118. A Noble Bugler Has Returned
Our lives seemed so calm and placid,
Tyrants’ lies deceived and soothed.
And a land once based on freedom
Became a land ignoring truth.
In the Heavens, God and Jesus,
Saw the need to teach and warn.
So they sent uncommon buglers,
To sound alarms of coming storms.
These were ordinary people,
Weak of limb though strong of soul.
They would use the tool of “fiction”,
To strive to make this country whole.
Like God’s Son they taught with symbols,
Allegories, fables, tales.
“Bringing home” lessons much needed,
For us to weather coming gales.
Are you one with ears who listened,
Stand you strong with watchful eyes?
When storms break of man or nature,
Will you fall with dumb surprise?
Yet, today, in realms of wonder,
Angels cheer for blessings earned.
Having sounded, well, God’s warnings,
A noble bugler has returned.
www.servingjesuspoetry.com
Matthew 16:17-18
Jesus saith unto them: “...perceive yet not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having earns, year ye not? and do ye not remember?”
See: http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/bugle.htm
"The bugle was essential to all military communication until its displacement by electronics...The bugle was first used as a signal instrument in the American Army during the Revolutionary War. The bugle calls evolved from Continental Army contacts with French and English Armies during the Revolutionary War."
EXPLANATION:
This poem was recorded after I learned of the death of Gary D. Ott aka "Tom" aka "Tired Old Man" aka "Desert Farmer". Gary was a founder of the modern fiction genre known as "prepping". His stories of common men and women challenged by all conceivable types of disaster, both natural and man made, served to not merely entertain but instruct, inspire, and motivate. It is hard to find his fiction on the web, but worth the search effort. I esteem the man and hope to have internalized some of his vast store of knowledge to cope with future challenges.
Our lives seemed so calm and placid,
Tyrants’ lies deceived and soothed.
And a land once based on freedom
Became a land ignoring truth.
In the Heavens, God and Jesus,
Saw the need to teach and warn.
So they sent uncommon buglers,
To sound alarms of coming storms.
These were ordinary people,
Weak of limb though strong of soul.
They would use the tool of “fiction”,
To strive to make this country whole.
Like God’s Son they taught with symbols,
Allegories, fables, tales.
“Bringing home” lessons much needed,
For us to weather coming gales.
Are you one with ears who listened,
Stand you strong with watchful eyes?
When storms break of man or nature,
Will you fall with dumb surprise?
Yet, today, in realms of wonder,
Angels cheer for blessings earned.
Having sounded, well, God’s warnings,
A noble bugler has returned.
www.servingjesuspoetry.com
Matthew 16:17-18
Jesus saith unto them: “...perceive yet not yet, neither understand? have ye your heart yet hardened? Having eyes, see ye not? and having earns, year ye not? and do ye not remember?”
See: http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/land/bugle.htm
"The bugle was essential to all military communication until its displacement by electronics...The bugle was first used as a signal instrument in the American Army during the Revolutionary War. The bugle calls evolved from Continental Army contacts with French and English Armies during the Revolutionary War."
EXPLANATION:
This poem was recorded after I learned of the death of Gary D. Ott aka "Tom" aka "Tired Old Man" aka "Desert Farmer". Gary was a founder of the modern fiction genre known as "prepping". His stories of common men and women challenged by all conceivable types of disaster, both natural and man made, served to not merely entertain but instruct, inspire, and motivate. It is hard to find his fiction on the web, but worth the search effort. I esteem the man and hope to have internalized some of his vast store of knowledge to cope with future challenges.