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God is the seed
Man is the soil

Nothing will grow
unless a man toil

God's watering words
quench a man's thirst

The son's called our Savior
from cradle to hearst
 Aug 9
Danielle
"It's a growing pain, like the sky watches me, as the water burdens my very life, a grotesque scene in a tranquil swamp, surrounded with all the flowers I only see as I lay there. It will be my forever lament, a maim into my soul, for the love that gets the best in me, it did the best of me, it is truly a crime."

Words told like a bestowed prayer, it vanishes through the wind as she lays there, submerged by the swamp.
Day to day
in every way
death on shoes
brain of *****
ants and gnats
Batman's bats.
Electrocute flies
and white lies.
Truth threshed
stretched flesh
on my crying
eyes Q is dying.
Quincy our one eyed cat died.
 Aug 7
Agnes de Lods
I sat on the edge of the bed.
You smiled.
I am your daughter,
But words mean to you
Something else.

I took your hand,
Telling you I haven’t slept for a year.
I write reflections,
Tame the voices behind my left ear,
Assemble thoughts about the darkness.

I pour a warm, salty liquid
That burns the skin – it doesn’t moisturize.
It helps me,
This pseudo-therapy.
I hide behind my nickname,
So that no one holds me accountable
For what I’m supposed to be.

You also sat up at night,
You read books.
You carried hidden sadness,
I stick a smile on my lips.

I hug people who carry Egregores.
You and I,
we are not afraid of the night.
Your hand is cold.
You smile,
You put together syllables into strange words.

You know that I matter to you.
I pretend to understand
What you wanted to say.

In a moment, it will get hard.
You’ll start screaming like a little boy,
Or again you’ll wait
Until this state of life passes you.

Life?
It’s a kind of space
Where people, because of fear
Bite and scratch
Like frightened, rabid dogs –
And then soothe it
With controlled tenderness.

I sit with you on the edge of the couch
And I think:
We write with the left hand.
We are beings of the night.
Our path was shared –
In fear, to protect a small piece of “I”.

I fear I’ll lose language.
I desperately defend myself against silence.
I dream of non-human languages.
I write words as if I wanted
To cast spells on reality –
Still, it’s not enough.
The anesthesia stopped working.

One day, this will be the end,
Yet as long as I live,
I’ll be the naive one.
That’s what I want.

I choose sweet, sugar-coated hope,
With pink sprinkles,
Telling myself that he, she
Didn’t mean to trample –
Only life pushed them
Into that dark corridor.

My hope
Is not a soft blanket,
This is a heavy, tight helmet.
 Aug 7
Terry O'Leary
This war, with allies unified
                  (reminds of German genocide),
leaves mandates, empty, purified,
                  (as human flesh is nullified),
enticing persons (pale, blue eyed,
                  through which their minds are calcified
                  by factoid news that helps misguide
                  while public critique's stultified)
to let this evil beast abide
                  (where once the Son was crucified)
with “rules-based-order” magnified
                  (and base inhuman rights applied).

A damning fact that’s oft denied
                  (like truthers thoughts demonified,
                  interred by “free press”, mummified,
                  or elsewhere where the truth can hide):
“avoiding worldwide suicide    
means needless wars must soon subside”
                  (and death no longer multiplied).

Well, those in power (those who rule),
ignore all legal ridicule
                  (when blocking water, food, and fuel),
think killing kids is kinda cool
                  (no need for crib nor crèche nor school,
                  although the UNO’s judged it cruel),
deplete the dams to fill their pools
                  (the dregs that died of thirst were fools -
                  they should’ve drunk the sewers’ gruels),
devise the New World Order’s rules
                  (to “fix” the foreigner’s “family jewels”).

They fight for land (claim self defense)
against the population (dense
                  confined behind a wired fence -
                  so none should really take offense
                  when crimes in crimson recommence
                  with fortunes made at their expense).

Some say the body count’s immense
                  (but who keeps tabs when times are tense?)
in any case no consequence
                  (those claiming moral precedence
                  forgive the fiends forever hence),
for justice is but pure pretense
                  (and nevermore makes any sense)
in deadly days of decadence.

With bombs they teach “what’s yours is mine”
                  (results, when greed and graft combine
                  destroying peace and Palace, fine).
Between the sands and salty brine
somehow survivors come to dine
                  (with grub served in the firing line)
and lose the thing some think divine
                  (we all have one, though cats count nine,
                  the Lord says “take not what’s not thine”),
as life and dying intertwine.

A passing dove once watched and cried
“Why can’t these lands be pacified”
                  (and not expunged or liquefied),
to which a raving raven sighed
“The goal’s that foes be rarified”
                  (yeah, something like a genocide);
the wizened owl said this implied
“If each one hates the other side
the final end’s humanicide”
                  (a well kept secret, classified).
“Of course” the top paid hawks replied
                   (yes, leaving high ideals aside,
                   and politicians gratified,
                   and no one dead indemnified).

In future days (when present’s past,
                  no longer split by class or caste)
will folks look back, with eyes aghast
                  (at all the horrors we’ve amassed
                  and witnessed real time, telecast)
and ask themselves, with eyes downcast,
                  (if, once again, the die were cast)
“Hmm, would I be enthusiast”
                  (supporting crimes that flabbergast)
“or else, perchance, iconoclast”
                  (be harried, hounded and harassed)
“or just stand by until the last?”
                  (as little kids are starved or gassed)?

Afterword

Although this topic’s dreadfully vast,
I’m stopping now, my time has passed
                  (outside, the world is overcast,
                  expecting soon the end-time blast).
He sleeps in the meadows
                       on a pillow made of flowers
Arc-Angel voices are heard
              from afar
A gentle wind
                  blows softly
                             at the nape of His neck.  
               Is he sleeping or dreaming ?
                                I don't know, but I feel Him on my skin.  
He created the world
                      in seven days
His garment is made of sackcloth              and camel hair
The scars in his hands
                    have healed beautifully
from the salve of His father's loving hands....
He sleeps in the meadows
                                      like a warrior King of old
who has just saved the world from a great disaster.  
Holding back floods, earthquakes, gunfires, wars
                                  he leaves behind the scent of flowers
where there once was hunger,
                  people aren't hungry anymore.
He feeds me honey from the shackles of my
                                     fraying soul,
as I fall asleep next to him,
                           soundly,  
                       like a child, who could never ask for more.
It happened on a Friday
Round about nine,
When He who was Divine
Bore sin-yours  and mine-
And was hung upon a wooden cross
His hands and feet nailed tight
Yet none who knew His silent plight.
That within all His power and His might
Was cruxified -to bring the light-
Unjustly hung He out in sight

The one known as the King of the Jews

From the time of noon
Up until three
DarkneSs covered the sky entirely,
And with the outcry of these words:
"Eli Eli Lema sabagtani"
My God,why have Thoust forsaken me
He drew His last breath
And died-for all to See

The one known as the King of the Jews

The Temple curtain spliT in two
As He the King of the Jews died
so that We could enter
In Gods sight.
Forever after He paid the price
For me and you:

The one known as the King of the Jews

And after He had left this mortal plane
They broke not His bones
Left Him just the same,
And they laid Him to rest
In a TomB -in a cave
His life been given
His DesTiny remained-
As the Saviour to all mankind
The dead and the brave.
He had come to earth
Not to condemN-but to save:

The one known as the King -became the
Slave.
He who bore no Sin-carried ours
Just so that we could be saved
From the wrath of the Almighty
He showed us the light,
Yet died unjustly
To AnSwer our plighT

The one known as Jesus the Christ

But on the Sunday morning
He had risen triumphantly,
Over Death He had won
Yes GodS only Son-
Who one day will return
To rule up Highly
On the right hand side
Of God-Lord Almighty

Thus remember the FridAy
Through till the Sunday,
Never again will Life stay the same
For He called us each upon the name,
To teach and obey His words left behind
And to love all of all  mankind.
For He died once ago a very long time
So that tHose who believe in Him
Find redemption ,salvation
From judgement and condEmnation.

He will come back someday
This much is true:

The one known as
Jesus-the King of the Jews
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