Tag Archives: Resurrection

POEM: Human Beans In A Chili World

What’s too like To be Human beans In a chili world Offering ourselves As nourishing fare In the face of Ingrate full consumers Somehow besting Our pre-sumptuous purpose Of going to seed And razing our own Only to be Food … Continue reading

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POEM: Whole Beings Uneaten

Most passed by With their own lodes barren Some considered us fruits Whose only value was what was eating us Others fancied us spoiled At any rate As undrinkable whines Expressing only of what we no Sow surly After awe … Continue reading

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POEM: Namaste

Who dares ax Why I am Sow meta for As the spear it in me Razes up Too meat the spirit in you This poem is an ode to my favorite version of the greeting “namaste:” may the spirit in … Continue reading

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POEM: Peppered With Violence

Bland and tasteless souls Often pepper with violence The salt of the earth Writing a vicious cycle In rehashed seasonings Winners of discontent The Fall’s harvest Yet even sow Hope springing eternal And summers of love As have know choice … Continue reading

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POEM: A Brother Lying

Prey fore the dead In the name of Jesus In resurrection of those soully asleep Getting a phallus rise Out of Christianity That is, US More sow then radical Islam In violate fundamental lists Dissembling faith, hope, and love As … Continue reading

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POEM: The Death of Poetry

A critic posed A question Is poetry dead? But for the piles of dead poets Worth only one read assent A qualm comes Over me As death summons Unwanted clarity Between write and throng Stern and bow A demanding curt … Continue reading

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SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: A Christian Perspective on Justice

Here is a portion of a document that I drafted a couple of years ago while I was a board member of Toledo Area Ministries (TAM).  It was never adopted in any form, but I put a lot of work … Continue reading

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POLITICAL CARTOON: CEO Jesus – Birthers

CEO Jesus Arises to the Occasion! CEO Jesus really rises to the occasion this week of Easter!  What could be tougher than answering the difficult and often inane questions put forth at a press conference?  In his first go around, … Continue reading

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