HARMONY - EBONY AND IVORY
ALONG Z's POTOMAC DOWN FROM MANSION LEE
A CHOIR SINGS WHILE A PATIENT CROWD
WAITS TO MEMORIALIZE A MAN EVEN DEATH COULDN'T COW__
TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY
IGNORANCE CHEATED THIS TOWN & COUNTRY,
THOUGH SUCH LOW & CRUDE POW-ER
THOUGHT TO REMOVE A KNIGHT FROM HIS TOWER
IN FACT, IT SEEMS TO SUCH AS ME
THAT "NO GREATER LOVE" INSPIRES ULTIMATELY
YIELDING A RETURN IN COMMITMENT WORTH THE AWFUL FEE.
SITTING ABOVE THE RESTING PLACE
OF "BROTHERS-IN-ARMS" MARVELOUS GRACE
SEEING SPREAD BEFORE ONE's EYES
MONUMENTS TO MEN - A COUNTRY's GREATEST PRIZE
MAKES ONE PROUD OF AMERICANS LIKE THESE
WHO TRADED LEISURELY LIFE - FOR SERVICE, AND HEAVEN'S KEYS
YES, HERO'S ARE SCARCE THAT MATCH JOHN & ROBERT KENNEDY.
MAY THEIR WISDOM AND LEVEL OF COMPETENCE
COME "BACK INTO FASHION" FROM THIS POINT HENCE,
AND MAY THE TRUTH OF THEIR WELL-BALANCED LIVES
NO LONGER BE DISTORTED BY CHARACTER ASSASSINS WHO REVISE,
YES - THANK THEE LORD
FOR THOSE WHO ALLOW HOPES TO RISE!!
A Francis Psalm
OH LORD OF ALL THE POOR DOWNTRODDEN
OH FATHER OF THE MULTITUDES FORGOTTEN
OH ABBA WHO DID BLESS HOLY AMOS'S HAND
OH OVERPOWERING GOD WHO CAN THUS EMPLOY A POOR MAN,
ON THIS DAY - WHEN THE PALMS WERE STREWN
AT Z's NAZOREAN's PEAK
FOLLOWED BY THE CREVASSE - TOO SOON,
REMIND THE ONES WHO BEND THEIR KNEE
IN SILKEN GOWN AND RESPLENDENT FINERY
OF THOSE AMONGST WHOM THE LORD DID PREACH
OF THOSE CONSIDERED MOST WORTHY TO TEACH
YES, LET THE HUMBLE WHO SINCERELY PRAY,
BE REMEMBERED BY THE AFFLUENT IN THIS DAY
SO THAT ALL MIGHT BENEFIT AND FATE'S HAND STAY,
OH LORD WHO CONSIDERITH THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES
AGAINST
THE EYE OF THE NEEDLE -
HEAR WHAT I SAY
IN JESUS NAME AND FOR THE MAJORITY OF THE WORLD'S SAKE
- I DO SOLEMNLY PRAY -
-- AMEN
RFK - A Quarter Century on at Arlington
Down from Mansion Lee
On the Southside where tourists come rarely -
One is struck by the Natural Beauty
floating over the graves amongst a tombstone sea
Open Air Mausoleums
amongst trees and breezes blowing thru them
One sees the new arrivals
of ash urns - most modern & environmental,
In the midst there being
an open air edifice - most classic pillar & beam
facing the sloping lawn -
leading up to a rolling hill of trees tall
and a sky not blue nor white but
mostly a gently combined amalgam thereof.
Passing thru McClellan's gate
rising higher to where the crowd waits
For the quarter century Robert Kennedy wake
Way above the tomb in the cheaper "seats"
one can see the granite marble & concrete
in the waning sun - like the graves, bleached.
Green and Blue, in diverse hues -
from sky, river, tree and lawn,
The people reflecting lilly white to deepest dark blue melanin -
The last wisp of sun o're our shoulders - like a western dawn,
Gospel Choir in blue and white
Raise Hallelujah's to God's delight
who seems to have bestowed perfect weather- without a blight,
lights across the river - at the capitol and such
seem to shimmer ..........................................................................................
as if flames themselves completing the mystic touch
of Gaia's complement to a son of Aeschylus..............
Amnesty International U.S.A.
OH YOU WHO CALL YOURSELVES CIVILIZED
DO YOU TURN YOUR HEAD FROM THOSE WHO SUFFER AND DIE,
BECAUSE A CORRUPT REGIME THEY DID DECRY
IN YOUR SHELTERED LIFE,
DO THEY EARN EVEN A SELF-CENTERED SIGH?
OH BENEFICIARIES OF OUR NATION's ORIGINAL REVOLUTIONARIES
DO YOU EVER THINK - AS FROM THE PAIN YOU BLINK
THAT IF WE IGNORE THE VICTIMS - WE TOO, MIGHT SINK
BELOW THE TITLE OF HUMANE BEINGS,
TO SOMETHING COLLUSIVE W/BRUTALITY's STINK?
DOES YOUR MIND & SELF-IMAGE
EVER MEET THE SCRIMMAGE
OF BOBBY (KENNEDY) WHO SAID -
"MY DINNER's UN-FED,
WHEN I CONSIDER THOSE WHO BLED -
BECAUSE OF INDIFFERENCE"
MEN OF INTEGRITY
-- OH LORD OF PEACE --
WHOSE WISDOM DOTH SOAR UP ABOVE,
GRANT US THY SPIRIT TO LIVE TRUE AND LOVE,
ALLOW US THE PATIENCE TO GROW STRONG AND SEE,
THE FULL SCOPE AND DEPTH OF THY GLORIOUS REALITY.
WE THANK THEE OH FATHER FOR EXAMPLES SENT TO US --
OF MEN FULL OF BRAVERY SUCH AS ST. THOMAS MORE, AND LORD JESUS.
LET US SEE THROUGH THEIR MARTYRED LIVES -
THE ILLUSION WHICH IS LIFE - AND THE VISION THROUGH ETERNAL EYES.
YES - LET US LIVE FULL - THIS LIFE GIVEN TO RUN,
BUT ALLOW US - THROUGH IT TO DISCERN
HUMAN'S TWINKLING STAR ACHIEVEMENTS - TO PALE
- WHEN VIEWED BY THY BRILLIANT PERFECTION'S SUN.
INDEED, OH LORD LET US NOT DESPAIR OF OUR EFFORTS
- YET MAY WE ALWAYS SEE HOW MUCH MORE WE HAVE - TO RUN
- TO APPROACH THY PERFECTION.
Quotes from the Wisdom Literature
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOLY IS UNDERSTANDING. PROVERBS 9:10
WHO IS THIS THAT DIM-ETH COUNSEL BY WORDS WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE
JOB 38:2
BY WHAT WAY IS THE LIGHT PARTED, WHICH SCATTERETH THE EAST WIND
UPON THE EARTH. JOB 38:24
THE WATERS ARE HID AS WITH A STONE, AND THE FACE OF THE DEEP IS FROZEN
JOB 38:30
PARALLEL THOUGHTS
Is perhaps a Holy Guru
- to GOD
as a Wave is
- to the SEA, see ?