Alexander Ovechkin, (Tampa Bay) Giant Slayer #TonyandOvi

* Spirit Of Jesus pray for me
* David, Samuel Holy Church pray for me
* Saints pray for me
*  Dedicated to #TonyandOvi #OviisDavid

+-----Alexander Ovechkin, (Tampa Bay) Giant Slayer

Alexander, you have kept
your teammates as your
father’s sheep- chasing all terrors
of lion and bear, The Blue
Jackets and Penguins. Each assist,
body check like seizure; Them, hollow
eyed like those imminently damned, yanked
by the hair then Stanley-Cup-dream-
slaughtered. And now... Nikita Kucherov
stands a crass giant haughty…9 feet tall,
blood of the Anakim, at your season scoffing.
The Lightning players like Philistines flanking,
fomenting violence chanting “give [Ovi’s]
flesh to the birds” of playoff defeat. But
tonight, the puck like 5 smooth stones,
your stick a sling. Your game winner
a rock deep between Goliath’s eyes, falling.
Caps fans’ cheering like the Huge Head
of Lightning fans’ joy in your hands swaying.


------1 Samuel 17:34-46
But David said to Saul, “Your servant has been keeping his father’s sheep. When a lion or a bear came and carried off a sheep from the flock, I went after it, struck it and rescued the sheep from its mouth. When it turned on me, I seized it by its hair, struck it and killed it. Your servant has killed both the lion and the bear; this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, because he has defied the armies of the living God. The Lord who rescued me from the paw of the lion and the paw of the bear will rescue me from the hand of this Philistine.” Saul said to David, “Go, and the Lord be with you.” Then Saul dressed David in his own tunic. He put a coat of armor on him and a bronze helmet on his head. David fastened on his sword over the tunic and tried walking around, because he was not used to them. “I cannot go in these,” he said to Saul, “because I am not used to them.” So he took them off.  Then he took his staff in his hand, chose five smooth stones from the stream, put them in the pouch of his shepherd’s bag and, with his sling in his hand, approached the Philistine.
Meanwhile, the Philistine, with his shield bearer in front of him, kept coming closer to David. He looked David over and saw that he was little more than a boy, glowing with health and handsome, and he despised him. He said to David, “Am I a dog, that you come at me with sticks?” And the Philistine cursed David by his gods. “Come here,” he said, “and I’ll give your flesh to the birds and the wild animals!” David said to the Philistine, “You come against me with sword and spear and javelin, but I come against you in the name of the Lord Almighty, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hands, and I’ll strike you down and cut off your head. This very day I will give the carcasses of the Philistine army to the birds and the wild animals, and the whole world will know that there is a God in Israel.