Proximity and Distance

If you're poor, be wealthy in humility
as Jesus was both poor and wealthy.

If you're rich, be poor in spirit
There is a way to the attainment of .perfection.

She Was A Ship

Her belly ripped, her ribs in pieces, her kitchen wares scattered far and wide,
her wheel house crooked, leaning hard, there she lies a mile down.
She was a ship

Off the coast of South America
where the Orinoco flows into the Atlantic
a periscope waits like a one eye monster.

Then a grey spot appears on the grey horizon
which provokes the U boat captain to turn his cap backwards.
and  wait some more.

The Freighter Soraya in perfect profile,
a torpedo is dispatched to her midship.
It hits and sends the ship into a frenzy of fireworks.

Naturally, the crew on the submarine celebrates.
In war, you either celebrate periodically or sigh endlessly.
In the murky bottom there she lays.  She was a ship the goblins eat.

Angels We Have Heard

Roads talk to drivers from divers directions,
floor boards, pedals, rear view mirrors
and the seats of our pants.

No driver needs to drive the long stretch lonely.
Thanks be to the angel on board, the faithful copilot.
GPS.  Glory to technology in the highest.

Time and Remember

Rundown freighters tramp the seas
Their engines churn and sputter
Their bundled waters would wanna quit. 

It happens alike to old sailors that keep on sailing
'cause an old age home ain't no dream boat.
It happens alike to factory workers in rust belts.

The fates of tired ships are sealed.
If not on Friday scraped, On Monday,
they might be beached.

If neither plays out,  an unexpected sinking
might make of them new habitats
where light hardly reaches.

So it is.  In the man made,
everything eventually is wasted
and junk yard  heaped, In nature, nothing ever is.

N Matter What

In love be strong, in hate diluted
You're too old to blow out
the last of your fuses

Moon Women

We transmit light
We entertain darkness
Like the moon, we wax and wane
Our female cycles are similar

Sounds and Effects

Sound enters spirit through body.
Health is harmony.  Peace is prosperity.
Prayer originates in the heart.

Mind replicates the Cosmos.