BOW LEGGED BLUES
The bow legged blues men
and they samba  and rumba
The days away
Laughing and living..
(Yes! life is play)

Bow legged bluesmen
I wish I'd met you earlier
I should have now been sober

The bow legged blues
confounding and disturbing
our settled ways
Yet exhilarating and liberating
the spirit of the times

...And as I watch them bask
in their bow legged ecstasy
and walk in be-bopping lop-sided gait, their charm and transparent harmony turns the sugar in my mouth to ashes......and I long for the bow legged blues....

(If I had crossed this bridge much earlier
I should have now been wiser, much wiser)
Dec. 1986

THE GLORY OF GOD

The glory of God
has hired the beauty of the hills
for the sake of my eyes
and the riddles of science
for the sake of my mind

The Glory of God has hired the Music of the bards
for the sake of my ears.
The Glory of God Comforts me.

The Glory of God has hired the roar of the ancient waterfalls for the sake of my wonderment

The rumble of monstrous machines as they forge their ways across skies and seas remind me that the glory of God is infinite

The Glory of God has borrowed
the wisdom of the sages
for the sake of my heart and the travails of the saints for the sake of my salvation.

The glory of God comforts me

SUNSET& DARKNESS
Generously splashing orange across the horizons and far beyond, fanning out an endless tail of wonder, photon by photon, The far away images I commune with in idleness are snatched from my sight by the gently settling dusk

It is the sun which has betrayed us.

It is Sunset!

Your laws are steadfast! 

I am overwhelmed..... 

.....What a grand show that sunset was!

Thank you Father

Summer 1987

JOSHUA
Amongst the gods, It was said "Don't sow the seed of humanoid"

Amongst the enlightened it was decreed Lets keep our warmth within our bowels

Amongst the gods were those who said
Let's test to see If love can breathe

Amongst the gods was such a rift
"Why can't you see oh Jo-shu-a!! "

"I have to see Oh peers of light If love can live in this milky way!"

I have to see O! Peers of light If love can live without blemish with only faith to guide his whims

I have to give to lowly man a dream of love and watch him grow.

I want to show that love is true that love can live in the hearts of men.

My love was false
my ideals wrong
or so they sang
in their war songs

They started to thresh and pound
the pulp 

that once was me (poor old me)
They hated me
they hated me
so much so much I hated me
But with my dying breath,
I sought to be like the saints of old
"Lord God forgive their sins I cried Cos no man ever good, could cause men good as these to
rally together in hate

Lord God forgive their sins
But me! Let I roast in coals!!
1987

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