SACRALITY PSALM (to Brother Faulconer)
Philology is love of Words –
To tell the Truth, the poet’s gift –
Philosophy is love of Truth –
The poet’s Words to read and sift.
In Metaphor, Metonymy –
A dual Phenomenology –
In Meaning’s similarities –
Relation’s contiguities.
So Dasein is a twin Design –
Concentric circles definite –
Perceive, Receive – Create, Refine –
Circumferential infinite.
With Quintessential inference
The House of Being has a door –
With Existential deference
The Hall of Heaven has a floor.
(16 October 2010, Mt. Pleasant, Utah)
Saturday, October 16, 2010
Saturday, October 2, 2010
RESURRECTION PSALM
RESURRECTION PSALM
The keys have been restored
To long lost mysteries –
To covenants of days before –
To holy mysteries.
Prepare to clear the door –
To set the captives free –
Observe the Lord’s munificence
Secured by Calvary.
(12 June 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
The keys have been restored
To long lost mysteries –
To covenants of days before –
To holy mysteries.
Prepare to clear the door –
To set the captives free –
Observe the Lord’s munificence
Secured by Calvary.
(12 June 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
SHEWBREAD PSALM
SHEWBREAD PSALM (for James E. Talmadge)
“He was greater than the temple” –
Truer than the ritual –
More than counting steps for Sabbath –
He was Lord – Immanuel –
“God with us” – Anointed Maker –
Purer than the kosher Lamb –
More eternal than the altar –
He was Present – firm I-AM.
(30 September 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
“He was greater than the temple” –
Truer than the ritual –
More than counting steps for Sabbath –
He was Lord – Immanuel –
“God with us” – Anointed Maker –
Purer than the kosher Lamb –
More eternal than the altar –
He was Present – firm I-AM.
(30 September 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
MOISTURE PSALM
MOISTURE PSALM
Rain, speckling down in strings,
Unspotted overwhelms –
A liquid stream of word refrains –
Extraordinary realms.
A fragment of refreshing brooks –
Precipitations’s sea –
As drop by bead the Providence
Cleans window panes for me.
(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)
Rain, speckling down in strings,
Unspotted overwhelms –
A liquid stream of word refrains –
Extraordinary realms.
A fragment of refreshing brooks –
Precipitations’s sea –
As drop by bead the Providence
Cleans window panes for me.
(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)
COMPOSITION PSALM
COMPOSITION PSALM
Ingredients for mastery:
Energy – Control – Grace –
As if the Mind were sheet of ice –
As if the Brain had skates.
The Energy means Detail – Power –
The strokes of brilliancy –
Control means order – discipline –
Practice – proficiency.
The Grace means smoothness – balancing –
Originality –
The quality of edges cut
In figured vibrancy.
(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)
Ingredients for mastery:
Energy – Control – Grace –
As if the Mind were sheet of ice –
As if the Brain had skates.
The Energy means Detail – Power –
The strokes of brilliancy –
Control means order – discipline –
Practice – proficiency.
The Grace means smoothness – balancing –
Originality –
The quality of edges cut
In figured vibrancy.
(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)
BRITAIN PSALM
BRITAIN PSALM
Churches, abbeys, castles, schools:
All the splendor typical –
Mountains, valleys, rivers, pools:
All the brilliance mythical.
Banquets, markets, dinners, feasts:
Physical, ephemeral –
People – nations – families – folks:
Memorable, redeemable.
Wisdom, vision, vistas, views:
Every day was meaningful –
Lesson, message, essence, hues:
Every place was magical.
Portraits, pictures, paintings, poems:
Each conveyed a miracle –
Scriptures, windows, volumes, tomes:
Each domain was lyrical.
(29 August 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
Churches, abbeys, castles, schools:
All the splendor typical –
Mountains, valleys, rivers, pools:
All the brilliance mythical.
Banquets, markets, dinners, feasts:
Physical, ephemeral –
People – nations – families – folks:
Memorable, redeemable.
Wisdom, vision, vistas, views:
Every day was meaningful –
Lesson, message, essence, hues:
Every place was magical.
Portraits, pictures, paintings, poems:
Each conveyed a miracle –
Scriptures, windows, volumes, tomes:
Each domain was lyrical.
(29 August 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
UPGRADE PSALM
UPGRADE PSALM (to Elder Christofferson)
Honor has a quiet footstep –
Valor has a modest voice –
Honesty has earnest motives:
Decency in every choice.
Plain and precious consecration
Has a simple recipe:
“Purity – exertion – service –
Self-respect – integrity.”
(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)
Honor has a quiet footstep –
Valor has a modest voice –
Honesty has earnest motives:
Decency in every choice.
Plain and precious consecration
Has a simple recipe:
“Purity – exertion – service –
Self-respect – integrity.”
(2 October 2010, Provo, Utah)
AUTHOR PSALM
AUTHOR PSALM
They wrote so we would know they lived –
The record is their breath –
The words they leave are monuments
Until they rise from death.
The works they seal in documents
Are candles in the dark –
Are storage in the granary –
Are manna in the ark.
(31 August 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
They wrote so we would know they lived –
The record is their breath –
The words they leave are monuments
Until they rise from death.
The works they seal in documents
Are candles in the dark –
Are storage in the granary –
Are manna in the ark.
(31 August 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
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