Long Tooth

Long Tooth Poems

Wow! Another great title; I've faith you'll agree,
but we're just on line two now! Whole poem? (We'll see!)
One's faith's truth can't be fact! If it is, then Faith's dead!
And God weeps, for this thought makes Christ toast in Man's head!
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This new election feels like rape,
By scum and playground toughs,
With many I once thought were friends
Now cowards, powder puffs.
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Though people may long for a present from God,
How many embrace the new day?
Instead of unwrapping what lies at their feet,
Dark memories paint a cliché
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What Do You Hear?

Tell me what do you hear
When the Christ simply says
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There is pleasure in 'knowing' this life will be ending,
the space my flesh occupies 'opening up' (for 'not mes')
though my life has been great (I'd say fun for the most part!)
'Term limits' get my vote (more moral than murder most days
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You may call me simple, but I worship God,
This world proof enough He exists,
But when you add stars, although you think me odd,
This truth's not one my heart resists.
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Are there mornings you wake when your path isn't clear,
When the voices you care about buzz in your ear,
When the looks on coworkers' mugs fill you with fear,
When more distance seems truly much better than near,
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It's after the 'landslide? ' Thieves stole the election!
This traitorous scum bag's a Russian invention,
But 'Charmin' (1)for Putin (that's on a good day!)
For the dark side of Trump's just black art on display!
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There are people I think who consider me friend,
But I don't know for sure that they're right,
I may walk like a duck, even quack like a duck,
But I doubt that that means we won't fight.
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Fresh Leaves I

Ev'ry poem I write is a leaf on soul's tree,
If it never gets light, a reflection on me.
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Though I don't feel that driven OR misdiagnosed,
Still so many past goals, I find lacking in passion,
Though dragons line up (fancy St. George as toast) ,
When the battle gets done, it seems flame's out of fashion.
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A poem dressed up to the nine
Suggests divergent style of fine,
Whose meaning transcends mortal mind,
Like 'Vision' of a man 'born blind, '
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To know what to do with your life is not easy,
The field for a 'major, ' significant ask!
To delay higher-ed, after college, a virtue,
The face of one's bliss is a chore to unmask.
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Have you tried retirement? Do you have the blues?
Your investments not liquid and yesterday's news?
If you're not in the top tenth of one percent? Yell!
The stock market's next bottom so low you see Hell?
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Seems to me, we're in quite of a pickle,
Our leaders do all that they can
To grab power, that's all! Men are fickle
At best, rarely honor God's plan.
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Is free verse poetry or 'falutin name for prose?
In truth, perhaps, more saunter in the park?
A tawdry muse that's dressed in Sunday's store-bought clothes,
A mud locked boat aspires to be an ark,
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Those blessed by God find gold enough to share
No magic needs to prove that others care,
Hear Cornerstone! Creation's rock still croons
Impassioned lullabies, soul touching tunes.
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It is said to be drug-free's a hard way to die,
to be s**t-faced is better, you feel far less pain
and the lessons life proffers can't touch you again!
But this sentiment's modern prescription and sold
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To have love in your life
Is like being insured,
It's a good path to true peace of mind.
It can cut like a knife
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My love for you, a private garden,
Always is in season,
Where beauty is evolving still with
Rhymes that jumpstart reason.
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Long Tooth Biography

I have chosen the name Long Tooth because it suggests that I am an older US male. A more humorous interpretation might be that my poems have bite! While I hope that you find this is true, I leave it to your judgement. I worship an inclusive God, who cares more about what is in a man's heart than what church he attends if he goes at all, a God, who judges one's faith by how you live your life, the kindness you show to strangers. These concepts are not uniquely Christian for sure, but I was born into a Christian family, even though my early church rejected blacks and Catholics out of hand with no consideration. I leave all judgement of others to God as I have never walked in anyone's shoes but my own. God has my complete trust and the highest goal of each day of my life is to walk in His Will! I view God's will for my life not to be an imposition on me at all but a guiding light desiring nothing more than that I should discover a unique bliss that embraces all of my talents. The day that any poem that I write that touches you in brotherhood and encourages you to trust God more, I will count a Holy Day! The pseudonym Roof Missing is a Russian expression that I think is cute. It suggests that I've blown my top! , My mind is gone! , or I'm so exasperated or confused!)

The Best Poem Of Long Tooth

My Faith, Your Faith, Their Faith, Our Faith

Wow! Another great title; I've faith you'll agree,
but we're just on line two now! Whole poem? (We'll see!)
One's faith's truth can't be fact! If it is, then Faith's dead!
And God weeps, for this thought makes Christ toast in Man's head!
I choose faith just by faith, not in wisdom because
who but fool would proclaim 'I've discovered God's laws, '
or he groks ‘Word of God' in some intimate way?
God's Truth's always a gift though Man's 'King for a Day! '

Sure, the Bible may hint at what's true and what's not,
but one note's not symphonic! One chord's much more hot!
Are you God? Where's your hint Evolution is through?
Are two books of the Bible 'Sufficient? ' If true,
might 'Necessity' still have 'Wise Cracks' that need paste? (1)
Just how long's one 'God Day' in 'Man Years' in God's taste?
Friend, it's sick to think your faith's more pleasing to God!
Man's good works sop for braggarts, large peas in small pod!

Is there ‘Christian' alive who dreams brothers in Christ
all are born with a skin that's not colored, that tryst
out of wedlock birthed Savior who died to bring Grace
to creation (and called Man's best plans to save face
sin's 'Good Works! ') Is there something I've missed
to feel more shame about? Sin's dark henchmen, we've kissed
where the sun cannot shine. Yet, Christ's light is what saves
though we're drowning in lies and we drift toward lost graves.

There's no judgment in Christ, as one saved in His Name,
for a Saint is a Saint though looks/acts aren't the same.
So, what role does Faith play then that Christ's words enjoin
us leave pride's works behind? Works are symbols, realm's coin,
of a world we must leave for a heavenly home
that Christ swears will await us (eternal, 'Shalom! ')
If we boast who believe Him, let's die in that sin (2)
and choose life as a servant, have faith that's a win!


Long Tooth
December 8 of 2022
Poet's Notes:
What 'Christian' can have true faith who insists that other's faith is wrong and moreover, that they are serving God by insisting that you agree with them or risk being imprisoned and/or put to death? What a self-serving hypocrisy they exhibit in my opinion! Is that love? Really?
(1) Science seems to offer us a lot of evidence that creation (if not God) finds a lot of pleasure in mathematics. In the more abstract, perhaps, god-like world of mathematics something is considered proven true if the logic presented is demonstrably both 'Necessary and Sufficient! '
(2) Galatians 6: 14 'May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.' To which I pray, 'Amen! '

Long Tooth Comments

Bri Edwards 08 September 2020

I think i'll take you to the dentist and have you pulled. she is female so you might like it. ;)))))))))))))

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