SOLO PSALM
I did not choose to live alone –
All self was not intended –
I followed promptings step by step
Wherever wisdom wended.
I have to move (I can’t be still –
All sitting makes me slumber)
Until my singular estate
Acquires the plural number.
(about 27 February 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
Saturday, March 27, 2010
QUESTION PSALM
QUESTION PSALM
The Lord of Hosts did hear my prayer –
I felt His hand take mine –
He answered through these measured words –
Inscripted line by line.
The Bard of Bards is listening
To every earnest plea –
His revelations permeate
My densest inquiry.
(5 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
The Lord of Hosts did hear my prayer –
I felt His hand take mine –
He answered through these measured words –
Inscripted line by line.
The Bard of Bards is listening
To every earnest plea –
His revelations permeate
My densest inquiry.
(5 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
MERCY PSALM
MERCY PSALM
The Lord stretches, etches, reaches
The bows of covenant –
His body wracked with righteousness –
His hands extending yet.
The Son blesses, teaches, touches
The kin of continents –
His message wrapped in tenderness
Awaiting our consent.
(10 March 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
The Lord stretches, etches, reaches
The bows of covenant –
His body wracked with righteousness –
His hands extending yet.
The Son blesses, teaches, touches
The kin of continents –
His message wrapped in tenderness
Awaiting our consent.
(10 March 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
COMPOSER PSALM
COMPOSER PSALM
These words are waiting for the tunes
That voices will provide –
Without the music they are null –
Mere tokens to confide.
Thy melodies – with harmonies –
Will make them come alive –
This reticence is silent sign
Until the notes arrive.
(13 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
These words are waiting for the tunes
That voices will provide –
Without the music they are null –
Mere tokens to confide.
Thy melodies – with harmonies –
Will make them come alive –
This reticence is silent sign
Until the notes arrive.
(13 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
TIMPANOGOS PSALM
TIMPANOGOS PSALM
The sky shone through the Chandelier –
The Tree of Gold held Light –
Reflections flickered on the Dome
Ineffably as sight.
The Life shown by the Holy One –
A Pharos for our feet –
Is glimmering with promises
Indelible and fleet.
The Lamb shorn by Mortality
Is crowned the Lamp of Kings –
The shimmer of His Shepherding
Investitures all things.
(27 March 2010, American Fork, Utah)
The sky shone through the Chandelier –
The Tree of Gold held Light –
Reflections flickered on the Dome
Ineffably as sight.
The Life shown by the Holy One –
A Pharos for our feet –
Is glimmering with promises
Indelible and fleet.
The Lamb shorn by Mortality
Is crowned the Lamp of Kings –
The shimmer of His Shepherding
Investitures all things.
(27 March 2010, American Fork, Utah)
RECOVERY PSALM
RECOVERY PSALM
I walked along the Galilee
A year ago this way –
The moon was playing lost and found
In clouds of silky whey.
I paced the shore of rippled silt –
Light lapped across the bay
As lunar Levitation sank
Into the cusp of day.
(25 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
I walked along the Galilee
A year ago this way –
The moon was playing lost and found
In clouds of silky whey.
I paced the shore of rippled silt –
Light lapped across the bay
As lunar Levitation sank
Into the cusp of day.
(25 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
Friday, March 12, 2010
BUFFER PSALM
BUFFER PSALM
We need some space to make mistakes
So we can draw the line
As far away from wickedness
As we can safely climb.
We need a cushion for our falls –
A zone where we can cope
With unexpected challenges
On freedom’s anchored rope.
(7 March 2010)
We need some space to make mistakes
So we can draw the line
As far away from wickedness
As we can safely climb.
We need a cushion for our falls –
A zone where we can cope
With unexpected challenges
On freedom’s anchored rope.
(7 March 2010)
CHOPIN PSALM
CHOPIN PSALM
Song is the play of the fingers –
The dancing on the keys –
The corp ballet – the wrist plie –
The leaping melodies –
The pointing of the Polonaise –
The lullaby Berceuse –
The twirling Nocturne s’il vous plait
The pas de dieux Etudes.
(2 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
Song is the play of the fingers –
The dancing on the keys –
The corp ballet – the wrist plie –
The leaping melodies –
The pointing of the Polonaise –
The lullaby Berceuse –
The twirling Nocturne s’il vous plait
The pas de dieux Etudes.
(2 March 2010, Provo, Utah)
PSALM FOR MISS WINGFIELD
PSALM FOR MISS WINGFIELD
The inner life of elegance
Is awkward to explain –
The outer life of awkwardness
Is elegant, if plain.
The dimmer glow of candlelight
Is softer to perceive –
The brighter candelabra flame
Is harder to receive.
The later dance of confidence
Is simple to forget –
The early steps of shy romance
Are harder to regret.
(2 March 2010)
The inner life of elegance
Is awkward to explain –
The outer life of awkwardness
Is elegant, if plain.
The dimmer glow of candlelight
Is softer to perceive –
The brighter candelabra flame
Is harder to receive.
The later dance of confidence
Is simple to forget –
The early steps of shy romance
Are harder to regret.
(2 March 2010)
HOPE PSALM
HOPE PSALM
It’s True but not yet real –
The love we often feel –
Conditional as steel
Before the firm anneal.
Becoming as a child
Requires growing up –
Remaining ignorant
Is no accomplishment.
(1 March 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
It’s True but not yet real –
The love we often feel –
Conditional as steel
Before the firm anneal.
Becoming as a child
Requires growing up –
Remaining ignorant
Is no accomplishment.
(1 March 2010, Pleasant Grove, Utah)
PSALM FOR LIGHTNING BUGS
PSALM FOR LIGHTNING BUGS (For AY)
For you, my friend, these poems have come –
Whoever you may be –
For you the posies ring around
My notebook rosary.
For you, the verses turn me to
Wherever you may dwell –
For you, the stanzas laugh out loud
And make the jingles bell.
(24 February 2010)
For you, my friend, these poems have come –
Whoever you may be –
For you the posies ring around
My notebook rosary.
For you, the verses turn me to
Wherever you may dwell –
For you, the stanzas laugh out loud
And make the jingles bell.
(24 February 2010)
SLUMBER
SLUMBER
The underlying circumstance
Of asphodels and lilies –
The overarching precipice
Of atmospheric valleys.
The renovating somnolence
Of beta wave and delta –
The calibrating solitude
Of hibernating shelter.
(22 February 2010)
The underlying circumstance
Of asphodels and lilies –
The overarching precipice
Of atmospheric valleys.
The renovating somnolence
Of beta wave and delta –
The calibrating solitude
Of hibernating shelter.
(22 February 2010)
NEVER THE LESS
NEVER THE LESS
Embarrassing to be mere man –
So great and yet so small –
So pitiful yet elegant –
To dance and then to crawl.
Humiliating ignorance –
And yet a spark divine –
Exhilarates intelligence –
How rude and yet so fine.
(22 February 2010)
Embarrassing to be mere man –
So great and yet so small –
So pitiful yet elegant –
To dance and then to crawl.
Humiliating ignorance –
And yet a spark divine –
Exhilarates intelligence –
How rude and yet so fine.
(22 February 2010)
SACRAMENT
SACRAMENT
Thorns on the head – spear to the heart –
Stripes at the back – blood from the hands –
Wounds in the wrists – nails for the feet –
Witness the wounds of Calvary.
Sins of the mind – hardness of heart –
Bites at the back – sleight of the hands –
Stiffness of neck – slips of the tongue –
Confess drops of Gethsemane.
(21 February 2010, Sunday)
Thorns on the head – spear to the heart –
Stripes at the back – blood from the hands –
Wounds in the wrists – nails for the feet –
Witness the wounds of Calvary.
Sins of the mind – hardness of heart –
Bites at the back – sleight of the hands –
Stiffness of neck – slips of the tongue –
Confess drops of Gethsemane.
(21 February 2010, Sunday)
Thursday, March 11, 2010
OWL CITY
OWL CITY
After you burned me
I found a new flame –
After you spurned me
I learned a new name.
After you left me
I turned a new leaf –
When you bereft me
The rift brought relief.
(19 February 2010)
After you burned me
I found a new flame –
After you spurned me
I learned a new name.
After you left me
I turned a new leaf –
When you bereft me
The rift brought relief.
(19 February 2010)
THE BRACELET
THE BRACELET (For JS and AHK)
Our vanity is deadly sin –
It marks us for decease –
And envy is a fatal flaw –
Increasing our decrease.
Humility is close to earth
With gratitude in kind –
Tranquility is selflessness
In action, speech, and mind.
(20 February 2010)
Our vanity is deadly sin –
It marks us for decease –
And envy is a fatal flaw –
Increasing our decrease.
Humility is close to earth
With gratitude in kind –
Tranquility is selflessness
In action, speech, and mind.
(20 February 2010)
WORTH
WORTH
On my side, nothing much is left –
On Thy side, everything –
Thy promises are still intact –
And winter will cede spring.
In my life, time is long ingrained
With “furrows on the glow” –
In Thy time, love will come to pass
In ways we cannot know.
In Thy plan, every soul has worth –
Thy work and glory be
To bring to pass eternal life
And Immortality.
(16 February 2010)
On my side, nothing much is left –
On Thy side, everything –
Thy promises are still intact –
And winter will cede spring.
In my life, time is long ingrained
With “furrows on the glow” –
In Thy time, love will come to pass
In ways we cannot know.
In Thy plan, every soul has worth –
Thy work and glory be
To bring to pass eternal life
And Immortality.
(16 February 2010)
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