Rudy Vallee Albright

Jacksonville, Florida, USA

Some years ago, after I had finished writing the book of poems, "Praise," I showed it to my mother and expressed to her, deeply, no one ever is to read these poems! They were not written to man! They are written to God! Understand? Oh me!. "Honor thy mother and father", is the commandment, I could not eject, from my mind, until I, "begged her" through tears to forgive, this arrogant one. Isn't it "beautifully strung," that through my self-elegant, arrogance... God turned my, "swilling butt" around? "A man who, attires his soul, "inscrutable" must, in the end. Find his spirit, departing at that inopportune (to his soul), prophesied time."

Baptized

"Standing in the water, of my grave!
One Step from the old man crucified!"
Washed up on God's shore in, baptized wave.
While, Angels, "Shout!" where they abide.
Walking, from, the water of the dead.
"Ascending", to... "The rock!" on which I stand.
"Rock of Ages"... "Now"... in you, I'm bred.
"Rooting root of Jesse! in your hand!"
Walking off, the miles, "God's brand-new kid!"
Stomping, out the mud-holes in "The Way".
Stumping, toes on stones that Satan, "Hid!"
"Black-Eyes on, the School-Ground where, I pray!"
"Brilliant!" is "The light", of my inside.
Burning, out the future of my past
Eating from the table of "God's" in-tide!
Bread upon, the waters that I've cast!"

Dear God

"You created all there is
Without a chart
By a hand that never needed
To rehearse
And, though your hand is slightly smaller
Than your heart
Still it holds this vast and perfect!"
Universe!
"Yes! You created, all there is
By faith of hand
Yet you know the very spot
On which I stand!"
"Ohh!" "Dear God!"
You have caused me... "To Love!"
"The Little Ant!"

Twins

"Beauty"... of, its own, "essence"...

...so, "twirled".......

"Inward"... to, behold..."itself"...
...from, "Within".......

"Beauty"... of, its own, "essence"...

..."un-furled"............

.......And, "was glad", eternity...

..."is its twin"!........

(of, "What"... emissive, "essence"... is, your soul?)