LET THERE BE LIGHT; Taylor Swift's Illumination Of Tony Conti's Dating Life #TaylorDateTony

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+------LET THERE BE LIGHT; Taylor Swift's Illumination Of Tony Conti's Dating Life

Taylor, my single dateless
life is without form…and void-
only the emotional vortices of
hydrogen, helium, baryonic matter,
of unmet longing- my loneliness
heart-darkness over the surface
of the deep (of sorrow). And my
yearning for love -Spirit- hovers
over waters of waves raging for
souls bereft of romance. But babes, your
eyes like flint sparks of the best of intentions
from a realm divine, your smile
the dawn of Manifest Destiny
of dating. If you took me to Starbucks –
like cracking and splitting of a
dividing wall of angels' awareness. Then
human love congealing, becoming
real matter not notion. A kiss from your soft
lips over coffee steam'd be hope, joy,
and laughter BRIGHT....enveloping
all things, invading all things formerly
meaningless. It'd be you looking at me,
whispering “Tony…let there be light” always.

------Genesis 1:1-3
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

The Largest Presumptions

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*  Dedicated to #IamGoliath

+------The Largest Presumptions; Goliath's Thoughts While Walking Towards David

This isn’t a battle to me, a
trope of might making borders right,
but pride in lust for a way of life:
the Philistine way, the way of
jackals lurking, hidden behind
thick shadows of trees’ branches
beneath the half moon’s –dark
cloud- wink. Hegeomic hunt of  
nations. Thirsting for blood of peoples
to slake the thirst of Baal’s savagery.
So I can maintain my opulence:
helmet of bronze, coat of mail
of thousands of shekels…my drinking
before fire, grand temple orgies. This
is about crushing little shepherds,
Hebrews. Or whatever threatens
my fealty to and the worship proper
of Dagon throughout the whole world.

------1 Samuel 17:4-11
A champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out of the Philistine camp. His height was six cubits and a span. He had a bronze helmet on his head and wore a coat of scale armor of bronze weighing five thousand shekels; on his legs he wore bronze greaves, and a bronze javelin was slung on his back. His spear shaft was like a weaver’s rod, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. His shield bearer went ahead of him. 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.

Mercy Of The Lyre #IamDavid #Music

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+------Mercy Of The Lyre; David's Thoughts While Playing For King Saul 

And when I play, my
soul- morality stringed ethereal, my
heart melded to crossbars of
divine mercy suffusing the air. On my
fingertips strumming...is tension of a
spirit fully alive fleeing corrupt
temporality of flesh and bone, the birth
pangs of a melody that discerns
all things, the polarity of life and
death, bliss, misery. My father used
to say music was like prophecy: cherish
her and all things are possible- She can
turn a goodly peasant King forever, a
wicked King peasant (seeking relief
from Hell’s screaming) in just one song.  

------1 Samuel 16:14-23
Now the Spirit of the Lord had departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord tormented him. Saul’s attendants said to him, “See, an evil spirit from God is tormenting you. Let our lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better.” So Saul said to his attendants, “Find someone who plays well and bring him to me.” One of the servants answered, “I have seen a son of Jesse of Bethlehem who knows how to play the lyre. He is a brave man and a warrior. He speaks well and is a fine-looking man. And the Lord is with him.” Then Saul sent messengers to Jesse and said, “Send me your son David, who is with the sheep.” So Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, a skin of wine and a young goat and sent them with his son David to Saul. David came to Saul and entered his service. Saul liked him very much, and David became one of his armor-bearers. Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Allow David to remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.” Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.

-John 6 Revisited (Manna)

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* Dedicated to #HolyManna

+-----------John 6 Revisited; Jesus' Speech To The Crowds In Capernaum 

This Roman Empire – a gilded
metropolis not quite desert. But in
your eyes listless I see a heart coalition
wilderness wandering
from slave masters hastily; As your fathers did
Egypt’s draconian Pharaoh robes frayed,
consciences stirred by abhorrent plagues,
banded together, bonding over shared
insecurities of failure, bound to dreams
of a destiny more benign. To Canaan: a land
corruptible of flowing milk, succulent honey,
sovereignty, dignity. And in the blank
spaces, dark times journeying- starless nights
giving way to a pillar of fire of their faith
flickering but steady- My Father commanded
what I tell you now: awaiting a coup,
synagogue candle vigils, Passover meals
that invoke the fall of Caesar:
(bread from the sky, hope on the ground)
EAT, EAT, EAT.

(Though they died, I am True Manna. My flesh:
food to get you Home- to Heaven, Eternal.)

----------------John 6:25-60
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?”
Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.” Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.” Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.” At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’?” “Stop grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you, the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died. But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die.  I am the living bread that came down from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” Then the Jews began to argue sharply among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day. For my flesh is real food and my blood is real drink. Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in them. Just as the living Father sent me and I live because of the Father, so the one who feeds on me will live because of me. This is the bread that came down from heaven. Your ancestors ate manna and died, but whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” He said this while teaching in the synagogue in Capernaum. On hearing it, many of his disciples said, “This is a hard teaching. Who can accept it?”

The (Revolutionary) Visitation

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*  Dedicated to #IamElizabeth

+------The (Revolutionary) Visitation; Elizabeth's Thoughts Upon Seeing Mary

So in a way my husband and I
spoke of you, before flickering candles
bedside musing on Theseus
stalking the Minotaur, sword in
his trembling hand, thread pulled
taut in the other - the salvation
of Athenians at stake, like it is now
for the Jews. Oh how I’ve
prayed sedulously, stared at
stars in the prolonged interstice of
these our Empires and expectations!
And now this – why am I so favored?
The mother of my Lord, my cousin
pregnant, knocking. The fruit
of your womb: sedition, revolution, our
New World Order, escaping Caesar's
Labyrinth, the Return of King David’s
Jerusalem! Yes Blessed is the Child
you bear. Blessed, this visitation.

------Luke 1:39-45
At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the child you will bear! But why am I so favored, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? As soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!”

Love Like Sailing #TaylorDateTony

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+-----------Love Like Sailing; Taylor Swift's Stern Rebuke Of Tony Conti's Dateless Life

Oh Taylor, my hope was once a
lake…placid, but singleness
prolonged: a violent, choleric
storm!  And my heart is a wooden
vessel creaky, worn, barely bolted
by nails of years of lovers’ resolve risking  
careening into waves of despair from
truculent winds of a squall of girls’
romantic rejections. My soul
twelve disciples huddled holding
hands in Galilee staring into eyes hollowed;
Fears of drowning in loneliness forever.
But babes, I imagine you in phlegmatic slumber,
your soothing voice like a dream’s sweet
surrender to angelic serenades, your blonde
hair, blue eyes like gold, diamonds of
precious divinity. If you took me to Starbucks,
like Dating, a Savior, waking in the hull to cast
a stern glare at ill -fated skies. If we kissed
over coffee steam, dark clouds parting
making way for joy’s bright sun like
despair fleeing a rebuke. My world’d be
completely calm. I’d fall in love, our smooth sail.

----------------Matthew 8:23-27
Then he got into the boat and his disciples followed him. Suddenly a furious storm came up on the lake, so that the waves swept over the boat. But Jesus was sleeping. The disciples went and woke him, saying, “Lord, save us! We’re going to drown!” He replied, “You of little faith, why are you so afraid?” Then he got up and rebuked the winds and the waves, and it was completely calm. The men were amazed and asked, “What kind of man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey him!”

John Wall After 40 Nights; A Genesis 6 Wizards Poem #TonyandWall

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* Dedicated to #TonyandWall #JohnWallisNoah

+-----------John Wall After 40 Nights; A Genesis 6 Wizards Poem 

John, other NBA playoff teams-
(Celtics, Cavs, Warriors)
citizens on an earth just cursed:
crass, vile; unctuous Nephilim
neighbors who don’t
appreciate your late night free
throw practice, post-game video
analysis, in-game tenacity. As if you
were sitting on a carpenter’s stool
futilely, talking to yourself taking
hammer and nail to Gopher
wood without aim. And despite the
adversity, you dunk, you pass,
you block, you defend: you build
your vision of a championship like
an Ark, your heart like a dry land
with faith undeterred in downpours.
For your winning will be foreboding
dark skies, torrential rains…
40 days and 40 nights of NBA terror-
players' emotions beasts, birds, men
washed away like memories of dreams.
I see hands sticking above the water’s
surface of defeat, I see you with
a Ring resting on Mount Ararat, smiling
in DC in June like releasing a dove.

----------------Genesis 5:32-6:22
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham and Japheth. When human beings began to increase in number on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose. Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal ; their days will be a hundred and twenty years.” The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown. The Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time. The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled. So the Lord said, “I will wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created—and with them the animals, the birds and the creatures that move along the ground—for I regret that I have made them.” But Noah found favor in the eyes of the Lord. This is the account of Noah and his family. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked faithfully with God. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham and Japheth. Now the earth was corrupt in God’s sight and was full of violence. God saw how corrupt the earth had become, for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth. So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high. Make a roof for it, leaving below the roof an opening one cubit high all around. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks. I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the heavens, every creature that has the breath of life in it. Everything on earth will perish. But I will establish my covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sons’ wives with you. You are to bring into the ark two of all living creatures, male and female, to keep them alive with you. Two of every kind of bird, of every kind of animal and of every kind of creature that moves along the ground will come to you to be kept alive. You are to take every kind of food that is to be eaten and store it away as food for you and for them.” Noah did everything just as God commanded him.