Written by a mountain sage
Do you want to be moved
Transported to a different place
Overflowing with peace and tranquility
Such is the natural world of mountains and streams
A lone woodpecker atop a decaying tree
Keeping time in a world not measured in moments
Instead the arrhythmic cadence repeated
Who could master such a chorus
The words written by a mountain sage
Comes closest to painting the truest scene
No one innocently bypasses the glacial trail
Layered with eons of a private calling
Tonight the sun won’t set
Til all the answers are counted
*Inspired by Gary Snyder’s Mountains and Rivers Without End
Honeysuckle chorus
Pretty music
Soft and gentle piano
Honeysuckle and cherry blossoms
Print the canvas
A landscape as broad as the Universe
Before my very eyes
Transfixed and altered
All in one
Such peace
Pay the price
What does justice demand
Does God regret what God has done
The pursuit of justice is the highest form of religion
The highest of aspiration whatever the cost
You can’t bring back the dead but you can save yourself
There is a trial for saints and sinners and it’s all the
same
It hard to see a truth you refuse to believe
For most living a lie is easier
Dance with me through the night til the breaking dawn
Wash the stain of blood and whiskey away
Hey Frank, I've been reading some of your blog posts and find them quite interesting. Of course, I don't agree on all of it, but no body agrees totally with someone else, right? But I'm glad to see you are a thinking man.
ReplyDeleteAs for this particular post, Pay the Price, what does justice demand? Justice does not demand anything, though someone may demand justice. According to the Epistle of James,
here is true religion, "Jam 1:16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.
19 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: 20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness (accumulation of valueless possessions), and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. 23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:(mirror) 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
26 If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man's religion is vain. 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world."
Well that about covers everything in this post.
Keep up the posts Frank