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Towards the light
The Motorcade
Poetic Interlude XVI
‘UNCONTAMINATION’
By and large there is no charge
It’s free – as free as can be
Breath-it-in as you stroke your chin
Easy as Japanesey – that air tastes good
Or so it should
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
My head spins – better just trust the experts (?)
As I’m told the climate’s all gone wrong
They say ‘stop and turn or it’s all gonna burn’
They say we just can’t go on –
Forlorn for long
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
And eat the right food don’t dispense-with too soon
Preserve and prolong – we are off to the moon
Money makes the world go round – but it’s all gone wrong
So we seek another planet to rest our craft upon
Money nearly gone
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
And what of political correctness?
Anything else to add to the list – if you get my gist?
How about – don’t call a comedian a comedian
Or better not call it ‘stand-up’ in case they prefer a chair
Comedienne now and again
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
In danger of: “I digress…”
I should mention I would wear a mask
But is this lawful or going to offend someone?
To filter the grimy terrain and air pollution
Railway station solution?
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
I have such a limited education –
I’d best just sit at your feet
And listen to what ‘all gone wrong’ means
Is the global warming-warning – winning?
The battle’s begun
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
My little insignificant self stares at the world
and it’s wealth – plastic bottles on the shelf
The rich list is fine and good if they worked for it
But perhaps somebody at least – should…
Give some away – to de-contaminate
They use their money to breath by going to a place where…
Where are you? – Let us all know
As we too would breath your uncontamination
Poetic Interlude XIV
WE MUST REACH OUT
When the thunder sounds
And the sky is ripped apart
The great sea roars
And the land disappears
When the volcanoes erupt and the lava spills
The storm rages and ravages the hills
The earthquakes return and the snow enfolds
All is uproar, darkness and dangers untold
We are here – yes you and I
Travelling on land sea or sky
Homo sapiens full of big ideas and plans
Facing nature and all it’s demands
We sink and don’t swim in Tsunami’s embrace
In this
We must reach out
for Amazing Grace
The unseen hand
THE UNSEEN HAND
The sun beats down on
old familiar adjective street
Later the moon showed-off it’s roundness
scaring away all clouds
by arrangement with the weather
Starry starry night so oft referred to
in painting, poem, and song
All on the back-cloth of that blue
That blue from dark outer value
to cobalt hue near the light
That’s the blue – memories are made of
That’s the blue that in partnership
with fresh air and approaching spring
galvanises the senses in smell, sight
sound and touch
in impressionable youth
when emotions are fixed for good
It’s that night of sensing weather
that repeats the memory
for years
on it’s return
The essence of human emotion
when the experience of
similar landscape
hints at the eternal
when all is well – with feelings of safety
and just being young and interested
in all that is about us –
in activities-engagement
of one kind or another.
In moments – just moments
God placed His hand
Just to say: ‘I’m still here’
And I mistook it for enjoyment of life
in those things He had made
Like young Samuel I could hear
But I didn’t know
He stayed knocking
Until one more winter arrived
This time
with spiritual surprise
The inner storm of conflict
Passed
And eternal peace was inherited
Poetic Interlude IX
A WALK IN NATURE
Down by the slippery tree –
never searched-out why it might be
And kicking through blades of grass
I stop to stare at swans as they pass
My hands on hips my stare intact
I notice their regal look and feathers perfect
White as white can be and undisturbed
By you or me
They take their time as Regals should
This way – then that – depending on their mood
Their orange bill-pointer at large
delves into their feathery down
And then sequentially dives beneath
the water’s Carmel brown
I wonder what she snatched
Perhaps a young insect not long hatched?
Time to trundle-on along the river side
Take-in all nature has,
maybe pull up a stump and abide
I stay there – ’til soon it’s past noon
The morning walk is over
“Be home soon”
I tell the better-half on the mobile
But I linger –
excusing myself for staying another while
Poetic Interlude VI
NATURE’S ORCHESTRA (2019)
All elements complain
Gusty wind and stormy rain
All elements complain
Creaking trees in vast domain
All join in the fray
Orchestral confusion in tuning-up-tunes
Strings of spindly branches too loose
To find a tight rendition
Leaves swaying trying to keep in time
Bullrushes stretch to see beyond
Every player rasping on each other
Each blaming sister or brother
From Corfu to Bahama-island-sand
Across the mighty ocean
The symphony began
Unknown instruments held in – unknown hands
Music symphonies as nature leaves the silence-bind
To play the missing chord that music cannot find
Mountains loom above – looking down on the band
As the sea roars it’s contribution to the land
As man runs to hide his head – rather like a coward
With no appreciation for this music avant-garde
He flees the sonic din he doesn’t understand
All fears rise-up to the disaster never planned
A song to arise – an opera of superseding grandeur
All drums of thunderclap sound
Split to give way to lightning flash
The amateur rocks will have another bash
While in the grassy slopes each blade tries to stand
To applaud the combination-grand
All is let loose with no conductor to command
Animals beneath will watch it on the TV of the moorland
They run like you and me as the storm-score takes its toll
It has strummed many strings and solo’d it’s drum roll
Another day another gig for it’s not due it’s repose
Into the night and into the next day it keeps us on our toes
Din after din to the untrained ear
But sophisticated composition in musical Shakespeare
It’s dying now – where has the crescendo gone?
It will live to fight another year – turn and turn it on
Sound recorded for posterity
It’s devastation now needs prosperity
Nature’s music always leaves it’s aftermath
It’s genre – classical or rock – music for it’s warpath
We know it will try again to produce another album
Tuning-up trying to harmonise – but still remaining random
Extreme sound – loud and clear and long and shrill
Remember this piece – as you yield to the awesome thrill
Divine Intervention
Divine Intervention
Superman never fails, or so the illustrated narratives would want to show us.
He comes to the rescue – swooping into a situation and exercising his muscles to save the day.
God can ‘sweep’ into a situation with ‘Divine Intervention’ .
Whether in given situations or in people’s personal lives.
Divine intervention – What is it?
According to Wikipedia:
Divine intervention is a purported miracle caused by a deity’s active involvement in the human world.
I think it is true to say that in accessing Wikipedia I have accessed a source of information that most – if not all – accept as authoritative (?).
For the Christian, however, the first source of reference for information of this kind, is of course the book we call The Bible.
Notice – Wikipedia uses the word: ‘purported’.
Here we go defining again:
purportedly:
as appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; allegedly:
Notice the injection of doubt? – ‘not necessarily so…allegedly…and the first mentioned: ‘purported’’
All statements worded in this way, are written to suit the compiler of definitions himself, or to satisfy the skeptical agnostics or unbelievers.
I guess its an attempt to please all the people – all of the time. But it fails, – as it doesn’t please me.
There are many examples of divine intervention in the Bible. God – dividing the Red Sea. God consuming Elijah’s water-soaked sacrifice, Mose’s revelation of the burning bush, burning but not consumed, the conceiving of children when it was past the age of conception for the woman, angels appearing to a bunch of shepherds, a donkey talking to a man, five loaves and two fish feeding 5,000 plus and so on. I will add an etc. etc. here.
For some these are divine fairy tales.
For the believing Christian it is truly – divine intervention, and I have listed only a few.
God intervenes in major and minor ways.
He intervened in my life in a powerful and unmistakable way. I am extremely thankful for this intervention, It was so powerful and real I will never forget it, and it is the foundation upon which my faith is built, being a Revelation of Jesus Christ.
I do not experience this the same way or to the same degree every day.
That is how it is meant to be.
God doesn’t need to intervene, or introduce Himself in the same manner, as He is an abiding presence in my life, already.
But I am so thankful for His unique introduction in the first instance.
He can intervene miraculously if He so chooses, but not to convince me of His existence, He has already done that.
How many of my friends and I would love to see that Divine Intervention again in our nation and the nations of the world. We, as Christians, have put the title ‘Revival’ upon such interventions.
Elijah once considered himself the ‘only one left’ but God had secret plans, revealed in response to Elijah’s ‘I only am left’ – complex.
God revealed to Elijah that He had reserved for Himself 7,000 who had not bowed the knee to worship the false-deity called Baal.
Are you among the 7,000+ who have not bowed the knee to false gods?
Romans 11/
…Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? 4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant…
I almost feel like starting a survey and getting you to sign it – if you have experienced the divine intervention of Jesus in your life, and you are therefore ‘all-time voting for Him!’
As God intervened in the life of the world taking upon Himself the clothing of flesh in a virgin’s womb – and we have allocated this time of year to remember Him doing so – remember also that this was divine intervention – Jesus Christ has come in the flesh!
II John 1/7
For many deceivers have gone out into the world who do not confess Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is a deceiver and an antichrist.
