>>> Item number 21563 from WRITERS LOG9311D --- (62 records) ----- <<< Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1993 11:58:37 JST Reply-To: WRITERS Sender: WRITERS From: Mike Barker Subject: SUB: Baptism in Flames inspired by a phrase in one of Poetman's recent posts - what you see is what you get, as this kind of bubbled out without much thought... probably should also acknowledge the recent postings on religion... comments? critique? tink ----------------------------------------------- Baptism in Flames Copyright 1993 Mike Barker burning the word. poets all, blank verse dripping, though none seem to note as they walk through daily rote, blind to the glory in every mote. overlooked miracles, lost in visions of cosmic scale. ideals irreverent to lowly life, avoid all sweaty pits of strife, refuse to hear where Adam got a wife. burning the word. ignore the work of cosmic forces, as three year old with patting fat hands, comforts an old farmer sore from work on the lands, seed that could fail on rock or on sands. daily mysteries unnoticed, unseen, and oh! so grand. did someone say, "I hear you." did someone say, "Can I help you?" did someone cry, "I care. Do you?" burning the word. old but always new, wine ever bubbling up in the skins, bright eyed youth hot as ages quickly past, uncouth burning throats and ears with its... growth temples collapse, written word crisps and falls to ash but living flames dance, turn outward, run, prance, never failing the moment. sublime beauty wraps and flares incandescent. burning that word apocalypse is now, and you will never be the same. the old world is burned away, and a new world is building, molding, out of control, but warmly welcomes those who sing for joy burning the word --------------------------------------------