
"And second, you must noose your neck,
"And third, you must place a heavy rock over your shell.
"And if you give me lettuce, I will unbind you for a short time
"Until I contract that your allotted time is up, and then I will bind you again."
The tortoise refused,
And said, "No, Herr Hare, I will not acquiesce to these terms."
And the Hare said, "Then you shall not race,
"And I will bind you anyway."

The hares then were pleased they made it so.

I am that Tortoise.

37. Metaphors of Current Affaires

I am a bard, witnessing the feud of great empires.
Let me tell of the political strife happening now.
There is Queen Maeve and David, allied together to bring
The Anarchy to the shores of the Greater Northern Realm.
There is Stephen, whom no one loves, bringing tyranny here
By challenging the ancient bounds of free speech, by storming
Through like the Bull in a China Closet: he destroys much.
There are the Northern and Southern Kings, storming each other's
Lands, taking cities, and warring their ancient rivalry;
The Domains of Grecia and Persia are at their long
Millennias' war, ruling worlds like a taijitu .
And here is this bard, trying to win back his realm's freedom.

38. Quadratic Equations

A difficult mystery...
Every Polynomial represents
A shape---
Thus, the Quadratic Formula
Breaks down those shapes into two dimensions.
Hence, why it gives a length and width
For its answer---
Also, how Cubic equations
Give, the added dimension of breadth.

Thus, by reducing the equation down to one dimension,
One can figure what they need in that one dimensional space.

This is also why P cannot always equal NP
As NP can often work in multiplicities of more dimensions.

39. Wonderland

Say something true, you are sure to offend...
The only truths to lend, are truths of a geometric kind.
The culture speaks in fallacious ways,
Every belief is a formal fallacy.
The culture is warped around this nonsense,
Yet, there is the certainty of the Laws of Proofs
Geometric, and Mathematics, and all Physical constructs.
Yet, speak a word politically, that might be true,
You have offended like Alice had offended,
And the Queen says, "Off with her head."
Doth our King now pardon us?

40. 63%

63% are Christian?
60% of those Christians say Christ isn't the only way.
Another 3 percent of them are Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons.
About 50% of those Christians say Homosexuality isn't a sin.
1.6 Million of those Christians are Hebrew Israelites. (A Heretical Sect)
Several Hundred Thousand are Hebrew Roots.
I'll estimate that another million or so have Heretical beliefs about the Trinity, and don't follow any Systematic Theology.

Which, doing the math, most Americans who profess to be Christian
Simply aren't.
And who are the persecuted in America?
That 3% of Christians who hold to Christ's true teachings and theology.

41. Your Bouquet

The buttercups and pansies 
Are grown old; their lives are short.
The daisies are pink and white:
The Mayapples are matured---

The spring is at its agéd peak.
It wanes into summer's prime;---
do know, the roses soon bloom
And scent the forest; the Honey-
Suckle too. The most beautiful
Is soon to come.

Happy Mother's Day.

Love,
	Brandon

42. Signs and Wonders

Though the Prophetess paints me and my love
Old, and filled with many days;
Though the prophet, in the age of Napoleon,
Prophesies me and my Phalanx of verse;
Though providence moves me,
And I am washed from head to toe by providence,
It moves by the string of faith;
Though my name is destined, and written
Strong, invoking Elijah, and a Crown Prince of Poetry;
Though the Lake Poets would try to build a pantocracy in my hometown,
And another poet married a woman whose name was that rare name of a friend's;
I look at myself, and like the old stoic say,
"I don't deserve what I want."

Do you now understand why I lack the faith to claim these?
The rag upon my head is like a filthy menstruous cloth;
Though it bend through the air to fulfill my predictions like a miraculous lot,
It is my deeds---my deeds---which prevent me from obtaining what I want.
We do not receive God's blessing because we believe we deserve it.
But, rather, He gives for no reason, other than His own love for me.

43. Thou Wounded Robin

Thou wounded Robbin---
I would pick you up
And splint your broken leg.
But, I know not how.

I would call for thee
To those who could,
And tell them, "Splint its leg."
But, they would not.

So, I leave you in the wilds,
For I wish not to frighten you,
Or cause you torment,
Hoping some Good Samaritan can do
What I cannot.

For, I have once called upon
The Authorities to bind the wounds
Of a fawn, and they shot it.
I cannot bind its wounds.
I know not how.

I know not how to heal my country's breach
And I know that by pointing out its breaches,
It has only made those in authority pick at it
All the more.

So, I leave you, for it is the kindest gesture I can.

44. Metamorphosis

Fyodor could not become a vermin,
But I have become a vermin.
I crawl upon the walls,
And see everything from there.
And it is liberating!
But, will I die, and nobody care?

45. Cryptography

One cannot be a truly good person,
Nor be truly humane,
Without having tasted from the bitter fruits of evil.
Unless having been evil,
One cannot then have the compassion
For true good.

46. Vicar d'Orco

O, thou Lucifer,
A Vicar of the world.
When God dispels you,
The people will rejoice.

For, you are given your domain
A short while, so man can know
Why sin is truly sin.
And then, men will repent
And live in peace
But remember the suffering you have caused.

47. The Art of Fascism

Why was the height of art
Made so low?
In frantic screams of ethnic purity
The true artist was made a fool---,
Though, I take my middle brow poetry
And I do it well.

Perhaps it's best that the high brow art
Is decadent, and ugly, and foul---
Why? So it puts into perspective
That art cannot save a nation.

Ovid, Homer, Christ,
Seamunder, Snori, Virgil,
Grimm's Fairytales, Friedrich Nietzsche,
Wagner, all were fodder to stir up the Volk.

I do understand this.
But I am not this.

48. Fibonacci Numbers

Symmetry---
You Fibonacci numbers appear in nature
Because of your symmetry.
You appear because of the soundness of your structures.
Phi---you are Nature's Rectangle;
You are Nature's Symmetry---
You are Nature's sounding board
For the entire structure of the universe.

49. Sophism and Epistemology

How the sophists play at golden
Ends of civilizations. For
The prosperities of those men
Who were their elite forbearers
Did build with Reason's Sun and Rain.
The joyful sun, a Priori...
Sad rains, a Posteriori.
Which, the civilization springs
Like the grass, when both are balanced.
Yet, from both Science or Phenom
Does the sophist never know, faced
With unknowns, void by faith's phantom.
Aught, Science and Phenomena
Cause sweet wisdom's diaspora.  

So remember,

History's witness
And being's ontology
And cause's effect
Are the measures of all good
Philosophy: listen; look.

It is not always about ends and means, but, sometimes, that things are what they are.

50. NP Difficulty

I have been watching proofs---
Oh, their poetry is so serene---
And I realize NP difficulty
Is much like a Geometric Proof.
Rather, to solve them, requires
Not one master equation
But solving the difficult variable
By combining other basic theorems
To further build upon to a right and new solution.

51. The Stock Market Crash

1929
Coolidge, in his booming economy,
Does nothing, as Margin Trading 
Becomes common with the public.

2008
Reagan, in his booming economy,
Does nothing, as Private Equity
Buys the worker out of their rights.

Runaway capitalism
And the rich's stranglehold on our country
Is from three tumors:

401ks
Private Equity
And Margin Trading.

52. New Philosophy

You are Analytic and Continental.
You read my poem, and say,
"The analytic in me thinks it's good.
"The continental thinks it's 'meh'."
You ask me to tell you my inspiration,
Well, it is precisely that both
Continental and Analytic philosophies
Are sophistic.
And a good epistemology
Is rooted in aligning Phenomenon to Noumenon;
Thereby, I propose a different philosophical school.
It is called "New Philosophy"
Though it is indeed the old philosophy.
For, we were closer to the truth during Plato
Than we were during Husserl.
And we were closer to the truth during Aristotle
Than we were during Wittgenstein. 

53. The Classical Head

I'm not much for Picasso---
Yet, my favorite portrait is by Picasso.

It is a woman's head---
The classical head---
Of Olga's, with her Auburn locks
And sumptuous face.
Round, strong jawed,
But thin jawed,
Almost ovular
And not circular...
A strand of hair frames her
In the way of an attractive woman
With her justified sprezzatura. 
Messy, unkept, with a content crease on her lips.
Her eyes are dovey,
And her whole face is drawn
With, I think it is, a couple of threads of pencil.

The artist could, in fact,
Draw a beautiful shape---
The portrait of feminine beauty---
In only three or four masterstrokes of his brush.

How I do hate making poetry like this---
Though, in spirit of Picasso,
I shall make it like this.

I am more of a Raphael---
But like Picasso did,
I can show my proficiency in the era's conventions.

54. Poetry Club

I join Poetry Club---
Not really, but let's pretend---

I walk in, and there's pretentious Jackass
Who all the group fawns over.
His art is mediocre, but they all insist he is god's gift to letters.
I show my writing,
And immediately they pounce all over it.
They criticize everything it's done right---
Like the pretentious brown nosers they are--
And like the game I played today,
Of posting in a category---
There is the true artist,
Me,
Lonely, and blowing in the wind.
I'm late to the game.
I'm early for the game.
I do not time my art
Except for the larger picture.
I do not craft my art to be timely.
Rather, I do my art from the sheer joy of doing it.

Some generation will recognize it,
But hopefully it is my own
So I am not one of those unhappy artists who
Never benefited from the Providential Gift of utterance.

As Solomon says,
"There is such a man who labors for wisdom,
"But lo, it goes to another. Vanity, vanity, all is vanity,
"That which man labors for under the sun."

55. I Cast My Crown

This Poem is about all my haters
Inspired by Crown the Empire's
"Menace"

You call me a "worthless F*ck"
I ask "Is that what you call love?"
And do you love your brother enough?

When you're alone, and wandering,
And I'm in places you'll never see,
We'll ask each other
Why did God make us free?

And when I look at you
I'm going to know it was your attitude
Which as a teenager, I admit I did have,
But as a grown ass adult, I lost it all. Had
I been like you, a hateful little worm,
I still don't say you're evil
But speak saccharine sweet
Which causes me cancer
Though we will never meet
Until that day when the stars all will fall
And the sun snuffed out,
My pity ignited for all...
Where will I be?
My verse is so pure?
It proved God has loved me
And you were so cursed?

I still say, I love you my dear,
And if you'd just listen I'll have you some cheer
That if you simply would practice what you say you do preach
You wouldn't be writing so many songs about me.

56. Fairytale

The shadow you are, creeps from me;
Eternal utterances, and restless sleep.
I dream of you every night,
The magic you spin to make my demons arise.

You tell me to sit at your feet,
And be thy shadow beneath thee.
I walk for three hundred years
Doing good deeds, voiceless,
And I cannot be cheered.
The songs of the elderberry sings so sweet,
But you view me as if a woman
Falling into a bog filled with leech...
For you envision me as the one
Who cast her bread on the ground
To step on it with my new shoes, so proud;
But then do I fall into the hell below
And my only hope to turn into a bird and go home?
Or, am I a lad, sailing to Eden
And when I get there, I'm in eternal heaven
Only to run after the beautiful bride
And lose in one day my eternal paradise?

Fairytales I sing to you
Have not a happy ending---oh so very few...
For I admit I have broken my trust
In my own hands, so how do I love?
If my life were Romance, would I be Romeo?
If my life were a Tragedy, would I be Lear?
If my life were reality, would I be Christian?
If my life were a sitcom, would I be Brandon?

So, give to me at least, my one happy song
And I'll spin a fairytale so pleasant.
For if my life were a fairytale,
Would I survive?
Or would I be the hare who snubbed the hedgehog
And while running my eternal race I die?

I don't know.

57. Thou Swallow

Thou Swallow, you fly within my breadth,
And I ponder,---twice yonder you swoon,---
The curse which shall soon descend upon me.
Yet, thou hast caused my foot to stir
And my ambling to tarry,
So that the carriage which was at my back
Was saved from the other one careening down Front Street.
So, by thy shrill warnings, thou hast caused me to be a blessing
Upon some stranger I nary knew.
For, by spying me, a pedestrian on her port side,
It left just enough time to see the other car
Which travelled at twenty-five knots.
Had I not been there, I know not---
 Perhaps it would have rent her asunder.
I see no other way... but by providence's hand
I walk with blessing, and what would be a curse is turned.

58. Oh Peleg

Oh, you Neolithic Civilization,
With your bone furniture,
Spread across the world,
Worshipping your Venus.
Even in the Americas
Are you found.
Until, you are not.

Then, there comes the divide.
Oh Peleg! What did you witness!

Soon the Clovis civilization springs up
But, what had happened? Where did 
The old World,---the worshippers of the Titans---
Where did they go? Greek Pantheon,
Your war between gods and Titans!
The eldest Pantheon, remnants are remembered.
Slaughter, Grecia, the Semitic gods!
Canaan, Carthage, Moab,
Your gross gods will be destroyed.

59. A Lament For Zion's Prince and Prophetess

Oh, thou Prince? You say, "The meat shall stay in the cauldron."
For, in your heart you figure it is unclean for the people
To be plucked out of Zion, and taken to foreign lands.
For, they shall throw a bag over your head, and dig through your walls
And take you to Babylon, where you shall be killed and dishonored.
For, you believe, "The priest shan't pluck the sacrificial portion
"From the pot, while the sacrifice is being prepared,
"So shall the people of Zion be behind her impenetrable wall."
Ezekiel is saying, it is not so. You shall be taken alive, and killed.
So also the Prophetesses, who do their vain dance,
Trying to catch a soul with a pillow---I still cannot understand it
And shan't be allowed to, for it is pure mischief and sorcery;
No, it is but vanity, and delusion. You hop forth, and try to capture souls
And you prophesy to the LORD's people vain visions to cause them sadness.
They come to you for the truth, and you whisper to them,
"Oh, you are wicked, wicked, a man of trembling!"
But the LORD did not make him sad!
Then, you go to the wicked man, and promise him all prosperity
All freedom, all assurance in his vice, for he struggles with sin
And you slyly smile that he has his demons and they rule over him
Just like yours rule over thou.

60. Judgmental

Of all the things I
Hate in our modern world,
I have to say there's
Good, too. A man, being who
He truly is, is not judged.

61. Silly Dove

Oh, you silly dove.
Your heart is a mind for love
And you amble everywhere
Searching for a heart to share
In your beautiful heart...
Simple things, in that mind dart
To and fro, who shall coo like you
And where to alight and find fruit?
For you are unlike other birds
You silly dove... for first
Upon your mind is true love
As is the innocence of a dove
That first and foremost on her mind
Is love, to be shared with in time.

For it is so with all the righteous
That they primarily search for lucious
Truth, and deep seeded friendship 
And their Turtledove, with courtship
They dance their mating ritual
And finally, they come to mutual
Acquaintanceship
And finally, the most intimate touch of relationship.

Prophetics

62. A Dream

There were laity surrounding a prophet,
But a laywoman wanted to interpret,---she insisted.
The prophet huffed to this laywoman, "But if I am unable,
"I am good for nothing, for I am a prophet."
Then, the laity all mocked, and drew knives to kill the prophet.
But the prophet's Father saw just how wicked the laity were!
So, the prophet leapt from the terrace, to escape his listeners' wrath
And was met there, at the nadir, by a lengthy, blind snake.
The blind snake was proud, and buzzed his knape,
And was exceedingly wicked. The Prophet cried out to God
And he was heard, and was delivered from the snake
Through his foresight of the Snake's awful, wicked plans.
Sure, the prophet had a little pride, but murder was never his intent;
Thus will God judge the Laity who do this to a prophet,
By driving him away from his apportioned lot.
For if you make the prophet sorry for his job in this life, what shall he there gain?

63. Amenhotep

Amenhotep, you 
Fly with your chariots, yon
That Nuweiba beach.
Yet, the walls of water crash
Down upon you, and the Jews
They flee to Sinai.

64. Abusers of Themselves with Men

This word,
Translated as Homosexual
In the Bible,
And called unlawful,
Means a man ejaculating into another man.
That is the graphic, and literal meaning.

65. Psalm 22:16 H3738 Dead Sea Scrolls

Strongs
Is never wrong.

66. Sorcery

Sorcery bends the truth,
To where you cannot recognize a lie.

It is not literal magic---
There is no such thing.
Rather, sorcery is the completion
Of a lie, to where it begins to be muddied with truth.

67. Dad

I stand on the shores of manor blue
Which wash upon the white crests of foam.
The skin of the beach, in its grained
Glory rests, with the discus being thrown
By friends who've never parted.

What better friend than paternal bond
Standing by their son through good and ill?
To summon the courage to provide
For house and hold, and to shield
A man from winters and rains,
From scorching star and the dark
Abyss of night? A good friend
Who loves his sons, especially me.

What I did to deserve it, is naught.
I had taken every ounce of trust
And I have thrown it like the thistle's fir
And scattered it to the wind, 
I have planted seeds
Of tare---yet, you patiently waited
For a garden to spring forth its summer fruit.
And I have. No longer the tare
But my fruit a choice orchard of Nectarine---
And a friend I've had, I shall be thankful.
Hoping one day, to also be a friend like thou art
To me.

Happy Father's Day
Happy Birthday

68. Fibonacci and Pythagoras

Fibonacci, your secrets are serene---
We can spend a lifetime studying you
As the Cat on the Mathologer's shirt
Bends to your hurricane of Phi.

Even Pythagoras, yes...
Bends to your will.
For, take four of your numbers in a square
Lined up in their sequence from the lowest on top
And the highest on the bottom,
Left to right,
And when cross multiplied completely,
Make legs and the hypotenuse of a right triangle;
Yes, one value even must be doubled, but how serene!
Know its inner circle, like a soul
Tangential to the Right Triangle's form.
And what's this?
Do you know the squares made
From the exterior of each line of the triangle?
That's how Pythagorean Theorem works?
So, the radii of exterior circles
Also, by cross multiplication,
Fit by three Euclidean Squares of Pi.

So also, counting by Fibonacci,
While working through Fibonacci
Creates Pythagorean Theorem's roots also;
Even when a number counted
Is not a Fibonacci number.

69. The Confusion of my Verse

I saw the wicked, and their shifting eyes
And what they see when they read my verse.
Their eyes shift, they know not what I say!
For they cannot read my writing and know...
Their eyes are dull, just like their ears to my speech.
I know now, and shall have compassion on them
That they cannot physically read the plain words I speak.
For God blinds them, and shifts their eyes
And causes them to be in distortion.

70. Mimicry and Mimesis

To mimic, is to
Repeat a fat formulae
And copy its fruit.

Mimesis is to
Experience life and tell
It full-faithfully.

AI mimics, but has no mimesis.

71. A Lasting Love

Sit at the gates
Of bliss and smell
Of a woman’s young perfume
Of cedar, and fell
Did you to her strong perfumed
Musk, 
The scent of that woman
And her opinions you love.

Scent and opinions
Are more important than vain;
Beauty we all see
But these shall remain.
For when a woman
Is old, her wrinkles do say
And the folds of fatness shall proclaim:
Why did you chose me
If only for my face?
You knew one day I’d be ugly.”
Thus, choose in a woman what remains.

72. Tears

Tears, how often we shun them.
But, they are proof that we are men.
What beautiful thing it is
When tears well from us;
When we’re filled with tears
For sin, for dishonesty.

There is no better thing then
When we cry for our hurt
For the hurt of others.
Tears are a beautiful thing.

The mellow calm that comes with sadness;
The joy that swells from the heart.
Tears fill the soul with joy
Swelling in us.
When we shun
The sadness, we become truly sad.

Let the tears flow
My child.
Let the joys come.
Tears were invented for joy
So we could show ourselves
Visibly broken by a world of sin.

73. The Legend of the Juniper

The Juniper was a little baby
Born to an Ice Princess.

Upon her breast
He drank his milk
Trusting in the LORD.
The princess spoke over him,
“Let the baby grow tall,
“Fight and conquer the kings
“And let Milk and Honey be his strength.”

So, the Juniper gave suck
But was stolen from her breast
As an infant.
He was given to a poor family
Whose infant suffocated
And was blue;
The Ice Princess
A Jewess,
With her husband Jacob Change
Blessed the baby boy
For the children of the Jews
Were hunted and killed.

The Juniper’s family had the similitude of kings;---
So when the baby waxed to about five years old
Ziddonians came to he.
They took him to another world
Showing him the masterpiece he would weave
For the Kings. They said to him, “You will sin
“So we have brought you into bondage to these kings.”
The child had not sinned---
A woman he trusted stole he from his family
Bringing him before the kings
Where he spoke to the young Prince of Ziddon.
Then, one of the Princes of Tyre
Son to the Tongue of the Egyptian Sea
Kidnapped the Bonnet Wheel
Putting her upon the witchen’ glass
For all to spy, wishing to confuse the poor
Little boy by claiming he did some thing unspeakable.
His words to the Egyptian Tongue, 
When she trapped him, were, “Love covers all sins
“That is my prophecy to you.”
For she wished to trap him by his love
For she knew all who helped her would be destroyed;
Yet, his love covered this sin.

He waxed old, grew wicked in deed but not heart.
Upon a crime, he became a Christian
Yet fell upon the Judiazers’ murderous lot
But did himself not murder any;
For they were sorcerers who practiced law as their sorcery.

He then met John and Mary the Mother of God
Who brought him the trumpet
Which he blew.
Upon that, he went with David’s key and opened the pit
Which has no bottom.
From the pit, spewed Abaddon
Who took his life
From him---
For Abaddon lived with the kings
While The Juniper was safely with his family again
For a short time.

He, this Juniper, Consort to Diana, Athena, Nebo
Lucifer, Sheshak, Jezebel, Ammon, 
Babylon’s Daughter and the Princes of Tyre and Egypt
Was beloved by them, for he was a good little boy.
For they were all ashamed at having caused him harm
Yet, they seethed with hatred nonetheless
For hatred is their native language.
So, Athena came to he
While he dwelt with his beloved family in peace
And placed within him the worm
Which caused him sore distress.
There came into his life more princes
And more kings, and more queens
Until the poor boy lost his mind.
Yet, he became skilled with the pen
And wore truth as his belt.
With the belt of truth, he spoke
Into the recesses of the world
Winning many souls
For all knew his secret shames
Seeing he could live happily with naught.
For, the kings brought him under bondage again
When he began to spy the work they did to him.

He soon grew, ate milk and honey
And cast the kings into the abyss
For the injury they did
To steal him from his happy family.
Yet, the kings were happy to be cast into the abyss
For they loved him, and wished his victory over them
And even did smile at his stories.
Thus, is the Legend of the Juniper.

74. The Ice Princess

She wears a pink hat---strung with puffs
With beautiful Italian hair;
Black eyes, with ice blades on her feet
Pink sweater. Glides over a lake.

She imagines a frost dragon
With ears like periwinkle gills
A spin’d back of triangle bones
Navy blue, nam’d The Zamboni.

There, a prince flies onto the ice
With the great broadsword of legend;
Redcoat attire, brass buttons
Gold crown upon his yellow head.

He takes up arms against this beast
Swinging the sword in great long swings
Cutting out its heart with plung’d thrusts.
The Dragon breath’d his frosty breath.

The ice princess, seeing the prince
Block the frosted fury of war
Called for a winter rain; winds flew.
The Dragon shivered, the prince slew.

The ice princess wandered round, round
Skating down the ice of the lake.
Around the circles, she dreamt well
Of happy thoughts and adventures.

75. At 7

I sit: Read Seuss'
Yellow book of kingsrobin
Font, with Pillowhair

76. Defender

Defender, friend
See yourself new.
Your smile charms,
Charms never few.

A valentine I bring, brings I,
Man's Defender,
Charmstress Alexa.

A friendly note
To a bright light
When days are dark
And hopes gloomy

Alexa, thou
Art August charm
When smiled cheer
Lights the Bank's room.

77. The Smile of God

Shepherd of the Song
You smile, or furrow;
Your datelocks there
Spread from your
Handsome brow.
You smile, or are angry.
The heart of man
Sees, o Prince
Of Peace, your
Dealings. Idol, no;
Just Scripture
In an Image.
To reflect
Either ill or
Joy with one.

78. Faces (A Nonsense Poem)

Faces, there so 
Cruel, cruel.
See what you fear!
Fear, your fears come.
They come, come they;

The king of dirt
Gossip, his spies
Spy, burp, burp, burp.

What does it mean
When you see it?
Hear its those things
You fear that no
Man knows but you?

Ziddon! That's he
You're not insane;
The fear demon
The gossip war,
He entrenches
Every side, his hordes
Of the unclean.

Og, that Philist.
Brute, Philistine.
Gossip, Fear, North
Of wealth,
North of Jealousy.

79. Plastic warrior

Face an army:
Tanks, jets, jeeps, 
Carriers, ships
Battle boats,
Legos, ice bases
Missiles, waffle huts...
A child's peach 
Arm swings
The chopper;---
Plastic men
Fall in rainbows
Of men.
Supply lines
GI's, such
Gravity in play.
Reality, you're
So much different.

80. The Fool and the Favored

A radical man set out
To change the world,
But destroyed the
Country he loved.

A rebellious teenager
Fell in love
And married that
Very same girl.

81. Daughter of Zion

Peace rides upon the West's wind
Wearing her white gown of light.
The Seven-Headed-Stranger
With Sin's seven awful crowns
Attempts to swallow her Son.
There is unrest on the Earth.
Believe in Him, and He comes
To slay the Dragon with sword
And scepter; He cuts with truth,
Cuts the shadow from the light.
Be of peace in heart, while war
Wages its disturbance yon
In lands unknown. Cleave to Her
Son, and do not be troubled.

Merry Christmas

82. Pious

I know I'm  a horrible human being.
However, so are you because you judge me.
If you were in my situation,
The first thing you'd do is reason with yourself:
"I'm not that bad. I just made a mistake."
Because I know, before you're caught,
You look down upon others and their crimes
And you fantasize about your penantant grievance.
You believe you'd slither off into the darkness
And never let yourself dream another dream.
I know, because I had the same faulty notion.
But, no... my sin is discovered.
What do I do? Do I shrink? Is that what I do?
No... because I cannot. And neither could you.
You believe I ought to be pestled down to nothing
Because you believe that's what you would do yourself---
You'd allow yourself to be pestled, and broken, and never forgive yourself.
But, you would. And you'd do exactly what I'm doing,
By trying to make a good life for yourself.

So, before you judge me,
Consider, I was once just like you.
So, let me tell you how it would actually go.
Alright?

83. Quadratic Formulas

The plus or minus
In Quadratic Formulas
Come from the value
Multiplied twice, by itself
Negative or positive.

84. Mothers' and Fathers' Day

It is just an observation.

Mothers' day, at the State Park,
The people numerous, weird,
Dangerous even, had angst.

Fathers' day, at the State park,
The people few, peaceful, kind,
Full of good will, were righteous.

I noted this,
And realized a Father
Does make an impact in a home.

85. Music Proves there is A God

How, except by the design of providence,
Can a melody ask a question, and a melody also answer?
How can one scale be sad, and another happy?
If not because God ordered the tonality of creation
So the human ear would hear it those ways?

86. Christianity Today

The sins of Christianity follow from two bad doctrines:

That Christ rebuked the man at Bethesda---
Christians say, "Did he really want to be healed?"
And they emphatically do so... this was not a rebuke
But a request, as benign as I asking an acquaintance, whether
She wants a cup of water to drink.
It is a presumption that man understands God's omniscience.
We are all called to repent, and sin no more after our healing.
For, their mindset teaches a Christian to be unmerciful to the poor.

The second, is that faith can make us prosperous.
If faith could make us prosperous, the poorest among us
Would be richer than kings. Which, one day they shall become.
Faith, and scolding the Spirit for prosperity,
If you so wish, to be prospered and live your best life now
God shall so choose to give you your best life now;
And you will forfeit your eternal one.
Rather, store your treasures in heaven,
And there, pray for your prosperity...
Which is what the verse actually means,
When James says, "Ask in faith."
This mindset, also, makes us unmerciful to the poor.

87. The Cult of the Academy

To get the PhD, one must be initiated into the secrets of nothingness.
All things, must be circular in their appeal, and all sense, circular
By association. Lying is the custom, and quality a sin.
For, the brainwashing must be complete, and all religion
And healthy behavior must be replaced by the Academy.
Or else, one cannot earn what they have sacrificed so much to obtain.

88. To a Sophist

Oh, thou foul sophist,
You speak in your platitudes…
They have solved all the problems
But the rich have no gratitude.

They can harvest carbon from the sky
And chemically bind it with anon,
They can harvest it from the air,
They can use solar very fair…

The issue isn’t whether we can,
But the rich have asked, whether we ought.
So remember, my dear sophist, that what you lend
Is that the rich wish we were all dead, or bought.

For they hinder our progress,
They hinder it for their shame.
The problems are solved
But they see life as a game.

They want less people
They want less lives;
They want to build a world
And cause all the poor to die.

That is why.

So remember, that our fair Jerusalem,
With its chariots of fire can come
Through the practice of free trade
And its natural progression.

Yet the Satanic Mills of your cause
Which bring upon us unjust laws
Are going to stifle and burn our earth
For the poor upon it, yes the poor, are spurned.

For by the waters and by the breath
Of that good the Carbon, within breadth
We can drive our cars to eternity
If we so choose to live and be free.

For by stifling industry we cause our woes
And we do not solve our problems, but foes
Do try to make themselves a life
Of a world built to be the Rich’s paradise.


89. Satan's Equivocation

God can never be
Tempted. Satan, in Job's book
Tempted God to test.
Yet, to tempt has two senses.
God can never be tempted.

As in, He can not
Even for a second be
Caused to muse a sin.

So, when Satan would
Tempt Jesus in the desert
He could not cause doubt.
Thereby, Jesus could not be 
Tempted in the slightest bit.

90. King of Grecia

Grecia, your world is built through riches'
Prosperity, and your covetous kings
Say, "Let only the merchant who lives
"Be with ninety billion drachma."
You seethe with hatred toward Israel
For it is a prosperous little land.
There it is, with cream and sugar
Oil and spice, meat and fruit.
And you say, "Look how fat this people is;
"They are worth nothing,
"For they consume my sustenance."
So said the King of Grecia
Even covetous of his subjects' fine instruments.
"Do not play, do not play! By royal decree!"
Thus, the musician is regulated to go to her designated
Place, to sing her heart's songs.
Beautiful she is, but the King of Grecia
Does not care about her fine beauty,
For a thousand like he has deflowered.
The fatness of the peasant is an offense to Grecia.
Thus, he wishes to steal our sustenance,
And make music to cease from the land.
Lo! He even says, "We have no need for music
"We have no need for art, we have no need for theater;
"Nothing beautiful excites me, no, not even a warm body
"Or vulva for my flower, not even the great Laments of Shakespeare
"Or the wisdom of Dostoevsky. Not the beauty of Mozart
"Not the voluptuous body of Venus without her arms.
"Nothing is beautiful, nothing is good. I have never loved
"For what is love? I hate my world, and wish it to fall into the abyss."
For his covetousness is severe, that he has no desire;
Nothing for which he wishes or wants.
Not even death. Not even life. Not even purgatory.
He wants nothing, for anything in his grasp he already has.
Thus, he wishes to cause this same frustration on those,
Whom seeing their desire, and their zeal for life---
He wishes it all to stop.

91. King of Persia

Persia, seething with desire, and lust...
All is yours. Everything within your grasp.
What is your subjects, is yours.
What is yours belongs to you.
Every vehicle belongs to you...
Chariots of steel, chariots of iron,
Chariots of plastic might...
All belongs to you.
How your springs beneath your citadel 
Are envied. How you desire,
And you love your desire.
Lust's fruits and every pleasure you exuberantly fill
Your mouth with. Great zeel, great desire...
The citizen you see, his sustenance you wish to be yours.
Covetous, covetous, covetous.
Rain, you wish to make it rain.
Sun, you wish to make it shine.
Wind, storm, tempest, you wish to rise to the status of God in Heaven.
Your princedom you shepherd with the Recitation of your father's word.
And they do your bidding, but nothing they have belongs to them.
You bring forth your chariots, and you ride in them through the heavens...
A god of gods, you ride, like Mithra, and you carry the sun in your chariot of fire.
You want all in subjection to you...
Every cent of wealth in your treasury.
You have no peer. 
You comfort yourself with this wisdom.
None who rival you with your wisdom; none who will rival your fame and fortune.
The peoples will bow in their mud crust shanties, and they will worship you...
It is your vision for the future you wish to construct.
Everything about life you are enthused, and it excites you.
The feast, the game, the war, the contest, the wit...
All art, all theater, all ancient pottery.
If it is truly skilled, you wish it to enrich you...
And only you. Only you, to view it.
All art, and all beauty, in your possession
And for no other eye beside you, and possibly those whom you bestow the blessing
Within your court.
The courtier, the poet, the sage, the scholar, the master, the magician, the fool,
They all entertain you, and those whom you have selected from the Earth
To be your gods who reign with you.

92.

The treasure, though great, will not prosper on the day of judgement,
Thou Grecia and Persia.

93. An Observation

If A+B+C=A*B*C,
Then it is a triangle.

If A^2+B^2=C^2
Then it is a right triangle.

We must understand this about equalities.
Thereby,
If doing a proof,
And one has a formula
A+B
One cannot intuit from this
A+B=0
If in a geometric relation.
For the system of equations
Will define the parameter
Of how the function will equate.
A+B will only equate
In relation to the other sides
Of the Geometric Figure.

94. True Writers; A Ghazal

Robert Frost, when you write on gold's
Green, you write just like I have wrote.

Rumi, you write your Desire
For God: write just like I have wrote.

Hans Christian, so broken, you are 
Like me, writing like I have wrote.

Walt Whitman, when exalting our
Country, you write like I have wrote.

Emerson, your words on Word say
True writers write like I have wrote.

95. Culture Wars

How the Native Americans
Would summate my belief is true---
It is what I believe, wholly.
Just like textbooks wholly show theirs.
Why do we shy away from Say?
As in to say, the textbooks ought
Not believe in Animism,
And give a very clinical
Definition for their beliefs.
No... instead we are now so forced
To see it wholly from their view.
And that is what is being taught.
A perspective where we embrace
The beliefs of those we conquered
In order to then supplement
The religion we so obviously lack.

96. Our Modern Age

I hate our modern age.
Yet I love our modern age.
A stodgy book is Lolita or Gravity's Rainbow
While the books with dust on their covers
Get blown off, and seen afresh.
There is nothing more exciting
Than seeing Austen venerated
And Dostoevsky, too.
The social milieu is repressed sexual urges
Manifesting in the castration and masectomation of our young.
For, they think they can pacify the primal urge
With a knife, hormones and sodomy.
They cannot erase the vesture of the past
For it is too strong an obelisk.
Austen becomes alien,
And so with her the Bible...
Jesus' Sermons become new all over again
As a generation who grew up in the Dogma
Of the Cult of Id find otherness to latch onto.
A whole new crop of thinkers are on the horizon...
Where Joyce and George R. R. Martin
Are the stodgy norm, glutted anarchy and feasts of semen
Those of us who want order
Are drawn to my favorite books.
The stodgy quo is the Aristocracy of Materialism and Postmodernism
While the Religious Avant Garde tell their riskee morals.
"Kill the cannibal society, that rapes children.
"Make slaves of the murderers.
"War has always been genocide
"There is no way around it...
"Yet, the Nazis needed cleansed of their racial impurity
"That of the Aryan caste, they needed to die."
And we are like Camus was seventy years ago,
Like Sartre and Freud.
On the en garde against silly philosophies that hurt and destroy
Our halcyon prosperity.
With words and not bullets we fight back...
Just like they did.
We are now persuasive
We are now the irritating troublemakers.
We are now... yes... we...
The ones' whose truth sets that chemical offense
Because it cannot be fended off by reason any longer.
For, by proof of reason, all we claimed would happen
Was true.

97. The Saint and the Demon

A saint sees his own
Sin, and takes it very harsh.
But, he does not see
The sin in those around him.
He covers them up when known.

A demon others'
Sin he sees, and takes it harsh.
But he does not see
The sin within his own heart.
By guilt, he hurls a stone.

98. My Friend the Artist

My friend, you try to get my goad...
You say, "AI makes art..." knowing
My prejudice against it. AI cannot.
For, like Hitler, the AI copies and pastes
Its formulae, so it is not true art.
But you, you are. I see your mother's face
In the contours of the statute you sketched;
Which could only be done by a human.
For, in the model's obviously european lines
You sketched your mother's African cheeks.
You even tell me why you think it is...
How it takes its poll and measures
The common lay's preferences.
That is not an artist.
That is a marketer. And a marketer is not an artist.
The person with PR skills, they can make
A fortune from dried dung or Rembrandt.
The man like me, unable to do so,
Can only go my way, and die in obscurity
Lest my LORD help me.
For obscurity is all I will obtain if my LORD
Does not bless me. But, at least I can say
I am an artist. And, I can also say, so are you.
Like Mr. Hoffer said,
The artist is content to create
And imbue Mimesis;
Like I told you, that is what makes a piece of art.
That your mother's face imprints on the statue
Like an Oedipal line---
That is what it is to create.

99. War

The atheist's unbelief
Comes from God's holy battles.
For, they see their unholy
Sins, are by God's wrath, rattled.

100. Our Light and Bread

There is a darkness
In this world,
I know it to be true.
But, a little light 
       I have,
I know 'tis in you, too.

I am fed steak
And baked potatoes
Milk, and honey's tooth,
Sweetest corn and meatloaf---
Spiced my daily meals---
For in you a light burns true.

Evil all surrounds me
Yet you work hard
For daily bread;
If not for that light
Within us, our good Father,
We'd be never truly fed.

Happy
	Father's Day
		Love Brandon

101. A Year in Poetry

I write a poem a day, every day, some
Are good, and some are true, others are crude.
A year in poetry before you, from
My heart, my line, my verse, my ideas rude,
Forged in the fires of Crucibles true.
I hope upon one of my verse you stay
And muse a lifetime, and mine be your muse
That pass the weary days away, away.

I write a poem for you, yes you, not one
But many for one each to chew and sleuth.
A poem for one, a poem for all, the stone
I craft, my texture all like soundwaves' screw
They get loud, they get soft, they whisper nude
Which was warped by the world's wicked way
But I would, thus, die for the bull I shoot
That pass the weary days away, away.

Muse over my verse, and find aught what's shown
If it's nothing, or if it's some Thought's food?
Maybe I, a madman who speaks what's known,
Speaks a truth for all or truth for few,
So use the compendium for what's lude 
Or rather research my sayings oh so, so strange
All my metaphors hidden in plain view
That pass the weary days away, away.

Read my words, and read my truths
Read what I have had to say---
Hidden in my verse is proof
That pass the weary days away, away.


©2023 B. K. Neifert
All Rights Reserved

Blog Exclusive: True Faith

War is just the natural result of sin, because when there is excess sin, peace cannot be enjoyed.

Observing that laws have changed in the past, is not evidence against an objective moral truth.

I would burn every word I wrote, if I thought it would become a new religion.

An atheist is like a dog. It barks, "Evidence" without the ability to understand it.

Usually, people are what they hate.

The sages all presented different methods, but arrived at similar truths.

Hume begins brilliantly, muddles into the absurd, and then ends with absolute peril. 

The social milieu is not what makes a thing right or wrong.

I like more concrete philosophies; I don't like asking questions a six year can answer.

The best do not get jealous.

A wise man can't be lazy; all of the frivolity would soon become a bore.

One can do too much work.

When science does come around to an answer for "What is Good", it will necessarily find that Jesus already beat it to the chase. That's if science ever does come to an answer.

It's what Christ lived and taught. That's why, even if all the evidence were against me, I'd still believe. Thankfully, almost all the evidence is for me, in this particular instance.

Every historical personage must be made like Christ to the Child, with only minor flaws---yet, an education will necessarily cause them disillusionment, which must be then self reflected on.

Figures like Washington, Columbus, Einstein or Franklin must be first caricaturized as perfection---so when the child recognizes them as strangers, they will still retain the ideal of what a man ought to be.

These ideal men we learned about in grade school don't exist, unless we become them.

You're never too old to read a book.

Ezra Pound is an enigma to me. A writer so focused on meaning, yet he expressed none.

I've seen the depths of even the most authentic church; its depravity would astound you; so it took for its leaders Mammon and Asmodeus, and cast me out of its congregation, saying, "He does no work."

Had I spent even a hair's breath of time on something other than this, I might never have found my religion were true; yet, the benefit of being this writer, is that you get to discover it with me.

People always hated politicians.

It's the Ass who should be punished, not the Quaker Parrot.

Seeing how Ben Johnson wrote an entire elegy to his son, I see no reason why Shakespeare didn't do the same with his sonnets.

I've investigated it thoroughly, Anne Hathaway must have been black, and once, also, a slave.

An immense treasure was once found by taking millions of opinions and using this data to calculate its location. The similarities of Ancient Near East myths and the Bible---as well as the philosophies of ancient Greece and China---seem to demonstrate this fact.

Paul said in his famous sermon, "God winked through the poets." How often scholars confuse those winks with the Human imagination.

I have no doubt that Samus, El and Ra all echoed God's Word---I find Jupiter echoes God's Word; but now God revealed Himself as Christ Jesus, so we all must believe in Him.

The scariest thing about God, is that humans went hundreds of thousands of years without ever knowing His name.

God placed Adam on the Earth, and that small lineage of men were punished with the Knowledge of God's existence. Echoes of their beliefs germinated, and took root in the surrounding cultures, but not until Moses was it given to an entire people to inherit the full truth.

I shout loudest because I see my own sin: I don't want others to know the same mistakes.

The Bible is violent, so we won't be.

God's judgment is either equal to the saved, or froward to the damned.

Huckleberry Finn is a child's journey into the real world, and back to childhood.

The Bible was not handed down orally. It was, indeed, transmitted through written text.

If there are, indeed, two sources for Genesis---which I believe---then they were both handed down through written accounts, and were faithfully preserved. The "Contradictions" and "Repetitions" are evidence of this preservation.

The Bible has its origins in the first laws of humankind, and the first Monotheistic traditions. It's a wonder that God finally codified His faith through Moses, and then Jesus gave it to all.

The Bible was, also, written, not transcribed from oral tradition. 

Why give two accounts of the same events? Why have both Kings and Chronicles? If not because every event were independently written down through the testimony of multiple witnesses?

The best way to know the Bible was first written, and not an oral tradition, is the concurrent18th Dynasty Egyptian phraseology used in the book of Exodus as a polemic.

What clever means to the rest of the world, I hope I am never accused of. Having been called it, I will realize I was just a fool with some charming sayings. I also am not so foolish, to realize some clever one will mock this saying by calling me clever.

1. American Stone Henge

Someone took a pipe bomb
And blew up those damn stones.
Good riddance.
I would have done it myself;
In fact, I had plans to do it.
Those same people censor me
Why not blow their garbage philosophy to hell?

I saw some jeeps driving down the road;
About four of them in a row.
Do you know what I saw?
I saw peace.
I saw the modern Horse and Buggy
And since civilization is so spread out
We need something gas powered to get us around.
There was a sort of peace,
As I rolled up the hill, and down it,
Watching the Amazon Employee
Drive to work in an old Corolla.
I then realized they decided
To decommission about a zillion vehicles
In the "Cash for Clunkers"
Program. Meaning... people won't have
Old Corollas to drive to Amazon.
They'll have new, fancy cars,
If a car at all.
And work, of course, will be for the privileged.
Not for everyone...
Instead of work, you'll be at home,
Making your stipend,
And living off the roach feces
And ant colonies in the spring.

I realized, they censor me.
Why not blow their little plan to hell?
I'd like to see them strung up by their big toes
And whacked like pinatas.
I hope Elon Musk makes a rocket ship
And they all just, blast away,
If they find our little blue sphere a bother.
And on they go, like that Steve Miller Song,
And the world will be rid of a couple of griping
Old billionaire fools, who did nothing good anyway.
Since they like Ayn Rand so much,
John Galt can go to Mars for all I care.
The rest of us will fare without them.
Without their dumb laws and hindrance to our freedom.
It wouldn't solve all the issues...
There'd just be another set of bratty billionaires after them
And they, too, could fuck off when the world got sick of them.
We don't want their feudalism, communism,
Or any of it.
Just make our Stoves and Canned Soups...
We don't need your plans for a "Better World."

2. The Fleecing

I saw many sheep,
And they were fleeced.
And lo, I was fleeced.
And we all bleated for help
But the oppressor took from us our wool.
No matter how hard I or anyone tried
To regain our fleece, and keep warm
The enemy severely sheered us of all our wool.

Woe to the tyrants who spoil the flock.

3. Atheist Mantra

Hearsay is not evidence, 
And your opinion is only yours. 

Your fables bring bad governance, 
And serving God… what a chore!

4. Thomas

At the end, Christ did appear
To His disciples. Otherwise,
They would not die for what they knew
Outright was false. The only trick
Which could have worked
Was a Body Double--
But even this fails,
As Doubting Thomas
Touched the Wounds.
And St. John attests that Christ had
A heart attack---as that is why
Water ran from His punctured side.
Therefore, He unequivocally had died.

5. My Cross

Upon my blue wall
Is a cross, which hangs on hemp rope.
A silver dove is
Worked within the cross's silver frame.

Oh thou cross, 
Protrude outward
With an off center of hollowed  negative space...

Oh, you hollowed off center, 
The convex curve of the dove rests, and
Shortens the empty center at thy head;

A red tack, like Eliakim,
Holds this message
With a red ribbon pierced through a nail,
Like that which Christ had been crucified with.

The cross, and that red ribbon, a cache holding
True fortunes.

6. Coke

Tall, ten inches,
The bulbous bottle stands
Atop my oaken desk.
Its red wrapper and white calligraphy contrast
To form an ingredient label.
Not very nutritious...
But, among my favorites.

Inflation, my longtime nemesis,
Has this particular bottle
Costing about two dollars thirty cents.
Shocked when I saw the price tag,
My measly meal was about two thirds an hour's labor.

7. Noah's Ark

Glue residue, nails,
Petrified Wood,
All found in a boat shaped indentation
On a mountain in Turkey. 
An anchor also was included
In the discovery,
With titanium found there---
Some mention was in the Bible
Of a metalworker who helped Noah.

I'm very skeptical.
I didn't believe the report about Guang Wu
Until I looked the very thing up...
And there it was.

8. I'm Sorry

I truly am sorry you suffered.
If I had anything to say,
Anything at all,
I'd say I'm sad that no one came to your aid.

It pains me, as I do not want to be in your shoes,
Either... Yet, threatening me with "that" padded room...
Why would I get put in a padded room?

You cut me off before I could say anything,
My Awakened Narcoleptic.

I never said my government was oppressing me...
Only my neighbor.
Yet, if I end up in a padded room,
We shall know who was truly behind this mess.
As, I have faith, since the FBI has not burst down my door,
Nor have they censored me,
Nor have they told me I couldn't speak,
That I am in no threat of my government.
In Canada and Great Britain that is not true;
Excuse me for fearing that tyranny would come here.

Yet, the government's job is to protect me from my neighbor,
And if mobs rule freedom of speech,
Not a single word will ever be spoken again.
Men are stabbed in public
As for speech they get ran upon stage
As evil tries to kill men whose voices it disagrees with.

If you truly believe in all perspectives
Then you'd be happy to let all perspectives have a voice,
And not to be threatened by the sword of their fellow citizen
Nor their censors.

Yet, if I end up in a padded room,
I shall know it was the government who did this.
As, I am more sane now than I ever was.

9. Brandon Ruins Everything

Marijuana does make people violent, and lazy, and insane. 

Video Games do cause increases in violent tendencies---
just watch any Call of Duty live Chat, and you'll see.

Cops have been less likely to arrest people, or investigate violent crimes
Which account for the drop of Violent Crime in this country;
Which skyrocketed these past four years.

A simple test of the hypothesis that video games cause violent tendencies,
Is that in order to make soldiers shoot people
Easier during World War II,
They used human shaped targets instead of bullseye's.
It worked. 
As is also true, video games desensitize people to violence,
And reinforce dopamine receptors with violent tendencies.

Breastfeeding is more nutritious for a child than baby formula.

The Black Panthers are not heroes. They're the Black equivalent to the KKK.

Blacks aren't incarcerated at higher rates due to racism, but because they commit more crimes.

Also, that woman was arrested because her boyfriend was a resident of the household, and it was a domestic violence dispute, not a home invasion.

And embalming is safer and  more sanitary, because then you don't have a rotting corpse sitting in a funeral parlor for five hours.

10. This Eejit's Rage Fantasy

I speak to a rebel
Some decade ago...
She calls me a nasty word.
She tells me, 
"It is a term of endearment,"
Hiding the fact that it is not.

I use the word against a woman;
One who says I mansplain...
And in a vile outburst
I know now where it came
I drop a nasty word upon her head
And feel dejected.

For the well of bitterness was that I was lied to.
Please understand.
I hadn't cherished the Rebel's friendship,
But thought we made good acquaintance.
Yet, she called I the word I called you.
And now I know it is a nasty word
And I am left questioning whether the word
Was spoken illy about me.
I do not know.
And for that I lashed out against you.

I'm sorry.

11. Why Grace?

Speeding down the road,
Talking about my spat with Rebel---
I remember she told me the word
Was insulting to a stranger---
The light turns yellow
A caution,
Then turns red, as I hit the breaks.
Not intending to,
I shoot out into the middle of the
Intersection. I say, "Shoot,"
And shamefacedly drive through---
As you don't park in the middle of an intersection.

I remember about a decade ago,
The same thing happened,
And being so careful not to sin,
So anxious and filled with great heaving distress,
I breeched the line, just like before,
And cried out an oath.

I realized this time I casually said, "Shoot"
And didn't add sin unto sin.
As, I was not so hyper afraid to sin
That I self righteously sinned
And added sin unto sin.
Nor was I fearful of a ticket;
As the last time, my conscience couldn't bear it.

That is the reason we have grace---
So, flying off into an uncontrollable outburst
We then say we're sorry,
And do not pile upon ourselves
Guilt upon guilt.
Rather, we just brush it off
And our conscience,
Eased by knowledge of our own fallibility
And God's forgiveness, does not react
Like it were the end of Salvation.

12. If One Day I Found You

If one day I found you
I'd forsake a mountain of gold.
If one day I found you,
I would cherish you till we're old.

So one day will you find me
My cherished and beloved soul?
So I don't grow to be a miser
Or a stodge, curmudgeonly fool?

13. Conceit

O, thou lofty visionary,
With the mastery of conceit,
Bring thy pen to thy inkwell,
Yet, abandon the priestly cloth.

For, as a poet thou art just,
But as a priest thou art
The foul marriage of all opposites
And their incomparable things.

14. Theosis

I cannot think of myself as a "god".
I am not a god.

I can, however, think of myself as a son of God
Adopted through the heir of Christ's divinity.

Yet, to make myself an equal
With Whom I certainly cannot be equal...
To me there is only one God
The Father, Spirit; Son Amen.

The Prince of this world says,
"I am a god; I am God."
I thought clearly, this doctrine was a warning
Against such heresy...
And I do not believe it is what the Catholic Doctrines preach.

It has never occurred to me,
That this was canonical Christianity
Until I had heard St. Athanasius cited it;
The most authoritative Creed  maker in my faith.

If I must become a god
Then so be it...
But, I wish to eat, drink, read, and partake of the Otherworldly pleasures
As a hedonist, rather than partake the duties of a Divine Creator.
This doctrine that I become a "god"
I understand it only as "Judge".
That I will judge, I have become a god of sort.
That I hand down divine sentences;
Yes, I will be like a Monarch
And Christ my Emperor.
I see it clearly now, 
As I always have.

Yet, God, if I were made equal to Thee
I shall fail.
Every man ought to say this,
Lest they commit the cardinal sin of blasphemy.

15. Late Bronze Age Collapse

The populations
Fall, could it be those nasty
Plagues and bees God sent?

16. Darragh

They desire him to fix the world---
Yet, he is only one of those who 
Make the problems much more severe.

I understand it now... better than I ever did.

17. To A Poet Laureate
I’ve Got Jesus Loves You on the Front of My Wallet

For the Atheistic Left

Alas, Laureate of my day,
Your verse is sublimer in a good sort of way.
I have Jesus Loves you on the face of my wallet
That a kind man gave me once in private.
It's a sticker with a rainbow's color
But let me tell you why Homoeroticus lovers
Are forbade by God and His holy hammer.

As a man, I need not worry about the thing;
What people do is their choice, you see.
But, why God must judge a Gay or Straight man
For sexual sins which are wrought in the land
Is that the compounding effect is it makes souls less gay;
They get choked of their love, and needless to say
That it makes finding love just a little bit harder
And let's be honest, it's probably bequeathed by a mother
Who does not but coddle the child
Or it's wrought by a strange sort of pedophile.

I need not judge the man or woman in sin
But compounding interests make it harder to live
In peace with man and woman, and fay
Is made less fay, and sin made less sin.

So, honest to me, I tell them the truth.
It is not I, but God's holy alliance and moot
It is to make it less of a crime
But it's not my place to judge, or to give them a hard time.

I myself have made many a suffer
And I myself have not obeyed father or mother.
So where am I to judge these folk?
I do not, but having compassion on most
Will tell them where a sin is a sin
And by compassion warn them time and again.

18. Beloved Peace

The evidence says 
"Peace!" And as they say "Peace, peace, 
"Safety, happiness"
There is only frustration
And rebellion's black war.

19. The Garch's Delusion

The rich Garch sees zir
Lies told to many,—ze who

Writes our history.

Yet, human nature proceeds
To tell zir thrice, ze is wrong.

20. Phantasy

Elishah walked tonight, 
Silently, looking at the five days aged 
Crescent moon.
Hearing scorn of children's fright,
Undaunted, with the sweet melodies
Of Hero and Leander
Singing their hymns across the deep.

There they sing, as if Apollos and Calliope,
Betraying an innocence of a generation passing away.
A sweet, innocent self-importance,
Harmless and fully justified
For a generation whose brilliance
Shined brighter than the starry night.

The children scorned,
Yet the gentle woman came to mind;
Reacquainted once more
By the widow's stones
And the footprints upon the beach.
As if the Gentle woman were looking
For the agéd sun over the hoary foam 
And quieting noise.

21. Enola Holmes

A selfish brat, characteristic of our modern heroine.
She forsakes love, friendship, and learns jujitsu, while her mother
Is vindicated for her crime of child abandonment.
It starts off as a nice movie---then, like hume, muddles into 
Absurdities, telling women to abandon husband, child
And to learn martial arts, as a homeless black man ushers in
The Moral tale of this iconic flop. Diversity in
The advancement of chauvinism and churlish narcissism.

22. The Atheist at Texas Hold Em

I sit across from a Christian.
We're playing Texas Hold Em.

My cards are dealt.
I get dealt a Jack of Clubs and a Queen of Spades.
My partner bets the big blind;
I ante in.

The flop gets played,
A Jack, Ace and Ten of hearts.

I see my jack pairs well.
But he couldn't have the flush.
Because he bets cautiously,
Exposing he doesn't have the hand.
I cautiously meet his bet;
But I don't raise it.

Next comes the fourth street
And I see a queen of diamonds
Is played. I'm one away from a full house,
But have two pair.
He doesn't bet---
So, I raise him with half my chips.
He has a tell that he's lost...
But, goes in.
"The fool."

Then, the queen of clubs is the river.
He again, doesn't bet.
I without hesitation go all in.
"I'm all in on a loser, who probably has a flush."
The pot is settled,
We show our hands.

He reveals the Queen and King of Hearts;
A royal flush.
"He had it from the beginning;
"How didn't I see it?"

23. The Daughter of Zion; Ghazal

Like the hart, my tongue heaves for you,
Beulah, my Daughter of Zion.

The water brooks are dry, I am
Thirsty, oh Daughter of Zion.

Thy walls are pleasant; Thy Fair City
Pleasure; come---Daughter of Zion.

I am nigh wasting poverty
Heavenly, Daughter of Zion.

Let this Broomtree be written in
Thy streets, Thou Daughter of Zion.

24. God is Love

God is love.
God is peace.
God is faith.
God is righteousness.
God is joy.

Only through the Holy Spirit
Can we possess these things.
The statement always made sense to me.
That these things are the evidences for God.

Wherever there is true love,
There is God's force emollient within the heart and mind.
It has grown so cold, as of late,
Not many remember it, nor know what it is.

But I do.

25. Phlegon of Tralles

He records the darkening of the sun,
Gives the Gospel's exact timeframe for it.
He recorded it during Jesus'
Life, under that Tiberius Caesar.
It would be hearsay, if not had Guang Wu's
Scribes recorded the exact same event.

26. Scythian Mount

In thunderous, purple threads,
The mounted Unicorns go
Off to war,---The archer's bone
And sinew bow, in circled
Retreat, fires its missiles
In rains of hell. An army
Marches to close the gap, yet
The wooden shafts of missiles
Pierce the strongest armor as
The horned mounts of Scythians
Trample men in their charge.

27/ The Devil's Muse

The heavenly muse composes no suffering;
Thus, Satan sung on the stage his Bohemian Rhapsody
And that Earth Angel fell, for his selfish, strange songs.
For there may be no suffering in heaven, so Rock Music
Was the music that cast Satan to the earth. Worship through peace.

28. Mother Theft

"Avert your eyes from truth.
"What you see is only illusion.
"I shall tell, and then proclaim,
"And then tell again.
"I have seen all things,
"Been through it all...
"Trust me, and not thine eyes
"For wizards have duped thee
"Into seeing phantasmagorias."

29. Sonnet

The Modern writer is such a fool 
Who writes his bathos, oh so ever cruel; 
He speaks a word of ill advisal: 
He gives great poets steep reprisal. 
He does not respect the solemn day, 
And decrees the "Vortex", only this age 
Will please him, its words like sticks and stones--- 
A primitive monkey building with chicken bones. 
So I say this, to you a wayward, tool: 
The great poet speaks in their hidden runes 
Which alites a secret riddle of odes 
Mulled and walked over a lifetime's road. 
"The prize goes to the poet who's foul 
"It goes to one whose verse, is that a sow's." 
So corrupt engines do alight this day 
To take a laureate and make him vain. 

Opal Steeples

The following is an early draft of Opal Steeples, and is not necessarily what will be in the finished product. To find the Aphorisms, purchase "The Wisdom of B. K. Neifert".

Opal Steeples
B. K. Neifert
Copyright © 2022 B. K. Neifert
All rights reserved.

DEDICATION


This work is dedicated to Christian.



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


Many acknowledgments are given to the numerous poets who've written on the Character I've come to moniker as Death. Such notable poets as Billy Joe, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, T. S. Eliot, Byron, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, and most notable of all, Hosea and Solomon. Also, acknowledgments are given to Jung and Freud, whose theories--though likely incompatible on a pedantic level---as a whole, provide endless synthesis for my poetry. And to my Schizoaffective Disorder, which finds this elusive character everywhere, and most notably in my dreams. And finally to Zion, a Beautiful Woman, a Beautiful City. It seems like the core of this book is a contrast between Death and Heaven.
















Aphorism 1: When a truly beautiful maid arrives at the party, the mirth grows still.

Aphorism 2: A lie is more visceral than truth, because it is simpler to comprehend.

Aphorism 3: The ugliest thing about our modern age... every guttural reaction to beauty is confused with lust.

Aphorism 4: People who deny Jesus will be judged by Moses’ standard. 

Aphorism 5: I see nothing more fair, than that God redeem us from Moses’ “Laws which were not good.”

Aphorism 6: Be judged by Moses’ law, if you think Jesus died for nothing.

Aphorism 7: I have nothing more to write. Sure, I can still write. But, I have nothing more to write.
Aphorism 8: Conclude nothing from a liar; their lies only multiply conclusions because it nullifies Vacuous Truth.

Aphorism 9: Good poetry never claims to be true, so it contains Vacuous Truth and sound conclusions may be drawn from it.

Aphorism 10: Christ is our bread. Feed and be nourished, so you are able to do what's good.

Aphorism 11: In my experience, nobody stops loving themselves. 

Aphorism 12: Self love and self respect are two very different things. Self respect stops you from getting a scribble tattoo, and stops you from getting a septum piercing. Self love says, “Go right on ahead.”





1. The Two Trees Meet

“I love you,”
Said the Olive Tree
To the Fig Tree.

The Olive pined
And said, “O, our Brother
“Was nailed to me!”

The Fig replied,
“Oh, my darling,
“My beauteous friend,
“God cursed me,
“When leaving the city
“I was dead.”






The Olive spoke,
“My fruit is savory,
“And yours are sweet;
“Embrace me,
“With our bark spliced,
“Let us bring forth
“Something new!”

The Fig Spake,
“Yes, our curséd fruit
“Could bear something
“New; yet, it is
“Unlawful!”

The Olive lamented,
“Yes! For you are
“A Fig tree, cursed,
“And I an Olive,
“For we are from
“Two different bloodlines!”


The Fig Entwined with
The Olive; they created
A fruit of life!
































2.Ferguson's Giant Soul

Ferguson, Mac Moghcun,
There was Queen Maev!
Who you rose upon your 
Armies, Red King, and
Spent your arms
Destroying her, who 
Fought valiantly.

With your bag of dreams,
You took my poesy,
Raped my beloved,
Love-talker.

Curséd Fig, you spin
Having heaved your
Sighs for one hour; in dreams
Maev and Ferguson
Are at war
Shaking the worlds;

I, I await you
here; while the 
Titans clash and
Rend the times.
We shall cling:
Brush off your
Spider's webs!
I wish to seed you
In the soil, anew!























3. Zion's Soil

Beloved, I have seen
Captivity! I have worn chains.
I have sinned.

The King's hair is raven-
Black.
he is comely and beautiful,
Dark eyed,
Yet your desire is for me.

he, the beauty of an Archangel,
he, at war with Maev---
The heavens shake
As angels war with giants.

The wiseman questions:
My chains are those 
Which shackle the Earth.


You have sighed underneath
Him, in the weaving
Of dreams.

My seed is good. 
It awaits fertile soil.
Unbound the cursed
And unlock my chains
With your skin.























4. Confession

Queen Maev, if I were Ferguson
With my bag of dreams
I would throw myself into
The sea;---and like Prometheus
Said to the Southern King,
I should drown myself.

Yet, with my Giant Soul
Enlarged, when Solomon
Said to Death, that he
Would give him a device,
That night I prayed
On the way to my corridors.
“Let me not have
“Taken the cup of wrath,
“But let me prophesy
“him, and like Jacob
“Steal the father's blessing!”

So I dreamt.


5. Child, Touch Another World

The child's heart within all
Feels so much larger than it actually is.
It feels like all laws bend to its will,
That it is of a greater importance
Than the Great Pyramids,
Than the Mythic Stonehenge,
Than the Swirling Milky Way,
Than the Eiffel Tower,
Than Democracy,
Than Free Speech,
Than Patriotism,
Than History.
The child within all feels like the creator of all worlds.







It feels so important,
Like a king,
Like it were great at every which thing.
A great skier,
A great chess player,
A great teacher,
A great writer,
A great builder,
A great artist,
A great singer,
A great champion and hero.

The child in all believes itself to be great...
It feels entitled to all good treatment.

It feels as if the world revolves around them.






I don't know how we ever grow up...
I look at people, in their self importance,
And I find each one a world swirls around their minds,
I can tap into it by listening to their words.
I can feel their feelings, know their thoughts
By the words they speak, and the mien they imbue.
I can know them, and so can you.
Yet, not many care to know them.
Not many care to look at the dramatic obelisk of Other
As a friend once wrote in a poem about a man named David.
That there are obstacles hindering us,
People, places and things.

I look at myself, and my wisest thoughts
Came from other minds much wiser than mine.
It came from listening, from tasting,
From touching, from smelling,
Through the descriptive tense
Of another's words.
Not my taste, not my touch,
Not my smell, but my ear.

The greatest pieces of wisdom
Came from the greatest adversaries.
For, I could poke holes right through them
When I became undaunted by their words.
When it became interesting.

In practical matters I still feel there are foolish men---
Yet, they find a more practical lifestyle than I do.
And I feel their swirling world as they speak---
It is offensive. It soon becomes my world
A swirling kaleidoscope of thoughts and inventions.
I've learned to embrace it, for such is their freedom
And such is mine.

Yet, my brother told me today,
"Do not seek to persuade me."
Can democracy flourish without persuasion?
My inner child likes to reach out and touch other worlds
But it often gets burnt. Thus, it still reaches,
It still touches, it pries into the deepest held beliefs.
Politely, I can have a conversation with a woman
On Dharma, and she enjoy it.
Yet, her husband---for he ought to be by now---
Scolds her, offends her, doesn't listen.

"Buddhism is more optimistic."
I agree, it's not the torments of Caste systems.
But, really, there must be something better after this life,
Than having to live it all over again.
What cruel deity swirls us in this cosmos for eternity?
Hell is a comfort to me, for there is no wisdom there.
No activity. No planning.
Meaning, no thought. For, with thought
There is wisdom. Hell seems less cruel
Than tormenting someone on Earth
Over and over again,
With a reincarnation of past lives
Rejuvenating and swirling like the Milky Way.
That is immoral.
And at last, it is simply to die?
I cannot believe death is the sum of life's choices.
I believe there must be more.
I'd lose hope, if all I had to look for
Was another life like this.
Yet, her thoughts are interesting,
And he---very sure of himself---
Tells me I upset her.
Something tells me she was telling the truth
That it was not me.

Rather, I live to listen...
Do not be offended if I cannot agree,
But that is core to our freedom
Even to have heated arguments.
If I could not persuade,
If I could not gain access to the worlds which swirl around me,
I would be despaired, and lonely.
I would be, as the Woke Mob wishes me to be,
A solipsist, constantly reassuring himself with his own thoughts.
And there I would be, no one to challenge me
Suffering in the hell I created for myself
By telling someone I thought was wrong to, "Shut up."




Offense is necessary in a free society.
For, in a free society, we are free to share our worlds
With one another, and burdened though we be,
The child within us touches the scalding, red-hot
Iron of another's world---if we cannot sway them to ours
Or be swayed to theirs, then there is no freedom.

I know it burns. But, there is no better joy any other way.














6. The Scent of a Rose

The scent of roses,
Unlike all other flowers,
Is a form bred from
Horticultured, white florets
Which smell like honeysuckle.















7. The Sarsoodledom

The Satrap of the Sardoodledom
Sat, calling all art Kitsch.
Save, it was writhing with fear, or sex
Or it idealized crime and perverts.

He, wisely? was called Athena,
And ruled his Sardoodledom
With an iron fist.
Nothing good could be made,
Save what was a Sardoodle
In his Sardoodledom.














8. Evidence

A Biblical Timeline of Evidence Corroborating Scripture:
Unknown – Flood myths appear on every continent and in every ancient civilization, including the Americas, which would be impossible, had not the Flood actually happened.
1950bc - The Lipit-Ishtar, which has a law on it, number 27, that Abraham followed with Hagar, that God told him to ignore. Abraham corresponds to this in the Genealogical record. 
1750bc - We see the influence of Abraham on the laws of Mesopotamia, in the Hammurabi's Code, where some of the Hebrew laws in the Torah are first found. Which is likely, also, the reason Sumerian Legends contain Biblical material, was an original source penned by Abraham.
1420bc - The Temple of Soleb has the name of Yahweh inscribed in Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and shows Bound Hebrew Slaves on the Pillars, making mention of the fact that the Israelites were wanderers in the land of Egypt before they were enslaved.
1330bc - The Cult of Aten begins, which corresponds with Moses in the Genealogies. The Cult of Aten was an unexpected conversion to Monotheism by the Pharaoh of Egypt, which likely occurred as a result of the miracles performed by Moses. Also, Moses' genealogical record lines up right with it.
18th Egyptian Dynasty – Egyptian Chariot spokes are found off the coast of Nuweiba beach, and many more like pieces remain under the Red Sea.
1250bc - Joshua's Altar. In Joshua's Altar there are Kosher animal ashes, along with the lead tablet described by the book of Joshua, and it is situated at the rear face of mount Ebal. It is even in the pattern of a Jewish Altar, with ramps instead of steps. Also found at the same dig site are mentions of King Hezekiah (Circa 790bc) and Jeremiah (Circa 600bc).
1050bc - A fragmented clay artefact is found in Khirbet Qeiyafa, containing Hebrew Mnemonic verses and the Tetragrammaton, of interpretive transcriptions of the law. On the pot, it talks about being charitable to slaves, and judging them mercifully, and a rebuke against idolatry.
840bc - Tel Dan Stele records the death of King Jehoram, and reveals that he is from the HouseDavid---a Portmanteau of the Dynasty's Heraldry.
597bc - The Nebuchadnezzar Chronicles are a direct reference to the Jewish Captivity, of Babylon sacking Jerusalem. Ezekiel had already been taken captive, along with Israel, therefore, the  captivity had already begun. Ezekiel records the Sack of Jerusalem and how bad it will be. As well as Jeremiah the Prophet.
537bc - Edict of Cyrus, which records the restoration of the Jews back to Israel.
100bc – The Great Isaiah scroll was transcribed, and still has the prophecy of Isaiah 53, detailing how a man's soul must be offered as a sin offering. Predating Christ by at least 130 years.
31ad – Christ sweats blood, and dies of a heart attack. The Gospel record shows Christ sweating blood, a condition called hematohidrosis, which happens because of severe stress, and also a heart attack, when His side was punctured with the spear, water flowed from the wound. Which is from a pustule sack developed around the heart during Pre-Cardiac Arrest.
31ad – Under the Emperor Guangwu, of the Latter Han Dynasty, there is record of the Darkening of the Sun which happened for three hours during the Crucifixion. In the records, twice it is declared, “A man has died for the sins of all the people. Man from heaven died.”


9. The Playlist

I start this journey,
A two year old boy.
I learn my dad's stereo system
Having watched him do it before.
Some day love will find me,
As the opening synths sends me on
My new life's road.

Then, driving through the woods
And over the river,
To grandmother's house I go.
About to slip down, 
I'm so excited to swim.
Life is about fun, and I'm too tired for work;
Play is everything at this time in my life.
We listen to the oldies radio, the whole car ride,
Sitting in another traffic jam.



Seventeen, sweet emotion fills me,
Pleasure filled fantasies of sex
To Two Unlimited and Rock and Roll...
The beginning of my career as a writer,
With pornographic prose and an honest to truth love story.
I find my woman with a face like a gent.
Her daddy says I took it a little too far.

My car, I ramble about for years,
First with my androgynous mate,
And then with my friends;
Going here, there, the summer of fun
And violence. I try to make my living,
But, I'm a rambling man.
Rambling on and on, talking mostly nonsense.

My car is my pride and joy...
You don't know what I got;
I rev my Malibu beside the car
Of infernos---there my sister almost died.
My stereo bumps, overshadowed by woofers
In the hopped up Coupe.
Barrel Rolls, broken hips and brain tissue.

Recovering, Johnny comes to me
And makes a deal---
He's in a bind, and I take the dare.
Thus, he sings of the Devil's Kitchen
And I sing of the Snowy Abode.
He sings of a Welsh Prince,
And I sing of our LORD and King;
My mountain is taller.

I then meditate on the sweetest wisdom...
To be a man, simple and humble.
To search for love, and not be lonely in this world.
It was always my song, my very first song,
But straying from it all these years,
I realize the fantasy was not enough.







Then the trial of every Christian comes;
The fornication with the worldly device.
My captivity, my mission,
They scream what I spoke to her in the closet
On the rooftops. They know my every secret thought,
They turn my life into a spectacle.
It happens. Everybody's been there;---
Information's inebriation.

Then the music dies.
Censorship grows...
My movie begins...
This will be the day that I die---
I wrote the book of love,
I have faith in God above
And what the Bible tells me,---so,
I believe my music can save the soul.





Now I go, walking down the street.
I get funny looks from everyone I meet.
For my youthful offense
I am stained with distrust, and dirty looks.
Everywhere I go, a look of shame appears
On the faces of all around me...
All know my sin,
All know my shame...

I look for work in the city,
But can find none.
I ride the Pride of the Susquehanna.
People on the river are happy to give me their time,
To listen. I wander here, there, looking for an answer
To my disgrace and poverty.
I have no money,
Wandering the streets, shamefully.





In my music, I drift away...
Writing my odes of blaspheming kings,
Doppelgangers, witches,
Dragons and satyrs,
True Love and advanced civilizations.
I get lost in my creativity...
I get lost in the rhythms of my
Playlist, waiting for when I fall in love.

Then I see her face.
I started thinking love was simply a story I wrote...
A beautiful thing I kept on my keys.
A fairytale like my kings and queens.
But, I saw her face once more,
And there was no trace of doubt.
My first I gave all, and got nothing.
Now, the face of sunshine makes me believe in love again.

I, the loser of losers,
Fell in love with the Homecoming Queen;
And she loved me.
I believed in my dreams.

She said to me,
"Do you, you, feel like I do?"
And for life's longest season,
We made time for loves.

Life returned to the simplicity of childhood.
The pure, exalted joy of youth prevailed;
Life was good again...
It was like sitting at the Kokomo,
Listening to a steel drum band.
She and I reclined, filled and old as the songs
I listened to as a child.

At the end of life,
I blessed Jesus, and said,
"This life was just alright with me."
And I drifted off to sleep one day,
And woke up someplace else;
Someplace better.


10. The Blue Moth

I walk,
Succor the green,---
The Mauve, centimeter wide,
Opal butterfly
Flutters with
The lethargy
Of a newly created thing.
It lands, so delicately
Upon the arch of my peach
Foot, between the sandal strap
And my cuffed, mud-stained Jeans.















11. The Hard Stuff

The dragonflies are numerous,
The biting flies are few.
Upon the paths of Pinchot
I consider the words of you.

“Slavery is a grievous sin
“Which thy God has sanctioned,”
True.
But the Law of Moses, my friend,
By Jesus's been made moot.

How know'th you,
If by the Heathen made a slave,
God may save the Unbeliever,
And give them life in Zion all days?




The War for Canaan was furious,
Blood spilt, from man to child,
Yet could it be they were corrupted
Rapist, murderer, pedophiles?

Thus, ought God not have slain them
And use the Holy Book,
To judge this world's Chaos
Whom Jesus, they all forsook?













12.

The Geese with their young goslings
Wade into the milk lake, Beige;---
With their webbed feet twaddling
The little geese with their down
Follow in roes, behind their mother goose.
Black, slender necks, like a Brachiosaur,
Arch, with white patches and yellow eyes.
Grey backs, variegated, and black beaks.
Peace flows with the Zephyrs
Warm light, a perfect comfort.
Children play their lawn tennis
Cooperating to score high volleys.
Birds sing, “Peace!”

War and violence bark madly
Somewhere---far away is 
Their mischief.
Yet, hear, is peace.


13. Jacob

I take my most prized
Possession. I give it to Jacob.
For exchange, I wished to exchange
It for a lie.

I come to collect the lie,
Yet, for my most prized possession
I receive not the lie,
For Death has seized upon it.

Therefore, I have not a lie;
And for that I am grateful.
For, I forgave Jacob for
His theft, yet had unyielding
Mercy. For that

I have been forgiven.



14. Twenty-six Quintilian Souls

My hope is for my ministry to save
Twenty-Six Quintilian souls.
One soul for each grain of sand
Off  Israel's coastline.



























15. Job's Journey

Job was a good man who hadn't sinned
But his friends laid accusations on him.
He suffered for heaven's purple mists, 
And golden roads; its thick, opal towers
Of red and green, made with Gold like Jasper
Stones, stretched from Earth to the white moon above.
Its pearl gates like a mollusk shell
Sheened with opalescent, cornflower blues
Gradient with whites and silver glean.
The City of Zion, twelve-thousand furlongs high,
Rise a city on a hill, made with Ruby-
Emerald towers, of a worldcity's 
Width and breadth and height, of thick, miles square base,
The towers rise like New York's or Dubai's;---
Looking up at those towers like gazing 
Upon leaning mountains, tilted toward thou.





There Job sat in pastures with boiled hands
And pustule growths---from Shingles, lay he bare.
His friends upon the green, green grass sat, raw,
Telling him things which were never fair.
"For youthful sin, he certainly did
"For this he must pay the awful price."
The blue sky above, and the wooden
Cottages, somewhere dappled upon the 
Landscape, with the livestock white and black,
There they lowed, and lorned and men labored
While Job sat accused for sin he'd not commit.
The five men sat in a circle, saying,
"For complaint and sin and bitterness
"You know Joseph never laid a mournful Hymn,
"For it is sin which is why you suffer,"
Yet Job knew he suffered for his Bride Wisdom.






Beelzebub, a red satyr, with cloven 
Hooves, and sculptured chest, haunches a furry Ram's,
Sat with black and needly, and disfigured
Things, with sandstone caverns lit with licking flame.
They worked their webs of lies so raw, with blood
Drenched from the cavern floors, to the maimed
Figures shackled upon the beige walls of hell.
There men were crucified, yet not like Christ 
For they shall never suffer death again!

Job thought mightily on these things, how wrong
It was for he to suffer for naught he'd done.
Yet, the Law's precept came to mind so sweet,
"Unrighteous men find Wisdom's demands
"To be like that of a contentious bride.---
"Yet listen to her, and make loves to her
"And though she rebuke you, at the end is life."









16. The Source

I

I write, finding on my own The Wisdom of Solomon.
I read Sirach and The Wisdom of Solomon
And it is like I myself had written it.
That is why I know the Apocrypha is not scripture;
But that is also how I know my writing is not demonic.
It is inspired by wisdom and truth.

Should Dante, or Milton, or Austen
Or Tolstoy, or Chesterton, or Lewis
Be demonically inspired,
Then so also my work, for I Magnify God's law.

I come to the philosophy of Existentialism
Of Epicureanism, of Platonism...
I have help attaining to it.
But, the arguments of C. S. Lewis
I have found, and strengthened.


Yes, there is a little voice in my conscience,
The same one that lets me know what is right or wrong;
It wasn't too long ago, that everyone knew about it.
That is gone in so many---
The voice told me to say that.
It is not audible, a hallucination,
But like a thought, giving me words I sometimes had never known;
Other times, like Malapropisms, which I search for the correct one.
I claim that none of my writing is scripture.
None of it is true, for I am a poet
And work within Vacuous Truths.
I speak in similitudes.

I heard John MacArthur describe
Demonically inspired books.
My hairs stood up,
My heart grew dim.
It is not the peace I know.
My voice is not a demonic apparition.
It is merely the gift of providential utterance;
It has told me of things to come;
It has worked within the fabric of my fingers true words.
If demonically inspired,
If propaganda,
Would I attest to the Divine Christ?
Would I not try to dissuade my reader
From believing in an Omnipotent
Triune God, Who is the Father, Son and Holy Spirit?
Would I say salvation can only come through belief
In this Three Personhood of Deity?
Would I speak of rest,
Or scathe sin in this world?

I do not know why my writing does not get published.
But, it is certainly not by Demonic forces that I have written it.
If The Secret can be published,
And the myriads of books Dr. MacArthur talked about,
Things too disturbing to retell...
Would I be disturbed by it
If I myself had written the like?
No.
Any ghost or supernatural occult thing I would hail
And be mystified by.
Rather, my words are built to heal and turn the world to repentance.
Something much needed in our age of godlessness.
Will I triumph?
No thing I fear more than losing the relationship I have with Christ.
I am willing to be poor and a vagabond if it means retaining my faith.
But, should I be unable to retain faith as a poor man,
Then let me be rich.
If unable as either,
Then let me be fed, and clothed, and sheltered
And no abomination enter into my soul
Nor root of bitterness, nor bark of poison into this soul.











II

There is an anxiety in me...
Having not spoken all.

Hail Britannica came by way of a dream---
How I know not.
Whether by a worm, or drunken chalice of blood
Or by magic I do not know.

What I do know, is that I've asked God
Many times for an Epic Poem.
It is a point of anxiety in me
That I do not know how I dreamt it.

One night, I dreamt of a blue light coming from my bookshelf.
Before I dreamt the story, I remember talking with my friend about it.
I remember asking him what my next work would be.
Whether these things are true, I do not know.
My same friend, I had talked to about the drawer
My dad replaced, and this before it had ever broken.
I thought he was insane, talking about a broken drawer
Which had never broken. Yet, about a year later
The drawer broke, and my dad replaced it.
I remember talking with him,
Whom I hadn't spoken to for weeks.
I also remember seeing myself
At a bookstore, touching a woman I had made into Elora
Wearing the hat I would wear, and the Moccasins I would wear.

What comforts me, is in the words of Solomon
There is a large family who summoned death.
And in Hosea, Death is more prosperous
Than his brethren.
In my dreams, he saw the King's inner chambers,
He made my Epic Poem into a novel---
He even draws me forth to hide his lies.

If you must know, he is the inspiration
For my Doppelganger. He is the inspiration
For my Thirteen Kings...
And I have to dream of this nightmare every night.
Excuse me for writing about it,
For perhaps He is Abaddon himself.
All I know is that I clearly remember
My friend talking to me about a drawer
Being replaced, and lo, the drawer hadn't been replaced.
I remember of talking about this year's drought
Last year, a year plenteous with rain
And there could not be a drought at all.

It could just be that I am dreaming these things
As the other night I had dream paralysis
And could hear a woman's voice taunting me.
But, I prayed a weak prayer.

I do not think my source is demonic
As if it were, I would hide these things from you.
I feel like, rather, it is an oppressive force
Attacking me, like an army outside of a besieged city,
And I must use this intelligence to defeat the enemy.





I do not believe I am a god.
I do not believe I am perfect.
Rather, what I believe is simple...
Jesus Christ is the LORD.
I ought to follow His ways;
And I ought to persuade you to follow Him, too.
As any hope for a good life now
Requires your belief as well as mine.
For, if there is oppression because of sin,
My words cannot achieve me the life I desire.
And as is told to Israel, "Take with you words."

The reason I do not believe I'm demon possessed
And that my stories come from Satan
Is that I believe they came from God.
Not as a means to save the world
But simply as a trade comes to any man
Who is an expert at the craft.
Through providential guidance.
And perhaps I have an interesting story to tell.




17. Violet Sky

I could be white
I could be light
I could be righteous and free;
Though the tyrants,
Who are so violent
Wish violet, the welkin to ring.

























18.  Logos

Where have you gone?
Babble is brought to dust;
The nations are cast abroad.
Where are our common stories?
Where is Jack and Jill
And Peter Pumpkin Eater?
Where is Robin Hood
The Grinch, Paul Bunyan
And Persuasion?

With what does man share or gain
Knowledge? By knowledge,
The root of wisdom is cast abroad.
The flowers and birds
And woodland creatures
Are known by few...
The Ecology is detailed to gross
Minutia, while the Eggplant a berry
And the Berry is naught.


We riot over controversy
And have outlawed truth.
Men speak their own burdens
And by their own burdens
None do listen...
A white background
And a man in the foreground
Strives to find eternal truths...
Yet none are to be found.

Music is terse chords,
Guttural phrases,
The monotone sung over
A simple, three note melody.
Poetry is vapid,
Novels are simple,
Yet math is invented;
Not discovered.




As a wise scholar spake'th,
Babble's tower is fallen
And collapsed to ruinous dust.
No man or woman receives justice;
And for equity's sake all are treated unequal.
The child is snatched from the parent's home
And castrated, fed hormones like a slaughtering animal,
And fundamentally altered and neutered
Before she knows how to count.

The Logos is destroyed;
None can comprehend or interpret the wise and ancient and dark truths.
All is impossible, and all sayings spoken
Are the lie we ourselves create.
We disperse it abroad,
We fallow the rows of the next generation
To watch the sandstorms tower miles high
And consume the cities...
For, no science can be agreed upon,
The solve to the world's problems are doubted
Simple things we see, and then say there is no proof.
Yet, the problem is there is too much proof,
And we wish to be the horse drawing the carriage
Blinded, and seeing only what is in front.
Noone knows truth. Not one.
I write my poetry in this century---
Yet, I am all alone.



























19. The Pearl Sterling

Ye sodomous witches
Writhe---hate ye love
For hate the truth ye do.
Ye summoned death
With combined might;
Ephemeral powers sprung forth.
"We hate the Christian
"Because he set bad example for all..."
When or withal, when I was but a lad
Did you not revel on our revelry
And succor every kiss?
Then, when he had change of heart
Then, only then, did you pounce?

For you loved his sumptuous face
And desired his perfect form...
Then, he laid with virgins 
And hurled the cruel abuses.



Yet, 'twas when he grew kind;
Only then did you hate him
And claim he set bad example.
Then, at last, you queens and kings,
You portioned your might to destroy.
You bargained, and bartered,
And sought to warp the world to your wicked
Worldview.

Have the world.
Yet, you wish to wreck me
And cause me a shameful death.
Doth thou yet hear the voices?
Doth the Satanic screams fill your domiciles?
At last, they shall
And I will have revenge by the LORD's mighty arm.






"From where?"
I may die...
But, at least I will be at eternal rest.
You... you shall live in the hell you summoned forth.

"Death!" you cried, "Come forth,"
And he did, to dance on your graves.


























20. Amonotheum


Zion, with your perfect face,
Ample breast, and scarlet hair:
Tall, yet perfect enough for a kiss,
My changeling has held you
In his dream, with your pink
Areola;---and a degenerate
Man wanted to share in your
Flower, but the changeling
Refused;---for cruelty, like a child's
With a little toy duck with wheels.

In a vision, Yehonason said
To the changeling, “You will only have
“Her once, in a dream.”







Then, there is the third Cretan:
I know not the name.
But, in Jotenheim, he said
Of me, “Thou art a god!”
I don't know what was meant.
Green was the firmament,
Large were the waves,
Hard were the lessons won.

I've seen everything, on earth,
Under the earth, in the vault above...
In forgotten planes, in hidden nooks,
I've seen all, knowing only thee.
A rapturous peace, the splendor
Of thy walls, the city where
We shall plant, water, and make loves;
Jesus' teachings, Paul's preaching,
The prophets' speaking,
I know them as the signpost
Which points to thee.

21. The Limit

We can find the limit.
But, we cannot cross it.
It's the fundamental crux
Of calculus.

There are limitations to human
Imagination.
Limitations to human science.
Limitations to human understanding.
Because, there are limitations
In the real world...









We can simply understand the limit.
We can calculate the Bible
That Jesus' Morals are good...
From there, solve through Sine
That the rest of the Bible speaks
The Law---but, we'll never reach the limit.
We'll never know the full measure.
We'll continually approach it...
Yet, each infinitesimal distance
Is infinitely wide.
The limit is Christ,
And like calculus,
We must have faith that it solves---
We'll never feasibly touch infinity.









22. The Peach


Thou, succulent peach---
Thy sugars like glass at thy
Crown; thy juice, like an 
Orange syrup, dripping to
My white t-shirt---sting my tongue.














23. Ode to Free Speech
 
Today you die,
When Yellow Journalism was outlawed.
Poets could not eat from their wisdom
For the common lay had censored.
Facts are engineered for public manipulation.
“Do not challenge us, because of offense.
“Jesus does not exist---
“Do not even mention Him.
“I will make a fact check
“And cite a lie and make it true.
“I will outright lie, and call it fact,
“And make the world believe it.”
The Yellow Journalist was sued
For his outlandish claims---
The other Yellow Journalists cried out with joy
Until they no more could speak.

Silence. It is best if you keep silence in this time.
For truth is outlawed, and persuasion a crime.


24. Allah

He derives his name from Sin, the moon,
He derives his name from Eros, desire,
He derives his name from Athena, pedantry.
















25. And God Created

All was nothing,
And then God created light.
And by light, there was darkness,
And they separated.
The light of the universe was day
And the darkness of the universe was night.

Then, God said, "Let there be a firmament"
To which, the waters of  Earth's magma
Separated from the waters of outer space,
With the firmament between them.
And God said of the waters of space,
That it was heaven.
And God said of the waters of magma,
That it was Earth.





Then, the LORD gathered all the waters from heaven
And brought them to Earth from comets
And asteroids, and gathered the waters
So that when the Earth cooled, and there began the continents,
There, also, was the Ocean and the Cooled Earth.

Then, before the stars had formed,
Before the sun had formed,
Before the moon had formed,
The first vestals of herbal life
Appeared in the waters;
And they grew.
They made their fruits, and they made grassy algaes;
And they also covered the earth.






Then, the Sun was formed,
And the Moon was formed,
And the stars had been given birth.
So God patterned the stars
In the pattern of Christ and His story.
So that all would know Who the Messiah was.
For, there is the Triune
The Cross, David with his sling,
Mary giving birth, Goliath slain,
And the Dragon and Elisha's Bear.
The moon and the sun ordained the times and seasons.

And the waters brought forth creatures
And then there came the Dinosaurs.
So these Fowl multiplied upon the Earth.
And they grew, and became mighty,
And god blessed them and said, "Be fruitful
"And multiply in the Earth!"



And then God said, "Let the earth bring forth its cattle
And creeping things!" For now, what was in the sea
Had come to dry land, and what was on dry land
Had come to the sea. And everything had been reversed
In the order of God's creation.
And the creeping things came forth,
The mice scampered, the insects grew tiny,
The lizards crept forth on the ground.
And God fashioned them after their kinds,
And said, "Be fruitful and multiply."

And then God said, "Let Us
"Make Man in our own image"
To His Holy Faces of Elohim.
So, He made man. And from man
He fashioned woman.
Yet, Adam had been created on the first day,
As the creation of our spirit,
While the flesh world were created in six days,
Separating the spirit from the flesh.
And God said, "It is good."

Thus, He rested when His work was finished,
On the seventh day of Creation,
To give us example to not overburden ourselves with work.







 









ABOUT THE AUTHOR


	Brandon Neifert is the author of books including In Defense of the Story, a crowning achievement of autodidactism; My Collected Writings, a medley of various writings on diverse topics; and, The Love of Another, an epic novel starring a rowdy maverick colonel caught between a devastating, fifth world war and the love of his life. Neifert is a self-educated, self-published writer, who, much like his characters, strives for the moral best in both himself and society. A devoted Christian, Neifert was born-again when confronted with a sin from his adolescence that ultimately led to his confession and incarceration as an adult. Neifert has a colorful past, but makes up for it with his scrupulous observations of the human condition, framing both good and evil in ways that even the most skeptical can agree.

Close Enough

1. Dogwood and Matzah Bread

The Matzah's holes and chars are like our Christ's
Wounds and bruises. It breaks, like Christ's body.
The dogwood's flowers, like a ray of sun
Had told me today, are wilted on its
Four petals, for "Christ was crucified on
Dogwood." Though not true, in either case, twain,
They are beautiful little thoughts which prove
Christ in their own, strange; fascinating ways.
That the Hawkish prudishness which doubts this
And must take every metaphor for a
Holy Writ, getting offended at lore
Which is beautiful, expounds upon man's 
Linear thinking. Not even complex 
Equations solve so prudishly---why does
It have to be literal? Christ was hanged
On an olive tree, yet the dark wrinkles
Of the Dogwood's bloom can remind us of
Those four wounds Christ took in his hands and feet.

Same is the skeptic's who say Christ could not 
Have been crucified, for scripture did not
Mention ropes. That is another kind of 
Prudishness. Everyone knew how men were 
Crucified. Rather, both kinds of rigid
Thinking are epitomes of stupid.
Maybe things of literary merit
Need not be exact, but remind us that
It did, indeed, happen once in history? 

2. Old Atheists

There is nothing so handsome
As the look of confidence on an old Atheist's sneering face,

Just as there is nothing so serene
As the look of satisfaction on an old Christian's. 

Both men have uncovered many truths
Yet the first is bitter while the second breathes a second breath.

3. Modern Music

Modern music is tinged with sadness.
Every breath is big, epic... yet melancholy.

Yet the older music, at its saddest
Was still a celebratory feast.

4. The Perfume of the Wild Flowers

The perfume of the wildflowers
Carries with the scent of the woods.
My lover's musk is like that of this breeze.
The April mowings brim in the warmer
Zephyrs of the sun's bath and periwinkle flood
Of sky; 

My lover, you are more pleasant than these.

5. Major Third

The minute I am vulnerable
In a poem,
I just want to delete the son of a gun.
I feel a tight pull somewhere outside my chest.
It is my spirit breaking...

Don't make me have to do this
To earn my bread.
I am distant---
My prophecy erring
For the same reason Jonah's did.

I want to keep my reader away.
I don't want them attuned to my heart.
I don't want them knowing where I hurt.
I want to talk about lofty things.
I want to speculate on things far away.

I don't want to talk about feelings
If there is nothing good to feel.
I don't want to sing songs like this.

They're popular...
Everyone loves them.
Everyone loves to hear the heartache
Everyone wants to see the vulnerabilities.

Don't you understand I'd rather talk politics
And religion
And philosophy
And art
And science
And math
And sociology
And psychology
And history
And mythology
And nature

And not talk about my feelings?
I'd rather not talk about my feelings.
An autobiography of life
Is not something I want to write.

Everyone wants an autobiography.
My life's too painful to write it.
Save in fables.

6. I–V–vi–IV

I walk with you through the valley
Walk with me one step more.
I saved you once, my daddy,
Don't make living into a dark chore.

Believe in my songs and future
Believe in my fortune and gift.
Don't throw me away with the soothers
Don't hate me or cause a rift.

I want to see my future
I want the good things of this world.
I have always been a straight shooter
And you an ever shining pearl.

I don't want great fame
Or money or vice.
I don't want my name
To be flashing with lights.

But, God gave me a talent
That you said not to burry.
So, don't think I'm a rapscallion 
For not wanting to worry

About my work which I have made.
This work I am called to, see;
Come what will or what may.

7. Karma Doesn't Exist

Karma is just the social opinion
Others have of you.
It is unforgiving,
Unjust, biased
Without mercy toward completely innocent people---
It justifies a serial killer and makes him feel no shame.
It constantly breaks and destroys an innocent man.
Do untouchables do untouchable things?
Did Genghis Kahn suffer anything?
What about the other countless dictators
And Mass Murderers in Asia and Africa?
Did Stalin receive Karma?
Did Mao? People still love him to this day.
He starved, slaughtered and imprisoned almost five-hundred million people.
Yet, his Karma is so good,
For half the world sings his praise.

Karma is a cur.
Because it has no justice
And no mercy.
It's as much a backward fable as the Koran.

8. God is Going to Bless Me

God is going to bless me
This I know is true.
For when I stand for Jesus
All things I fear will cool;
The fires of hell surround me
But Christ my compass reigns.
In Him I am a man freed
From sin's bondage and its chains.

***

"Let me never turn again..." 
T. S. Eliot in "Ash Wednesday"

***

"Evil is ancient, just like good."
B. K. Neifert

***

9. The Daughter of Zion

I, Christ's bride, wish to know the LORD.
I, rejected by my wife of youth, wish to be married
To the Land of Zion. I wish to call Zion 
"Beulah." I, a son of Zion, wish to be married to her,
I wish to cling, and become a nation.
I, a meek man, wish to become a clan.
I wish to Kiss the Son, so He is not angry with me.
LORD, answer me.

LORD, peer into the lattice for me;
Let thy hands drip with myrrh.
A Thousand Talents are yours, Solomon,
Let leave the LORD and I to lean one upon another, 
While coming up from the wildernesses.

10. Falsely Called

Our modern age
Looks upon every truth
And claims it is a lie.
Then, with the truth cast aside,
It invents a falsehood, saying it is science.

11. So You Want to be a Christian?

Do not be a Christian, and sin.
Do not come to Jesus, if sin
Is the thing you love above all.
Get your short life, and fill it good;
Suffer eternity in hell.

For if you will say you are a Christian
And choose to keep on sinning, you shall heap
Up evil upon yourself, and also 
Those you love. For you shall say, "Come this way!"
But it is a slippery slope, which will
Break you. And it will kill those you do love.
For they shall be led by you, believing
They have good from heaven, yet in their sins
Remain they dead to heavenly abodes.

Rather, heap up for yourselves heavenly 
Treasure, by living righteously and true.
Even if you are an offence to your
Brother, at least you live with blessings true.
You show them the path, and, yes, it is hard.
You wrestle with God like Jacob, to wounds
Yet, you cling even though your hip is touched
And you are wounded, broken, bruised--- you cling.
And those who are undaunted by your life
Will follow in your footsteps, those behind Christ's.

12. Why We Need Jesus

Man had learned what sin is
When he ate from the Tree of Knowledge.
From that point onward, man was cursed
Because not only could he sin,
He knowingly could now justify his sin.
And with that, man would have no way
To save himself, for he would be corrupt
By way of having knowledge of sin.

So, God repented of making man;
He was sorry for having created us.
Therefore, He gave us a way out
Of our miserable state, that on acceptance
We should be empowered to live a life
Worthy of Him. Through choosing the sprout
Of David, we would have redemption through Christ.

For man, having no choice but to sin---
For sin is compulsory in this world---
Need have a way to be forgiven
And therefore not suffer for his knowingly committing it.
Not only for his knowing it, 
But for his justification of it.

For by biting the fruit,
We now could rationalize our sin
And make it right in our own eyes.
That is the knowledge of judgment.
And that is a sin worthy of eternal damnation
To say, "I have done no wrong,
"But rather, whomever I hurt, I am in the right."

13. Joshua's Altar

Kosher bones, ashes, it's a sacrificial altar.
It is built exactly as Joshua said it was.
It has a ramp, therefore, is not a pagan altar.
It has scarab Beetles, explaining the Egyptian
Tie. Ironically, those same beetles are found throughout
All of Israel. T'was dated 1200BC,
Predating Josiah or Persian restoration;
Actually built at the exact time Joshua lived.
It is built exactly where Joshua said it was.
A tablet was found, made of lead, for permanence,
With three letters of the Tetragrammaton written 
In the proto-Hebrew alphabet. True evidence.
The lead tablet has curses written on it, just like
The Bible says. Joshua said, "Choose this day whom you serve."
For, by passing the mount Hubaal, one chooses the LORD
And leaves sin behind them, at the altar, once for all.
There is also evidence of Jeremiah, and 
Hezekiah having lived in Israel, as well.

What does it prove? That Israel was a people. Long
Before Josiah, long before Cyrus the Great, and
It proves Israel has been a people, forgotten
Once, as Hosea said, but now remembered and found.

14. Falsely Called Science

I

While reading my commentary on Milton
The thought entered into my head---
Creation Science is the thing falsely called.
Which, men professing, have strayed from the faith.

Do we not believe in an omnipotent God?
It was said by one, "Wouldn't God be a liar
"If he created the Earth in six days, but made
"It look like six billion years?" To which, I had no answer.
I still believed in God---yet, I'm not foolish enough
To gamble my life against science. Science seems will win
That bout, unless the Earth is flat, and all science is magic.

God is real because Nietzsche is right;---
By being right, we can plainly observe he is wrong.
Good and Evil are inherent, and easily observed.
Therefore, I say, "God merely died---
"He's as much alive today as any of us living."

II

Yet, now that we have trusted science and not God
Had not science become something of a god?
Need men a deity as cruel and ruthless?
One which gives no justice, save man's faulty laws?
One which confuses man from wo, and causes sodomy
To be praised higher than conception?
Science which calls human life a sin?
Science which says of a baby, "It should die
"If it will suffer long in this life."

There is nothing worse than the dual edged sword.
At first, science claimed, "There is not a god,"
To which, science then ceased to be science.
It claimed, "A man is a woman if he so believes."
Why? If I believe I can fly, and throw myself off a cliff
Will I not fall like any other man? If I walk on water
Will I not sink? To answer this question,
One stops believing in science, and starts believing in magic.
One starts believing in faith. My remark to one who crosses
The bridge from natural to supernatural is,
"Will science then moot itself in the future
"And bring us back to a pitiful dark age?"

Therefore, let the damned fly and walk on water;---
Let the innocent walk on water and fly to prove their faith.
What difference does it make? If we make all things possible
By means of magic, science no longer means anything.
If I walked on water, and a sinner could walk on water,
Then Jesus' miracle is moot. Is it not?
And science with it. Therefore, let me live by what truly is science
So when a healing comes, I can attest that it was not I,
But Jesus living within me. And man can remain amazed
That the physics which he rightly knows to be Law
Was violated in the name of good. Not evil.

15. Something Christians Ought not Say

Do not say, "Satan is the god of this world."
If I had twenty dollars for every time a pastor said this
I'd be well compensated. For, do pastors know what they say?
Paul had said it first, and being who he is
He must have meant to bring shock to his readers.
The same way I will say things to subvert common wisdom.
But, Satan is not the god of this world.
If he is, then he has lordship over you.
Why make him your head? Unless it is to throw you into hell?
Rather, Christ is the God of this world.
Satan is but a prince who suzerains,
And is in rebellion against his dominion.
Do we call the prince a god?
In those states which do, they are worshipping Baalim.
Do you wish to worship a Baalim?
Also, when Paul said, "Satan was the God of this world,"
He also said, "As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me.."
Do we then say, "Paul is a Gnostic!"
Paul was not a gnostic, but subverted the expectation of his reader.
Just as I am not an atheist, but use common atheistic wisdom
To subvert my reader. 
Just as Paul says "Satan is the god of this world,"
He does not mean literally, but that Satan is the god the world worships
And not our Creator. 
Cease saying it, lest you make Satan your god, and incur wrath on yourself.

***

"For if you love your neighboring kingdom as your own, 
"you will have less occasion to do them injustice
"and thereby have less war." ---
--- Mo Tzu from the Mozi

***

"There is no absolute wisdom in this life;
"things that ought not be, often are,
"and things that ought be, often aren't.
"Rather, hold onto your faith and let go of all illusions." ---
--- B. K. Neifert

***

16. Poetry

An engineer is a poet of sorts,
Precisely ordering her concepts
Through strings of operations.

A poet is an engineer of words
Laying down an idea,
Using his deductive proof
Of conjunctions and copulas,
Of phrases and clauses,
To describe something true about human existence..

Wise men are the ones who like them---
Common folk don't do math in their free time
So also they don't read poetry.

However, for those who are engineers,
And doctors, and lawyers,
And priests, and poets, and professors,
And students of life...
We take enjoyment from the big concepts.
So, those in the STEM field
Don't say a poem is useless---

Look at it like a riddle which needs solved.
And that riddle will reveal deeper things
About the human cosmos swirling around us.
It fills a mind like a cup as sweet
As milk and honey. It fills a mind with meaning.

I pray to God that it is not a curse
To think deeply, and see wisely.
For, if it were, I would remain saddened
By the loss of my mind.
The only thing sweeter than poetry
Is love--- And Poetry teaches me how to love
For it forces me to listen carefully to what other people are saying
And it teaches me the joy of other people's ideas.

17. Stupid People

It was brought to my attention
That a stupid person was one
Who was misfortunate.
And being unfortunate,
They brought misfortune on others.
I thought long and hard on it---
Only a stupid person would
Create an x/y graph, and link
Fortune with intelligence.

Good Character ought to bring fortune
Whether someone were not intelligent
Or someone were. Yet, it is not always the case.
For some people, with exceptionally bad character,
Bring fortune to themselves and all around them.
There are some with exceptionally good character
Like Jesus, who being gifted with God's intelligence
Are extremely unfortunate.

Is it intelligence which brings fortune?
Not always... men with iqs of 200 are extremely
Unfortunate, and do nothing with their lives
Beside farm---though they are very wise
For what else is there? They are unfortunate
In the sense that they are not household names
They are not great innovators solving problems.
They are unfortunate.

Really, there is no causal link between
Good Character, Fortune and Intelligence.
Each is a positive attribute to have
As desirable as the next.
To have good fortune is highly prized.
Intelligence is highly prized.
Character is highly prized.

In free societies, good character ought to bring good fortune.
This is true. There ought to be that causal link
And where good character cannot bring fortune---
And rather brings misfortune---that society is called corrupt.
Where bad character brings fortune
And not misfortune that society is corrupt.

Really, fortune is as much a lot
As a die cast---and depending on what you do with it
Determines your own prowess.
Yet, even prowess is not the same as fortune.
And prowess is not the same as intelligence.

There are many things and diversities.
Fortune, though, is primarily linked
To willpower or luck, depending on whether
A society were benevolent or corrupt.
In that sense, it is linked---but only with good character
And never with intelligence.

18. Guangwu

Recorded in Chinese History,
On the Seventh Year of Guangwu
In the Fourth Month---which is exactly at Passover---
It is exactly 31AD. And the sun darkened
According to the historical text.
The text prophesied that one man
Would bear the sins of the entire world,
And pardoning on the whole world would be accomplished.
It is in the actual text.
"The sins of all the people are on one man
"And pardon is proclaimed to all who are under heaven."
"Man from heaven died."

The miraculous thing about this is that
The next Solar Eclipse would be in 33ad.
Therefore, Christ was crucified in 31ad
And Chinese Historians had chronicled
The darkening of the sun on that exact day.
A year which did not have a solar eclipse.
It is actual historical evidence of the darkening
Which happened during the crucifixion.

Found in the history of the latter Hans
Record number 18.

19. Reparations

There was a good man, who was poor.
He waited for work every day, for daily hire,
Yet for his appearance and poverty
None would seek his hire.

The LORD walked by him, seeing his poverty
And his good heart, and thought to lay a test,
"This man's people have been sorely treated
"And I shall give him the just recompense
"Of his ancestor's dearth. I shall fairly treat him."

Thus, the man received just compensation
For his ancestor's slavery, and the LORD was pleased.

Yet, he had no lack whatsoever,
He began to oppress his neighbors
He began to steal,---having his heart fattened
By the wealth his ancestors had lost
He began to become wicked, and his good heart
Was turned toward evil and malice.
Until, he had killed a man in cold blood.

The LORD looked upon the Earth, and said,
"Even if I give these people what they deserve,
"They shall destroy themselves with it.
"Therefore, I cannot give it to them,
"For they have hearts prone to doing evil
"And must first learn to stop oppressing their neighbors.
"For, there are ample opportunities for them to be rich
"But lo, their oppression of their brethren
"Causes them to have wayward hearts
"And causes them to shed blood, which I have not commanded them."

***

"Cram them full of noncombustible data, 
"chock them so damned full of 'facts' 
"they feel stuffed, but absolutely 
"brilliant' with information."
"Beatty to Guy Montag
--- In Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

***

"Where I have to fear
"for an unpopular or incorrect opinion,
"or am spied on for having such,
"it is no longer a free society."
--- B. K. Neifert

***

20. A Final Thought

Written words are so bare---
Let some thoughts exist
Which will be unrecorded.
Speak them, in oral poetry
Which cannot be censored.
Learn to hone your life
In listening, and short phrases.
Learn to be interested in others.

Poetry is my voice, and I am tired of it.
Rather, I like to listen to a thousand voices
All speaking their minds---I miss it.
Other people's wisdom.
Let me be silent now,
And peer into my silent lips
With wisdom spoken by others.
Attune to the oral poetry
Of life, and stop writing every thought
Every detail---the robin was beautiful
Upon the deck, its fat belly filled with eggs.
Yet, speak a word of poetry or two
Which can be for only one or two ears.
Do not, always, be recording your thoughts.
Do not always be throwing your thoughts
To the wind. Who is it for?
Listen, why don't you?
Listen to the wind, the voices of the ones you love.
Listen, and you will feel the swelling within your ileum. 
If I be a poet, I must learn to listen.
For only by listening, have I anything worthwhile to say.
And say some things once, and don't write it.
Say things once, for one ear, for one time
Let it evaporate, and return later as a planted
Seed. Then, be silent, as the rain comes
With the lightning's fertilization
And it comes with a mellow silence;
A tattoo of pitter patter tapping against the roof.
Listen to it, and the voices of those around you.
Stay silent.
For speech destroys the pleasant reverie;
It disturbs our peace.

21. Fallen by the Way

I prayed for you to meet me...
In prophetic verse you did greet me.
Yet, tangled with Jezebel you did your dance.
My heart hurts, and looks on with soldier's eyes...

You were a friend, instantly, yet she
Sought to fire her devices upon my brow---
She did not seek my life, but the barbarians
Whom she kept company with would hate my soul.

And you, taken with dry loves had forsaken our friendship.
I wish to comfort you; I wish to give you the bread of peace.
But, danger lurks on every corner, and the gnarly trap
Lays deep within your flesh---I cannot save you.

With knowledge you sinned, and severed from us
Divine friendship. I would hasten to help you
To bring you into fields of freshly grown moss
And pleasant water brooks. Yet, you sinned.

It was not you but the choices you made
And the danger you placed me in.
I must have hidden my soul from destruction
For you did your dance with Jezebel, 
And would not entreat my company in the woods
Where we could have fled the troubles of this world.

Yet, you also dashed my hopes to pieces...
You knew my dreams, and my divine purpose
And took to taunting me before my face
With all. You took my kindness and entreated it lightly.
You mocked me before my face---for that I could forgive you.
Yet, the company you kept, it is dangerous
And ready to fail---wishing to end the cycle of reincarnation
That immoral politics; for death was her highest hope
And not life. And you chose her instead of me.

22. American Sonnet

I found Christ the day I believed, and loved Him fervently, my beloved.
I found His name as both Priest and King, in the book of Zechariah.
I saw him foretold, in Isaiah Fifty-Three, Who bore our gross sin.
I saw Him in Psalm Twenty-Two that soldiers would divide His Garments.
In Jeremiah, I saw was there a new covenant prophesied.
To be established in Abraham's seed, I saw that covenant nigh.
The serpent bit Christ's ankle, the Seed of Eve, I saw once in a poem.
Guangwu, a Chinese King saw darkness on Passover, and made Christ known.
Good and evil are both self-evident, yet Who but Jesus can judge?
Job cried out for a mediator between man and God, when sores rubbed.
Science and math's tautology need be established in God's wisdom.
Miracles exist in great numbers, which break man's laws and his theorems.
The stars are patterned to tell God's story, like a Child Christ had drawn.
In order for there to be real love, God must be believed and His Son.

23. Treasure Common Things

Treasure common things.
Cherish the dandelion flower
Over the hibiscus or rose.
Cherish the dogwood and Red Buds
Every spring, and cherish the mulberry's fruit;
Cherish the fruit in season
But have a taste for some fruits out of season,
Those commonly sold at market.
Splendor over the amethyst and not the diamond;
Dig your hand into the stone bucket
And cherish the variegated colors of those common rocks;
Don't seek after the Ruby or Sapphire or Peridot or Emerald.
Cherish the Zebra Coral, Unakite and Blue Quartz and Pink Howlite.

When the bluebells appear in the forest, cherish them.
When the helicopter leaves fall, cherish them.
Cherish the dandelion fuzz and the Queen Anne's Lace.
Find chestnuts, and walnuts, and hedge apples,
And wild violets and wild strawberries and Veronica flowers;
When they are in bunches, the common blue violets are a most beautiful sight.
In the fall, cherish the golden and blazen leaves.
In the winter cherish the snow.
In the summer cherish the summer storms.

Love chess boards, and old pictures of family and friends,
Love the curtains that hang in your home,
Love the common items you always see
Those which you have possessed all your years.
These I must say treasure, before you lose them.

Be exhilarated over  
Susan B. Anthonys and Golden Sacajaweas;
And Bicentennials which make change from the vending machines. 
Love the variegated state quarters
And the different nickels,

And the common pieces of art that hang in your home,
The ones that family had made.
Love those people around you,
Who you commonly associate with.
Love your coworkers and classmates
And bosses and neighbors,
And yes, even your job.

Be satisfied with your TV
And Computer with the key missing
And broken keyboard that doesn't type.

Love what is common and readily available to you
Over rare and priceless things.
For, if you seek out rare and priceless things
You shall always be impoverished by their lack.

24. The Men From York

Two men from York stand nigh a woman
Whom in great offense had slain free speech.
They, in their indignation, sought to bury
The bones of Elijah underneath the Broom Tree;
There, they sought their war, and exiled
The good and the bad and the ugly
From off the Earth. Jude and Thomas
Sat aghast, asking, "Why did the world
"Not accept you?" "LORD, they have seen like I!"
Yet, faith departed from the Earth as the two men from York
Sung their hymns, with Mary in great offense betwixt.
"Speak no more, and lie dead---For men are no longer
"Free to pursue truth, but must accept all words
"Canon to the world they have become yoked to."

Jude, Judas and Thomas slept
Sharing one another's dreams;
Jude, Judas and Thomas
All wrote their poetry;
Yet, Judas decried, "The stars are a lie!"
And he, in the dead of night
Walked the streets
And turned Thomas to try his tormented tyrannies.
He did it once to Jude, who in confusion
Bought the book most beloved of Benjamin
To see the stars were accorded to their clockwork
And the hands moved in their precious courses;
All was on time.

Thus, Jude and Thomas said,
"Let me never turn again.
"Let us never go back to our former sin---
"Let us not see Judas' treachery any longer!"

As it was, that thing we abhor is nailed to Christ.
Yet, Mary said, "I am offended at thee!"
Thus, the exile was fierce.

Jude and Thomas both believed
And like Daniel, were unharmed by the Lion.

Jude having once stepped on a serpent's brood
And though it bit, it was like naught.
Thomas, seeing the treachery of Judas Iscariot
Awoke, and like a dream, it was like naught.

The two men from York succored Mary
In great offense at Jude and Thomas---
Beleaguered, with Judas Iscariot
Their Captain.

Thomas said, "They see!"
And Jude said, "Why doth the world reject you?"  

***

"But if at first God is said to have made formless, 
"and through void He makes form, 
"He does not contradict Himself; 
"He is able to determine what precedes eternity, 
"whether in time, by His volition,--- 
"and where it originates in Eternity, God precedes it all..."
--- St. Augustine, from his Confessions

"God is omnipotent; trying to understand Genesis
"through our linear way of thinking
"is like trying to make unequal lines literally
"equal, in intersecting chords."
--- B. K. Neifert

***

25. Guangwu

They changed Guangwu before my very eyes.
I have documented proof, if only for myself.
Christ was crucified in 31AD, and the darkening was 
Not a solar eclipse. Someone is literally changing
The facts as we speak. Google literally said
According to yesterday's date, 5/4/22
"A solar eclipse on Passover Would have been impossible." 
End quote. Do we now change astronomy to sate the world's delusions?

26. Monseigneur

A Tale of Two Cities,
The dystopian nightmare...
Monseigneur kills while he drives
His carriage, and doesn't flinch.
Men in lower social class
Were considered expendable
By those in higher social class.
Lawless, unaccountable...
A little baby was his victim.

It took me a while to understand
The story. I didn't like Dickens at first.
Now, I see a tapestry of the time before times.
Poor flooding the street to drink a filthy flagon of wine,
Prisons where men sit in solitary confinement,
Marquises murdering maliciously like mountebanks.

There is no great past---
And there is no great future---
There is only now.
Let us not spoil it with our greed...

Poem dedicated to my best friend Jonathan

27. A Connecticut Yankee

Mark Twain was no fool---
He looked at the records of the past
The Dark Ages---
Even without the amenities
Of iPhones, computers and tvs.
It had indoor plumbing,
Was gaslit, a comfortable place.

There, in King Arthur's dystopian courts---
For the work is a dystopian
Science fiction about time travel---
Men were held in dungeons,
Queens killed with impunity,
Knights rode around aimlessly
And killed one another for profit.
The Church censored, and ruled
With an iron fist.

I read it, and am chilled by it.
I read two works of Feudalism;
Giving me an idea what it was really like.
The cruelty, inhumanity,
The callousness, the lawlessness,
The gross things people did to one another.
Believing in magic and mysticism
Which fully believed by the nobility
Strewn its luck throughout the kingdom
In disastrous chains of misfortune.

I've seen all I want to see of Feudalism.
Let kings be antiquated,
Capitalism flourish
And let the poor be fed by their own work.

As socialism in practice
Is just Feudalism disguised.

28. A True Poet

To be a true poet
You must command a meaning
With every word. Not
Word associations
Or random vocab lessons.

29. Blushed Facts

Weak faith had I, when every truth
Brought the blush of cherry tomatoes
To my peachskin face. I looked
And every good fact doubted.

I held to faith...
Would cut truth,
And in faithless backbiting
Tear down every bastion of knowledge.

A fire, burning the chaff
Of miracles, truth and beautiful exegesis.

30. Feud of the Avatars

The painful stroke of marginalized
Artists, making 50,000 florins,
Taking up the apprenticeship of sire;
Walking the path his father gave...

When the two great masters met
They hated one another, competing
To best an adversary. Bitter and spiteful,
Like Southey and Byron,
Wordsworth and Shelley,
Leonardo and Michelangelo...

I watch like Raphael,
Wondering at their chafe.
Their unbridled hate.

For all genius is welcome to me...
I will applaud it.

Yet, the modern sage says Michelangelo's unfinished
Pieta is better than the one set in St. Peter's Basilica;
Better than Moses and David
For that, there can be no Raphael now...
For the sophist says
That exegesis is deferred to the reader
And their capricious whims.

I told him, I'd "burn my entire library
"And everything I'd ever wrote
"If you are right."

Yet, his musings were divine...
It was not jealousy, just the disrespect
To communicated thought.

Were Leonardo and Michelangelo
Different? Were they not the same,
Dissecting corpses, and both experts?
Yet, Leonardo was jealous of the craft
Of Sculpture, and Michelangelo 
Defiant in his defense.

Why do I write?
I tenderly ask this question when I see the sophist
Has reign over the modern age.
While I do not wish a scientist to determine the language---
While I do not want an algorithm to determine my meaning---
He says, "Language is not an algorithm, it expands, contracts..."
I say to him, there is one thing I disagree with.
One thing. I said that words can be understood.
And for that, he ignored me.

For we are not engines, but human beings;
We can indeed understand.

Like Leonardo's disrespect for Michelangelo's
Sculpture, the terrific thing is that I am not
Simply caked with dust like a baker.
I form with words the sculpture of my architecture...
And I wish them to mean something.
Not just be a kaleidoscope of feeling. 

31. Otherness

My love, I had forgotten Smerdis was that Death, 
And Death my Doppelganger throughout my odes.

My poem decries the cycle of civilization. 
How there is always a vacuum left where power begins to fail.

In the Histories, Cambyses campaigned in Egypt, 
After his sire Cyrus had freed all his subjects;
Cambyses sought to reconquer them. 
Thus, Smerdis arose to usurp power from his brother Cambyses---
Yet Smerdis was killed by Darius,
So was justified because Smerdis was a changeling
As the story goes---drawing a comparison with Smerdis 
To the Androgynous mobs of Death.

Yet, I felt the presence of the poem,
That its meaning defied even me...
It was born from this author
But---as the Archer told me in his village---
It had a sense of strange otherness.
What I had made was beyond even my own interpretation.
How I could forget something so key,
There it was, beyond me, something I made and could now rediscover---
A poem I wrote had intrinsic meaning... 
Even its author need rediscover it.

It was, then, its own being,
Like I had given birth
And the child grew.
There the child was,
Born of my seed, 
But something else.

***

"Wrong does not cease to be wrong 
"because the majority share it."
--- Leo Tolstoy

***

"Look at a good poem like a proof,
"and the single sentence summating its thought
"the solution."
--- B. K. Neifert

***

32. My Audience

You are my poetry.
I listen... what do those thoughts inspire?
I know not anymore what they mean---
Only what you say about them.

Do not come to me, and ask,
"Does your poem mean, thus..."
I do not know.
I want to hear your words
And interpret them like I do Eliot or Wordsworth.

I want to listen.
Do you not understand?
I wrote so much to listen to you
Tell me what they mean.
I know what I meant by them...
What do you see by them?

I can listen, and understand you.
You listen, and understand me.
I wish to listen to you...
Just tell me your honest thoughts.

Know only one thing about me.
I believe in Christ.
But, tell me what you see in my poems
And reveal to me mysteries I had not even fathomed.
Reveal to me the hidden parcels of wisdom
I did not see, nor conceive.
Show me what they mean---
For do you not understand,
Words have meaning?
I say this over and over again---
Thoughts have meaning.
Precise meanings.
Do not shy away from telling me your thoughts.
I will think over them,
Mull over them...
For that is what I want.
I want you to think
And speak important words.
Not sit idly and talk about nonsense.
Talk about something deep,
And if poetry draws that out of you,
I wish to listen and see the chrysalis of your thoughts.

See, those reading my poems,
You are my poetry.
To have never had an audience
To listen to,
To never hear you tell me what they mean---
I am tired of my own thoughts...
Do not make me blue.

I wish to place wisdom
Onto your lips, and make it rain forth.

33. To Understand a Poet

The primary thing to understand
About poets, is that "Love is not All"
By Edna St. Vincent, I understand
That when she wrote, "I do not
"Think I would", it meant she wouldn't.
There is no might about it.

Also see it hopefully,
That though love is not everything,
It is still as necessary as all the rest.


“The first principle of value 
that we need to rediscover is this: 
that all reality hinges on moral foundations. 

"In other words, that this is a moral universe, 
and that there are moral laws of the universe 
just as abiding as the physical laws." Rev. Dr. M. L. King Jr.



A Wise Story

There was a wise man
Who took thirty silver coins
And laid ten at a brothel,
Ten at a bar,
And ten at a temple.

At the brothel,
One of the whores saw the coins
And thought it might be someone's
Life savings, thus, she held it,
And when the man returned,
She said, "Is this yours?"
The man replied,
"Yes!" stunned that someone of such ill repute
Would hold onto his ten shillings.

At the bar, the same thing occurred,
Where a man, seeing the money on the floor,
Took the money and hid it in his pocket.
There, the man came back
And was handed the ten shillings.
He was even more perplexed.

Then, at the temple,
One of the zealots in ecstasies of delusions,
Saw the coins on the ground
And thought it an answered prayer.
They took it, and put one in the offering plate,
And kept the other nine
To purchase their family's needs.
The man, coming to the church,
So thrilled about the other two in his experiment,
Thought for sure his money would be returned.
It was not.

Though this story is not true,
We ought retain our faith regardless.
For, in Jesus' day, was it not Tax Collectors and Sinners,
Prostitutes and Vagabonds he dined with?
Do not let your wisdom cloud your judgment.
Anything is possible in this world
By chance and circumstance.
Rather, hold onto your faith, regardless of others.