FELLOWSHIP

Fellow Earthmen, can we not opt for Peace?
Even if the East should confront the West,
Let us not forget we are brothers, please!
'Live and let live' as our guidon is best.
One human race with diverse skills, be proud...
What is it worth to kill one another,
Shall a new Cain slay his own brother?
Has his mark blinded Putin like a shroud?
In Perversity, we may be undone;
Planet Earth and all mankind will be gone.

COMPULSION

Convince the blind to see;
Outwit the Fox, be meek.
Make brave those who are weak.
Perfect your craft, you'll be
Undoing Satan's skein;
Let loose the knots that bind
Souls to material gain.
Inform the human mind
Of God's Ethereal Realm--
New Truths there overwhelm!

PIRANHAS

Piranhas nibble their prey, disguising their deadly ripple,
Insulting the intelligence of the compliant prey/ple,
Resorting to devious if not blatant prevarication...
A feeding frenzy will reveal the final sad conclusion.
No doubt overtaxing the nation leaves nothing but bare bones;
How can Uncle Sam survive? By printing billions more dollar clones!
A swarm of lobbying piranhas in Washington, D.C.
Surround our leaders: Will they choose puppetry? We shall soon see.

ADRENALIZED

A squad of armed Japanese soldiers came foraging
During the war to that farm where we went a-hiding;
Recalling that incident now, I can't help but smile...
Eleven years young was I then and as thin as a stile.
Not pausing to think, I ran up a steep mountain trail,
A big sack of rice I carried, which load I did fail
Later on to hoist and bring back to our house below.
I was a fool, acting heroic minutes ago...
Zilch! My strength surge ebbed when there were no more foes to dread.
Experience too someday that there is danger ahead?
Do take flight, carry no baggage, pray to God instead!

NEVER AGAIN

"Never a borrower nor a lender be,"
Even if you have to forego your coffee.
Vex not your close friends nor your own family;
Each month you're short, for you spend fast and freely.
Romp then regret you're broke on a rainy day.
All plenty becomes empty, a sage would say;
Grumbling won't change your beggarly situation...
Act parsimonious until your next pension.
If you remain a debtor, you'll ne'er be free:-
"Never a borrower nor a lender be."

FILIPINAS

Filipina barrio lass from her (papag) bed
Inclined her head to ask "Who is by our chicken shed"?
Love songs (kundiman/s) started being sung to her...
It seemed only her disturbed chickens were a-stir.
Peeping thru the crevice on her bamboo slats wall,
In plain moonlit sight, she saw the group's leader call;
Now she began banging pans, shouting " Thieves begone!"
As she knew by tomorrow some hens will be gone...
Such was barrio life; 'Ser/hen/ading' was great fun!

SUBTLETY

So you were shocked and became downcast because the Seahawks won?
Unfortunately, the Niners and the Broncos both fell down;
But who really, in your opinion, was the victorious team?
'Twas Dame Fortune, I think, who thwarted us and vanquished our scheme.
Looks like she conspired with Sir Gravity and the Anemoi,
Ensuring defeat of two teams favored by the hoi polloi.
Therefore, trust no longer prognosticators or their cohorts...
You will be better off not betting on the outcome of sports.

ABSTRACT

All thought is without mass,
Beyond physical class,
Superior to matter.
Think deep and don't falter,
Reach for the Spiritual
Altar Incorporeal...
"Cogito ergo sum!"
Truth shouts from that dictum.

PLEASE

Please pardon O.J.Simpson, Mr. President.
Let your compassion nudge him gently, he'll relent...
End his incarceration; You have a kind heart-
And the sole discretion to give him a new start.
Show to the world you have the courage to forgive;
Enable him to learn straight from you:- Let him live!

GILGAMESH

Gilgamesh sought his god's help to bring Enkidu back to life;
It ended in failure.
Lured by dreams of glory, some leaders may opt for bloody strife;
Grief will result for sure.
All human beings hope for the gift of immortality;
Most are still unaware...
Enkidu never died, his soul lives on for eternity.
So too will you... Go share
Heaven's gift of Life unending with all of Humanity!

CAVEAT HOMO SAP

Can we comprehend the INCOMPREHENSIBLE?
Allow room for error; We're still perfectible...
Volumes of treatises exist on this subject:-
EVIL in its many forms makes our lives abject,
And many suffering human beings ask WHY?
To our Almighty God:- Are You Nigh or a Lie?

Here, I could sense, is His Reply: Learn to endure
Oppressors' injustices, even force majeure;
Move mountains with your mind and imagination,
Overcome evil with God's Divine Solution:-

Since you are in essence a spiritual being,
All our woes in this physical world are fleeting.
Plod on, follow Christ's Path and receive His Blessing!

TRUTH

Though he doubted the efficacy of ritual,
Rene's mind turned him back to the realm spiritual.
Unlike agnostics who profess no certainty,
To him, a Perfect Being is Reality...
Half-truths merely veil God's Awesome Identity!

ACCEPT

Accept all challenges God sends to you,
Consider them presents long overdue.
Collect, unwrap, and handle them with care;
Endure the tests, be cool with savoir faire.
Perhaps after the angst, you'll realize
To trust Him fully is the better prize.

TRANSFORMED!!

To emulate Christ is not easy at all, still we must try...
Regardless of past fumbles or missteps, we should not decry
Attempts by neophytes who (like me) were exposed to His Light.
Now we're still trying to share His Spark with others without sight:-
So to the world go forth good Christian and spread wide His Message.
For loving one another as He loved us starts the New Age...
Omega for the transfiguration of the human soul
Remains beyond reach since Hatred still blocks the path to its goal.
More tears must be wept; There are for me more lessons to be learned
Ere this life's graduation certificate is finally earned.
Directing our best efforts TO LOVE as ordered will not be spurned.

TIDEPOOLS

This life is but a dream,
It's like swimming downstream;
Desires found unfit
End up in Sorrow's pit.
Pursuing them is vain;
Our childhood dreams remain
Our secret in that pool
Left behind after school...
So dream on, Skep, old fool.

TRANSFORMED??

There are over 7 billion people in our world today;
Resources from patient Mother Earth may soon be depleted...
As shepherds, we are not supposed to let our sheep go astray,
Nor as stewards, let our fields fallow or be pest infested.
So we are promised new power sources will be discovered,
Forgotten knowledge on how to use ley lines will be recalled;
Old secrets of pyramid builders will soon be recovered.
Renewal, though, will fail if population grows uncontrolled...
My dream is for us to transform Earth into a new Eden--
Enduring peace, good health and productive lives for all good men!
Dare we ask our eminent world leaders:- Pray, let us know WHEN?

THE PROOFS

The Prime Mover/Lord of Creation moves
His wondrous works in ever cyclic grooves...
Earth, sun, stars, nebulae, and galaxies
Precisely dance to cosmic symphonies,
Refuting chaotic atheism.
Our human mind, a small microcosm,
Observes God's well-designed macrocosm,
Forswears old doubts of agnosticism,
Surrenders finally to Theism.