The end of one’s week should be viewed often even as the end of one’s life. The beginning of one’s week should be viewed often long […]

I REMEMBER … My Soul Passed Over – Beyond That Time (Poem 91)
[sc_embed_player autoplay=true fileurl=”https://bypapi.com/wp-content/uploads/I-Remember-my-soul-passed-over_91.mp3″] I remember as age gave way to my pedagogic prowess that others might learn the commands From that to me entrusted, due to […]

O SOUL now ENTER LIFE and ENTER DEATH (Poem 96)
O Soul – now Curious . . . Enter life and know that timidity transcends selfishness, choose into which womb ye now go For amid this […]

Proverb #491
To shed the temporal is to embrace death at the time proper, for it is love that gathers all things pure and eternal; therefore, it is […]

Proverb #260
Men love to speak of life but are reluctant to speak of death, especially as it applies to them; one without the knowledge of the other […]

one shall live (Poem 80)
Oh that the soul of one bothered … tormented in its current, errant and familiar display Would but willingly yield its damaged facade to pass through […]

_Resting_Places_ (Poem 52)
Rest given and interrupted between these lights is similitude and nothing more For the law of labor determines it so; it’s from the cause … effect […]

‘TIS WHEN ALL’LL ANEED ROW (Poem 31)
Cast the line hard boy don’t – just let it lie there ‘tis the day the vessel sails boy – you need not know … where […]

Proverb #219
When a man has learned, before he dies, what to tell his son in the fear of the LORD, then he has come to know what […]

Who Sent the Fly in Time? (Poem 75)
The soul travels wearily atop a seemingly docile beast And neither knows – of which is he – and neither knows – of which is me […]