Wednesday, December 25, 2013

(Genesis 1:3).......CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE

 
 
CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE

BOW THE UNLIT CANDLE
TOWARD THE LIT ONE
TO PREVENT DAMAGE
TO PEOPLE
OR PROPERTY
A CAUTIONARY WORD
AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE CANDLE LIGHT SERVICE
BOW THE UNLIT CANDLE
TOWARD THE LIT ONE
GOOD FOR PEOPLE
BUT NOT FOLLOWED BY GOD
WHO BOWS TO THE UNLIT CANDLE
TO BESTOW HIS LIGHT
AND SPILL HIS GRACE
THIS GOD OF OURS
WHO DWELLS
 IN THE MESSINESS OF LIFE
WHO WHIPS CREATION
OUT OF CHAOS
WHO CRIES OUT
LET THERE BE LIGHT
AND BENDS HIS CANDLE
TOWARDS US
THIS GOD OF LIGHT

FRANK A VOLLMER
 
 


Monday, December 23, 2013

THE DAY JOSEPH HELD THE BABY

 
 
THE DAY JOSEPH HELD THE BABY

I HAD GONE TO CHURCH
TO SEE THE CHRISTMAS PAGEANT
WHEN I WAS MET AT THE DOOR
BY THE DIRECTOR
CAN YOU BE JOSEPH
JOSEPH IS SICK
WHAT ARE MY LINES
AND WHAT DO I DO
YOU HAVE NO LINES
JUST STAND AROUND
LOOKING HOLY
IT’S A STRETCH I SAID
BUT I’LL GIVE IT A SHOT
NOW I’VE BEEN A SHEPHERD
WRAPPED IN SHEETS
TENDING COTTON COVERED LAMBS
I’VE BEEN A MAGI
IN A BATHROBE
I’VE BEEN AN ANGEL WITH WINGS
MONITORING CHERUBS
SO THEY WON’T FIGHT
BUT JOSEPH
I’VE NEVER HAD THE HONOR
SO ON THE STAGE WE WENT
MY EIGHT YEAR OLD BRIDE
AND HER EIGHTY FIVE
YEAR OLD HUSBAND
WHAT A LOVELY PAIR
SHE WAS HOLDING THE BABY DOLL
SOMETIMES SHE’D PUT IT IN THE CRIB
THEN SHE SAID TO ME
WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOLD THE BABY
I WAS SET BACK
FOR AN INSTANT
IN ALL MY YEARS
I’VE NEVER SEEN JOSEPH
HOLD THE BABY
IT WAS ONLY A DOLL
BUT WHEN I HELD IT
I FELT TRANSFORMED
INTO A BETTER PERSON
SO THAT WHEN SHE ASKED FOR IT BACK
I DID
BUT WITH RELUCTANCE
I WOULD LIKE TO SAY
THE DOLL SMILED AT ME
BUT IT DIDN’T HAPPEN
BUT THERE WAS A WARM SPOT
IN MY HEART
I WON’T SOON FORGET
FRANK A VOLLMER


Thursday, December 19, 2013

JESUS THINKS OUT LOUD


 
JESUS THINKS OUT LOUD

 

I PREACH CHRIST

AND HIM CRUCIFIED

SO SINGS PAUL

MY TROUBADOUR

 

 

SO SING ALSO

THOSE WHO SAY THEY FOLLOW ME

 

THEY HAVE CRUCIFIXES

WHICH SHOW ME

 IN DIFFERENT STAGES

OF AGONY

TRANSITIONING

TO A TRIUMPHANT

MAJESTIC ME

 

THEY HAVE BARE CROSSES

TO SYMBOLIZE

I HAVE RISEN

 

I FIND IT ODD

TO PREACH

CHRIST AND HIM CRUCIFIED

TO AN EMPTY CROSS

BUT THAT’S A PERSONAL QUIRK

 

WHETHER YOU BELIEVE

I DIED FOR YOUR SINS

IN A KIND OF A COURTROOM DRAMA

 

OR TO LOOSE THE GRASP

OF SATAN UPON YOU

THIS SATAN

THAT GOES ABOUT

SEEKING WHOM HE MAY DEVOUR

 

WHATEVER

 

THE IMPORTANT THING IS

I DIED FOR YOU

 

 

BUT MORE IMPORTANT

TO ME

IS THAT I CAME

TO START A NEW WAY OF LIFE

WHICH WAY

IS OFTEN

IGNORED

 

WHICH BEGS

THE QUESTION

OF MY DEATH

 

WHY BOTHER

 

WHY BOTHER INDEED

 

BECAUSE I LOVE THEM

WARTS AND ALL

 

BECAUSE

OCCASIONALLY

 THERE’S A SPARK OF LIGHT

 

MOTHER TERESAA

MARTIN LUTHER

MARTIN LUTHER KING

NELSON MANDELA

OSCAR ROMERO

DAG HAMMARSKJOLD

LECH WALESA

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

 

 

MOTHERS AND FATHERS STRUGGLING TO RAISE A FAMILY

ELDERLY PARENTS BEING CARED FOR

THOSE WHO CONSIDER NO PERSON IS UNIMPORTANT

THOSE WHO WELCOME THE STRANGER IN THEIR MIDST

 

 

MY CHURCH

 

HAS BEEN MADE TOO NARROW

 

 

WITH ITS HISTORY

IT SHOULD HAVE FAILED

BUT DIDN’T

 

 

BECAUSE OF GRANDMOTHERS

ROCKING BABIES ASLEEP

 

 

TEACHING CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN

ABOUT GENTLE JESUS

AND HIS WAY

 

 

MY CHURCH SURVIVED

A RAMSHACKLE EDIFICE

 

IT WOULD BE WELL

FOR THE POMPOUS TO ADMIT IT

 

 

TO BE MORE CONCERNED ABOUT PEOPLE

THAN STRUCTURE

 

 

WOULD I DIE FOR THEM AGAIN

IN A HEARTBEAT

END OF SENTENCE

 

 

IN A HEARTBEAT

 

FRANK A VOLLMER

 

Friday, December 6, 2013

MEEK



MEEK


ONE OF THE SEVERAL VARIETIES
OF THE WESTERN
IS THAT OF THE TOWN DRUNK
OR PROSTITUTE
BEING THE HERO
WHILE THE GOOD PEOPLE
THE MEEK AND MILD
COWER IN THE CHURCH

THE WORD MEEK CAME INTO ENGLISH
FROM THE SCANDINAVIAN
MEANING SOFT

IT WAS USED BY THE KJV SCHOLARS
TO TRANSLATE THE GREEK
PRAUS

OVER THE YEARS
THE TERM MEEK
HAVE TAKEN ON THE FOLLOWING MEANING

ACCORDING TO WEBSTER
IT MEANS

 TIMID
 HUMBLE
 LOWLY
 OVERLY PATIENT
OR SUBMISSIVE

SOMEHOW I DON’T THINK
THIS WAS WHAT JESUS MEANT
WHEN HE SAID
LEARN FROM ME
FOR I AM MEEK
 AND HUMBLE OF HEART

IN BIBLICAL GREEK .
IT IS THE REGULAR WORD FOR AN ANIMAL
WHICH HAS BEEN DOMESTICATED
WHICH HAS BEEN TRAINED
TO OBEY THE WORD OF COMMAND
WHICH HAS
LEARNED TO ANSWER TO THE REINS
 IT IS THE WORD FOR AN ANIMAL
WHICH HAS LEARNED TO ACCEPT CONTROL

IN NO WAY DOES IT EMASCULATE
THE ANIMAL

 CHRIST SAID
I HAVE COME
NOT TO DO MY WILL
BUT THE WILL OF THE FATHER
WHO SENT ME

PETER
WAS A WILD BULL
OF A MAN
BUT JESUS USED HIM
AS HE WAS

TOO OFTEN CHRISTIANS
ARE SEEN AS COWERING IN THE CHURCH
BUT CHRISTIANITY
IS A VIGOROUS
VIRILE RELIGION

WE ARE BROKEN
TO THE REINS
WHICH IS THE CODE OF JESUS

THE SKILLS WE HAD
AS A WILD ONE
ARE STILL OUR SKILLS
WHEN JESUS SAYS PULL
WE DON’T QUESTION
THE REINS
WE PULL


FRANK A VOLLMER

Sunday, December 1, 2013

BIRTH


BIRTH

 

 

IT IS THE TIME

FOR SINGING PRETTY SONGS

ABOUT EVENTS

THAT MAY NOT HAVE HAPPENED

 

BURIED IN THE FOLKTALES

IS THE FACT

GOD HAS BECAME MAN

SO MAN CAN BECOME GOD-LIKE

 

BURIED IN ALL THE COMMOTION

ABOUT CHRISTMAS

BURIED IN ALL THE HULLABALOO

AND OFTEN FORGOTTEN

OR IGNORED

IS A BASIC TENET

OF OUR FAITH

 

GOD HAS BECOME MAN

AND MAN HAS HIS DIGNITY

AND IMMORTALITY RESTORED

 

CHRISTIANS HAVE A LONG HISTORY

OF TREATING THE STRANGER

AS NOT BEING GOD’S CHILD

HOW THEN CAN IT LEAD THE WORLD

TO HIS BIRTHING PLACE

 

HE IS IN US

MUCH AS A PREGNANT WOMEN BEARS A CHILD

 

MUCH AS A WOMAN LABORS

WE SHOULD LABOR TO BRING HIS CREATION

TO FRUITION

 

HE DOESN’T NEED THE IMAGE

OF A COLD STABLE

OUR HEARTS ARE COLD ENOUGH

 

HE DOESN’T NEED THE IMAGE

OF A CROWDED INN

OUR BUSYNESS

HAVE CROWDED HIM OUT

 

HE DOESN’T NEED SWEET CAROLS SUNG

WHEN THEY ARE SUNG BY ROTE

WITH NO MEANING

 

HE DOESN’T NEED HERALD ANGELS SINGING

KEEP CASH IN CHRISTMAS

WHEN CHRISTMAS IS MEASURED

BY HOW MUCH YOU GET

 

WHEN SHEPHERDS

WHO SMELL LIKE SHEEP

ARE KEPT OUT

HE INVITES THEM IN

AS THEIR RIGHT

 

WHETHER THEY ARE LEGENDS

OR FACT

DOESN’T MATTER

UNLESS HIS BIRTH

IS A LIFE CHANGING EVENT

FOR US

 

UNLESS WE BEHAVE

AS ONES

GIVEN DIGNITY

 BY GOD’S BIRTH

 

AND EXTEND THE RIGHTS

OF THAT DIGNITY

TO ALL

 

IF WE DON’T

GOD MIGHT HAVE BEEN

BORN IN A TRASH CAN

AND THROWN OUT

 
FRANK A VOLLMER

Monday, November 25, 2013

WAR IN A FAR COUNTRY


.Newfoundlanders at war sustained massive fatality and casualty (dead plus wounded) rates. Fatalities claimed one quarter of the regiment’s overseas force. Casualties stood at 72 percent, or 58 percent of the nominal roll. Rates for the Royal Naval Reserve were lower. The long-term effects of the loss of so many young lives, compounded by the number of wounded, disabled and diseased, were substantial

They represented nearly 10 percent of the total male population, or 35.6 percent of young men between the ages of 19 and 35

AT THAT TIME NEWFOUNDLAND’S POPULATION WAS 24000O

 

 

WAR IN A FAR COUNTRY

 

YOU MIGHT WONDER

WHY A COUNTRY

IN WHICH I WASN’T BORN

CONCERNS ME

 

IT WAS MY MOTHER’S ISLAND

AND BY PROXY MINE

 

WITH SO FEW ELIGIBLE BACHELORS

AND HARD TIMES

BROUGHT ON IN PART

BY THE COST OF CARING FOR THE CASUALTIES

HURT

MAIMED IN BODY

AND MIND

GASSED

 

ALSO NEWFOUNDLAND

WITH VILLAGES

CALLED OUTPORTS

WHICH RINGED THE ISLAND

WITH POPULATIONS OF MAYBE 10 FAMILIES

WHOSE INDUSTRY WAS COD FISHING

WHOSE COMMUNICATION

WITH THE REST OF THE ISLAND

OR THE REST OF THE WORLD

WAS BY SEA

THERE WERE FEW CROSS COUNTRY ROADS


 

AND THE YOUNG MEN HAD TO WORK WITH THEIR FATHERS

TO SUPPORT THE FAMILY

IF THE HEAD OF THE FAMILY

DIED EARLY

OR HURT

THERE WAS NO SAFETY NET OR PENSION

 

WITH SO FEW ELIGIBLE BACHELORS

AND JOBS

MY MOTHER DECIDED TO IMMIGRATE

TO THE STATES

MET MY FATHER

AND HERE I AM

 

                IT HAS BEEN PLUS 85 YEARS

SINCE THE AUSPICIOUS DAY OF MY BIRTH

DURING THAT LIFESPAN

THERE HAVE BEEN CONTINUAL WARS

OR THE RUMOR OF WARS

 

UNTIL NOW WE HAVE WARS

WITHOUT ENDING

WHERE TO END

WE HAVE TO DECLARE VICTORY

AND LEAVE

 

LIKE TACITUS

WE CAN SAY

 

 

THEY HAVE MADE A WILDERNESS

AND CALL IT PEACE

 

 

 

WE KEEP SENDING OUR YOUNG MEN

TO FEED THE INSATIABLE MEAT GRINDER

 

WE CALL IT NOBLE

AND IT IS

EVEN IF THE CAUSE IS UNJUST

OR MANUFACTURED


 

BUT THE GREY HEADS

THAT SEND YOUNG MEN TO WAR

SIT IN NICE OFFICES

IMMUNE TO PAIN

OR THE COST OF BAD JUDGMENT

 

THEY SHOUT HURRAHS

THEN VOTE TO CUT

A VETERANS PENSION

 

I THINK WHAT CAUSING MY DOUR THOUGHTS

ARE PICTURES OF OUR RETURNING VETERANS

DELIMBED

SCARRED IN MIND AND BODY

 

I WANT TO SCREAM

WHY

AND WHAT WASTE

TO WHAT MEANINGFUL PURPOSE

 

THERE MUST BE A BETTER WAY

 

IN A CHRISTIAN NATION

THERE SHOULD BE ANOTHER WAY

 

IT SEEMS A HOPELESS TASK

BUT IF EACH ONE OF US TRIED TO LIVE PEACEFULLY

 

FORGIVE WRONGS

WE SUCK ON LIKE

 A SORE TOOTH

 

12 MEN STARTED THE CHURCH

NOT ONE OF THEM WOULD WIN A NOBEL PRIZE

 

DAILY WE SAY

FORGIVE OUR SINS

AS WE FORGIVE OTHERS

 

IT’S A START

 

 

FRANK A VOLLMER

Sunday, November 10, 2013

(JOHN 3:18) MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER



John 3:8
The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit



MY MATERNAL GRANDFATHER
WAS A SEA CAPTAIN

SAILING OUT OF ST JOHN’S NEWFOUNDLAND

WHATEVER THE TASK THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE

SAILING TO EUROPE
AMERICA
CANADA
WHEREVER SALTED COD WAS EATEN

TO LABRADOR
FOR THE SEALING TRADE

HE TAUGHT ME LOYALTY
WHEN YOU SIGNED ON TO A CREW
YOU WORKED TO MAKE THAT TRIP SUCCESSFUL

HE EXPORTED WOOD AND MINERALS
BROUGHT BACK NEEDED FOOD PRODUCTS
AND PRODUCTS 
NOT GENERALLY AVAILABLE ON THE ISLAND

THE CREW WAS PAID A WORKMEN’S WAGE
THE OFFICER’S BETTER

WE LEAD A COMFORTABLE NEWFOUNDLAND LIFE
WE WERE ENGLISH
THE WORKMEN IRISH

HIS NAME WAS ARCHIBALD
HE PREFERRED ARCH
I DON’T NEED REMINDERS
THE HAIR IS THIN
HE’D SAY

HE TOLD ME MANY STORIES
SOME TRUE
SOME TALL


HE WARNED ME
ABOUT THE WEE PEOPLE
THE GHOSTS THAT WALK AT NIGHT

SUCH STORIES
THAT THE INTELLIGENT PART OF MY BRAIN
LOOKS DOWN WITH SCORN
AND ENVY

IT WAS A MAGICAL WORLD
AND MY MOTHER WAS FEY



I AM AN OLD MAN NOW
I HAVE FORGOTTEN MANY THINGS

BUT ONE I STILL REMEMBER FONDLY
WAS WHEN MY GRANDFATHER
 GAVE ME A CONCH SHELL

SAID LISTEN
I DID
AND HEARD THE OCEAN

NOW THE INTELLIGENT PART OF MY BRAIN WILL SAY
THE SHELL ACTS AS A RESONATOR
FOR AMBIENT SOUND

THE PART OF MY BRAIN
THAT BELIEVES
SOME THINGS ARE TRUE

BELIEVED MY GRANDFATHER
WHEN HE SAID
LISTEN CLOSELY
YOU’LL HEAR GOD’S VOICE

IF YOU GO INTO A ROOM DEVOID OF SOUND
THE SHELL DOES NOTHING

TOO OFTEN I HAVE BEEN IN THAT ROOM
GOD WAITING OUTSIDE THE DOOR
FOR ME TO OPEN


TOO OFTEN I SPOKEN INTO THAT SHELL
NOT ALLOWING TIME FOR ANSWERS

TOO OFTEN I HAVE HIDDEN THAT SHELL
NOT WANTING TO DO WHAT IT SAID

BUT THE SHELL KEEPS CALLING ME
WITH THE MYSTICAL SOUND OF THE SEA

WHO LIMITED THE OCEAN TO IT’S BASIN
WHO CREATED THE LEVIATHAN
WHO TELLS THE WIND WHERE TO BLOW
SETS THE MOON AND THE SUN
LIKE A CLOCK

WHO MADE YOU
MY FINEST CREATION
MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE SHELL

WHICH SOUNDS CONTINUALLY
COME HOME
COME HOME
TO THE SEA

FRANK A VOLLMER

Sunday, October 20, 2013

MY CHOICE

 
 
 
I CHOSE YOU TO BE MY MATE
NOW
ALWAYS
I CHOOSE YOU
 
THROUGH RAIN
AND
SUNNY DAYS
 
THROUGH TURBULENT SEAS
AND PLACID
 
I CHOOSE YOU
 
RECEIVE THIS RING
AS A SIGN
A RING HAS NO END
 
LEAN ON ME
AS I ON YOU
 
TOGETHER WE FORM AN ARCH
WITH GOD AS KEYSTONE
 
AS WE LEAD OUR LIVES TOGETHER
WORTHY OF THE GOD WHO LOVES US
 
WHEN WE FAIL
LET US BE WILLING TO FORGIVE
AS WE HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN
 
FRANK A VOLLMER


Saturday, October 19, 2013

(JOHN 4) WOMAN AT THE WELL

 
WOMAN AT THE WELL

TO BEGIN
SHE WAS A WOMAN
SHE HAD NO RIGHTS
EXCEPT THAT GIVEN BY THE MAN WHO OWNED HER
 
HUSBAND
FATHER
BROTHER
UNCLE
DOWN THE FAMILY TREE
 
A JEWISH MAN
DID NOT WILLINGLY SPEAK TO A WOMAN
NOT HIS KIN
 
IN FACT HIS MORNING PRAYER WAS
THANK YOU GOD FOR NOT MAKING ME
A WOMAN
SLAVE
OR GENTILE
 
BESIDE THAT SHE WAS A SAMARITAN
LOWER THAN A WOMAN
ALMOST A NON-PERSON
 
BUT THIS JEWISH GENTLE MAN
HAD APPROACHED HER
WHILE SHE WAS AT THE WELL
AND ASKED HER FOR A DRINK
 
WHAT SURPRISED HER
BEYOND A JEW TALKING TO A GENTILE
WAS THAT HE ASKED HER FOR A DRINK POLITELY
 
SHE’D BEEN USE TO BEING ORDERED ABOUT
NOT ALWAYS CIVILLY
AND NEVER WITH A PLEASE
 
HOW CAN YOU A JEW SPEAK TO ME
IS YOUR THIRST THAT GREAT
 
IF YOU KNEW WHO I AM
YOU’D KNOW
I CAN GIVE YOU LIVING WATER

ONE WHO DRINKS OF IT WILL NEVER THIRST
 
YOU HAVE NO PITCHER
AND THE WELL IS DEEP
HOW CAN YOU GIVE ME
THIS LIVING WATER

BUT IF YOU CAN
GIVE ME SOME
SO I CAN STOP COMING TO THIS WELL
 
GET YOUR HUSBAND
 
I HAVE NO HUSBAND
 
YOU HAVE HAD FIVE
BUT YOUR PRESENT MAN
IS NOT YOUR HUSBAND
 
ARE YOU A PROPHET
OR BETTER THE MESSIAH
 
TELL ME WHICH TEMPLE IS BETTER
OUR OR YOURS
 
BOTH TEMPLES
ARE GOING AWAY

FOR GOD WILL BE WORSHIPPED
AS HE CHOOSES
 
FOR
GOD IS SPIRIT
 AND HIS WORSHIPERS
MUST WORSHIP
IN THE SPIRIT
 AND IN TRUTH

BUT WHEN WILL MESSIAH COME
 
THE ONE WHO SPEAKS TO YOU
IS HE
 
HOW MANY TIMES IN OUR ORDINARY LIFE
DOING MUNDANE THINGS
LIKE GOING FOR WATER
DO WE MEET JESUS

AND REFUSE HIM A DRINK
OR THE TIME OF DAY

FRANK A VOLLMER


Friday, September 20, 2013

AMOS 8:4-7




AMOS 8:4-7

Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor of the land,
saying,
“When will the New Moon be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market wheat?”—

skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating with dishonest scales,

buying the poor with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,


    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.


The Lord has sworn by himself, the Pride of Jacob: “I will never forget anything they have done.

ARE THE WORDS OF THE BIBLE TO BE BELIEVED
OR THEY JUST HAPPY TALK
LISTENED TO BE EARS THAT DO NOT HEAR
UNABLE TO PENETRATE OUR HEARTS

THE WORDS OF AMOS
WRITTEN OVER TWO THOUSAND YEARS AGO
TRANSCRIBED INTO MODERN TIMES
WOULD READ LIKE TODAY’S HEADLINES

WHILE THOSE WHO DO IT
PRATE PIOUS PLATITUDES
THE LORD HAS SAID
HE WILL NOT FORGET THEIR ACTIONS

LORD WE HAVE WANDERED FAR
FROM OUR FATHER’S HOUSE
WITH A RIGHT SPIRIT RENEW US
AND MELT OUR HEARTS TO HEAR


FRANK A VOLLMER

Sunday, September 8, 2013

OLD DAYS


OLD DAYS

 

 

I  HEARD A SPEAKER

WAX ELOQUENTLY

ABOUT HOW GOOD

THE OLD DAYS WERE

 

IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER

THAT DURING THOSE IDYLLIC TIMES

WE HAD RACE HATRED

AND RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY

.LABOR STRIFE AS WORKERS

FOUGHT FOR A LIVING WAGE

AND SAFE WORKING CONDITIONS

 MANY WERE HUNGRY

 AND ARE STILL HUNGRY

SIX MILLION JEWS SLAUGHTERED

 AND THE CHURCHES WERE SILENT

 

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN GOOD TIMES

 FOR A FEW

 BUT CHRISTIANITY

IS A COMMUNITY RELIGION

AND IF ONE IS HUNGRY

ALL ARE HUNGRY

 

FRAN A VOLLMER

Monday, August 19, 2013

some thoughts (pope francis)

 
FRANCIS SPOKE OUT AGAINST THE INDIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD TODAY. PEOPLE DIE OF COLD IN THE STREETS BECAUSE OF THIS INDIFFERENCE: “IF IN SO MANY PARTS OF THE WORLD THERE ARE CHILDREN WHO HAVE NOTHING TO EAT, THAT'S NOT NEWS, IT SEEMS NORMAL. IT CANNOT BE THIS WAY! YET THESE THINGS BECOME THE NORM: THAT SOME HOMELESS PEOPLE DIE OF COLD ON THE STREETS IS NOT NEWS. IN CONTRAST, A TEN POINT DROP ON THE STOCK MARKETS OF SOME CITIES IS A TRAGEDY. A PERSON DYING IS NOT NEWS, BUT IF THE STOCK MARKETS DROP TEN POINTS IT IS A TRAGEDY! THUS PEOPLE ARE DISPOSED OF, AS IF THEY WERE TRASH. CONSUMERISM HAS LED US TO BECOME USED TO AN EXCESS AND DAILY WASTE OF FOOD, TO WHICH, AT TIMES, WE ARE NO LONGER ABLE TO GIVE A JUST VALUE, WHICH GOES WELL BEYOND MERE ECONOMIC PARAMETERS,” (POPE FRANCIS)
 
 
 
 
ONE OF THE MOST PERSISTENT HERESIES ESPECIALLY IN MODERN TIMES IS THE SEPARATION OF FAITH FROM DAILY LIFE
 
IT INFECTS EVERYONE FROM CLERICS HIDING PEDERASTY, POLITICIANS WHO PUT BEING REELECTED OVER MORAL JUDGMENTS, DOWN TO YOU AND I
 
 
AN ECONOMIST HAS SAID IN RESPONSE TO THE POPE’S STATEMENT
THAT CAPITALISM CAN CURE POVERTY
I ASK IF THAT IS SO WHY DOES IT STILL EXIST
IS IT BECAUSE OF LACK OF WILL.
 
 
THOSE IN CHARGE ARE COMMITTED TO THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE.
 
ALL OF US ARE DESTINED TO ASK THE QUESTION
WHEN WERE YOU HUNGRY
NAKED OR POOR
 
CAN WE LIVE WITH THE ANSWER
 
 
FRANK A VOLLMER


Saturday, August 17, 2013

QUEEN ISABELLA

 
 
QUEEN ISABELLA
FULL FIVE YEARS OLD
IMPERIOUSLY DECLARED
WHILE STOMPING HER FEET
SHAKING HER  FANNY
HAND ON HER HIP
IT MAY BE SO
BUT I DON’T THINK SO
 
ISABELLA
ISABELLA
IN ENGLISH
ELIZABETH
 
BOTH FROM THE HEBREW
ELISHEBA
MEANING DEVOTED TO GOD
 
WHEN ANYONE CALLS YOUR NAME
MAKE SURE
YOU ARE WORTHY OF THAT CALLING
 
YOUR NAMESAKE SAID
SEEK OUT THE UNKNOWN
 
MAY YOU DO ALSO
 
MAY THE GOD TO WHOM YOU ARE DEVOTED
FILL YOUR MIND WITH STARS AND PLANETS
MAY YOU LIVE WITH YOUR HAND GRASPING
FOR OTHER WORLDS
UNTIL YOU FIND HEAVEN
 
 
FRANK A VOLLMER
 
 
ISABELLA
GRANDDAUGHTER OF  PASTOR
A TRIP