The Six of Spades

You are the grave maker

Soul shaker

Burger of hopes and dreams

Extinguisher of light’s bright beams

You went off with the other bold

Before my grace was cold

She pushed me in

As you dug it out in sin

Treachery in low places

A man with no spaces

In his heart for the good

Only robbing graves for food

Sex food 

Love rust

Soil maker

Worm shaker….

Two white pawns

They grew up together in ignominy

Thinking they were someone really free

Wrapped in the chains of a fake culture

One rejects one embraces the vulture

Of the right and not the perceived wrong

Not a sound or glimmer of the sacred song

They say they sing but silence abounds

Except for the singing of the rock clowns

Unfriendly, unsociable they grew up small

In human terms they appeared so tall

Strange forms and strange silent ways 

The Holy Grail

Not an object, not a thing

A sword that mighty fights everything

That is evil in our human hearts

Rooting it out until it smarts.

Hold it tightly to your chest

Protect your heart in your breast

Gird it in your waist so tight

It will hold your life right

Shod your feet with its precious message

Telling other of the free passage

Into eternal life so glorious

Join the Everlasting immortal chorus

Grasp the sword with both hands now

Out of the scabbard to fight how

The Spirit within shows you to

Lunge and stab the enemy though.

Practice always make it real

The powers of death cannot assail

You couldn’t be safer anywhere

The sword in your hand and the Spirit there.

Infected

The disease is now rampant

Affecting our nearest and dearest compliant 

The twist of deceit, the distal principle

Driving us far beyond the realms of spiritual.

Into the jaws of certain death

Taking to itself the very whisper of breath.

Turn away and leave them all standing

Save yourself from the fate of those handling 

The dangerous death that never cheats

Taking everyone behind the wall of sheets

It spreads like a universal fire

Through every branch and briar

Down the labyrinthine channels of nerve, vein and fibre

Root it out and put it away forever. 

The Royal Knight


She bears it well, the cross of gloom

Carries herself across the room

Content to lean against a wall

And wait for what will surely fall…

The day of judgment falls on the Royal Knight

She eternal life has won in the fight 

On Calvary’s cross the depths of hell

We’re conquered there for her as well.

The forest fire is sin and death

To abandon all condescension as the Book saith…

The Diamond Knight

Swashbuckling princess of the royal brigade

Never out of focus or out of shade

Attentive and immediate course of action

For the Queen’s elegant fashion.

Bright, debonair, fast and furious

A royal courtier so very precious

Elevate her, in ways understood

By peer succession, a sisterhood.

A diamond, for sure, to sharpen the edge

Of despair and bring light, clarity and vision.

The Skelp

She sits enthroned in her mortal room

Colour dancing around the room

When in control the Queen is she

All the time, naturally.

When he takes over, all, is undone

There’s nothing new under the sun

She fades away, becomes less and less

The skelp, emerges back from the mess

That once was her life but now is gone

She lives now in the new early dawn 

Of a new life that has lasted for years

Gone are the sorrows, the bitterness the tears.

She dances wildly around the room

Acting out her daily gloom

It’ll soon be past and the future certain

Plenty success before the final curtain.

Two Queens

The power lines up at the back

Two queens without lack

Of majesty and dominion

Over the pawns minion.

Two Queens, Two Kings, in the back row

Two Bishops, knights and rooks crow

Ready for the onslaught of the pawns first move

The first pawn slides forward two 

The opposing one checks it too

It will be the long night of sorrow

A long time until tomorrow

But it will come, since Queens and kings must fall

The battle is won by the board master after all.

Two Queens will fight it out

Two Kings will suffer rout

Two Bishops put to flight

Two Knight will never fight

Two rooks crow will fade to pale

At the army of pawns on the table.

Two Queens can leave the board

But Kings never do they only fall

And great is that fall, only one remains tall

And mighty, the conqueror of all…

The Enemy

The enemy is not the black or the white

He is in the air and pesters with all his might.

He is the Prince of the Power of the Air

And conquers all who at him will stare.

The battle lines are drawn up

They’re ready and tooled up for the cup

Of suffering they will surely drink

Teetering dangerously on the brink

Of certain disaster, help far behind

No one is there to pay them any mind.

Stand along the back, menacing look

Watch the Queen, we’ll take her with the rook

Sliding forward unawares 

She gently succumbed to the many affairs

She has to deal with to get to the king

She’s off the board now, troubling

Wait for the lonesome pawn to come

Then again released you become

The Queen of Terrors, they locked you up

The cup of blessing you will now sup

A powerful play to stem the battle flow

Slipping down the laddered board you go…

The Prince is beaten, the only one

Who could hold a candle to the Son

Now defeated cast in chains

Victory now is all that remains.! 

The White Pawns first move


Trembling on the edge of doom.

The battle commences across the room

Fighting in the back row amount the royals

The pawn rubs his hands now he has the spoils

Who will win this tragedy

Who will watch the symphony

As the pawns take over the board

Defeat of death is assured

The Queens and kings are marching still

To another drum beat up the hill

Of difficulty to reach the top

And being there they have to stop.