Rambling

 

Games

Work

Money

Stress

What’s it all about?

 

Greed

Compassion

Selfishness

Love

What does it all mean?

 

Joy

Pain

Hope

Truth

Does it matter?

 

Stocks

Bankruptcy

Interest

Debt

Is that all there is?

 

Good

Evil

Hope

Despair

Is there a way out?

 

Creation

God

Jesus

Salvation

Yes there is!

  

23^rd January 2009, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

A/C

 

Hot!!

How could one small appliance

Affect me so?

Hot!!

How did folks manage

Before this great invention?

Hot!!

How did like go on?

I have nothing left to give!

Hot!!

Please be fixed soon!

 

 

14^th June 2008, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America

Clear Blue Sky

 

Looking down from a clear blue sky

Is this how angels view

The earth below?

How many changes they must have seen

From the paradise of Eden

To the waste of World War II

 

I wonder what they think

Of what I now see:

The skyline of Manhattan

Trying to reach their home,

The docks of New Jersey

Monstrous human creations

Or the splendour of Giants Stadium

A new church for so many?

 

I am sure they think

“What has man done

To the beautiful paradise

They once saw below.”

The human creations failing in so many ways

To reflect that of The Creator they adore.

Looking down from a clear blue sky

I am in awe of the vastness below

Created by humans, so imperfect

Created by God, so perfect.

I wonder what God Himself

Thinks of man’s works below?

  

14^th June 2008, Newark, New Jersey, United States of America

Airport – Again

 

Different faces

Different places

Look familiar

Although never seen before.

Laptops typing

Pages turning

Or cell phones talking

P.A. announces

Robotic sounding

Flights are cancelled

Or delayed

Temperature hot and dry

Different places

All the same.

 

26^th March 2008, White Plains, New York, United States of America.

I’m Only A Kid

 

I’m only a kid

From the North-East of England

Were folks are just

So down to earth.

No one leaves that small world.

Why would they?

Everything you need is there.

 

Why then have I just driven

Down Sunset Boulevard shadowed

By the Hollywood sign?

I lived under the arch

Of the Golden Gate

And passed miles by miles

On Texas blue bonnet highways.

 

How did I manage to stroll

Along large Parisian boulevards

Gazed at St. Petersburg’s glory

And the coral filled Sri Lankan seas

And live in the bright lights

Of London Town?

Because I am blessed

And humbled by the Almighty God

As His path I’ve tried to follow

Each day He leads and guides

Even though I’m a kid

From the North-East of England!

  

9^th January 2008, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

The Woods

 

Sitting high above

The vista of green

With a tinge of gold and red

All quiet and peaceful

Nothing around.

A crack, rustle,

Breath of wind

Or an unknown creature

Hiding, hunting, pouncing?

Just the image of creation

Giving a glimpse of the artist palette

Before he starts

And mixes the colours

Applying the paints with the vision

In his mind completed

Draws fame and praise.

However, sitting high above

The original inspiration

The composition pales into nothing.

The first is best

The great Creators mind

Is all we need to see

And praise!!

  

10^th October 2007, Cherry Log, Georgia, United States of America

Good Friday

 

As His broken body

Hung from the cross

The sky black

The earthquake shaking the land

Ripping into half the temple curtain

“It is finished”

He screams.

The quiet.

The Messiah, the dreams

Hanging there limp

All over?

The Son of God

Put there by everyone

All our hope gone

We’re so empty

We’re dead with Him.

However, the perfection of Him

Rips the veil between us and God

As He rises in victory

The ripped curtain now the path

To hope

To life

To Him

We believe!!

  

16^th September 2007, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America.