Odysseys

This is how, one sunrise
Philocetete smiles for the camera,
As wind lift the ferns for Metis,
To the laurier cannelles,
Zeus laughs and says Ludicrus

Dylan spoke but when then he died,
Agamenon flashed, and cried,
Nobel Peace for pride
This is how one sunrise
A morning calm had died

This is how one sunrise
The Laurier Cannelles had laughed
As she smiles and winks to foolish folly and pride,
Star crossed and laughing in there ever ending wind
We rocked until they smiled and never left again

Until the ferns nodded yes
The trees have to die,
This is how one sunrise the trees have to die,
Love lift the firns to the laurier cannelles as she smiles and gazed
Life links the few and the angel she decends

Falling to the earth like the falling star she decends
Theis is how one sunrise she was born again


copyright © 2008 Ranjit Eugene Doroszkiewicz

Standing in the ruins of another black man's life
or flying through the valley separating day and night
I am Death cried the vulture
for the people of the light

Charon brought his raft
from the sea that sails on Souls
I saw the scavenger departing,
taking warm hearts to the cold.
He knew the Ghetto was a haven for
the meanest creature ever known

In a wilderness of heartbreak and a desert of despair
Evils' clarion of justice shrieks a cry of naked terror
Taking babies from their mamas, leaving grief beyond compare

So if you see the Vulture coming, flying circles in your mind,
remember there is no escaping
for he will follow close behind.
Only Promise me a battle,
A battle for your Soul and mine,
and mine
and mine

-Gil Scott-Heron



Archangel Michael Prayer

Saint Michael Archangel, defend us in battle,
be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil;
may God rebuke him, we humbly pray;
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen.