I see her, and think: What can the girl do for me? That is lust, not love.
Tag: Poetry
Lightly salted (Haiku)
Salt of the Earth - You! Light of the world. That's you too. Act like you mean it.
Despair
A reflection for Holy Saturday in the form of a multi-verse haiku. They saw you hanging. Taken down, taken away. Laid on a cold slab. They had hoped you'd win. Return God's land to his own: Remove the Roman. And you did nothing. In giving them no reply You let them kill you. The hope …
Betrayed
Two poems, one very old, from the Bible, and my response in verse: -o0o- For it is not an enemy who taunts me— then I could bear it; it is not an adversary who deals insolently with me— then I could hide from him. But it is you, a man, my equal, my companion, my …
Copies and the real deal.
The writer of the Book of Hebrews often quoted from the poetic parts of the Old Testament, but did not write poetry himself. If he had Chapters 8 to 10 could have been summarized like this: The law is not the real deal It's just a copy A shadow of the real thing. Temple sacrifices …
Psalm 2, a sonnet
The nations rage and peoples vainly plot, And kings of earth will take all of the day, They talk against God and his Son. They say: Let's burst or chains and escape from this lot. The Lord who sits in in heaven laughs at will, He holds them in derision. We shall see. Him terrify …
Making an ass of myself 