Reasonable Human

HUMAN: O! This is Heavenly Home! Why must I swamp the landscape with my foul ugliness?

REASON: Surely your causes,your beliefs, can summon a greatness to flow from the spirit?

HUMAN: It has been my reality and I could not know it until the truth was revealed to me of my course. It's no one's fault but my own for having breached the sanctity of Life, Love and then God. I am not a lost child, I am found. Now I pay my penance, lift all to a Heavenly spirit that's been waiting for humankind to finally create a model beneath their feet for their imagined heavens, it would serve the (H)eartH well to be so imagined...

REASON: Fear chose you so long ago now.

HUMAN: I never once felt truly afraid of what had a hold of me. My spirit would sometime's soar, but it soon took the fearful direction on the pathway toward Love and the (H)eartH and child and mother and loyalty and friend and forgiveness and peace. I've climbed my way to the surface of Heaven, boy I sure didn't like what I saw when my eyes finally opened.

REASON: I was a tad bit behind and had to play catch-up and fast and this poor schlub, Mark Richard Prime, hadn't a wise-ass clue as to what he was tumbling toward...

HUMAN: The silence was overtaken by the traffic, but not before I caught a glimpse of why I'm here in this moment, Love and Forgiveness anointed me with Peace and Laughter. I am a new person, born again after I suffered for the sins of the self, and that's all of us.)

REASON: Surely you've not suffered enough for 7 billion sinners, human?

HUMAN: Perhaps not, but I can guarantee you this, I will not return empty handed. The spirit of Love and Creation's (H)eartH move within me and this journey has just begun!

REASON: Sins are the rub. Without them it would leave Love, Forgiveness, Peace, Laughter, Truth and Goodness as model for humankind's desired Heaven.

HUMAN: Sin’s another word for fear and there’s no room at the inn.

REASON: Boom boom said the noise outside my frame!
Bing bang said the scribe who temporarily forgot his name.
Rat a tat tat went the story,
As if an urgency in its message summoned a drum.

HUMAN: I will keep my belief and beg of you to summon a dance with me that I might do what I’m intended to do…

sdrawkcaB nruT (Turn Backwards)

I have been witness to the four pillars and see no reason to carry death there. Doesn’t the world know that life moves for more than just the sons of Abraham? O! I see the stunned throats floating by in the dusk to their stiff-limbed sleep as metal rains down over the Jordan’s western prophet, children dying there. I am here, waiting, breathing in the dusk under the shadow of the patriarch, asking, can we again build the shrine inside the soul and leave our flesh to time? © 2008 mrp/thepoetryman

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........•SHRIEKING MACHINE•........ •HEAD-LINES• •RIP• ---(“Russian missiles blast Ukrainian military academy and hospital, killing more than 50, officials say”)--- There are no more lessons to learn here, no more beds to hold the human wounded, just missile’s shrieking their grotesque ode, The Death of Humankind! RIP, children of God… ---(“Hundreds attend Mercer Island vigil, march for murdered Israeli hostages”)--- Dear mourners, this is the brutal vacuum of a genocidal, terror-filled, indiscriminate war-machine made of fear and we are all hostages to its deafening roar! RIP, children of God… ---(“10-year-old allegedly confesses to fatally shooting 82-year-old man and his daughter”)--- I must confess, this is part of war’s shrieking, children lost with a we...

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Waiting for It

Why do they stay there, between war and peace? Sky’s tapestry doles out guns, bombs and rocks while flesh and bone swim away from the ache yet live on as the food for the murder of peace. Why do we hide from the truth as if it were an ogre while death makes a home inside their living and war dispatches a raven to their door, smirking with the teeth of empire? Why do we wait, stooped for another wink? The sky’s drapery has tossed down ample clues, peace is breathing in harmony with war. (Road-maps are useless to blind leaders.) Why do they hold there, hunched in the gloom? Hatred’s bird cackling with bereavement needs end. Are we not rightly dishonored when we fill its trough with blood? © 2007 mrp/thepoetryman

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