Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Another Poem???

Not sure what has gotten into me... I truly am not a poem person... However this is so worth reading... Especially if you have ever been forgiven!

Melody in F
(The Prodigal Son)
by Bob Philips

Feeling footloose and frisky, a featherbrained
fellow
Forces his father to fork over the
fartherings.
And flew far to foreign fields
And frittered his fortune feasting
fabulously with faithless friends.

Fleeced by his fellows in folly, and facing
famine,
He found himself a feed-flinger in a filthy
farmyard.
Fairly famishing, he fain would have filled
his frame
With foraged food from fodder
fragments.

"Fooey, my father's flunkies fare far
finer,"
The frazzled fugitive forlornly fumbled,
frankly facing facts.
Frustrated by failure, and filled with
foreboding,
He fled forthwith to his family.
Falling at his father's feet, he forlornly
fumbled,
"Father, I've flunked,
And fruitlessly forfeited family fellowship
favor."

The farsighted father, forestalling further
flinching,
Frantically flagged the flunkies to
Fetch a fatling from the flock and fix a
feast.
The fugitive's faultfinding brother
frowned
On fickle forgiveness of former folderol.

But the faithful father figured,
"Filial fidelity is fine, but the fugitive is
found!
What forbids fervent festivity?
Let flags be unfurled! Let fanfares flare!"
Father's forgiveness formed the
foundation
For the former fugitives future fortitude!

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