INSPIRATIONAL    

  Inspirational Poems :  1.  Yesterday is Money Spent;

 Conflagration of the Spirit  ( on this page )  2. Coconut Trees 

3. This Lady's Got Class  4.  More than Skin-deep; Phantom

                         

                                 

                    Yesterday Is Money Spent  

                                           

               Yesterday is money spent

               On things that matter and those that don't

               In heedless wastes that pockets dent

               On hidden gems to own we're wont.

 

               We count the things bought yesterday

               With care and dare, by love inspired

               And every cent that went to pay

               For wordly goods our hearts desired.

 

               Did money go to a worthy cause

               To scale the heights and pry the deep

               To make new starts and right our flaws

               So righteousness in us we keep?

 

               So wise we are to ever ask

               Ourselves sometimes where money went

               For asking's such a pleasant task

               When yesterday was wisely spent.

                                                                    ALV, 8/28/87

   

                                                                                                           

            Conflagration of the Spirit  

             Scour the breadth and width of your being

               Gather all malevolent intentions and greed

               Demolish the cobwebs of hatred and envy

               And scrape away all cancroids of despair

               Now pile them up like thin paper dipped in gas

               And set the stage for a conflagration of the spirit.

                                                                  ALV, 1/15/88     

          

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