Listen

Amanda Seyfried
Momma Mia 2

Listen
to Hear
聞く
Kiku
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When I listen, I hear
that which is audible as clear.

Listen to hear.
It will make the sound dear.

When the Shepherd of struggle
leads those who listen to tussle with the puzzle,
those who hustle reduce the trouble
to find the jewel in the puddle.

Shine on, you that are enthroned with our youth
in the presence of the fruitful, the favored and the truth.

Stir up your strength and help.
Rear us like a lion's whelp.

Show the light of your countenance.
Help us to advance in dealing with chance.

Direct my soul in consonance
to form the shape of continence.

How long will you be angry
despite requests for the contrary?

You have fed us with the bread of tears.
The fears we hear had been put in a cup for years.

The full Cold Moon is supersized
to kiss the owl that looks wise with open eyes.

You brought a vine out of Egypt.
The strategic alliance was kept secret.

The recent regent for the region
pledged allegiance to amnesia.

The optical apparatus was Tunisian.
The masks were Venetian.

The vine was planted.
Growth was granted.

It took root and filled the land.
The shade it gave was quite grand.

Mountains were covered by the shadow.
Girls with curls shared the shade for the show.

The towering trees were under its boughs.
The bull declared his vow to the cow.

The tendrils stretched to the sea.
Europe was ravished with her own savage beauty.

The branches bounced over the river.
The reflection danced with the image of the giver.

We were enriched in speech and knowledge of every kind.
We found the love of wisdom that we sought to find.

Why was the wall for protection broken?
What word had been spoken? What deed was the token?

Now all that pass pluck its grapes.
The wild boar from the forest have changed the shape of the landscape.

The fowls of the air swooped in for their fill.
The beasts of the field looked for the thrill of the kill.

Vandals have set fire to it like rubbish.
Workers have been left with stubble and stumpage.

Look down great Gardener, grower of the colorful scene.
Uphold what's left of the plant that had been so keen and green.

Do not be exceedingly angry. Do not remember our iniquity forever.
Correct our misdeeds. Guide us with our dreams. Help us in every endeavor.

Help us to learn from the fullness of the large Cold Moon.
We must make the most of the time for our tune.


Psalm 80 Qui regis Israel

1 Hear, O Shepherd of Israel, leading Joseph like a flock; *
shine forth, you that are enthroned upon the cherubim.
2 In the presence of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh, *
stir up your strength and come to help us.
3 Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
4 O Lord God of hosts, *
how long will you be angered
despite the prayers of your people?
5 You have fed them with the bread of tears; *
you have given them bowls of tears to drink.
6 You have made us the derision of our neighbors, *
and our enemies laugh us to scorn.
7 Restore us, O God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.
8 You have brought a vine out of Egypt; *
you cast out the nations and planted it.
9 You prepared the ground for it; *
it took root and filled the land.
10 The mountains were covered by its shadow *
and the towering cedar trees by its boughs.
11 You stretched out its tendrils to the Sea *
and its branches to the River.
12 Why have you broken down its wall, *
so that all who pass by pluck off its grapes?
13 The wild boar of the forest has ravaged it, *
and the beasts of the field have grazed upon it.
14 Turn now, O God of hosts, look down from heaven;
behold and tend this vine; *
preserve what your right hand has planted.
15 They burn it with fire like rubbish; *
at the rebuke of your countenance let them perish.
16 Let your hand be upon the man of your right hand, *
the son of man you have made so strong for yourself.
17 And so will we never turn away from you; *
give us life, that we may call upon your Name.
18 Restore us, O Lord God of hosts; *
show the light of your countenance, and we shall be saved.

Isa. 64:9
Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
   and do not remember iniquity for ever.
   Now consider, we are all your people.

1 Corinth. 1:5
for in every way you have been enriched in him, in speech and knowledge of every kind

Mark 13:28
‘From the fig tree learn its lesson: as soon as its branch becomes tender and puts forth its leaves, you know that summer is near.

12-3-17
http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-current.html
This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Cold Moon because this is the time of year when the cold winter air settles in and the nights become long and dark. This moon has also been known as the Full Long Nights Moon and the Moon Before Yule. This is also the only supermoon for 2017. The Moon will be at its closest approach to the Earth and may look slightly larger and brighter than usual. It’ll shine all night long, starting around sunset on this night.

http://earthsky.org/?p=199041
Tonight’s moon shines in front of the constellation Taurus the Bull. Despite the lunar glare, you still might be able to make out Aldebaran, Taurus’ brightest star – or possibly the Pleiades star cluster.

Taurus
http://www.heavens-above.com/myth.aspx?lat=52.0917&lng=5.1178&loc=Utrecht&alt=11&tz=CET&cul=en&con=Tau
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Zodiac/Taurus/taurus.html
"Taurus, comes from the story of Europa. She was the daughter of King Agenor of Phoenicia and Telephassa. Europa became the object of Zeus' affections, and he appeared to her as a beautiful, white bull at the Phoenician waterside. The princess was awestruck by the beauty of the bull and walked over to pet it. She then climbed upon his back at which Zeus jumped into the water and carried her across the sea to Crete. He took the form of an eagle there and ravished her. She eventually bore him three sons whose names were Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon.

Talk

Cote de Pablo
NCIS

Talk
Time
連続通話時間
Renzoku tsūwa jikan
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Saturn was seen before we could dream
of counting his moons as a part of his team.

The seventh of heavenly objects that shine in the night
is the planet that is known as the symbol of time.

The oldest known of celestial spheres
adheres to the path to travel with tears
that veers from that of which the stars steer.

The Lord of the rings 
has exchanged meaningful things.

He gathered together the fauns and the nymphs
and gave them a glimpse of life without pimps.

Saturn has many moons.
Their orbits play different tunes.

Titan is larger than Mercury.
His lineage precedes that of Hercules.

Rhea is plenty smaller than our moon
but she is the wife to Saturn's swoon.

Many others are smaller still.
They don't comply with the equatorial will.
Crashes do occur.
Space debris does recur.

A co-orbit exists where the rocks change place
The inside track is replaced.
Janus and Epimetheus make the change.
Transitions are the name of their game.

Mercury is closest to the sun
but without a partner, he makes his run.

When Saturn meets Mercury in the night sky
the communication of time celebrates the harvest with wine.
Time tells the word to feel fine.

When our moon is half of full
the 'quarter' is named with less of a pull.

Low tides are inferred.
The lesser pull is conferred.

When the salt of sea is increased wind sheer is lost.
Temperatures rise. Stars become crossed.
A monster is made by regularity's loss.
Beauty and love are threatened with deadly awe.
Only fish are not tossed.
The wish for their safety is embossed
on mind's that have not been lost.
After the storm, we must count the cost.

Bow down. Bend the knee. Repair things with the management of labor.
Destruction shows the weakness that had stricken you or your neighbor.

Rock holds the joy for our salvation.
The height of mountain celebrates elation.

The depth of cavern shields us from harm.
Rubble tells the standing stone that it is lacking charm.

The sheep have been scattered on a day of darkness.
The wilderness can seem so harsh that it is heartless.

Care seeks out the flock as they drift like clouds.
The shepherd calls each by name with a voice that is loud.
The sheep have been found.

The shepherd feels the profound sound 
of joy echo from the ground.

Don't harden your heart for adversity.
Knowledge is found at the edge of uncertainty.

Quarreling in hardship was pronounced.
The counting of faults was announced.

Testing without rest was a mess.
Survival was for the fittest when it was best.

The wilderness was a maze in the mind.
The consequence for error was that which confined.

Where was there water
for your son or your daughter?

Where was the food
that would lighten your mood?

Where was the danger
that crept up like a stranger?

Where was the pasture
that would result in your laughter?

Where was the power for those who believe?
Where was the knowledge that would provide your relief?

When the Son of man and his angels appear,
will you be ready for the heavenly here?

Survival for fitness was for the best.
Learn from the experience expressed in the test.

Come let us sing the song of salvation.
It will be good for us, the world and our nation.


Psalm 95 Venite, exultemus

1 Come, let us sing to the Lord; *
let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving *
and raise a loud shout to him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God, *
and a great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the caverns of the earth, *
and the heights of the hills are his also.
5 The sea is his, for he made it, *
and his hands have molded the dry land.
6 Come, let us bow down, and bend the knee, *
and kneel before the Lord our Maker.
7 For he is our God,
and we are the people of his pasture and the sheep of his hand. *
Oh, that today you would hearken to his voice!
8 Harden not your hearts,
as your forebears did in the wilderness, *
at Meribah, and on that day at Massah,
when they tempted me.
9 They put me to the test, *
though they had seen my works.
10 Forty years long I detested that generation and said, *
"This people are wayward in their hearts;
they do not know my ways."
11 So I swore in my wrath, *
"They shall not enter into my rest."

Ezekiel 34:12
As shepherds seek out their flocks when they are among their scattered sheep, so I will seek out my sheep. I will rescue them from all the places to which they have been scattered on a day of clouds and thick darkness.

Ephesians 1:19-20
what is the immeasurable greatness of his power for us who believe, according to the working of his great power. God* put this power to work in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places...

Matt.25:31-46
 ‘When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory. All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats...
11-26-17

Aquarius, Pices, Mercury, Saturn

Kiss

Miley Cyrus
Liam Hemsworth

Kiss
Bliss
至福を楽しむ
Shifuku o tanoshimu
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The sky is moist with air.
The courage of conviction has to be fair.

Oversight sails on high.
Beauty gives courage an ally.

This temple was not made with human hands.
It was not built on stone. It is closer to sand
but it is on land.

Build a promise like you build a house.
Don't forget your beginning sprouts
with the tests you tout.

Prayer is answered with each test
insofar as you seek to find the best.

Start each task with the end in mind
until the step is the tie that binds.

Courage for faith 
will pave 
the way 
to say:

Design will be conceived.
Goals will be achieved.
Stress will be relieved.
Reward will be believed.
Promises will be kept.
Support will not have left.

Meaning will be what was meant.
The ominous drama of office
will honor the keeping of promise
for the honorable prominence
of love's dominance.

Forgiveness will be shown.
The drone groan will not have blown
the bliss of this kiss.
The fixable will forge forgiveness
for that which is forgivable in this.

Happiness will happen.
Welcome will be in fashion.
Reliability will protect the hallowed halls
with the brightly painted walls
of faith with fidelity
as the melody
for the clarity
of charity.

We will be satisfied in this house of satisfaction
with attraction for the action of benefaction
as the plan for action that is not just abstraction
with respect for life with liberty and the justice
that will thrust us into august robustness
with justness as our substance.

Deliverance will deliver us from ignorance
as the construction for destruction and belief
in being lawyers with destroyers as employers.

Salvation is hope that reaches
by the farthest seas to the nearest beaches.

Mountains were established by the strength of land
being pressed by pressure from beyond and beneath the sands.

The roaring waves of outraged oceans
find solace in silent motions
after the purging surge of roaring rage
releases peace from the pain of the age.

Love for life quiets the tumult
from turbulent tides and the lightning bolt.

The morning and evening
shout for joy as gateways for retrieving
the goodness of peace that reaches
to the ultimate end that the awe of awesome teaches.

The power of the sun, wind, water and soil
make grain grow as part of the plan for the least amount of toil.

Irrigation teaches water to reach low
to each place that had not been known
by moisture or had not been shown
the blessing of growth.

Drainage drives deluge into ponds
for holding the drink for the palm's unfolding fronds.

Time is crowned by provision.
Trade, travel and labor's vision
will overflow with wealth in a provident decision
of the economy's revision of monetary division.

The land abounds with boundaries
established by pastures. forest trees,
rivers, lakes, seas, deserts and constructed levies.

Meadows are adorned with flocks.
Gates are secured with locks.
Valleys give growth to grain.
Pleasure is cultivated from pain.

Life sings for the joy of living.
This joy is strengthened with thanksgiving.

Liberty is limited by the law of love for life.
Redemption transforms adversity from strife.

Happy are those who are brought near your courts.
Security transcends the structure of the fort.

Kiss bliss.
Don't dismiss this.
It will help you to dismiss
what the Swiss missed.


Like you build a temple, like you build a statue, you build a vow...

Psalm 65
To the leader. A Psalm of David. A Song.

1 Praise is due to you,
   O God, in Zion;
and to you shall vows be performed,
2   O you who answer prayer!
To you all flesh shall come.
3 When deeds of iniquity overwhelm us,
   you forgive our transgressions.
4 Happy are those whom you choose and bring near
   to live in your courts.
We shall be satisfied with the goodness of your house,
   your holy temple.
5 By awesome deeds you answer us with deliverance,
   O God of our salvation;
you are the hope of all the ends of the earth
   and of the farthest seas.
6 By your* strength you established the mountains;
   you are girded with might.
7 You silence the roaring of the seas,
   the roaring of their waves,
   the tumult of the peoples.
8 Those who live at earth’s farthest bounds are awed by your signs;
you make the gateways of the morning and the evening shout for joy.

9 You visit the earth and water it,
   you greatly enrich it;
the river of God is full of water;
   you provide the people with grain,
   for so you have prepared it.
10 You water its furrows abundantly,
   settling its ridges,
softening it with showers,
   and blessing its growth.
11 You crown the year with your bounty;
   your wagon tracks overflow with richness.
12 The pastures of the wilderness overflow,
   the hills gird themselves with joy,
13 the meadows clothe themselves with flocks,
   the valleys deck themselves with grain,
   they shout and sing together for joy.

Lift

Karen Gillan
"Jumanji"

Lift
Your Eyes
あなたの目を持ち上げる
Anata no me o mochiageru 
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I lift my eyes to the sky.
From where did I arise?

The eagle soars above the land.
He glides with an ease that is grand.

He watches with the keenest sight.
Then like a lightning bolt, he strikes.

How did it feel?
Like it wasn't real
.
The lion held labor as a slave.
He kept his slaves in darkness as a cave.

The strength of courage broke his back.
The slaves were freed. They flew from the zodiac.

The augurs were the sacerdotes.
The auspices looked to denote the notes.

The prophets were the case for hope.
Criticism defined the scope.

Justice journeys through the vast unknown
to find what's fair in what can be shown.

Our eyes look for love in what can be seen.
We seek mercy, gentle as the cat that preens.

The future is given into your hand.
Govern with design as the plan.

Achievement is a goal that drives.
Excellence in performance thrives.

Anger is a feeling felt 
to cut the excess from the belt.

Wrath in action is not the path
when cruelty makes blood the bath.

Trust is built with integrity.
Behave as though you're always seen.

Invest to build on what had been built.
Refine the work. Clean up what's spilt.

There are motions in the mind
that reach beyond what's known to seek and find.

The great earth finds the quiet of time
to shake out the soft fire of desire.

We have suffered contempt from the proud.
The rule of law for people was not allowed.

There was too much scorn from the indolent.
There was not enough presence for the imminent.

Each moves towards the meeting place
from respective climbs to the divine with grace.

The winding stairs rise or fall as needed.
The way to heaven will not be cheated.

I lift my eyes to the sky.
From where did I arise?

I seek. I find. I rise.
It is to the sky I fly.


Psalm 123 Ad te levavi oculos meos

1 To you I lift up my eyes, *
to you enthroned in the heavens.

2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, *
and the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,

3 So our eyes look to the Lord our God, *
until he show us his mercy.

4 Have mercy upon us, O Lord, have mercy, *
for we have had more than enough of contempt,

5 Too much of the scorn of the indolent rich, *
and of the derision of the proud.

See

Paris Hilton
New Line

See
Beauty
美しさを見て
Utsukushi-sa o mite
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Hormones support the drive to produce.
Energy thrives to give enough for our use.

Overproduction drives the need to feed just enough
over time to train the body to be tough and stuff.

The foam from the sea on the shore is an emergence.
The cycle of water gives us resurgence.

It is the natural way to find balance with respect for others.
It forms relation with other sisters and brothers.

The cold of the polished stone is smooth to the touch.
Refinement is alignment with design as such.

Disagree with that which is false about statements.
There is only so much that is agreeable with the agency of agents.

The agents only net so much for the truth of payment,
yet employment develops informed consent against what betrayal lent.

Use judgment to find agreement with truth.
It took a stranger to see the beauty of my youth.

You are the seat of light for judgment.
You can't beat your sight for rejecting that which was sent as bent.

We will move away from that which wasn't meant to stand as our ground.
We will find our way to that which needs to be found.

We will move toward that which was right about experience.
We will define the line of sight for the series in the serious.

The mysteries of salvation will be named.
That which was heard and known will be proclaimed.

That which had been told to us will be shown to be known for fame
that will not cause our family's children shame.

Our ancestors speak to us.
The ancestry of all intercedes for the just 
plus our bust.

People are the wealth of nations.
Munitions and surveillance are only substations.

The weapon that rises from the land for the hand
is that which is designed to fight only to defend.

Our stories are the product of our culture.
Our science investigates truth like a vulture.

Controlled experiments rule out what was wrong about thought.
Products are produced as something that can be bought. 

The market sifts through value insofar as it can be wrought.
The power of action that has been good

will be recounted with respect for that which should
be beneficial to what can be understood.

Marvels were worked for us when we were confronted
by the cruelty of growth in civilization un-stunted.

The place of our anguish became the field for departure
as we sought to use the martyr's ardor for barter.

Waters were split when we were denied pay for our labor.
Security as a nation among nations was not ours to savor.

Immigrants are welcome to walk the path to citizenship.
Management can't outsource in or outland to oneup for the partisan split.

We were led by a cloud during the day and a fiery light at night.
The volcanic eruption gave orientation for sight.

A rock was split in the wilderness
to give us drink from the deep of the chill beneath us.

A stream gushed forth from the cleft in the cliff.
Water rushed out like a fountain born rift.

When we were thirsty we had said, "Freedom is not fair.
We are too afraid of the play in the fray to share.
Will we be killed by the cure as a dare?"

Freedom asked, "Was my way unfair?
Was it slavery that taught you to care?

"Didn't the imitation of the slaver
add cruelty to your behavior?

"Did you not feel the anguish of the driver as you drove?
Respect for freedom had been sacrificed to the treasure of the trove.
Mindless automation for the machinery of war
had driven our striving in a way that shook us to the core.

"When good people have replaced respect for others
with violence or cruelty, they die for that which smothered.

"When the hateful return to living with respect for life,
they have started on the path that will reduce strife.
They live for goodness in darkness and light.

"Turn from sacrifice for invasion,
violence, genocide and evasion. 
Define the rule of law for salvation.

"The right to life with freedom and justice
will liberate love to live with strength among us.

"Would you die for your power over others?
You will not live as a sister, brother or lover.
There is no pleasure in the death of respect
for freedom in life for the adept to protect.

"Turn from cruelty and live
Choose heart with the spirit to give." 

Choose this day whom or what you will serve.
Work with that while you have the nerve.

We who are alive and are left
will be lifted up above that which was bereft.

Stay alert to stay alive. You don't know the day or the hour
when he who has risen will come back with power.



Psalm 78
Part I Attendite, popule

1 Hear my teaching, O my people; *
incline your ears to the words of my mouth.
2 I will open my mouth in a parable; *
I will declare the mysteries of ancient times.
3 That which we have heard and known,
and what our forefathers have told us, *
we will not hide from their children.
4 We will recount to generations to come
the praiseworthy deeds and the power of the Lord, *
and the wonderful works he has done.
5 He gave his decrees to Jacob
and established a law for Israel, *
which he commanded them to teach their children;
6 That the generations to come might know,
and the children yet unborn; *
that they in their turn might tell it to their children;
7 So that they might put their trust in God, *
and not forget the deeds of God,
but keep his commandments;
8 And not be like their forefathers,
a stubborn and rebellious generation, *
a generation whose heart was not steadfast,
and whose spirit was not faithful to God.
9 The people of Ephraim, armed with the bow, *
turned back in the day of battle;
10 They did not keep the covenant of God, *
and refused to walk in his law;
11 They forgot what he had done, *
and the wonders he had shown them.
12 He worked marvels in the sight of their forefathers, *
in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
13 He split open the sea and let them pass through; *
he made the waters stand up like walls.
14 He led them with a cloud by day, *
and all the night through with a glow of fire.
15 He split the hard rocks in the wilderness *
and gave them drink as from the great deep.
16 He brought streams out of the cliff, *
and the waters gushed out like rivers.
17 But they went on sinning against him, *
rebelling in the desert against the Most High.
18 They tested God in their hearts, *
demanding food for their craving.
19 They railed against God and said, *
"Can God set a table in the wilderness?
20 True, he struck the rock, the waters gushed out, and the
gullies overflowed; *
but is he able to give bread
or to provide meat for his people?"
21 When the Lord heard this, he was full of wrath; *
a fire was kindled against Jacob,
and his anger mounted against Israel;
22 For they had no faith in God, *
nor did they put their trust in his saving power.
23 So he commanded the clouds above *
and opened the doors of heaven.
24 He rained down manna upon them to eat *
and gave them grain from heaven.
25 So mortals ate the bread of angels; *
he provided for them food enough.
26 He caused the east wind to blow in the heavens *
and led out the south wind by his might.
27 He rained down flesh upon them like dust *
and wingèd birds like the sand of the sea.
28 He let it fall in the midst of their camp *
and round about their dwellings.
29 So they ate and were well filled, *
for he gave them what they craved.
30 But they did not stop their craving, *
though the food was still in their mouths.
31 So God's anger mounted against them; *
he slew their strongest men
and laid low the youth of Israel.
32 In spite of all this, they went on sinning *
and had no faith in his wonderful works.
33 So he brought their days to an end like a breath *
and their years in sudden terror.
34 Whenever he slew them, they would seek him, *
and repent, and diligently search for God.
35 They would remember that God was their rock, *
and the Most High God their redeemer.
36 But they flattered him with their mouths *
and lied to him with their tongues.
37 Their heart was not steadfast toward him, *
and they were not faithful to his covenant.
38 But he was so merciful that he forgave their sins
and did not destroy them; *
many times he held back his anger
and did not permit his wrath to be roused.
39 For he remembered that they were but flesh, *
a breath that goes forth and does not return.

Joshua 24:15
if you are unwilling to work with the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will work with the Lord.’

1 Thess. 4:17
we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord

Matt. 25:13
Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.

Shine

Rika Ishikawa
Marries Ryoma Nogami


Shine
Like a Diamond
ダイヤモンドのように輝きます
Daiyamondo no yō ni kagayakimasu
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The broken bowl bell
held food quite well 
until it fell.

The squeaking squeal from the wheel 
yields wealth in health appeal
from the way the appeal feels. 

A diamond shines bright
with the facets of light’s life
in mind with sight.

She smiles for miles
with the delight of insight.

Diamonds start as coal.
Earth is the source for the intense force that cajoles
the carbon in its moles to make tiny holes
extol less space for lex taste holding the philosopher’s stone 
as a blown tome now known
as the most remarkable clone.

Opaque matter, darker than night,
becomes transparent, shining sparkles in light.

Hardship hardens your core for sure
to make your heart shine as pure.
Purity is the cure that lures.

Performers stay healthy 
so their products are wealthy.

The best work smart with rested heart
for the next test to start.

These followed their food.
These chopped what the beaver chewed.

These grew what they could.
These shot from where they stood.

These worked in mines.
These hunted from blinds.

These worked in fields.
These negotiated deals.
These squealed for appeals.

These worked in a factory.
These made customers happy.

The redeemer’s redemption came
by correction in detention for those who lost their way to fame
and became lame with respect for the rules of the game

These formed conception with education
to avoid the deception of perception 
by the sensation of the senses.

All these weathered the storm;
while these struggled through thorns.
These strengthened their homes
while these burned diseased bones.

Some went to the sea to sail in ships
to ply their trade without loose lips.

They beheld the wonders of the deep.
Things went so well they felt that they could weep.

Then a storm bossed the wind and the waves of the sea.
They rose so high they tossed the ship like a flea on a sheep.

The ship mounted the heavens then fell back to the depths.
Their hearts melted molten groan. Some actually wept.

They staggered and fell like the most practiced of drunkards.
They looked to the sky and prayed for their mothers.

The wind carried their prayer to the height of the sky.
They were delivered from the storm as if by their cry.

The storm was stilled to a whispering purr.
The sea felt so soft she seemed like a cure.

They all felt glad because of the calm of the sea.
The harbor they made soothed them like the balm of mortality.

Let them give thanks for the love of sweet mercy.
The sailors were saved from wet death with a thirst for eternity.

The Redeemer redeemed lost time as the story.
Joy was embraced as a parcel of glory.

The weather is the greatest of friends
or the worst to offend.

We accomplish all things with the goodness of weather.
Natural disaster destroys anything, but buh-bling or bird feathers.

A silver cord streams 
from the container of dreams.

Drink truth deep from your heart before sleep.
It will help you keep what you seek
looking sleek.

Shine like a diamond.
You will be alive then.
You won’t feel like a siren 
on an island off the horizon.


Psalm 107

Part I Confitemini Domino

1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, *
and his mercy endures for ever.

2 Let all those whom the Lord has redeemed proclaim *
that he redeemed them from the hand of the foe.

3 He gathered them out of the lands; *
from the east and from the west,
from the north and from the south.

4 Some wandered in desert wastes; *
they found no way to a city where they might dwell.

5 They were hungry and thirsty; *
their spirits languished within them.

6 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.

7 He put their feet on a straight path *
to go to a city where they might dwell.

8 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.

9 For he satisfies the thirsty *
and fills the hungry with good things.
10 Some sat in darkness and deep gloom, *
bound fast in misery and iron;

11 Because they rebelled against the words of God *
and despised the counsel of the Most High.

12 So he humbled their spirits with hard labor; *
they stumbled, and there was none to help.

13 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.

14 He led them out of darkness and deep gloom *
and broke their bonds asunder.

15 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.

16 For he shatters the doors of bronze *
and breaks in two the iron bars.
17 Some were fools and took to rebellious ways; *
they were afflicted because of their sins.

18 They abhorred all manner of food *
and drew near to death's door.

19 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.

20 He sent forth his word and healed them *
and saved them from the grave.

21 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.

22 Let them offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving *
and tell of his acts with shouts of joy.
23 Some went down to the sea in ships *
and plied their trade in deep waters;

24 They beheld the works of the Lord *
and his wonders in the deep.

25 Then he spoke, and a stormy wind arose, *
which tossed high the waves of the sea.

26 They mounted up to the heavens and fell back to the depths; *
their hearts melted because of their peril.

27 They reeled and staggered like drunkards *
and were at their wits' end.

28 Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble, *
and he delivered them from their distress.

29 He stilled the storm to a whisper *
and quieted the waves of the sea.

30 Then were they glad because of the calm, *
and he brought them to the harbor they were bound for.

31 Let them give thanks to the Lord for his mercy *
and the wonders he does for his children.

32 Let them exalt him in the congregation of the people *
and praise him in the council of the elders.