Luxuria (Lust)

Asmodeus demon of lust
carnal manipulator
****** captor

Castitas (Chastity)

Embracing virtue
honorable wholesomeness
not through one’s weakness

Gula (Gluttony)

The egocentricity
with which the Lord of the flies
upon us relies

Temperantia (Temperance)

practicing restraint
prudence to judge with regard
remaining on guard

Avaritia (Greed)

The Mammon demon
controlling the warmonger
with vows of power.

Caritas (Charity)

Crave unselfishness
give unreserved empathy
love and sympathy

Acedia (Sloth)

Deny grace and God
so evil shall become fact  
when we fail to act

Industria (Diligence)

Fortitude is a must
persistence in conviction
zealous for passion

Ira (Wrath)

In its purest form
presents violence and hate
Satan’s fate

Patientia (Patience)

mercy to haters
receiving the grace to forgive
rewards are massive

Superbia (Pride)

Lucifer’s downfall
for excessive vanity
destroys humility

Humanitas (Kindness)

Sympathy without bias
belief without bitterness
inspire kindness

Invidia (Envy)

resentful passion
an insatiable desire
potent cause of dire

Humilitas (Humility)

think of yourself less
and not think less of yourself
don’t exalt oneself

Make up for my sins
By waiting. Patiently waiting.
No grandiosity
No thrills, chills, kills

Just waiting, not much happens
Ordinary boredom
Prayers for friends and family
Movies, the Dao De Ching

Get the timing right
Patientia
The pulpit in perplexity
The green and purple thing

Susan, Judi, Wendy
Decades, Centuries
Charlotte, North Carolina
Bucharest, Budapest, Nanking

                        Linkoping.

Patience, wait with patience
Wind in seagreen trees

Walking meditation
Quietly he sees

Hey hey now UK
Oxford, if you please

Buddhamind in Bangkok
Here and there and these

            Summer sun
            winter freeze

So the psychiatrist told me
Not to go to extremes
Extremes are tendencies
For bipolar people

Bad things can happen there.

Discoveries also:

                    Patientia.

The Americans choose Trump
Their own condemnation
I stay inside and sleep
Quiet meditation

I like volleyball
Might watch GMU
My Irish eyes are green
But I'm Carolina blue

Marriage didn't work
So I sleep alone
Write a few poems
On this little black cell phone

I want a different country
Might reread Moby ****
55 and falling
Suffering and sick

                     Patientia ...

si vidissent iam levis flammae desiderio et viderunt affluentiam rebus essem corruptas meos impetus et sciebat quid patientia perficere posset mihi licuit in minori mundo crudeli unquam fuit laetior anima mea

Hitch Hikin'
shabu shabu
         72

A bit dangerous
That's the truth
A bit too far
A bit uncouth

Step by step
By step by step
Take it slow
Need for rest

Madness comes
And madness goes
Emotion runs
And overflows

Step by step
By step by step
Wait.
Leapt.

      Patientia

Please help me not to panic
Take it easy, Take it slow
Coincidence and mystery
Yoko yo yo yo yo

Step by step by flight
Valley spirit show
Get the timing right
Kairotic moment Mo

       ready. set. Go!

Postcards. Stamps. Stealth.

          the little way

It's in play. I can feel it.
           It's in play.

Por favor. Patientia. Xie Xie.

Guadalupe Green
       Yo espero
            Alex

Scottish border
     Wetheral
         wait

Not understood till later
But I plant the mustard seeds
Adonis in Atlanta
I too need a Creed

She at JMU
Me hired by Indeed
Not an Italian Stallion
Shadowfax my steed

St. James Catholic Church
Mary and the Child
The senator on the plane
Tells me of Oscar Wilde

Ave Maria
Cathedrals in Italy
Billionaire Bruce Wayne
3033

               Let it Be ...

The little way
   very little
         wait

The sadness will last forever
But what about the joy?

She wished for me abundantly
I wish back for her boy

I still do like Thai food
Spicy? Just nitnoy.

I work now in the Spirit
Though they say I'm unemployed

                   Patience.

Hope, despite reality
Hope, despite my sins
Quietness. Endurance.
Always to begin

                Patientia

Lone balladeer
        Slowly
       patience

Shakyamuni Buddha
The original Woke man
Patientia
Just do the best I can

Way out in the wilderness
A cold coyote calls
Patientia
All Walls Fall

South from Seattle
San Francisco Zen
North to Vancouver
3710

East to Taipei
Confucian temple tests
Her hands in my hair
My hands on her ******* ...

Up ahead some stormy weather
Gratitude and prayers for Heather.

                         patientia

I'm 1230
Not 1600
So there will be things
I do not understand

Greetings and Salutations
Hopes and fears
Laughter and tears
And a rockin' band

Please trust
Patientia
Courage
Footprints in the sand

                        And ...

It's gonna be ambiguous
Therefore let it be
Possibly infamous
Possibly true

Slowly guacamole
Patientia
Patientia
Long term view

From the forgotten to the Unexpected
Become who you are
Moonlight in your hands
Follow that wandering star!

Sometimes I fear my own power
Insight. Advance.
Thai dancers quite lovely
They dance in Paris, France

Shakyamuni Buddha
The original Woke man
In Thailand I touched a tiger
In Florida Yes We Can

Patientia
Strike while strike you may
2024
I get on my knees and pray

               'Dis be dat Cay!

An email, maybe a phone call
A package returned to sender
Only just beginning
Patientia

2023
My plan to wait and watch
Reading Thomas More
Then Ludwig Wittgenstein

Near the library
Trouble sleeping again
Protection for Catholic kids
From *******

I will sacrifice for those I love
Mystical treatises
Until there are women priests
I will not drink the Wine

               In a dream divine

2023
My year to wait and wait
Pregnant silences
Destiny, not Fate

I read the Guardian
Candidates debate
Exoplanets spin
A little help for Cate

Exoplanets spin
Something radiates
I walk the Empty Diamond
I watch the license plates

I watch and wait and wonder
Formulate my plans
Patientia
Solitary Man

          Will they understand?

Nothing ventured, Nothing gained
Hit me at 15
Carolina blue
Irish eyes are green

She moves and Colorado
Patientia
Prayers in the night
I read Things Not Seen

Mystery and Coincidence
Let us rise and go hence
Ain't no border fence
Her thighs - I'm in between

Knocks
Clocks
Shocks
Ameen.

It's 3:12 a.m and I'm awake
Peaceful in the night

Crickets chirping, no cake to bake
Feeling fond for flight

In the Flux a little calm
Please this train my wife

I reach out to Alex
Eckhart, not Sein und Zeit.

      Patientia por favor

I like American music
But I don't like the American people
That's not true
Some, not all

But there's nowhere else to go
Traveling East leaves us whelmed
Tired
Small

I went to Cambodia
People missing limbs
Nixon's bombs
Terror. America too will fall.

Patientia
Long term view
Posthumous too
Royal Albert Hall

          Tear down that Wall!

The chapel is quite beautiful
I could sit there a long time
Catholic silence and Buddhist silence
Oui. Xie Xie oui.

I puzzle about fame
Best to avoid the limelight
Work hidden
But ........................   To become a Name.

Struck by Georgetown
Genuine beauty
Greatness
Makes a claim.

Slowly.
From a distance.
Patientia ...

Aim.

         Green Arrows.

Not to take the fight to the enemy
Rather, to experiment
Placements, provocations

Plurality y Ambiguity
Mysterium Tremendum
Leading conversations

Slowly guacamole
Shabu Shabu
Destinations

Long term view
Patientia
Revelations?

So I've got a thing with 37
See it on license plates
I like Adam ******* at times
50 first dates

Not that great at math
Souped up 72
Icy Charles River
Taipei do we do

Little dragon temple
I watch. Yes, I watch.
Not much of a drinker
I bourbon. 1 beer. 1 Scotch.

I think of you, dear reader
Alone in Istanbul
Poem in a dream
Destiny:  The Pull.

        patientia

I'm pretty sure
2023 is the time for me to wait
But I'm not sure if I can do it
Patientia

Centuries have to pass
Women preside at Mass
She was a grand wee lass
Miso soup with kelp

St. Therese in the Episcopal Church
Quaint and curious
Small *******
Croissants

Long distance running
Night trains
Avila, Spain
Toledo

          Vegetarian burritos

Eyes Up Guardian
        Patientia
          Espero.

Por favor. Patientia. Xie Xie.

Heilige Maria
Kurt Wagner
    patientia

It's isolation. It's true. It is.
The Silence is eternal
Hers and ours and His

The postcard poet
A friend
A frenemy

A seeker
Ms. Meek. Her.
Dad of 1 2 3

In my sadness
Empty Diamond
Pero o posterity!

       Patientia
     Chicago? Si.

So my friend Mark tells me
He has always believed
There is more good than evil in the world.
This does not surprise me
There is far more good than evil in Mark.

Me, however, at times I'm not so sure.
Battle for the soul
Forsaken by God
Yo soy solo Todd

                          Patientia

So I was given the Death Obsession
What a gift for me!
Haven't died quite yet
My children number 3

Who then devised the Torment?
Eliot says it was Love
That ain't clear to me yet
But I give thanks for Andy Dove

I do pray for the animals
Black birds soar above
Huskies on my walk
I got a left hand baseball glove

Amazed by David Markson
A Solitary Man was he
Patientia
Ry and the Rowan tree

     Nashville. Knoxville. Oui.