you will know the truth by its actions aka Holy wars
October 31, 2006
let the gods throw chairs
at each other
claiming truth
as property
shattering bones
snapping their names
while Buddha sits peacefully
under the table
this is what I’m talking about:
October 14, 2006
If you believe this is sure to happen:
Is peace – right now – your enemy?
let me put it another way
October 14, 2006
If you believe there can be no peace until the second coming, and that future war is predestined, and necessary, and there is nothing you can do about it – how can you truly work for peace? How can you put your heart and soul into building a world which is safe for any child – if you believe you are powerless? If you believe that reality is a function of magical forces. Forced conversion. Inexorable cataclysm.
As for me, I don’t need “experts” to interpret God’s plea made to all of us time and time again: LOVE THY NEIGHBOR…
faces
August 29, 2006
God does
not need
a face
We do
not need
a face
But there may
always
be
faces
to fill
on driving rudely after church (a re-post)
August 13, 2006
Like some reverse square dance,
or perhaps a big bang of humankind,
we travel away from each other
into little corners of the universe
to watch from a distance.
One Sunday Morning
August 6, 2006
We arrived at church,
but the the doors were locked.
A letter held on in the breeze:
My Dear Children,
I am not inside –
you will find me among the sick,
the troubled, the destitute…
Father Joe is with me.
Come join us.
Love,
God
Within the month
most of us had joined
a different church.
Choose Me God! Polka
July 30, 2006
farmer prays for rain
builder prays for none
each one asks the Lord
to be His chosen one
In the name of Allah
July 16, 2006
Two fathers speak:
One father oversees his child play under a blue sky,
My son thrives in the presence of Allah
oh take delight in this moment!
Creator and Created
forever beautiful…
any second any outing any worship any moment any hell
The second father overlooks a hole blown into a street,
My son was ripped from this life
and flung into the shrapnel sky
his body became a constellation of flesh and blood
I will never forget the sight…
any second any outing any worship any moment any hell
2003/2006
BINGO lingo
July 8, 2006
when our parish has BINGO
I wonder:
how can we call birth control
unnatural
1982
Perhaps… 2
July 6, 2006
our lives
are the
hands of God
kneading Love
into the protoplasm
2005
qazse 