Poems

Atheism

Why injustice, abuse, cruelty? Why contradiction, incongruity? Why pain, turmoil, anguish? Why do we humans languish? What is so good about good health if it ultimately ends in our death.

By |2023-12-23T05:52:57+00:00January 19th, 2021|Poems|

The Nine Worthies: The Jews

Joshua Child from the chosen generation And God’s judgement on Canaan Trained by Moses on his mission He purged the promised land from pagans  King David The man after God’s heart He who wears the royal ring  He found Zion in part And turned it into the city of Kings  Judas Maccabee A priest, a warrior, but no king He heard the cries of Zion When

By |2021-03-01T23:27:28+00:00January 18th, 2021|Featured Poems, Home Page Feature, Poems|

Elijah

“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of Yahweh. He will restore the hearts of the fathers to their children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, so that I will not come and smite the land with a curse.” -- Malachi 4:5-6

By |2021-02-19T04:48:55+00:00January 10th, 2021|Poems|

Anatomy: Face

Why a face with eyes of azure? Staring gates of open pleasure. Why the sound of whistling, whining, soft and high, low and dying? Why the grasp of understanding with lips and tongue all underlying? Why smell's sense of familiarity, pleasant, pungent, and vulgarity? Why expression, eye brows, forehead? Written, scribbled, self-suggestive. Oh, the

By |2021-02-19T06:44:20+00:00January 3rd, 2021|Home Page Feature, Poems|

The Gospeller

(This is a poetic-didactic story similar to and inspired by John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress and The Life and Death of Mr. Badman. I'm writing it primarily for my family, but would you like me to complete this and publish it? Please comment if you wish. Thank you. The Lord bless it to your hearing.). There

By |2021-02-19T05:58:56+00:00December 27th, 2020|Poems|

The Lord Rebuke You

What's the most evil action you can think of? What would you call a person who commits that action for profit and for an ideology that they don't even understand because they don't believe there's a supernatural source of that ideology?

By |2021-02-19T04:51:12+00:00December 6th, 2020|Poems|