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15 July 2010

Seeking A Seven Day Kiss

Somebody come and carry me
into a seven day kiss
Somebody come and carry me
into a seven day kiss
Somebody come and carry me
into a seven day kiss
I don't need no historic, no national,
no family bliss
I need an absolutely one to one
A seven day kiss - help me now

I can read the daily papers
I can even make a speech
but the news is stuff that tapers
down to salt poured in that breach
I have been scheming about my people
I have been scheming about sex
I have been dreaming about Africa
Nightmaring Oedipus the Rex

But what I need is quite specific
terrifying rough stuff and terrific
I need an absolutely one to one
A seven day kiss - help me now

Come, my beloved,

let us go forth into the fields,

and lodge in the villages;

let us go out early to the vineyards,

and see whether the vines have budded,

whether the grape blossoms have opened

and the pomegranates are in bloom.

There I will give you my love.

The Song of Songs 7:11-12

I will give you my love and it will taste like a seven day kiss.

11 July 2010

Water of Life

Water of life, gift of heaven

pours ~

rushing sweeping, cleaning, soothing, filling, nourishing, sustaining.

Speaking in liquid tongues, whispering, roaring.

I do not speak your language, yet you speak mine.

I hear you call my name.

10 July 2010

Living in the Moment

Dear God,
Help me to be fully present to the present moment.
Don't let the hope, fear, promise and joy of the present be eclipsed by the hope fear, promise and joy of the future.
Let me savor this moment with all my faculties: it's sights, sounds, smells, textures and tastes.
For once hold the reins on my imagination.
Let me sit with you.
And be.
Amen.