Monday, December 29, 2014

TEMPLE OF THE EASTERN MOON GARDEN
Our Home IS
The Temple Of The Eastern Moon Garden.
It has been
The Temple Of The Eastern Moon Garden
for five years. Chris and I reign
as King and Queen, or
Preist and Preistess, or
Prince and P{rincess, Or
Knight and Ladyfair.
We Don't owe anyone anything.
We don't fear the darkness.
We pity those that have darkness within themselves-- FOR WE
ARE BOTH FILLED WITH
SHINING
LIGHT!
Hallelujah!
In Jesus Name, God Watch Over
Our Temple Of The Eastern
Moon Garden. In JEsus name, Amen.///////



"And Jonathan And I Prayed"
A Poem for Bobby Lemuel Jones
Rest In Peace.
We Prayed
We Prayed
We Prayed.
Until
the ceiling caved in and
the world fell down
and we looked at one
another and
we prayed
and the world came down
and the world came down
and the world came down--
and we prayed.
We prayed as we grew old.
And we prayed as he sufferred
And PRayed We might fall into
his grave just to be
with
him, We Prayed.
//To Some a banquet is given; to others
not even a crumb is given.
And We Prayed.
For Our Friend, We Prayed.
At The Judgement Day, We Will See
His Face
Again.
And All Our Lives, Jonathan and I
Prayed.//////////////////////////////
AMEN.


"LADYBUG"
My Husband is a Professional Dishwasher.
He Washes Dishes
One
By
One; With His Own
His
Own
Two
Hand. He Washes
Them One After Another
After
Another. You Could Say, He's a Steady Person.
Me, im that ladybug inching
inching
gradually
but
surely
across
the
yard.
There is food and there is danger.
But ultimately i will
put
One
ONE
-One-Foot
in
front
of
the other.
And I Will See You
On The Other Side Of
The Yard. I'm Just Making My Way
Back To My Husband So He Can Hold Me
In
His
Arms.





PART THREE: REFLECTIONS ON DREAMS

“China”
China patterns
Are losing me
Porcelain and all
That is a tea cup,
Are mine. Peacocks
Strut against a tortoise shell
With pea soup green enamel
Delf blue china
Windmills and tulip fields
Nightingales nest in pregnant
Soup tureens.


“Autumn Ripening”
Lace paper leaves
Blanket the wooden slats
Of a vine entangled jungle
Hanging over treetops and city
Streets,
Filled
With plant flesh and flower,
Rooted stems are twining
Entwining and choking
Small trees. Hardier vines
Bloom and become pregnant
To fruits blood filled and
Sweetness, sticky syrup and
Pith of stalk yet branches bow
Under their weight. In this
Savage blood filled garden
I cannot quench its thirst
With water.


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“The Universe”
The Universe is Dying.
The Universe, it Broke
My Heart. It's too damned
BIG. It's too big for us.
We Cannot help the Universe.
So What, the Universe is Dying.
At Least its dying slow.
It doesn't matter that the
Universe is coming to an end---we
surely
wont exist by then. Not Any of us!
So if we cannot help the Universe,
What, shall we Hold
The Hand That Holds Us Down?
No. We only have Earth.
I Only have My Life.
My Life is what I am to take care of.
It is all I am responsible for.
I can't do a thing about the universe
flying apart at light years every second into eternity.
I care, but it only
makes me sad. I wish i didn't know.
I don't want others to know.
I feel Guilty for telling them.
I say, ignorance is bliss.
There is nothing we can do to stop it.
It's completely hopeless.
I'm going to try to focus
on what i CAN DO
In THIS lifespan
On This Earth.
In This Town
With This Life.
I have Mixed Emotions now
When I Look Up at The Stars.
I feel like, what should they care,
The Stars, they all have lives and planets
of their own! So why
should they care about us?
AMEN.


“To Strive in Vain”
Everybody is trying to get ahead.
Every single person is trying to be
better
than
everybody
else. I grow weary. Why why be better,
whay anyone to be better-- when there are to
to be no Children Born? No Children means
no future. it means no hope. it means
our lives were
in vain. It means there is no purpose to any
any thing under
the
sun. If there are no children, then i don't want to be
a part of this world anymore. If I cannot have a child,
then my life must be coming to an end. Because that
-To Have A Child-
is
all
that
I
Ever
Wanted.
So God....Why am I still HERE???????
Amen.


"I Must Be Free"
Every Day I Crave Freedom More.
I Must Be Free
Free Like An Eagle Rising On A Tide
I Will Be Free
If I have To Die.
I Would Rather Die Brave
And Not Know Fear, God,
--Than Live And Know Fear.
I Would Rather Be Alone
Than Be Derided or Discounted
I Am The Best. I Know This.
I Believe I am the Best.
I Dont Want To Compare Myself
With Ordinary People.
I Want To Be Alone.
I Don't Want Anything To Change. I
Want To Be Free For The Rest Of My Life
And I Love Theodore. He Is The Only One
My Husband Theodore And I Are Free
Like Lone Wolves, He Howl.
Sometimes Our Cries Reach The Sky.
Theodore Never Talks. Rarely.
He Is Always telling me to be
Silent. I Like To Howl. Freedom
Makes Me Want To Howl.
And I Am Howling Now.
Bigger Dreams, Bigger Dangers,
No Horizon Line.
I Want To Be Immortal.
I Grow Weary Of Others.
Let Me Be Free
To Ride The Wind.
Free.
Caroline Sullivan Land.////


Your Hair, Grew
Longer. It Grew
past your Ears.
And The Longer It
Became, The Meaner
Thee Became! And Now
Thee Art As Mean as
A Hard Little Rock!
In Jesus's Name,
Amen.


“Pet Store”
We We To a Pet Store On
A Rainy Day. Rain Was
leaking from the Tin Roof
Down the gutters into the street.
My hair was wet, it was thick,
Hot and steamy like a sauna.
I held your hand in the rain,
As we came inside the
Pet Shop. Little Fish
Glowing in the dark
Angel Fish And Tropical
Fish, Catfish and Shrimp,
A Garden of Eden On Earth!
Mice huddled together in
soft aquarioums nestled warmly
and well fed in this small room that
was a pet store. There were birds
in cages and parrots That Were Not
In Cages- They Went Where They Pleased,
Enormous Talking Bird, and snakes,
and lizards like the Last Dinosaurs,
Guinea Pigs; and all sorts of warm
furry
Creatures nestled in hay. I wished
that I were a pet in this little shop.
With the rain coming down outside
for a moment, And Then I was holding
my husband's hand as we
Stepped back out into the Rain.
Oh little dazzlers! ////



"The Traveller."
 By Caroline Sullivan Land
And I Confirm, That Every One Needs A Mother.
And I Confirm, That Love Is The Most Powerful Force In The Universe---That
It Simply WILL Endure, In Spite Of Whatever May Come---
And I Confirm, Fear Will Lead Us To Ourselves,
And Fear Will Teach Us Compassion, And Not To Judge One
Another, For Fearful Are The Creatures I've Been Lucky To Glimpse,
Terrified Beings, Trapped Within Their Skins, Lost In a World
That Doesn't
Understand
Or Accept
Them. And I Confirm, That
To Love and Be Loved Is The Single Best Thing One Can Do In Life.
And I Confirm, That Faith is Hope For The Human Race.
And I Confirm, That Faith Will Lead Us To a Better Place,
And I Confirm, That To Love Is All There Is--
That, Compassion is the Greatest Gift of MAnkind..
And I confirm that intelligence is irrelevant.
And I Confirm That God Is Good.
And I Confirm That We are all equal on this Earth.
And I Percieve Somthing Sweeter, Gentler, more Frightened and Fragile
Than I Could Ever Be.
And I Confirm, That, If it
Were To Ask Of Me, I Would Gladly Bring It
A Cup Of Cold Water.
And I Confirm That Jesus Is God, to me,
And Ablove all, I Confirm, That LOVE IS OMNIPOTENT.
They came for kindness. Not For Science.
A Guest Should Be Treated Better Than The Tenant.
They Should Be Given
The First Place
At The Table
And The Choicest Fruits.
Can You Not See, How Weary They Are, and frail
From Some Long and Faraway Journey?
Travellers Confirming that LOVE CONQUERS ALL.


“The Star And I”
I asked a Star, Why Dost thee Burn?
It Said, "I Am."
And, I Saw That It Was Good.
I Asked The Star, "What Could Be
Sadder Than The Death Of A Star?"
It Smiled And Answered, "The Death Of
You, My Dear---Wouldn't That Be Much Sadder
Still?"
I Smiled And Looked Away.////
///"In My Place, In My Place...."////




“Language Lost”
Language
Is An Art. The Word "Blue"
Blue
Blue
Blue!
There is Victory In That Word,
And Peace.
There is Strength,
Strength like
The Oceans
OF Earth
In the Thick
Horrible Darkness
That Surrounds Us.
Were We Not
Held In The Warm Arms
of Our Star,
The Sun---There Could Be No
Hope
For Mankind. No, Not Even
The Spiders
Could Crawl nor Spin,
And There Would be Eternal Darkness
And No Hope.
Thank You, Our Sun.
It is a Light
Shining Into The Darkness
Which
Cannot
Be Put
Out. There May Be
Other Stars, But Ours
Is Ours. It is Mother
And Father. It is
Our God.
In JEsus' Name,
Amen.
Peacock Feathers
Tipped in Gold
Lavender Earrings Carved
From Shells from
The Sea Shore
Seahorses dipped in Silver
Noodle Ramen
Bangle Bracelets
The Sea
Being Lost With The One You Love on a wild night
in the marsh, lost forever in the marsh
much of the sea wetlands. Crabs like nightmares
are so strangely beautiful and bizarre. I am lost, can you
Help Me Get Home? I Tried To Live
A Life Apart, But Got Nowhere. I my be still
lost, does that matter, does it matter that ther are waterfalls of
chains cascaading down my long
Black
Soft Shiny Gentle Hair. Does That Matter? If I Knew
All the answers
I would tell them, but I know that A Cloud
Is
A
Dragon
In The Sky. Inknow that when I see People I Love
Being Themselves, I Smile, Because
when I look up at the stars at night I know that they
Are Looking up at the same stars.
I painted you a feather
With a horsehair brush. Eyelashes on cheeks,
Snow on lashes, Tired Joy, Oh Lord Give Me A Child!
Must Love the red red roses. Fall Into The Red Red Roses. They say,
"Don't Try To Understand". Understand What? The Red Red Roses?
I love the red red roses
My Theodore Put Them
On His Mother's Grave
Last Sunday. He Got A
Sunburn
In The Cemetary
And He refuses to Cut
His Hair. I would Cut It For Him, But I
Dont Know How. Red Rocks in the desert are losing me.
Let Water fall over Oneself Like The Wind Caresses
one's cheek or the sun falls over one's soft hair.
We are born of earth and to Dust We Return.
I have Some Stones From The Desert
And Some Stones From The Sea. There is someone
I wish, I Knew their Name. I suppose I'll never see them again.
Lands in the sead. Tiny Islands, with march breaches.
We are lost in the marsh hopelessly lost.
When Winter ComesI May Hold You.
At The Cemetary, he couldn't Cry.
He told me.
He Couldn't
Cry. The Sun Burned His Cheeks
and The Soil Was Sandy
At Her Grave
and He felt
Lost, hopelessly
lost. I weep for him
When He isn't in my arms.
Ah, the natural beautiful treasures of God!
A seahorse is not made by man. They were not meant
to be dipped in silver. They were meant to ethereal like ghosts
among the seaweed and
never die. It is human to dip
a seahorse into Gold.
Peacock Feathers are lovely enough--- and yet
I long to tip ther fronds in silver.
Ferns tipped in silver too.
One Day I Will Go Back Home.
In JEsus' Name,
Amen.

“Praise Hymn To God”
Our GOD
Is a Miraculous GOD.
Just When You Think to yourself, "Oh no, I'll
never get out of this situation, my life is ruined.
When God Relieves all pain, he is a God of Miracles,
And He Make Things That Would Be a Death Sentence
Dissappear. Is That Not a Miracle? Sometimes I think,
"I'm too Hard on God. I always expect him to get me through everything."
But, I NEED my God. He Does Carry Me. And He Worked A Miracle For Me Today
That Changed my life from death to life. I do not have HPV. I do not have anything
But The pills i take for my mental condition. And I think, THAT, Is a Blessing and A Miracle.
Today I Ask God To Forgive Me, To Let Me Into His HEart, That I May Continue To Do The Work That
Christ Brought Us All Here To Do. To Be The Hands Of Christ and Love The Lord--- And To Walk in
The Light. To Walk In The Light God says, "I Have Not Given You A Spirit of Fear."
I was so afraid, but now i am not afraid. THANK YOU GOD, Hallelujah.
I know that having my life back will save my life and help many others i love who love me.
I want to be a mentor for madeline God.
I want
to do good for my grandmother, mother, father Grandfather, Emily, and everyone else.
Thank You For Giving Me a Clean Slate, For Healing Me.
Hallelujah! Praise the Lord!
Thank You God.
Amen.---Caroline Elizabeth Sullivan Land 6/16/2014


“A Vessel of Dreams”

I am a Vessel
Into Which Dreams Are Poured.
When I am giving forth creations of my heart, I am
Happy. That Is the moments that I am truly happy.
When I'm writing or painting.
At the end of the day, all that counts is
whether i got that urgent poem lingering in my
heart, whether i got it down.
Success Will Come When I've Completed my Task, And I've written a new complete Volume.
I will not stop until
I have accomplished this. Happiness is when im writing.
Success Is when I'm reading my writings.
They comfort me.
I am a reminiscent soul.................
I am a Vessel
Into Which Dreams Are Poured....................


"Little Tiger"
Little Tiger, my Tiger Feirce
As Free As The Wind--Outrun
Your Shells and husks and find
some glorious sustenance, Some
Freedom, Wild Like Insect ridden
Blackberries. Treasure the Joys Of
Your Youth, and run so far and
Free. You Know That I Love You,
My Fierce Little Tiger.


“Questions to God”
Father God,
Is it right to try?
Is is right to fly?
Is it right to wonder, “Why?”
I write because it is
Of who I am.
I write because
My soul compels me. And I
And am deeply grateful to God
For that calling I have—To Be,
A Poet. If Writing Poetry Is
Wrong, ---Father, then I will bear it. I
Will weigh the consequences of
Joy, The Consequences of Goodness,
The Consequences of doing the right
Thing, The Work Only I Can Do, To Speak The Words
Only I
Can Say—Jesus! Look ye down on my
Endeavours. Again and again I
Lift
The Pen. I know That
It is dangerous to write this way. I know
People don’t like it. I just write.
I write because It is the only thing for me
To do!
The sky is purple.
The Sky Is Gold.
All Berry Fruits
Are Bleeding at
the crisp bite
of my white
teeth
and staining
my fingers,
Like Blood.
Water is fickle
And yet it is not
If madness is this,
Then madness is
Sweetness.
What Will
You Do
When the Day of
Judgement Comes?
It comes
For each of us
At a time
Pre-Ordained
The End
Of Each Life
And My Life
Too.
All day Wonder,
Why we must die.
All Day I worry
All day I fear
Life is precious
And The Dark
Oh Father, Lord,
It Is
So Very Dark!
In Jesus’ Name,
AMEN.


“Vexation of Spirit”
God, I don’t think
Anyone is going to understand
Why I need to write.
Why I would risk my life, my world,
Risk death, to cry out
--cry out, “Peace on Earth,
Good Will To Men”?
I seek to infuse the world
With goodness. I cannot help it.
A flower wants to bloom, needs to
Bloom. It isn’t worth my life, but yet---
Every night I get a longing in my heart to cry out for the
Injustice
And the pain
And the misery. Why would satan
Trouble our little home? Why?
Why would he wish to trouble me?
I am innocent. I am good. I was kind
To him, because I think he is just
Misunderstood. Then My Bird Got out of its Cage
My Precious one of only a few friends, my pet---
And why? Why did satan take that life?
I cry in my heart. I look out on the night sky and think.
How frightened my Little Bird Must Be.
Why would anyone sow the seeds of dischord?
God, Why is there evil? I know that there is good
And evil because I am human. But I do not know WHY---
WHY IS THERE EVIL?
Why?

Why God?

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