Parental Fighting
Mommy, Daddy why are you fighting
Everything here is too frightening
For me here
Everything here is just a horrifying sighting
Mommy, Daddy why are you crying
Aren't to going to start trying
To save us
Or is our family going to start dying
Mommy, Daddy why are you leaving
The children you were once conceiving
In your home
Oh how my youthful happiness was deceiving
Ode To A Jesus Fish
We decorate our lives with a cross like a token
Rather than follow the Word Jesus spoken
The covenants and bonds of God are being broken
We show our faith outward because we don't have any within
We pray lip service might take away our sin
Disconnect
I'm living life with no inspiration
Feeling everything without interpretation
Can't tell if it's good or if it's bad
Can't tell if I'm content or sad
But this is the only life I ever had
Receptors and inhibitors are out of whack in my brain
If people weren't indifferent they'd misdiagnose me insane
First thoughts tell them I'm lazy, sick or uncaring
Second thoughts tell them it doesn't matter if they keep staring
Final thoughts are dismissive since to them I have no bearing
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Poetry Post 206
Autumn Riding
Riding in my electric car
Caring not where we are
Enjoying the light, caressing autumn breeze
With the strong, fresh aroma of the asters and the oak trees
Beauty undefiled
With my beauty in the wild
Virgin land pure and clean
Not a better land have lovers seen
Description Of A Girl
There is a girl I love so dearly
And everything I say of her I say sincerely
Her eyes so shiny they could light a room
Her smile so warm it melts away the gloom
Her touch so gentle her spirit so kind
All this and more makes me want want her to be mine
And everything I have told is true
But also let say to this woman "I love you"
MTV
Anytime you turn on MTV
It will teach you how to be
A world class idiot savant
From rappers who taunt
To posing pop star corporate hos
And Jackass reality star bozos
To millions they range from idol
To childhood role model
It's hard to believe those whose efforts aren't a nickel's worth
Control the naive minds controlling the Earth
Riding in my electric car
Caring not where we are
Enjoying the light, caressing autumn breeze
With the strong, fresh aroma of the asters and the oak trees
Beauty undefiled
With my beauty in the wild
Virgin land pure and clean
Not a better land have lovers seen
Description Of A Girl
There is a girl I love so dearly
And everything I say of her I say sincerely
Her eyes so shiny they could light a room
Her smile so warm it melts away the gloom
Her touch so gentle her spirit so kind
All this and more makes me want want her to be mine
And everything I have told is true
But also let say to this woman "I love you"
MTV
Anytime you turn on MTV
It will teach you how to be
A world class idiot savant
From rappers who taunt
To posing pop star corporate hos
And Jackass reality star bozos
To millions they range from idol
To childhood role model
It's hard to believe those whose efforts aren't a nickel's worth
Control the naive minds controlling the Earth
Movie Outline Brotherhood Of Heathens
Genre: Social Drama
Characters:
Ruth Inglewood- African native women who weds the missionary Charles Inglewood
Charles Inglewood-zealous American Catholic missionary sent to Africa to do preaching work
Natalie Inglewood-xenophobic religious fanatic mother of Charles
Plot:
A Catholic missionary from Boston is sent to Nigeria to convert the natives despite his maternally inherited xenophobia and piety but falls in love with a native named Amachi who he "christens" Ruth and marries after months of being apart from his home. Charles talks constantly to Ruth about how wonderful and free America is and how righteous Catholics are. He fails to get a church established there and remains embittered about it. During his stay in Nigeria he dies of pneumonia and when the Catholic Church sent him his ticket back to Boston Ruth gathered her few possessions and a passport made out to her from what little money Charles had left with him at the time of his death. When in America she is disillusioned about the hypocrisy and the hatred especially from her mother-in-law and goes through a spiritual odyssey studying Western religions to even greater disapproval from the indifferent pastors. In the end she feels alienated and misses the communal love she had in her poor Nigerian village.
Scene Sequence:
1) Charles' work from alter boy to missionary school
2) Mother's warning about foreigners and old wives tales about other cultures
3) A "tamer more politically correct" warning from missionary school
4) Ordained missionary with first assignment for three years in Nigeria
5) Worried nights waiting for departure
6) An anxious flight boarding
7) Meeting a few other missionaries in the village with advice of don't make your work your life
8) Over zealous speech to natives about hellfire, the papacy, the rosary, Armageddon, cross, confession, infant baptism and the sanctity of the trinity
9) Cultural barriers eating with Nigerians
10) Trouble getting conversions
11) Meeting Amachi at a low count meeting
12) Meeting Amachi for a date and christen her as Ruth
13) Long arduous days of preaching
14) Long lonely nights
15) Charles dates Ruth more and Ruth asks to help out
16) Catholic church endorses a tribal war blessing the more "convertible" side luckily the village Charles is in
17) Tragic epic destruction harms both tribes
18) Conversions are getting harder as Jehovah's Witnesses make sweeping progress through down trodden areas helping after natives volunteering to rebuild both villages
19) Ruth stands by Charles and helps build a church
20) A proposal
21) A small wedding American style
22) The missionaries of Jehovah's Witnesses leave after construction and rebuilding help is done and a few congregations are established taking their equipment and medicine elsewhere
23) Charles spends long winter days and nights working in the missionary work door to door
24) Charles lays sick with pneumonia in bed without medication available but with the last rites given
25) An open ticket home to Boston
26) Ruth gathers up a passport and goes to the airport a hundred miles away
27) Prejudices leave her disillusioned about land of opportunity
28) Meeting her in laws with a bad reception
29) Scorn at Mass leaves feeling betrayed by her departed husband
30) Studying other religions
31) Pastors got to her about her "religious curiosity" and she by her decision to the point of excommunication
32) Ruth studies with Jehovah's Witnesses
33) Ruth has trouble adapting to the rules of Jehovah's Witnesses and has trouble feeling connected as she did with the Catholics
34) Ruth decides to disassociate herself from all religious ties but now realizes there is no way home again physically mentally or spiritually
Characters:
Ruth Inglewood- African native women who weds the missionary Charles Inglewood
Charles Inglewood-zealous American Catholic missionary sent to Africa to do preaching work
Natalie Inglewood-xenophobic religious fanatic mother of Charles
Plot:
A Catholic missionary from Boston is sent to Nigeria to convert the natives despite his maternally inherited xenophobia and piety but falls in love with a native named Amachi who he "christens" Ruth and marries after months of being apart from his home. Charles talks constantly to Ruth about how wonderful and free America is and how righteous Catholics are. He fails to get a church established there and remains embittered about it. During his stay in Nigeria he dies of pneumonia and when the Catholic Church sent him his ticket back to Boston Ruth gathered her few possessions and a passport made out to her from what little money Charles had left with him at the time of his death. When in America she is disillusioned about the hypocrisy and the hatred especially from her mother-in-law and goes through a spiritual odyssey studying Western religions to even greater disapproval from the indifferent pastors. In the end she feels alienated and misses the communal love she had in her poor Nigerian village.
Scene Sequence:
1) Charles' work from alter boy to missionary school
2) Mother's warning about foreigners and old wives tales about other cultures
3) A "tamer more politically correct" warning from missionary school
4) Ordained missionary with first assignment for three years in Nigeria
5) Worried nights waiting for departure
6) An anxious flight boarding
7) Meeting a few other missionaries in the village with advice of don't make your work your life
8) Over zealous speech to natives about hellfire, the papacy, the rosary, Armageddon, cross, confession, infant baptism and the sanctity of the trinity
9) Cultural barriers eating with Nigerians
10) Trouble getting conversions
11) Meeting Amachi at a low count meeting
12) Meeting Amachi for a date and christen her as Ruth
13) Long arduous days of preaching
14) Long lonely nights
15) Charles dates Ruth more and Ruth asks to help out
16) Catholic church endorses a tribal war blessing the more "convertible" side luckily the village Charles is in
17) Tragic epic destruction harms both tribes
18) Conversions are getting harder as Jehovah's Witnesses make sweeping progress through down trodden areas helping after natives volunteering to rebuild both villages
19) Ruth stands by Charles and helps build a church
20) A proposal
21) A small wedding American style
22) The missionaries of Jehovah's Witnesses leave after construction and rebuilding help is done and a few congregations are established taking their equipment and medicine elsewhere
23) Charles spends long winter days and nights working in the missionary work door to door
24) Charles lays sick with pneumonia in bed without medication available but with the last rites given
25) An open ticket home to Boston
26) Ruth gathers up a passport and goes to the airport a hundred miles away
27) Prejudices leave her disillusioned about land of opportunity
28) Meeting her in laws with a bad reception
29) Scorn at Mass leaves feeling betrayed by her departed husband
30) Studying other religions
31) Pastors got to her about her "religious curiosity" and she by her decision to the point of excommunication
32) Ruth studies with Jehovah's Witnesses
33) Ruth has trouble adapting to the rules of Jehovah's Witnesses and has trouble feeling connected as she did with the Catholics
34) Ruth decides to disassociate herself from all religious ties but now realizes there is no way home again physically mentally or spiritually
Poetry Post 205
Lost Youth
My youth us gone
I must move on
To find a full time career
To keep until death comes near
No more living my life just for fun
No more quiet days spent lying under the sun
My money will be half spent
On a run down apartment
Goodbye childhood bliss
Goodbye happiness
I must enter my adulthood pain
Never to be a child again
Reflections Of Judgment Day
I fear the impeding Judgment Day
I walked too many roads and lost my way
At twenty all I want is a career, a home and a wife
I can't handle worrying about anything else in my life
I want to serve God
But there's only so many roads to trod
I need to fulfill each dream
And somehow get redeemed
I don't fear the myths of hellfire
But I question my every desire
I don't know if my delights are pure
So I fear what I needlessly endure
I can't say if there is enough purity in what I do
But I'll stand for my beliefs and Jehovah for I know they're true
But will my strength whither in weakness like Peter
I don't know if I'll meet the measure of the meter
Optimism Fails
You can't keep on keeping on
Without your faith and will you'll soon be gone
You'll pray for help until your work is done
Cause you can't sing a happy song when there is none
My youth us gone
I must move on
To find a full time career
To keep until death comes near
No more living my life just for fun
No more quiet days spent lying under the sun
My money will be half spent
On a run down apartment
Goodbye childhood bliss
Goodbye happiness
I must enter my adulthood pain
Never to be a child again
Reflections Of Judgment Day
I fear the impeding Judgment Day
I walked too many roads and lost my way
At twenty all I want is a career, a home and a wife
I can't handle worrying about anything else in my life
I want to serve God
But there's only so many roads to trod
I need to fulfill each dream
And somehow get redeemed
I don't fear the myths of hellfire
But I question my every desire
I don't know if my delights are pure
So I fear what I needlessly endure
I can't say if there is enough purity in what I do
But I'll stand for my beliefs and Jehovah for I know they're true
But will my strength whither in weakness like Peter
I don't know if I'll meet the measure of the meter
Optimism Fails
You can't keep on keeping on
Without your faith and will you'll soon be gone
You'll pray for help until your work is done
Cause you can't sing a happy song when there is none
Poetry Post 204
You
My love for you is so much more
Than any love I had before
You're more than another picture on the wall
When I'm depressed you're the one I can call
You help me every time I fall
Your smiling face your sparkling eyes
You keep my eyes on the prize
Your generosity
Has done so much for me
You showed me how much life could be
Mirage
In a dense desert of faceless enemies
Stands a foreign friend like an illusion
A mere illusion of an oasis across the desert breeze
A shining smile like water reflection cools me from oppressive heat
Her love refuels from within
Making the day easier to complete
Beauty Beyond Sight
My dearest beloved don't you see your beauty
Beauty, also, for the minds eye to see
With the blessing of your unique personality
It is a divine gift to be a part of your world shining so brightly
My love for you is so much more
Than any love I had before
You're more than another picture on the wall
When I'm depressed you're the one I can call
You help me every time I fall
Your smiling face your sparkling eyes
You keep my eyes on the prize
Your generosity
Has done so much for me
You showed me how much life could be
Mirage
In a dense desert of faceless enemies
Stands a foreign friend like an illusion
A mere illusion of an oasis across the desert breeze
A shining smile like water reflection cools me from oppressive heat
Her love refuels from within
Making the day easier to complete
Beauty Beyond Sight
My dearest beloved don't you see your beauty
Beauty, also, for the minds eye to see
With the blessing of your unique personality
It is a divine gift to be a part of your world shining so brightly
Poetry Post 203
Poets
Does the po boy still sing the blues
Langston Hughes
Does the caged bird still coo
Maya Angelou
Do the young at heart still play seeking fun
Robert Louis Stevenson
Shall we rage against the dying of the light or mourn its pass
Dylan Thomas
Did you make it to Eldorado
Edgar Allan Poe
Did the path you chose lead you lost
Robert Frost
Are you still nobody to no one
Emily Dickinson
Though the rain must fall will the sun come tomorrow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Did they capture the hitman that shot the captain
Walt Whitman
Unreasonable
Roaming stranger, where does this wind begin
Go there, stop it, put my fear to an end
Tell the lightning to stop flashing
Tell the thunder to stop crashing
I don't care if the storm cannot hear
At least stop this life devouring fear
Show me there is nothing to be scared of
Show me the blue sky awaiting above
Peace
In the middle of the afternoon I lay in bed
With a pillow sandwiched over my head
As I laugh listening to stand up comedy
Or laugh as I hear the tune of a comic novelty
While I pet my cat that lies by my side
In a place without pain I confide
Does the po boy still sing the blues
Langston Hughes
Does the caged bird still coo
Maya Angelou
Do the young at heart still play seeking fun
Robert Louis Stevenson
Shall we rage against the dying of the light or mourn its pass
Dylan Thomas
Did you make it to Eldorado
Edgar Allan Poe
Did the path you chose lead you lost
Robert Frost
Are you still nobody to no one
Emily Dickinson
Though the rain must fall will the sun come tomorrow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Did they capture the hitman that shot the captain
Walt Whitman
Unreasonable
Roaming stranger, where does this wind begin
Go there, stop it, put my fear to an end
Tell the lightning to stop flashing
Tell the thunder to stop crashing
I don't care if the storm cannot hear
At least stop this life devouring fear
Show me there is nothing to be scared of
Show me the blue sky awaiting above
Peace
In the middle of the afternoon I lay in bed
With a pillow sandwiched over my head
As I laugh listening to stand up comedy
Or laugh as I hear the tune of a comic novelty
While I pet my cat that lies by my side
In a place without pain I confide
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