Happy Birthday Jesus

Peace and holy
Insides knowing
Outside showing
Honor glowing
Equal transparency
Kings and queens
Pauper and slave
Daughter and father
Birth to grave
All the same
No better than the other
My curb to yours
No room for curse
Love all abound
On our round
Spaceship earth
Death and birth
Hungry at first
Filled are some
Those who come
That heard him speak
Of power from the weak
Some said he was wrong
Cause who would have us
Who is to really trust
In prophets and seer's
Relying on our fears
None but Jesus
Who
Lived all three
In
Our hope
In
Our spirit
In
Our divinity
Died on Calvary
To set us free..........
FTBAS 12.23.14

Deadly

There it comes
Spoiling all the funs
Tall and loud
Witty and proud
Yapping and screaming
Got my ears a bleeding
Such a queen
A bitch really
Ain't you seen
That Philly
From to North
To South
Shes always
Spewing in someones mouth
So sick and faking
Rumor replicating
Reputation deterioration
Character with out the making
And always faking
Cause real
Is a siren shrill
Like glass
It bust that ass
Truth does endure
I am sure
But dramas always working
Like Miley twerkin
And us watching
On a set
On next
Starving children with out their mamma
Cause she out talking with Drama............
FTBAS 12.21.14

Empty rainbows

Empty Rainbows


In the dark it lies
Somewhere in overcast skies
Believing in the human condition
Creating my empathy fruition

Well I'm done frustrating
Gonna start fixating
On loving every living thing
And the joy I can bring

Framed in empty rainbows
Opened all my windows
Out our time fly's
Soon we all dies

Pardons are just a sheet
Devils got to compete
I'm just a garden
Something to warden

For Jesus to weep
When Gods asleep
Slumped on the wheel
Oh my soul is real

Bent over and undone
When I try to be someone
Not meant to be
Other than me.............
FTBAS 12.16.14

Vaminos

I said this to you

What you put me through

I dig my silence

Ain't worried since

My satisfaction

Is domino

Fall down

Get back up

Push me

Fuck

Falls are creeks at the end

I am cheeks

Soulshine friend

So you said somebody

Did you there

Now that ain’t right

I'll declare

You miss leading for sure

But Hey I m gonna be the only one you see

The one that’s gotta be

Your satisfaction don’t you know

Vaminos -vaminos………………….

FTBAS 12.8.14 

Journeys

When the silence of my heart starts beating

Plows in the soil of my soul retreating

I follow a measure in my rhyme

Doubting the empty sublime

Of treasure in darkness

Of paths walked alone

It’s within the emptiness

We find we are not alone……….

FTBAS   11.18.14

Downstream

Spirals and waves
Rocks and rays
Leaves and branches
Night romances
Day delights
Split unites
Without the blind
I could not see
With out my anger
I am not free
Doubt and tragedy
Hand with misery
Cards are not just dealt
They are hand felt
Built with tiny cracks
Shortcut across the tracks
To lean up that hill
Toting despair still
Dogs bark when afraid
Is a decision made
With the heart of mind
Chosen path all the time
Light dark purple blue
I get to be me
You get to be you
Just not sure
Who gets to choose.............
FTBAS 11.13.14

My old Friend

Watching my old friend this morning.

Over 5000 of these days together forming.

Sitting in the warm fall sun, soaking in the rays.

Hot rising or stormy weather days.

My keys jingling are an instant up.

Cause we might be loading up to go in the truck..

Every work day and weekend , keeping an eye on my shoes.

Me barefoot has him with the blues.

Cause boots are for working, so he's almost sure to go.

Tennis shoes are a maybe yes, and sandals maybe no.

Point man on the trail, as a good lead dog would.

Never once has left me, from being misunderstood.

Returning from times he can’t roll, he’s the first face I see.

From a hard day’s work or fishing in the sea.

When he’s not there I hear his bark.

Silence is deafening without his snoring in the dark.

Nights are not the same when I don’t call his name.

Been beside me when even when I was unsure.

With his heart of gold and love so pure.

My old best friend Wyatt the Wonder dog

Or WD 40 on short.

Blessing sent to me from God’s court.

To become such a part of me.

I see I am in good company.

Left with maybe a year or two if we are blessed.

Cause living and dying daily together, is what us old friends do best………………..

FTBAS 10.22.14

F and D

I ask not of my faith, to forgive our darkness.

Only to hold me, as I see it through till dawn. 

FTBAS  10.3.14

Candy toast

Savory and sweet

Tongues little treat

Like sunshine in rays

Distant in daze

Moments in haze

Keep looking back

Never keeping track

Of begs a pleading

A hearts a bleeding

Opera on the floor

Sanity out the door

Nights a ringing

Souls a flinging

Tossed and believing 

That one little thing

Somethings do change

An island of swim

End books whim

Characters done

What's become

To the hero then
Or looser has been

King on top

Pauper will mop

Over the world 

Flag unfurled

With the host

Over the boast

Glass raised my candy toast...................

FTBAS 9.11.14

Soulshine

Concrete perfection reached
In beginning was preached
Of lasting pain and loners
Dusty boots in empty corners

Memories of gritty days gone by
Talking shit and running dry
Whats that my friend?
Soul shined once again?

Mud fields at last
Haze dispersal fast
That gaze in burrow
Looking west tomorrow

Birds are humming
Trees are sunning
Shade heat away
For soul shine to play....................

FTBAS 9.21.14

In me

Mind a train of thinking
Heart beats of passion
Within my soul seeing all
On my feet I'm standing
Arms meant for hugging
Shoulders built for lugging
Hips love dancing
Fingertips for romancing
Eye stare blinking
Mouth forms worlds
Envy has them shrinking
Courage pushes me forth
Cowardice stuffed in worth
Silence fell on ears
Ducts roll out tears
Smiled at the lips
One I just bit
With teeth shining
Muscles a flexin
Blood is pumping
Sometime I'm dumping
Sleep is a whore
Showers are a bore
On water proof skin
Cold vs warm
Constant battle
Temperature gauges
All over the faces
Emotional system
Physical rhythm
Nervous system
Control monitors
Sleeping at the wheel
I'm me
Even still.............

FTBAS 9.4.14

Crowd in silence

In the middle of nothing
No room to believe
Stench of disgusting
Sewer gas to breathe

In a crowd of silence
Depending on social
Media of malice
On the channel local

Screens are scrolling
Jigsaw is naught
Friends are glowing
With nuclear assault

Cellophane wrapped
Pizza fed
Touchdown tapped
Silicone bred

Crowed in silence
Of empty screams
Crowded in silence
Of Utopian dreams............

FTBAS 8.17.14

Do Lolly

Down on folly
Rocking hard
Crevice wide
Super slide
Do lolly
Funky fellow
Do Lolly
Go mellow
I'm down my friend
Times just a need
Days just going on
How we feed
Sun breaches
SOB teaches
Corner preachin
Need some sleepin
Eye lids creepin
But I'm down my friend
Do lolly
Things aint fakin
Natures figs
I'm a eatin
Silent prayers Im saying

But at the end of the day
Do Lolly
Do lolly
Do!

FTBAS 8.5.14

Glow

Feel that slow melody play
Sweet sounds float from the street
The pavement vibes a sway
Bass thumping beneath

The band marched on
The crowd pulled away
The shadows are long
The memories of today

Glow in the wind
Glow in the light
Gone now my friend
Gone as your right

Its not the start
Its not the end
Its not the middle
Its when are apart............

FTBAS 7.9.14

Pleasure

Drop by drop
System stops
Roll by roll
Main gate tolls

Thump by thump
Rotation pumps
Swing by swing
Night stars sky brings

Mist up and over
Valleys grind lovers
Sweat ring
Mind still springs

Water through
Drop by drops
End to preview
Bottom to tops................

FTBAS 6/23/14

Souls Crossing

Watch out 

That was close

Busted shout

At the most

Waves are crashing

Days are tossed

Knights are clashing

Desperate and lost

Maidens drift

Winds sail

Faults shift

To no avail

Souls crossing

Byways of rhyme

Souls crossing

All the time............

FTBAS 6.11.14

 

Muse

May mistakes inspire
A wish for your every desire
Sunsets and all the rest
But for the final test

What did you do
Who were you
How did you love
Was it it resolute

Pennies you saved
Dollars played
Delicate concern
For materiel burn

A pyre for some
A hole for
others
What do you say
About your brothers
Is judgment so great
That all along we hate
That neighbor we loved
Ourselves above

Draw the line
But not with my bones
You desert drones
Of my sands in time..........

FTBAS 6.4.14

Poets Dust

We reach for eternity
Never seeing past you and me
Death revolves around us
Trying to miss that bus

A poet writes with trust
Delivering oneself from the gray
A poets write is just
When there is nothing left to say

Your spirit lifted us
Words where your gift
So now into dust
In ashes we sift

Looking for you today
Besides ourselves in grief
As we bury your way
Into our belief.......

RIP Maya Angelou

FTBAS 5.28.14

Dances in utopia

A dreamer
A believer
A saint
A sinner

Ain't bee
We see
Complaint free
In jubilee

Satire
desire
forebear
quagmire

Comedy, tragedy needing
Hilarity taught everywhere
Character lye bleeding
Etched on the door

Love ain't opera
Fat women sing
Dances in utopia
Are not what they seem...........


FTBAS 5-26-14

Set China

Blown like shatters
Pieces flowing
Stretched in matters
Glimpse of knowing

Doubtless loathing
Composite friction
Winds blowing
Empty benediction

Flying on this way
Holy is knot
Kneeling to pray
To be or not

What they say
What they do
What they play
To be you

Marbles fell
Street foam
Mornings tell
First who's on

Chess played well
Set china bone
Depth closes well
When all alone..................

FTBAS 5.3.14

When Summer came to soon

Standing on the corner
Waiting on a train
Umbrella up
Under summer rain

Rainbows and pansies
Sights and views
Green lush fantasies
Coming through

Dark does only reign
Shadows play fate
Puppets of the game
Stayed up so late

To burn the morning
To writ the day
Forget I'm mourning
In this way

I most miss you
In all this bloom
Moments be true
In the summer that came to soon...........

FTBAS 5.1.14

Feinz

Dope peddle
Moist kettle
Bomb rattle
No one tattle
Institutions
Institutionalizing
Corporations
Cooperation
In the doctrine
Of commercial deity
Freely,
Battle buying
Death defying
Horror trying
Peace ain't buying
Shit went flying
Now we all dying
Smothering
In Cocoon
Mystery of doom
As only one light left
To best the test
Of what or who has won this mess!

FTBAS 4/21/14

In Blindness

We reach into the night
Feeling the cracks for a crevice
Holding dirt eons tight
Each handful like the past

Fingers bleed to numb
Faces in solitary plight
Tatters roll off the tongue
Blindness is the light

Numbness is our feel
Anxious bites remorse
Scabs easy to peal
Blood fueled curse

Blindness is all we won't
Light is what we forget
Heaven is what we want
Hell is what we get

In Blindness.............

FTBAS 4.7.14

If I should see you

In a place,
Shining of love,
Or in disgrace,
Down one street above,
In the lairs chair,
Weeping by degrees,
Flowing out there,
Is how one sees,
When one gets here,
Lonely and alone,
Doubt becomes fear,
Throwing glass at stone,
If I should see you in this place,
I will hold out my hand,
Wiping the pain from your face,
Come up with a plan,
Smiling with out a trace,
Of how may I help?
Or what can I do?
Thinking of self,
Just what you do?
Isn't " I am so sorry",
The only thing to?
We are not separate,
We are not one,
Cause I should see you,
If I wish for you to see me too.................

FTBAS 3/19/14

Birmingham TedX

Dusty town,
Silver underneath,
One side brown,
White across the street.

Dangerous and small,
One is the other,
Big and tall,
Just no bother.

Separate in thought,
Connected in dreams,
Distance some walked,
In blood red streams.

All came to overcome,
All by default,
Not be left undone,
Is some memory drought.

We brought the ghost alive,
The spirit of worth and dignity,
Every positive idea can jive in,
Birmingham our Magic City!

FTBAS 3.2.14

Peace and promise

Its only a matter of time,
Only a sentence in rhyme,
Fragrant legaleses,
Purging the masses.
Millions of faces,
Trillions of souls,
Equality for all on freedoms mount.
Our forefathers saw.
Yes they had privilege.
But they worked in the fields,
Like every other man, woman and child did,
Not in high temples,
Dressed in robes of sleek,
Talking in tongues of law,
Making rules they break,
In their long glass halls,
Mirrors are breaking,
Ceilings starting to fall,
Governance maybe the preacher,
But we are learning that's not all,
Peace and promise have a chance,
Peace and promise for all.............

FTBAS 2.22.14

Dedicated to my friend Georgia Slawson
Rest well my friend, we got this shit!      

Creatures and features

When
Something molds me.
Someone scolds me.
Somewhere unfolds me.
No one reaches out to hold me.

When
Sublime clouds play shadow mind bent.
Laces vapor me in paper smoke faces.
Distant I travel along memory instant.
Past this moment of last traces.


When
Is magnificence the only feed?
Or is it the mixture of regret?
My insignificance must bleed.
In the only time I have left.

FTBAS 2.19.14

Just is eye am

Time can't compute innocence on hand,
Diamonds are rough in the promise land.

Dank and dirty God goes forth,
Ribbing the time the devil went north.

Genocide and faith deliberate with out a trace,
Monkeys in deserts with rats all in omen place.

Deliberate the circumvent proposed on the mull,
Take in the sights with me the ride is never dull....................

FTBAS 2.10.12

A tear in the day

Mighty summer reigns,
Blisters and sweet sweat,
Distant memory bell rings,
Of how we try to forget.

Spring showers,
Behind dragging feet,
Melted flowers,
Hearts overheat.

Sun rays sneak,
Blue skies cover,
Peace we seek,
From one another.

Just a little pain,
In another way,
We all need just a little rain,
A tear in the day.

Mine today if for you,
A friend now more than ever,
When I see you again Andrew,
We will make it rain forever..................

FTBAS

My Mustard Seed

My Mustard Seed

Doubters never do and will always try to convince us we never could.

The pain that once brought us to our knees now has us standing our ground.

To see the doubter coming and greet them with a smile but not invite them in.

We stroll on by and say to self but for the grace of God there go I.

Continuing on our path knowing we are loved even forgiven.

With never the need to be in doubt again!

FTBAS 1.13.14

Me

Choice,
Chance,
Moist,
Glance,
Sideways,
Likewise,
Eyelash,
Lips,
Chin,
Neck,
Eyes,
Crown,
Rush,
Tremble,
Held,
Vow,
Mother,
Child,
Future,
Pain,
Soul,
Beast,
Released,
Free,
Open,
Arms,
Wide,
Forgiven,
Loved,
Peace,
See,
Me..................

FTBAS 1.6.14