Tanka On The Search of Saint Augustine For God!
Oh, Eternal Truth ...
True love for Eternity..
You are my God. To
You do I sigh day and night..
since I first came to know you...
You drew me to You,
So I might see that there were
Things for me to see...
But that I was not ready.
I trembled with love and Dread...
Late have I loved you.
O Beauty ancient and new...
Late have I loved you.
You are inside, I outside...
And there I searched just for you...
You called, You shouted,
And you broke through my deafness...
You flashed, and You shone!
Yes! You dispelled my blindness...
You breathed your fragrance on me...
I drew in breath and
Now I pant for You. I have
Tasted You and now
I hunger and thirst for more...
I burn for Your touch... Your Peace!....
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Tanka For Our Grandchildren
Imagine Planet
Earth, a depleted planet,
Mourning the remains
Of the Industrial World,
Whose bones to Greed we have hurled ...
Lo! Our best efforts
To produce and research pure
Solar Energy
Will assure our Grandchildren
Of life that's pollution-free!!!
Will our Grandchildren
Receive from us their just due,
A Solar-Abode ??? ...
Or, the aforementioned sphere,
That Pollution's Hand doth hold ...
Haiku For Homo Sapiens
From Pure African
Homo Erectus evolved
Homo Sapiens...
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The Song for Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Refrain:
Lead on, Great Africa! ...
You are Time's Noblest Song ...
From pure African Homo Erectus
Evolved Homo Sapiens ...
Verses:
I sure was Southern ...
Southern as sweetest "Corn Pone" ...
An African man, ...
Son of a Baptist Preacher ...
And an African Princess ...
In Stockholm they gave
Me a prestigious award, ...
The Nobel Peace Prize ...
In Memphis my Award was
The lone assassin's lead gift ...
To help somebody ...
To feed all who are hungry ...
To clothe the naked ...
This is all our Great God's plan ...
And mine, ... an African man ...
Do not speak of my
Education, my degrees ...
Material things ...
I died a Baptist Preacher, ...
Reaching out for Freedom's Hand ...
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