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Profit of the unprofitable Prophets'

Profit of the unprofitable Prophets'

These prophets' hear their God speak in their dreams
God has spoken to us all so we must gleam

Preach and teach the words of the Christ and his life
His Father's promise of an everlasting life

We must bound up the words in a most Holy book

So the prophets' preach and they teach the children of the world

They say: who is the beneficiary of a love gone wrong or a stray?
The children shout we do not know so go away

Only Death would gain so the prophets' say

Who profits from mistrust and fear
The children shout we do not know and we don't care 

Only Death shout the prophets' only Death

What does he gain with his lies? Shout the prophets'
The children cry what prophets' what?

Your souls these prophets scream
We have been told so in our dreams

How can we win the children cry
Trust in Him the prophets' reply

Trust in who? The children shout in who and why?
Tell us prophet's tell us! Who?

These prophets shout have you not heard?
Have you not read?

Why Jesus is the One  God's only begotten Son
For the Law has made us all guilty of sin, and not one soul can win

Yes sin has sentenced us all to die and Death he waits for us all
He and his lies the children cry,  how than may we be saved?

Believe on Him these prophets' say; love and follow our Lord

He will paid the price, He will die, and He will make the sacrifice
He will shed his Holy blood and He will take our stripes, He will do it all 

Because of His and our Father's love for this world

He will do it for all of those who will believe, so don't be deceived by Death
Do not fail life's test

What is this? The children sneer and spit upon the ground
An everlasting life where  is it where can it be found ?

We can't see it here, the children shout,  every one dies with out a doubt

The prophets' explain as the children continue to sneer

In Heaven is our eternal life with God the Creator of the world and its treats
A place without tears, a place with out fears, you will walk upon golden streets

An angry child shouts what will you profit from us you prophets'

Your love child, your love and our Father's love too

The stones begin to fly, the prophets' cry why?
We have not lie to you!

Die you dreamers die as every one will
Take your stories and go away with your swill

The prophets' stand and continue to preach
There they continue to teach and to reach

The crowd was turn by Death's unholy voice
As he whispered in only one of the little children's ear 

They lie stone them for me, they lie stone them for me

I will give you all your heart can want here and now
Do it and I'll take this imaginary soul now 

I will give you silver for it, feed your belly today
Forget this soul and this dream of theirs
It can't happen it will never happen any way

After the prophets' fell bloody and beaten down to the ground

The children turn and walk away 
I watched on as the sky opened up and doves

Flew to the ground with olive twigs in their beaks
Then one of the birds begun to speak

Watch child for time is at hand
come unto the promised Land

I John was standing there all alone as these doves flew away
I knelt and begun to pray
 
Is any one there?
Speak unto me, please

I'll give you my soul if it will please
I John believe 

One soul, only one soul was profited
On that unprofitable day







— Sinbadthesailorman, Nov 30, 2009

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Region, Country: U.S. A. Indiana, Valparaiso, USA

Favorite Poets: Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Carl Sandburg these I have read some And so Many More. I have no Favorite or any that I dislike. Whom I consider to be poets; of course there are many Dark and hateful souls, who would cry out and to I will lend an ear, but some. They just leave a awful taste in my heart that I can not bear to read twice. Let alone as many times I would do normally; as I must.

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Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

It is just a poem it must not be going any where

But if you've no soul keep your belly feed and your pockets full for if your eyes be opened and your ears unpluged you may find God's love and maybe you will nolonger through half bricks at him *Rules* Jess even God must obey them or the whole world is a lie. God won't lie and man has been giving power over the evil of the world what have we done to stop it my freind Rules suck, but yet they are needed I would have God jugde the world today, but I even I am not yet ready . Sinbad/Donnie
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 5 months ago

you said "work in progess"

and the work is not lucid, so I felt that was a reasonable comment, where is it going. But I have lost interest in you and your works. You seem to have become a religious zealot. If your god can't help you see there are many gods and many valid beliefs I will continue to throw half-bricks. But not at you or your poetry. bye, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

Sorry Jess I did not mean to overload your Donkey

But again not every poem is for Jess or an un-believer or the believer not every poem heals, not every poem excites, not every poem delights. I am sorry you feel religious poetry is worthless and of no efect, but I don't feel this way this is obvious yes even too me now, Holy Cow I am a religous Zealot. Thank God for that. I will. I live in a super power that was founded on religous freedoms even you may through bricks at My God my ansetors fought and died for you to do so and I served for you to do so and that right is yours, as it is my right to write what ever I write. This poem I think hints to John the Babtist I may be wrong but the profit of the Prophets's in this poem was John I have said as of late I don't quite understand why I write as much as I do on this subject matter I don't go to cHurch I am a Non denomial Christ man I don't believe in a singal Church but in the Word written in Many Books the Bible being the Chief and the rock On which my wobbling legs try to stand. I am sorry if you think I am force feeding you religion it is not my intention I just like to write Donnie/ Sinbad
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

That is all I can ask of you if you don't like it because of its

Content then go ahead and say so. But be it only the content, silence is golden for the subject is mute to us both in our prosected postions, but if it is flawed in other ways I would still like feed back I consider you a friend from the beging and hopefuly till the end Jess. Have a Happy Holiday and a Merry New Year Donnie/Sinbad I value your opinion on much just not all
themoonman

themoonman

16 years 5 months ago

Sinbad...

We as writers cannot help but write what we feel, if you are feeling "God", then write about it. I am an unbeliever, a total unbeliever, an atheist in fact, I won't even throw half bricks, as in my view there is nothing to throw them at... but I do have great respect for those that do, as it is my right to not believe it is yours to do so. This poem to me needs some punctuation in places to help the reader keep your flow of the words, where you stop during your read out loud should be indicated with either commas or line changes. The story itself is an old one, about the prophets preaching and not quite reaching. Some of the lines were long for me, I felt you could have said it more effectively with less, but that is only an opinion. have a great holiday Sinbad Richard
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 5 months ago

Merry Holidays to you Moonman /Richard

I am an American and I love freedom yours and mine I have served and will continue to protect your rights to your beliefs as to mine, as Jess pointed out it is a work inprogress but his spunk gets me going once and a while we beleivers are few and many of us are even deceived in our beliefs and have been for so long but the Bible I hated once is now more to me than just a story, be it only a story it is still the most elaberate one of all time considering its conception and intermingling with History and language and such I could not see it for many many years but I just could not give up on the word as I heard it read and as I read it now it takes up much of time as I need to re-read often to understand what it is that I am reading I came from a church were the bible was not taught and went to a church were traditions were taught it was some time till I found a Bible study group who is not a church of denominations that I became interested in the study of the word once again I'll tell ya there are not many out there to be had and the book its self is not all reveiling so ya need to research much it has giving me something to do with my endless hours of free time ashas this site. I will work on this poem and the others I have here and at home and opinions are like potato chips you can't stop with just one may fate always have your back Richard Donnie/Sinbad
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Omvi

16 years 5 months ago

I luvd tha poem

Am a believer,and like paul,and apparently you too,am not ashamed of the gospel.The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers and thats why they kept throwing stones at the prophets of God.
Sinbadthesailorman

Sinbadthesailorman

16 years 4 months ago

Not only this age my friend, but from the very Garden its self

I thank you for your comment and the shared belief in the Gospels, of Paul and the others Matt. John, Luke, and The minor prophets' from the begining to the end the Devil has had the upper hand over us mere mortals with our brains running at less then 10% we never had a eaqual shake of the dice of fate, persey if I believed in fate instead of choice. I would much rather believe in fate then the poor choices I have made, but we all get to make them however small or large they might be I know many would aurgue too this fact, to that I would say this is why family is so important for our ansestory's have made many of our choices for us already, cause and effect, free will. Most people believe that God created the world from Adam when clearly we now know this to be an impossibility. Most people would miss the "eighth day creation" of The Adam they would miss that Eve herself is taken from, The Adam this is where indepth study comes in to play and then you have to find the right Master to be taught by. We are so spoild today we get things delivered to us and trust that they are correct most of us our lazy when it comes to studing anything yet alone our beliefs we accept them, when instead we should be testing them. I myself can finaly admit I have been played,lead around by the others "Like A Goat On A Rope" until you yourself or I take it upon our selves to search. Hell it has taken me at least thirty years to get where I am and I still know next to nothing about the bible other then what I could read and under stand. Such a powerful thing faith is to accept with out proof I could never and yet, I have not fully tested the facts or the claims of the Bible, but those I have tested make more and more factual sense to me at least I just wish I had the gumtion to attact it as when I was younger, but I don't have the abilities or the drive as once I did, maybe this poetry stuff is my brains way of decifiering what it has acumalated over the years there is a lot of dust, buried treasure, and crap in here it needs a good dusting and cleaning with out a doubt. Thanks again I often rambling on for no reason it sucks getting older Sinbad/Donnie