Best Off And On Poems
(A Thank You To God)
1.
God!
I love this life so much,
How your creation turns me ON,
I wake up singing the joy of each new day,
Even as my body aches with age.
The gift of every morning’s light,
And rain, that precious gift,
Gift that keeps on giving,
Fuel of your abundance.
Seeds, barely seen, that feed and house my soul
A daily miracle, whisper the truth,
Of Your ever present love.
How farmer in me swoons in admiration
At your abundant provision,
Your love, like the rainbow, has many aspects.
Poetry and music that the ether carries,
Fills every dream with water
That like a fish, I have learned to swim in,
And star dust’s sexual nature,
Whose secret longings birth all living matter,
Though inert, how its dreams of movement,
Forge our very nature.
Oh Lord, the fertility of Your imagination
Fills me with such a longing,
Stand by me like a midwife,
Husband me into Your Presence,
Thus make my OFF a new ON.
2.
Take me,
Take me to where your heart so open
Waits only for my laughter,
Thrills in each moments progress,
Stumbling, I fall before You,
Never fear, your hand in anger,
Plant me, plant my feet on Your Path,
Make my life a counter point
To your melodic line, your leading
Show me how my tiny spark
Enriches even Your existence.
3.
Forgive me
Lord, when I’m pissed OFF at You
Or at some inner failing in me,
Open my eyes to the truth
As You’d have me see it,
Those disappointing strangers,
Help me to hear with both ears.
You who have always loved me,
Even before Your Son’s blood washed me clean
And made my every stain as white as snow.
When life takes something from me,
That I think really matters
And anger blinds me to You
Remember I still need you...
When I’m OFF at the races
Putting ego through its paces
Remind me that the battle’s won already,
Loving You is all I have to do....
Life in You so easy,
One, Two, Three!
Brian Johnston
January 6, 2015
I lie in flip-flop half enlightened state, half asleep, half awake
Betwixt shut eye and shuttered eye peeping out half open slit.
Flipping and flopping not knowing which state is real, surreal or dream.
Can I choose the better take?
Can I choose the better outcome?
Consciousness held suspended, reality blurred, bizarre and fuzzy.
I don't want to wake up till I know how to tell dream from too true.
Time suspended, sand in hour glass goes up and down.
I'm floating aloft awaiting the pin prick
That will spurt, splurt, blurt and babble me back to stark reality
Like a picked balloon careers in chaos around a room.
OFF and On
Simply put some people are always ON and they are supercharged and have no
lack of energy gastrulating vehemently as the victum less than gleefully reacts to
them oh please my work is over in one hour eye am very sleepy now as soon as
eye have eaten and made love then eye must sleep and get some rest somehow
oh eye knoe that you are someone in the world of education oh you say you are a
teacher and you expostulate the ramification of my emulation of a sheep at sleep
and resting in the field of grass between the Sheppard dogs at last just let me do
this last hour of my job and learn people do not have to bow to a higher learner
when they earn.
LIGHT-SWITCH
I was ignored in the light
So I hid in the dark
I was shamed and sly
So I told myself a-lie
Full of despair, now I grown out my hair
Like Samson my strength in follicles
My feelings recreational
Neither longer truth nor dare
This chapter in my life sparks
Memories no longer in the dark
For you see I am a sinner
And now I’m coming out of the dark
You see I’m saved and forgiven and now I see the light
My life is like a Light-Switch, that I turn on and off
My love is like a Light-Switch, that I turn on and off
My eyelids are liken a Light-Switch which turns on or off
Unlike my feelings for God and Our Lord I will serve Him in peace and when I’m distraught
Unlike myself you see God’s not a light-switch, for He doesn’t turn on nor off
10/28/19
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2019©
Written for class assignment (WIPS) North Omaha Writers Group (NOW)
Time to turn off lights
But, I wanna write some more
There's always tomo.
Time to turn on lights
But, I wanna sleep some more
There's always tonight
"The left hemisphere's assault on our embodied nature
is not just an assault on OUR bodies,
but on the embodied nature of the
[sacred EarthMother]
world around us."
Iain McGilchrist, The Master and his Emissary, p. 440
The WhiteMale monotheistic privileged attack
on regenerative co-passion
was already our unwell
under-enlightened Way
bypassing time's orgasmic peak ReGeneration
With rising eroticism,
as might be sacredly anticipated
shifting balance bisexually in-between
right BeautyFull polytheistic Health
and left HandSum enthymematic
Holy Open Systemic Wealth
Growth in neuro-erotic feeling
sensual integrity's surfing in
and out potential
peak transubstantiated co-passion
Not so much reciting LeftBrain dogma
while slowly re-opening more sensual
sacred holonic,
pantheistic
holy worship
wonder
awe
By contrast with monotheism
equating homophobic White AnthroGod
with conserving ZeroSum competitive justice
against Both/And co-operative spantheists
feeling MotherEartha's energy
empowering all integral
win/win erotic
exotic
quixotic
handsome informed Yang
beautiful outflowing Yintegrity
wu-wei sacred co-relationships.
Western white homophobic monotheists
decline their own panentheistic ecofeminist spirituality
denying monoculturing force
post-millennially decapitating
White patriarchal capitalism
withering emasculated away
with advancing global
polytheistic sacred synergy,
enthymematic secular awareness
inflaming not not climate anxiety
is neither healthy
nor safe
nor wealthy
nor compassionate
nor bipolar 1 v 0 sexy.
every time i see you
its like im seein see through
its just another state of mind
its just another thing that i left behind
its like a strong motion
more to devotion
its like dynamite im gonna start an explosion
as the dust that just blows away
just like every word that i ever had to say
its like back in the day i always stayed fresh with my fit
all these girls that im tryin to get wit
and you know as a ryder im just ready to hit
but i gotta say lets get
and we gone
just another way we off and on
tell the night all the way to the dawn
ur every look just got me drawn
u got me on the emotion
ur eyes are like an ocean
as im trapped at sea
everything about u i thought i could never be
Yesterday I lived in a different world.
A world filled with anger, selfishness, and a need for belonging.
Today I'm here, in a place unknown to most.
A place with warmth, comfort, where I am to belong.
My switch is either on or off.
From world to world I willing allow it to happen.
With faith in myself to know Im where I am for a reason.
A reason at times unknown to me, but in time I see.