LAUNCHING WORDS, SHIPS, PINK-COLORED SLIPS
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A face that truly inspires,
Greed and avarice fires…
Dressed up nice
But cold as ice,
Does she care about what transpires?
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Often idols are kept
Away from those who have wept…
A picture that’s true
Reality, will it do?
For those whose souls have left?
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Women dressed up and admired,
No control over what transpired….
Men use romance
Justifying advance,
After brutally acquired.
(A different side of the coin, perhaps?)
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–Jonathan Caswell
HARD-TO-HEAR HAIKU
(Adult Topic)
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Become impotent
His fading manhood laments…
But what is inside?
-JEC
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Little feeling left,
No place left to vent the ache…
Must thinking change, too?
–JEC
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Engorgement all gone,
Being faithful accepts lack…
No one left to love.
–JEC
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How to love without?
Can a man still be a man”’
His woman knows that!
–JEC
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Appreciates form,
Less likely liquid lusting…
Why keep the old ways?
–JEC
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Is safer this way…
For all women that he sees,
Much less threatening!
–JEC
Power lust remains,
That…no non-phallic can cure…
Bad apples near tree.
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–Jonathan Caswell
AUTUMN HAIKU HERDING
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Fall plantings are in,
Cabbages, hardy mums bloom…
Autumn colors glow!
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Warm days–cooler nights
Ushering those southward flights…
Noisily birds fly.
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Harvest time each year,
Dresses and skirts lower hems…
Less yield for the men!
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Snow birds fly or drive,
Commuting to stay alive…
Rubber tires fly!
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Children play in leaves,
Hot chocolate sales go up…
Deserted beaches!
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Eggs and produce come
Veggies come from foreign lands…
Locally–now!
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–Jonathan Caswell
“WE ACKNOWLEDGE AND BEWAIL…
OUR MANIFOLD SINS AND WICKEDNESSES!”
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So says the Hymnal Methodist,
Big words but this is the gist…
Confess and repent–
Be not content
Until the Son is kissed!
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Church says at least once yearly,
The Bible says daily–more often clearly–
Be reconciled
Whenever defiled,
If possible—do it early!
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Some emotional are,
Others barely jarred…
Do we say “bewail”
And all that entails
EACH TIME we take things too far?
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Ritual for ritual’s sake,
Repetition brings temptation to fake…
Made to repent
One will resent,
In tthe heart, repentance won’t take!
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How do maturer disciples
Get through these frequent cycles…
Expressed emotion
Faked as devotion,
The process taken as trifles?
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I am no master-mind here,
Perhaps my experience clears…
Questions of sense
With God’s grace immense,
The mystery revealed for years.
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I know when I’ve done,
Delibrately against God’s Son…
Acknowledged inside
Recognised pride,
My Sin against the Holy One.
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His grace and mercy I plea
As well as my eternal need…
For all His grace
To see His face,
When from this world we are freed.
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Words are cheap without action
So I do what I must for traction…
Forgiving self
Is my wide gulf,
Must do it to God’s satisfaction..
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So acknowledge, repent, find release,
In time failure’s sadness will ease…
Can hardly forget
But next time be set
With precautions with which God is pleased.
–Jonathan Caswell
By the Mighty Mumford 