Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poetry. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Missing the tree for the forest


Jesus Is Coming Soon



Allot of clatter

The Bible is filled with information about the second coming of Christ and there is much chatter these days speculating the when, why and how. Allot of this clatter is often argumentative and even mean spirited. Many people seem to be more interested in the “event” of Christ’s return than Christ Himself.
The following poem is my attempt to give a simple perspective of what is important about the return of Christ.

Missing the tree for the forest

I ponder about
So many thoughts

Some more, some less
It is there He says,

But I couldn’t see it
He says again,

It is there,
It is really there
Don't Miss the Tree for the ForestI keep looking, looking
He says listen

I say I can’t hear
Louder please, louder

There is clatter everywhere
Everyone talking

Everyone saying this is it
Or this is that
Still others’ say wrong,
Wrong and wrong again

Bla, bla, bla and more bla
What does it mean?
Why is everyone so mean?

He says, I am the song
Listen, look and learn

But the clatter continues
Everyone argues

My way, the right way
Be sure you don’t burn

He says keep watch,
I am still the way
I can come most any day

Only when,
I cannot say

Don’t give worry of how,
What or why;
Just know this,
For you, my tears cry

Be not confused by matters small
Just be assured I will come for all

Yes, it’s me who died upon that tree
So as you look,
Through the forest so tall

Do not miss,
The return of me

©Copyright 2012 Dr. Lee W. Outlaw III

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Books by Susan Joyner-Stumpf

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The Ragdoll Chronicles: Poems and Short Stories
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Monday, February 6, 2012

Most Every Man’s Obsession



Hank Williams Jr - Are You Ready for Some Football?

 Monday Night Football Theme

It attracts like nothing else

It attracts like nothing else
Emotions stirred in every way

Time is an issue
Two or three hours or more

It could be almost any day
Sixteen, nineteen, even twenty two
Meetings they say,

August, September, October
November, December also
January and February too

Sunday or Monday always
Thursday and Saturday sometimes

It moves and stirs
The appetite hungers

It wants him more and more
As he longs for it as well
Addiction sets in, taking both mind and soul

His woman often wonders
Sports  FansWhat’s wrong with him?

He gathers with others,
Obsessed with this thing,

indulge in rituals, chants and grunts
Is this a cult she observes?

Gluttony, o gluttony
Unbelievable amounts of food
Drinking and frolicking too

A near religious experience

A near religious experience
The casual observer,
Seeks to understand

Colors, identities and titles too
Their only salvation,
Winning will see them through

This, every man’s obsession
The absolute of absolutes,

Near a screen or a stadium seat
Peanuts, popcorn, hotdogs too
Football - Every Man's ObsessionTo some just a game
But for this man’s obsession
A loss is pure shame

Not to win, not to win,
Oh what could have been?
A near win, just pure sin

This, every man’s obsession
For some, a personal possession




On any given Sunday
Sunday, the day the Lord hath made
Sunday, the day the NFL hath remade

This every man’s obsession

Called Football

©Copyright 2012 Dr. Lee W. Outlaw III

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Books by Deborah Brooks-Langford

My Heart I give
This is a collection of poems written by Deborah Brooks Langford, mirroring her life, loves and love of God. She always liked to write, but, never thought she could do ...
Amazon Price: $13.99

Books by Ellen McKinney

Santa Fe Son
Past memories can be wonderful, but sometimes sad for Corinne her world was rocked by the seemingly senseless tragic murder of a close and lifelong friend. The murder ...
Amazon Price: $16.98
List Price: $17.95
Best of Intentions
Guy Hewitt is a decorated undercover police officer, who after suffering the tragic death of his partner, is convicted of his partner's murder.Guy is innocent of this crime. ...
Amazon Price: $18.99
List Price: $20.95
A Rose for Liliana
Liliana Jacobs the city's Assistant District Attorney is gaining a reputation as a winner in the courtroom. But on a personal level all the men in her life seem to have ...
Amazon Price: $14.33
List Price: $20.95

Books by Susan Joyner-Stumpf

Grief Shards and Other Remains
I have been writing since a young child. Coming up abused like I did, I looked toward writing as My Savior, it literally saved me. There, I was transported to another world ...
Amazon Price: $32.40
List Price: $34.95
Tortured Light
I am considered a dark poet. I am often channeled from spirit animals or people trying to get a message through—hence, this explains my often uncanny ability to be able to
Amazon Price: $32.10
List Price: $29.95
The Ragdoll Chronicles: Poems and Short Stories
What does Ragdoll Chronicles mean, you ask? Growing up abused, the word “ragdoll” has, sadly, much symbolic meaning for me, i.e., “lifeless as a ragdoll,” “beaten like a ...
Amazon Price: $27.73
List Price: $27.95
Crimson Whispers
Crimson Whispers is my Third Book of Published Poetry. Welcome to my world of darkness; a world where abuse was left behind and I see the light of being a Survivor. Also in ...
Amazon Price: $11.06
List Price: $11.99

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Ode to an Outlaw


When you're an OUTLAW & no one knows your name


The name is the thing

There is always something
For this Outlaw,
The name is that thing

An Outlaw, not the old west
Not the fastest gun,
The boots, spurs or vest
The name, just the name

Old England is the jive,
Thirteen hundred and twenty five
Eau’tlawe not Outlaw back in that day

                                                          
Aristocrats some,
To the Carolinas they say

Debtors were most,
Though criminals none,

To America’s Georgia
Or Australia they would come

Share croppers, farmers,
A hard life all
The Outlaw’s they were

Family farmers, ranchers all
Time progresses,



Lawmen and mayors some become
Ministers, preachers they were as well,
Painters, truckers and pilots were some

 

OUTLAW is really my name

The name, yes the name
Childhood memories

Of school yard scorn
Because of the name,
Just the name

Even today people laugh,
Ridicule never ends



The name they make it a game,
Their attempts they see as humor

But their inner thought,
One of shock and shame

Oh that name, that name
is that really their name

Outlaw, not just a name
My Grandfather’s name,

My Father’s name
My son’s name, my family name

OUTLAW is MY name
Yes, OUTLAW is really my name

A million times over and over again
Yes, OUTLAW is really my name
OUTLAW, Lee Outlaw

This is my Ode to all
With OUTLAW as their name

©Copyright 2012 Dr. Lee W. Outlaw III

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Change, emotion’s custodian




Change continues its push

Love the curious emotion
We want it, we need it

Our heart absorbs it
It challenges and clings

It tickles and trembles
A feeling like none other

We feel trapped, captured
We laugh, we cry, we even sing

Life uncertain but love seems sure
Then it happens, her thoughts

They depart, she departs
Change now inevitable

Hurt, emptiness, emotions pile high
The heart is now crowded,

Clutter is everywhere
No room for new emotion

Change continues its push
Pain, sorrow all move in

Breathing is difficult
No room for lungs to expand

The heart now clean

Change continues its push
The heart even more crowded

This custodian of emotion
Tugs, pulls, moves

Change cleans, removes
Finds space, makes room

Happiness, laughter all gone
Emotion’s custodian, change

Hurt, disappointment, sorrow
The heart now clean

These new tenants move in
Change continues its push

The new tenants,
Thankfully, short term
New love is found

Change, the custodian of emotion
Pushes on

©Copyright 2012 Dr. Lee W. Outlaw III