God came upon Jonah
one night in a dream
said, " preach against Ninevah
It's sins i have seen"

God's spirit went one way
but Johna the other
he jumped on a boat
and hid under cover

The seas got much bigger
as black thunder roared
the crew found out Johna
he was tossed over board

As Johna was drowning
he cried to the Lord
" please God save me
for it's you I adore "

God showed his compassion
and sent a big whale
that swallowed up Jonna
and to Nineveh kicked tail

Three days & three nights
the big fish did swim
it's belly full of cargo
Johna praying within

The lord heard his prayers
& gave a command
then up spat ole Johna
onto the dry land

God said again ,
" go to Ninveh and preach ,
that city full of people
my grace wants to reach "

So forward went Johna
to warn of God's wrath
and just as he feared
they turned from sins path

Those people weren't Hebrew
so Johna was jealous
that his God would save
a city so rebellious

Then God spoke to Johna
in the heat of the day
" you care more for shade
than sins washed away "

" why be greedy with me ?
I'm a saviour for all
don't put me in boxes
never run from my call "

" so when that day comes
that I ask you to go
don't be like ole Johna
and pull a no show "

" but be like that whale
that was ready to kick tail "

LPConvey2014

Hello old friend
peeking over dark horizons
& exposing those
ancient hiding places
My spirit rises with you
restless,
like the tide
I am homeless in my mind,
as safe sanity
slips
into your grip of
lunar lunacy
heralded in
by howling dogs
& ambulances
into the night
I love you over the ocean,
shimmering;
the white light
bed-spreading over me,
warming me &
my Cancerian mood
You will never be a blue moon to me,
sometimes
red, yellow, silver lined and occasionally,
eclipsing shades of black but
never blue
So big & bright
so full in the night
it's only a matter of time before
you're " Coca-Cola-ing"
across the sky
" Enjoy "
your space while you can
old friend, because
as old " Lucky Wilbury " once said
" these times,
they are a changing "


LPConvey

Around, around, & round you go
spinning round & round
your endless journey
never ending
your gravity
holds us down

The battles & quakes
the shallow graves
the hangings in the trees
the plagues & famines
the genocides & old age
the deadliest disease?

How much blood
old mother
spilled upon your *****
and all the bones
you laid to rest
help your flowers blossom?

From Earth we rise
and to you we fall
you can smell us from below
only those you lost to
space
can't help your garden grow


LPConvey

With every breath i take
becoming one less to make
my days at eighty
would be, ( not that I'm counting ) ,
twenty nine thousand two hundred
and from the cry of birth, " minutes start passing "

As life on Earth spins and orbits
around a dying Sun
with that tag-a-long moon
dragging the ocean, ( once again )
another foot, up some beach
my wrist watch beeps!, " another hour passing "

While ancient mountains
fell tall trees, ( silently? )
around saplings bathing in new light
& those birds, smashed eggs
feed the Earth new life
my alarm clock screams! " another day passing "

Like the twenty trillion others
before me, breathing in the air
of loved ones ashes
mixed, ( like a cocktail )
with the cigar smoke of new arrivals
my birthday sings! " another year passing "

My life orbits, ( like a vulture )
that dying Sun
as the Earth re-invents its self
with each passing, providing a beginning
and while graves wait to fatten worms
my death toll rings! " another life passing "


LPConvey2016