.... more of my poetry.

The Rain


The rain passes, eventually
But in the meantime
It clouds our vision
It makes us wet
And we slosh through oceans.

It's a fascinating sound
Sometimes pounding the house
Sometimes caressing the flowers
It makes us tired
And we sleep

It makes us anxious at times
It invades our plans
It comes uninvited
It disturbs our sensibilities
And we observe the dark clouds.

It sustains the land
It fills our wells
It renews the earth
It cleanses the air
And everything is new.

It is a picture of our hearts
It washes away the dust -
The shadows in my spirit
That make me want to cry
And I am refreshed!





By Richard D. Harris
April 2009

Harassing Alligators!

TELL ME... Who in their right mind would HARASS an Alligator!!! ..... I guess there are people who do such foolish things! It just makes no sense at all!

It reminds me of Christians who "play" with sinful activities that can "bite"! You are asking for trouble! What we at first think is fun... turns out the be what the KJV Bible says is the "pleasures of sin for a season". In other words, it might be fun to mess with an Alligator... but if you don't pay attention... it WILL bite you! There is no logical explanation "why" we do dumb stuff... but we are all prone to it. I am sure there are occasions when even the "safest" among us steps out on a limb an does something "wild"... it is just in those weak moments when the Alligator will snap! On the other hand, there are some among us who somehow think that the Alligator will never be interested in us... and we mess with it anyway! Then it snaps!

There is a good reason the sign is there! It is a reminder that there are consequences for poor choices... and the size of the bite is dependant on the size of the Alligator you are playing with!