Literary Forum

Street Souls by Poetry King

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:48:32 GMT

(Note, I met the man who wrote the following, this is his work. I don't know if he checks the internet at the library but if so, feel free to contact me if I mis-typed anything.

And silly, stupid me, on welfare, but have a place to live, almost lost it but have a home. I never met him before 7/8/2009. I could have offered him a place to stay, I have room. Going through an online retreat, what would Jesus do? He could have been an angel or sent from heaven. Pray for him.)...

Virtual

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:36:14 GMT

Virtual

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of your new and improved
virtual life!
We have virtually everything
you could ever want.
Virtual rooms to stay in,
virtual people and
virtual vacation trips
to virtual islands
that virtually will meet
all your expectations
of an ideal retreat.
We've attached your virtual pet
to virtually keep you company
on this virtual journey
through your new
virtual reality....

Yellow X's

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:08:04 GMT

Yellow X's

A Church had yellow X's on its doors
and four broken stained glass windows,
Demolition began on it today.
one third of the roof gone.

A woman on my bus had been crying
It may have been her Church
She left the bus two blocks later.
Did she have First Communion there,

Confirmation, or a wedding?
I remember the Church I came home in,
what will become of that place
this revert stumbled to learn in?

...

Solitary Confinement

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 05:07:22 GMT

__________________________________________________

I know my history, is there a place for Catholics who were angry?
Is there a place for those who live alone yearning for company?
St. John, how did you keep sane at Patmos?
Of course you weren't an ex gone anti.
Blessed Bartolo, I'm taking your advice, praying the rosary.
Does it count listening on my headphones and praying that way?
So my job was sent away, so...

Dumb humor but an anti-Yahoo (yawhat did you do?) old

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 12:17:21 GMT

YaWhat did YaDo Yahoo?
-a tribute-

Once upon the net
there was a ring
popular and liked
it was the thing
Webmasters saw
they thought it good
it brought visitors
as a good ring should
Webring was
good indeed
until the fates
did a nasty deed
A merge with Yahoo
Webring did take
ringmasters...

THE TRAVELER (90's? about birth)

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:36:53 GMT

THE TRAVELER

On plains
of alien soil
two crafts landed.
Crew joined
two ships makin
one.
Surrounded by wet
lands
dark and quiet
but never
without movement
the occasional sounds
heard from world
far beyond
unseen
unknown.
Crew works
inside ship
building traveler
tubes, liquid,
membranes
continually generating.
Metropolis grows.
Intricacy
maze of paths
passages...

hold me close

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:20:47 GMT

hold me close sweet Jesus
never relax Your hold
life raft in the waters
You keep me from drowning
hold me close sweet Jesus
never relax Your hold
nowhere else i will go
but hanging on to You
hold me close sweet Jesus
never relax Your hold
when the world fades black
Your dear light i do see
hold me close sweet Jesus
never relax Your hold
hurts of this world drift
far when i'm at Your side
hold me close sweet...

Street Preacher

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:55:39 GMT

(this is OLD, from Milwaukee WI, and I later found out there's chicken hawks are misnamed but that's what we called them)

Street Preacher
(1987)

I saw him standing by his car,
He drives down 35th and National,
Two speakers on his car roof,
let me tell ya, they're pretty good,
I can hear him three blocks away.
His old might have been classic, black as coal,
parked on the curb.
Scribbled in white the sides of his...

20/20 Hindsight

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:27:57 GMT

vision is clearest
when i'm looking back
i know exactly
when i was to speak
when i was to hush
this long sordid year
began with a loss
and ends with a loss
the death of one life
the death of a bond
hard to distinguish
between two i see
wishing for the woods
i used to climb to
lose me in the trees
the thorn-filled bushes
where the canopy
of leaves cover me
by the old house ruins
deep in the home...

Damaged Goods

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:22:28 GMT

caution, warning, heed
this message
package contains
damaged goods

tell me i'm talented
or give me praises
i begin to search
for the angle

tell me you're my friend
i begin to hurt
i'm not a good choice
nor deserving

familiar protections
the armor worn
that saved my soul
now strangles

memories wrap
themselves into my being
trying to sort
defenses and reality

...

Rap Boy

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 22:17:23 GMT

(Wasn't going to post any more poetry but reading here reminds me of going to poetry readings. I went to a few in college the first time around. I also was editor on our campus literary magazine but refused to vote on my own work. Didn't seem fair to others contributing if I could vote on my own work but I had the option. This was inspired by a bus ride home, wrote it on my bday, ok I remember that bus ride too, in Buffalo)

rap boy sits with his eyes all a glaze
...

My lighthouse

feeds@yuku.com (Hasah) — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 06:20:57 GMT

Milwaukee Breakwater Light - Seeing The Light

Not posting any but I can't tell you how many poems I wrote gazing upon this lighthouse. I'd gaze at it during Summerfest and once I moved to the 'fashionable East Side' I visited it a lot. The rocks were different on the lakeshore 20 yrs ago. It looks like they...

Durban II

feeds@yuku.com (shamus111) — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:12:47 GMT

In Toronto now

Canadian Charter of Rights

feeds@yuku.com (shamus111) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:35:37 GMT

Canadian Charter of...

Human Rights Commissions

feeds@yuku.com (shamus111) — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:44:52 GMT

When I meditated on the word Guidance , I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word.
I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing.
When two people try to lead, nothing feels right.
The movement doesn't flow with the music,
and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky.
When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead,
both bodies begin to flow with the...

Recognitions of Clement

feeds@yuku.com (HopeOfZion) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:02:39 GMT
I wanted the share with you a book I am very excited about, which has had a very profound effect upon me. It is now in print again for the first time since the mid 19th Century. Any Christian or Bible Scholar who reads this book will be profoundly blessed.

The Recognitions of Clement is a captivating text dating back to the early Christian church and referenced by early church fathers Origen and Eusebius. The narrative is addressed to James the Just, the Bishop of Jerusalem, and is...

great stuff

feeds@yuku.com (Unregistered(d)) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:00:50 GMT
hello, i am new to these boards and am looking for some advise. i was wondering what books do you sugest that are very important books for everyone to read. I dont really want to know your favorite book i just want to know the important books that are out there.

thank you

POEM: the couch potato bishop

feeds@yuku.com (suzanne1) — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 23:14:54 GMT
the couch potato bishop
governs by paper
instead of crook
otherwise that could mean
standing up

dispassionate examinations by
committee are worded just so--
so as to presverve his
reputation for his non-
confrontational approach;
and thereby retain
the worlds esteem
(that is, of those who know his name)
and thereby make everyone
comfy, especially
the lukewarm

a document should soothe
like that well-worn groove
on the Simpsons...

HIS ACHIEVEMENT ARE WE by James Coram

feeds@yuku.com (crokinole) — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 11:25:54 GMT
The introduction at the beginning of each chapter is not the chapter itself. You must click on the highlighted title of each chapter to bring up the entire chapter to read it. Each chapter is quite long and comprehensive.

The danger in preaching the truth resides only in the imagination of the person who doesnt understand the truth.

The online book HIS ACHIEVEMENT ARE WE by James Coram needs no defence. It stands on its own merit.
It has helped many people. It will help many...