I was just a bud
Now a flower
From a seed
It went from lust to love
Then turned sour and grew weed
Still in the breeze
Bob Jenkens
My face isn't carved in a mountain. I've never been struck by lightning. I've never saved a crying baby from a burning house fire nor have I over come my misfortunes in life to acquire a name for myself. I consider myself a writer although all I've written is only pieces of torn limbs of my distraught existence. (a bunch of poems)
I was just a bud
Now a flower
From a seed
It went from lust to love
Then turned sour and grew weed
Still in the breeze
Bob Jenkens
The palms of my hands are holding my tears from streaking down my cheek. I'm holding my breath and I don't know why, what or where.
Stupid thing is...... My English, grammar life in general is fucked up. It's also the shoe string that I hold on to for hope. I hope you can accept me for my mistakes and give me some credit for trying.
Honestly............
When you get to really digging
I'm talking turning over rocks
To self investigate the life this poet's been living.
These are more than just thoughts
of a parent doing the dishes
Pretend you're discovering a new civilization
Before it disappears
Live and let live
Love you
Most importantly
Get right with God!
Bob Jenkens
I heard the President say...
"We'll eat the poor and poverty will go away"
We'll import imigrant worker's
To work for minimum wage and
When they want a raise we'll blend them
Into sage
We'll bake the national gaurd on a rack
at 350 degrees and never bring them back to
See their families
We'll use our best technology turning Iraqis into
gas to power out Mercedes or we're never going to last.
Bob Jenkens
I wrote this during the Bush administration, I find it offensive. It's a dumb poem, I posted it because this current president could slow down his anxiousness.
I'm just a dumb roofer would some smart people agree with me?
As the politicians Converse our people disperse
it's all just madness
In given despair we all prepare though we
act unaware we just give them a stare
They'll do what they want and take what they want
with our eyes glazed over we look to our lives
For a moment life is good
then here's life with all reality and life is bad
but I can take the bad when it weighs out
with the good only bad is so often and heavy
That's not good!
In given despair we all prepare
and want what they take
welcome to the United States!
Bob Jenkens
My words flow
Across this piece of paper
Like an epidemic
Pandemonium
A tsunami of truth
Bob Jenkens
What's right
What's wrong
What's changed or not the same?
Why do I feel
I need to kill
Hang myself on a cross at the Capitol
The beginning of the end for me
But then you'll see
What's right, what's wrong
What's changed or not the same
Bob Jenkens
I'm not a bad ass
Maybe a bad apple but
not to be mistaken for a rotten apple
Over ripened and unable to roll
to far from the tree
Theoretically, poetically but not too be
mistaken politically
A bad apple like the one that ruined
Adam and Eve
It wasn't the serpent
the apple, the tree
Not even Eve
It was God's own destiny
It is how it had to be!
Bob Jenkens
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I wish I would have been there when Jesus was betrayed (by Judas)
Simon Peter's stroke would have meant "go" and the story would have changed.
The Holy Bible written a different way.
I know he ascended into Heaven and arose on the third day, for if he didn't Jesus would be rolling in his grave.
Why couldn't the disciples fight?
It's what they've taken from us today.
In his name "in God we trust"
Justice or just us?
When Simon Peter dropped his sword
I would have gone to war for Jesus.
The story would have changed
No cock crowing, No last supper
It's a kosher BBQ
Bob Jenkens
Do you perceive we've always believed in hatred
Like it was in our Genes? Handed down
I've seen us love one another
when destruction rains down, during life's tragedies Differences in what we believe can't be seen and in an instant become set aside humanity is alive.
Quite simply put people need to believe whatever they need to live in peace with themselves! To save this planet from our own selfish greed, no hate in believing peace could be believing in you and believing in me!
A letter from Scott to the rest of the world
Bob Jenkens
I found the original and I don't believe I edited the beginning out. Authenticity is back in.