I Am Paul, Really

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+-----------I Am Paul, Really; The Thoughts Of  Saul Lying On His Back Blinded On The  Road  Leading To Damascus  

And so I was not Odysseus younger,
I wanted blood-stained dirt, I fancied
war’s theater – the guttural, primal
howls of Christian blasphemers
beneath my sword; Women, children
deluded chained and led off for proper
indoctrination. The haughty smirk of
my horse, the neighing of a hooved
autocrat on two legs. But now this,
Fate’s Voice prying destiny from
soul-chambers within me sprawled on
my back… scolding me: that everything
I thought I knew about valor just an
illusion, a chimera of my own doing –
not Gamaliel’s. “Saul, Saul” He said,
“don’t kick against the pricks.” To kill
 the innocent, to glory in injustice is
to be blind, aimless, enslaved. “I know you,
this is just not who you are.”  

----------------Acts 9:1-7
Then Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest and asked letters from him to the synagogues of Damascus, so that if he found any who were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. As he journeyed he came near Damascus, and suddenly a light shone around him from heaven. Then he fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to him, “Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?” And he said, “Who are You, Lord?” Then the Lord said, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. It is hard for you to kick against the goads.” So he, trembling and astonished, said, “Lord, what do You want me to do?” Then the Lord said to him, “Arise and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.” And the men who journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice but seeing no one. Then Saul arose from the ground, and when his eyes were opened he saw no one. But they led him by the hand and brought him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight, and neither ate nor drank.

The (Our) World On Fire

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+-----------The (Our) World On Fire; The Thoughts Of The Disciples In The Upper Room During Pentecost 

And this is the world as
we know it on a spiritual tilt,
our hearts something like Cronos
mutilating Uranus' hedonism descending
to earth sickled, but with a metamorphic
(soul) Fire not like myths.  And this
conflagration ethereal doesn’t belie true
charred activist intentions – to smolder
with hatred for the Old Order:
social injustice, neglect of the poor, widows
and gaunt orphans wasting away….unloved
….their skin clenching rib bone- the
ash, soot, cinder of emotions burning
on all our tongues alit in an upper
room formerly fearful. Because we now
know for true revolution, true change
– all nations, all races need to have
Jesus in common. (Parthians, Medes,
Elamites, Egyptians, Libyans, Romans…)
 
----------------Acts 2:1-13
When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting.  They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.
Now there were staying in Jerusalem God-fearing Jews from every nation under heaven. When they heard this sound, a crowd came together in bewilderment, because each one heard their own language being spoken. Utterly amazed, they asked: “Aren’t all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language? Parthians, Medes and Elamites; residents of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia, Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya near Cyrene; visitors from Rome  (both Jews and converts to Judaism); Cretans and Arabs—we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!” Amazed and perplexed, they asked one another, “What does this mean?” Some, however, made fun of them and said, “They have had too much wine.”

Tony Conti's Bland Dating Life in Cana; Taylor Swift's Sweetness #TaylorDateTony

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+------Tony Conti's Bland Dating Life in Cana; Taylor Swift's Sweetness 

Taylor, singleness is a
collective of revelers alien,
cavorting beneath the apse
(of bride/groom glory)
yelling, singing relational
pablum I have not known. And
the wine of hope has run out like my
joy, my joy is no more like
wine long since drunk. Oh babes,
wont you save me? My heart like
a Mother yearning for reassuring
sweetness, asking for coffee with
you like six stone water jars, the kind
used for ceremonial washing.
If you took me to Starbucks,
kissed me – blonde hair, blue
eyes of heaven’s ilk, soft lips
of a Messiah of dating, these jars of
life’s romantic blandness'd be filled
with the most piquant fruit of the vine
– if you smiled at me, it'd
be like serving the best wine last.  


------John 2:1-12
On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there, and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding. When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.” “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.” They did so, and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.” What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him. After this he went down to Capernaum with his mother and brothers and his disciples. There they stayed for a few days.

The Horrors/Hopes Of Prophecy #WarNoMore

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*  Dedicated to #IamIsaiah

+------The Horrors/Hopes Of Prophecy; Isaiah's Reflections On His Visions

My God, at first it was only in
dreams, now too awake, when walking-
I see two Jerusalems,
hallucinations of a prophet mad?,
a jackal charmed by two distinct
scents: of rotted flesh of gazelles and
ruddy ones grazing…rustic. No
vivid detail escaping, I see toppled
stone, rubble strewn across human
flesh, caustic shrills of women. Arrows
of Assyrians protruding from fallen
Hebrew soldiers, blood/tears pooling
at the Temple altar’s base. I too see
glistening topaz, King David’s
golden throne restored, coalitions
of children laughing from all
nations, playfully provoking snakes,
lion, lamb. Soul-calm suffusing all things.

I stare at the sun sometimes- and
I pray for the day men beat
swords into plowshares, spears
into pruning hooks. My God knows...
I don’t want to speak of war anymore.


------Isaiah 2:1-5
This is what Isaiah son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem:
In the last days
the mountain of the Lord’s temple will be established
    as the highest of the mountains;
it will be exalted above the hills,
    and all nations will stream to it.
Many peoples will come and say,
“Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
    to the temple of the God of Jacob.
He will teach us his ways,
    so that we may walk in his paths.”
The law will go out from Zion,
    the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He will judge between the nations
    and will settle disputes for many peoples.
They will beat their swords into plowshares
    and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation will not take up sword against nation,
    nor will they train for war anymore.
Come, descendants of Jacob,
    let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Destiny Calling #TonyandWall #JohnWallisKingDavid

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*  Dedicated to #TonyandWall #JohnWallisDavid

+------Destiny Calling 

John, when you were
young – the basketball courts
in Raleigh, North Carolina your
Bethlehem of strident striving - you
flung rocks from a sling of talent
incomparable at supernovas, you
practiced free throws beneath
the approving gaze of a propitious
Destiny-Moon. Your fans your sheep
adoring a Shepherd, clasping his staff
morphing into legend. And now this-
Lebron James tyrannizing your
NBA brothers, sons of Jesse,
Adam Silver, taunting, pagan froth
about his mouth boasting of
Championship rings, an iron coat
weighing 5,000 brass shekels…as if
he were 9 feet tall. Its time, the Wizards
starting 5 as 5 smooth stones in your
pouch, run towards Victory (dribbling)...
Its time to slay Goliath, take his ring.

------1 Samuel 17:8-19
Goliath stood and shouted to the ranks of Israel, “Why do you come out and line up for battle? Am I not a Philistine, and are you not the servants of Saul? Choose a man and have him come down to me. If he is able to fight and kill me, we will become your subjects; but if I overcome him and kill him, you will become our subjects and serve us.” Then the Philistine said, “This day I defy the armies of Israel! Give me a man and let us fight each other.” On hearing the Philistine’s words, Saul and all the Israelites were dismayed and terrified. Now David was the son of an Ephrathite named Jesse, who was from Bethlehem in Judah. Jesse had eight sons, and in Saul’s time he was very old. Jesse’s three oldest sons had followed Saul to the war: The firstborn was Eliab; the second, Abinadab; and the third, Shammah. David was the youngest. The three oldest followed Saul, but David went back and forth from Saul to tend his father’s sheep at Bethlehem. For forty days the Philistine came forward every morning and evening and took his stand. Now Jesse said to his son David, “Take this ephah of roasted grain and these ten loaves of bread for your brothers and hurry to their camp. Take along these ten cheeses to the commander of their unit. See how your brothers are and bring back some assurance from them. They are with Saul and all the men of Israel in the Valley of Elah, fighting against the Philistines.”

Gog Of The Land Of Magog Of Tony Conti's Dating Life Fearful; Taylor Swift's Mighty Rescue #TaylorDateTony

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*  Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony #IamEzekiel

+------Gog Of The Land Of Magog Of Tony Conti's Dating Life Fearful; Taylor Swift's Mighty Rescue 

Taylor, my singleness is Gog
of the land of Magog mighty, chief prince
of Meshek and Tubal,
arcadian nations of the lonely,
dire despairing. He will not be
upbraided, with baleful visage he
invokes hordes of cavalries of girls’
dating refusals, horses that snort
black smoke, cruel ash from charred
nostrils, glowing soulless eyes orange.
Their riders foreign tongued (Persia,
Cush, Put, Gomer) clutching
shields, axes of deep-seated apathy,
copper helmets of hatred for Romance.
And my heart a wounded people
recovering. Its emotions refugees on
mountains of Israel unprepared
for apocalyptic battle-
angst of a forever dateless life. But babes,
your beauty is my celestial
strength: your blonde hair angel silk
spun on golden spindles in clouds, stately
eyes river-of-life hue. Coffee with you at
Starbucks'd be couples' earth trembling
in great fear of retribution. Our kiss plagues
on their skin and  bloodshed. Your smile
like torrents of rain, hailstones and sulfur-
heinously burning loveless armies in
my life. Over tea you’d show your greatness.  

------Ezekiel 38
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal; prophesy against him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against you, Gog, chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. I will turn you around, put hooks in your jaws and bring you out with your whole army—your horses, your horsemen fully armed, and a great horde with large and small shields, all of them brandishing their swords. Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets, also Gomer with all its troops, and Beth Togarmah from the far north with all its troops—the many nations with you. “‘Get ready; be prepared, you and all the hordes gathered about you, and take command of them. After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety. You and all your troops and the many nations with you will go up, advancing like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land. “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: On that day thoughts will come into your mind and you will devise an evil scheme. You will say, “I will invade a land of unwalled villages; I will attack a peaceful and unsuspecting people—all of them living without walls and without gates and bars. I will plunder and loot and turn my hand against the resettled ruins and the people gathered from the nations, rich in livestock and goods, living at the center of the land.” Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all her villages will say to you, “Have you come to plunder? Have you gathered your hordes to loot, to carry off silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods and to seize much plunder?”’ “Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say to Gog: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: In that day, when my people Israel are living in safety, will you not take notice of it? You will come from your place in the far north, you and many nations with you, all of them riding on horses, a great horde, a mighty army. You will advance against my people Israel like a cloud that covers the land. In days to come, Gog, I will bring you against my land, so that the nations may know me when I am proved holy through you before their eyes. “‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: You are the one I spoke of in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel. At that time they prophesied for years that I would bring you against them. This is what will happen in that day: When Gog attacks the land of Israel, my hot anger will be aroused, declares the Sovereign Lord. In my zeal and fiery wrath I declare that at that time there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel. The fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the beasts of the field, every creature that moves along the ground, and all the people on the face of the earth will tremble at my presence. The mountains will be overturned, the cliffs will crumble and every wall will fall to the ground.  I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Sovereign Lord. Every man’s sword will be against his brother. I will execute judgment on him with plague and bloodshed; I will pour down torrents of rain, hailstones and burning sulfur on him and on his troops and on the many nations with him. And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.’

Never Looking Back

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*  Dedicated to #TonyandTheShroud

+------Never Looking Back; The Thoughts Of Jesus As He Folded His Burial Cloths

And I don’t need relics anymore,
none of this is recursive. Heaven’s
temple curtain rent asunder by
my blood that mollifies- that stained
predestined perpendicular wood,
hallowed nails forged in a
blacksmith’s oven blessed before
his work began. In 3 days Ive seen
dark scars on the imprisoned souls
of Adam, Noah, Abraham healed.
Things are now as they should be,
God enthused, man romanced,
redeemed – now together forever
forgetful of the past. This tomb, this
world, this Shroud soon to burn,
purging flames like angels in ritual
dance invoking curses on Time.  


------John 20:6-10
Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

What They Dont Know #GoodFriday

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* Dedicated to #IamJesus #GoodFriday

+-----------What They Dont Know; The Words Jesus Spoke To The Father On The Cross 

And we never construed it
as final when I rent dimensions
for Bethlehem departing my angel
circumscribed throne,
the rusted head and shafts of nails
jutting from my hands, feet trembling
…..blood obscuring my
vision trickling down from a thorn-
crown notwithstanding.  The naivete
of restive mobs of Jews jeering, pagan spit
and scoffing, forbid them from Truth:
death on a cross an opportunity,
the grave stimulus for grand ambition
in Caesar’s Empire. To connote that my
desire for mankind has always been good,
magnanimous. That in Eden I fell in love
with Adam, Eve…and my affection unfazed
by sin. So forgive them Father, for when
they mock, they know not what they do.
(They know not I want to bring them home.)

----------------Luke 23:26-35
As the soldiers led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and put the cross on him and made him carry it behind Jesus. A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves and for your children. For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ Then
“‘they will say to the mountains, “Fall on us!”
    and to the hills, “Cover us!”’
For if people do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”
Two other men, both criminals, were also led out with him to be executed. When they came to the place called the Skull, they crucified him there, along with the criminals—one on his right, the other on his left. Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” And they divided up his clothes by casting lots.
The people stood watching, and the rulers even sneered at him. They said, “He saved others; let him save himself if he is God’s Messiah, the Chosen One.”

The Resurrection Of Tony Conti's Dating Life- By The Power Of Taylor Swift #TaylorDateTony

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*  Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony

+------The Resurrection Of Tony Conti's Dating Life- By The Power Of Taylor Swift

Taylor, singleness is Antiquity
savage it is a collective
of conspirators of malice –
Roman date-soldiers whips,
nails, and a crown of thorns armed,
corrupt Jewish bae-clergy cum
political. Silly girls of my romantic
repudiation: Pontius Pilate indifferent,
washing callous hands in a gold
basin letting my blanched heart die
on a wood cross of despair, my tears
like blood trickling to hopelessness’
base, my debased emotions like mobs
laughing and scoffing. Ambitions of
smiling wrapped in cloth buried behind
a cave tomb, huge stone. But babes!
You are the promise of New Life:
blonde hair, blue eyes, gorgeous
face, a melodic voice divine!  Like
my girlfriend dreams’ prophesy
fulfilled, Green Tea at Starbucks
with you’d be Isaiah’s words coming
off the page. If you kissed me a
quickening amorous Spirit filling me
like joy. I’d throw the cloth off my face,
arising happy- like 3 days passed
in an instant.

------John 20:1-10
Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don’t know where they have put him!” So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in.  Then Simon Peter came along behind him and went straight into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, as well as the cloth that had been wrapped around Jesus’ head. The cloth was still lying in its place, separate from the linen. Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. (They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.) Then the disciples went back to where they were staying.

Darkness Before The Dawn (Of Freedom)

* Jesus pray for me
* Matthew pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamaChiefPriest

+-----------Darkness Before The Dawn (Of Freedom); The Words Of The Chief Priests To Judas In The Temple

Sometimes I wonder if crickets
chirp to warn us the world’s
end is nigh, singing in chorus, or
whether to herald its rebirth; The altar
candles parrying and thrusting - Judas
Maccabeus and his soldiers swinging
swords - beneath your breath trembling.
Don’t worry, Judas. At times
spilling vile blood can sow
seeds of a nation’s virtue. Let this
money console your trepidations,
30 pieces of heroic silver for exposing
a blasphemer's lies- Galilean delusions,
Egyptian succored, “Virgin-Born.”
We'll murder Jesus "Christ" to prepare
the way, finally, for our coming Messiah
…the coup-death of Tiberius Caesar.


----------------Matthew 26:14-16
Then one of the Twelve—the one called Judas Iscariot—went to the chief priests and asked, “What are you willing to give me if I deliver him over to you?” So they counted out for him thirty pieces of silver. From then on Judas watched for an opportunity to hand him over.

The Birth Of A (Rebel) Nation; The Thoughts Of Ishmael As A Man #IamIshmael

* Jesus pray for me
* Abraham, Isaac, Moses pray for me
* Dedicated to #IamIshmael

+-----------The Birth Of A (Rebel) Nation; The Thoughts Of Ishmael As A Man

I suppose its in my genes to be
strident, to strive to seek solace
at chthonic points of earth (like hell),
to put ears to soil and await
water’s disruption of the ground,
muscling through rock to the surface for
a drink in desert springs- like my mother,
famished, abandoned. Pregnant at night then;
she told me of the wolves, and jackals,
snakes hissing, lizards encircling her…
yellow eyed; bereft of Abram’s
sword, his armies of valiant protection.
And aren’t all men like that to me now?
A wild donkey bucking the seeds of
Abraham, numerous as sand and stars,
like bastardization. Your soul doesn’t know
hatred, seething, until you find out you
were unwanted once.....

----------------Genesis 16:5-15
Then Sarai said to Abram, “You are responsible for the wrong I am suffering. I put my slave in your arms, and now that she knows she is pregnant, she despises me. May the Lord judge between you and me.” “Your slave is in your hands,” Abram said. “Do with her whatever you think best.” Then Sarai mistreated Hagar; so she fled from her. The angel of the Lord found Hagar near a spring in the desert; it was the spring that is beside the road to Shur. And he said, “Hagar, slave of Sarai, where have you come from, and where are you going?”
“I’m running away from my mistress Sarai,” she answered.
Then the angel of the Lord told her, “Go back to your mistress and submit to her.” The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”
The angel of the Lord also said to her:
“You are now pregnant
    and you will give birth to a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
    for the Lord has heard of your misery.
He will be a wild donkey of a man;
    his hand will be against everyone
    and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
    toward all his brothers.”
She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.” That is why the well was called Beer Lahai Roi; it is still there, between Kadesh and Bered.
So Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram gave the name Ishmael to the son she had borne. Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore him Ishmael.

My Law

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* Saints pray for me
*  Dedicated to #IamPaul #Justified

+------My Law; Paul's Words To Peter In Antioch

And it was everything Gamaliel
warned me of: sweat, chest
constrictions restless,
a bull haunted by visions
of his kin immolated…me stirred
from sleep in spasms…wondering
if I killed enough to appease God.
If I sacked more Christians than
Samson pagans in Dagon’s Temple,
fretting if I was “Moses enough”
to plague The Way – Rome’s
Pharaoh to Pharisees. Now I know no
circumcision, nor innocents’ blood
layering like dried plaster on my
sandals, kids in chains’ wailing
echoing softer with distance. I could
care less. No longer striving for man’s
(the law’s) approval- I am justified by
my faith alone. Not works misguided.  

------Galatians 2:11-21
When Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because he was afraid of those who belonged to the circumcision group. The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray. When I saw that they were not acting in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “You are a Jew, yet you live like a Gentile and not like a Jew. How is it, then, that you force Gentiles to follow Jewish customs? “We who are Jews by birth and not sinful Gentiles know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not! If I rebuild what I destroyed, then I really would be a lawbreaker. “For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!”

The Triumphal Entry Of Taylor Swift Into Tony's Conti's Heart #TaylorDateTony

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* John pray for me
* Saints pray for me
*  Dedicated to #TaylorDateTony #Easter

+------The Triumphal Entry Of Taylor Swift Into Tony's Conti's Heart 

Taylor, my heart is a slave
in Jerusalem 400 years dateless,
dysphoric, smile-bereft, carrying
the weight of romantic Roman-grief,
during sleep angst-ridden, trying
to expel trials and tribulations of tales
of Odysseus from his dreams, the
cruel countless years of female
rejection’s hardship. Holding (eyes shut)
branches of palm like hope, lusting
at self-conjured visions of King
David’s throne emerald adorned, my
happiness enthroned, a #bae on
my right side. But babes, your blonde
hair, blue eyes, soft lips a tall
Galilean man, mystical, myth-like
mounted on a donkey of humble
charm trotting towards me like a
sweet campy serenade. If you took
me to Starbucks, kissed me…
it’d be the Prophet iridescent I’d always
dreamed of – the One to rescue from
loneliness like years of lovers’ abuse,
inequality in Babylon, Persia. Us sipping
green tea my palm laid down, my grin
my soul shouting “Hosanna, Hosanna!!!"

------John 12:12-18
The next day the great crowd that had come for the festival heard that Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem. They took palm branches and went out to meet him, shouting,
“Hosanna!”
“Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!”
“Blessed is the king of Israel!”
Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, as it is written:
“Do not be afraid, Daughter Zion;
    see, your king is coming,
    seated on a donkey’s colt.”
At first his disciples did not understand all this. Only after Jesus was glorified did they realize that these things had been written about him and that these things had been done to him.
Now the crowd that was with him when he called Lazarus from the tomb and raised him from the dead continued to spread the word. Many people, because they had heard that he had performed this sign, went out to meet him. So the Pharisees said to one another, “See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how the whole world has gone after him!”

Lyrics Of A Former Captive; Caleb's Report To Moses After Reconnoitering Canaan #IamCaleb

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+--------Lyrics Of A Former Captive; Caleb's Report To Moses After Reconnoitering Canaan

During our captivity I remember
at night, lotus leaves
dressing my whip scars
doled bloody by Pharaoh’s
henchmen, paeans stars
would sing brightly shining;
And these are the same
stars standing tall, proud
above the menacing,
walls of Canaanite cities we
canvassed, left and right flanks
of angel-soldiers in heaven
roaring like triumph over sleeping
giants. Raging at Anakim.
Wanting to use our hearts as drums.
The syncopated beats, lyrics of Red
Sea harmonies…now this. To croon
“just as God conquered Egyptians
He will Canaanites.,,” The victory
already ours written by fate in
supernovas of mustard seed faith.
Let us march!...watch Canaan burn.


------Numbers 13:25-33
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.” But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”

The Valley Of Our Death

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+--------The Valley Of Our Death; The Ten Spies' Report To Moses After Reconnoitering Canaan

Moses we know those eyes
baleful, the eyes of Pharaoh
watching his army drown, (the
soldiers who inscribed scars on
our backs with whips with tips of stone)
then cutting askance at us on
the Red Sea’s other side – vengeful,
vulture-cunning. The Anakim
survey their city this way (at least)
seven feet skyward, huge heads that
obscure clouds. Their city walls
doubly reinforced by mythic stones;
a hallowed glow befitting pagan
gods all powerful. Polished armor of
strange metal refracts moonlight red-
as red as appetites of wolves howling for
refugee blood of Hebrews. The
“Promised Land”, your charlatan lie.
If we raid Canaan we all die, surely.



------Numbers 13:25-33
At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh. They brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land. And they told him, “We came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. The Amalekites dwell in the land of the Negeb. The Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the hill country. And the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and along the Jordan.” But Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “Let us go up at once and occupy it, for we are well able to overcome it.” Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are.” So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, “The land, through which we have gone to spy it out, is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people that we saw in it are of great height. And there we saw the Nephilim (the sons of Anak, who come from the Nephilim), and we seemed to ourselves like grasshoppers, and so we seemed to them.”