Piece work for Jesus

Piece work for Jesus

You get upset

attack

demand to know 

the reason

the meaning

where is your 

compassion?

Your forgiveness?

You seem to be 

bringing scalps and hides 

kicking and screaming 

to the feet of your God.

You missed a bit of the 

meaning somewhere

perhaps fixing the typo 

will help settle your soul

It is not piece work for Jesus 

but peace work.

~ David L. White

to the painter Shelby Keefe

I scroll by, stroll by, 

glancing, move on. 

Something twinkles. 

I stop. Still. 

I breathe in the breeze 

of every brush stroke. 

Between the light 

and shadow 

the pedestrian 

disappears. 

~ David L. White

http://www.studioshelby.com

Collapse

Collapse

Collapse is a noun
that makes it sound
like a singular event
it was
it went

or something in a future tense
yet when you admit it
you’re in the thick of it
it is more the
tick tock of dominoes
spiraling
out of sight
out of mind
it might

……

4:05 a.m.December 7th 2014

© David L White

Poem for the road

Poem for the road

Two years to the day
we last cracked a joke
I went out to 
slap your knee
and tip some corn,
shoot a goose
rob a grave,
go on the loose

but damn if that
joke we cracked
didn't spill
all over me
some wild tears
and ghost feathers

and some of
the meaning is
missing
everywhere
I look

…..
10/29/14
© DavidLWhite

Reading June 1st 2014

Audio of me reading few posts from Drive Time and about 15 poems from Lost and Found.

Lost and Found

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtPRFbBNOcE

Drive Timehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IM-hbZqW8o

Lost and Found

A forty-year recollection of poetry: Lost and Found.

Amazon.com/author/davidlwhite

Deep Fall

For awhile I thought something 

was bubbling over on the stove

but .. no

I am cooking. I know what’s up. 

We are having lentils and rice 

with seven spice I got today from

the bulk bin at Holy Land Grocery 

I suppose that drumming sound is 

simply the spotting rain that was 

promised all day, finally tuning up 

the asphalt shingles for a bit of a 

percussive supper.

This morning early I was listening

to a sitar in kirtan and this evening 

Baez singing Diamonds and Rust 

and Waltzing Matilda.

I am surprised I can hear anything

at all over my waterfall of tears.

It is deepening autumn in the 

upper midwest and dark is

already over me - deepening.

...

 David L. White © 2014

Lost and Found

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The recollection is ready. March 22, 2014

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Congratulations, Pat!

 Yaay - Pat got her store up by January 31st. A self-imposed deadline which makes it all the more commendable.

Finally, after retiring, she has time to put together the many moons of teaching activities she developed during her career.

Around here we call it 'data smashing' and she's good at it.

Too much fun.

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Pat-Prosser

Grape Yoga

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Grape Yoga

Place raisin on tongue.
Close mouth. Relax.

No chew. No swallow.

Pay attention. Stretch mind.

Rehydrate raisin
until grape.



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© David White July 7, 2012