I do not claim to be anything close to a poet, but here are some nonsense verses and such

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Clear Communication

Though possessed of o’erwhelming sagacity
Arising from basal veracity
He had no effect
On person or sect
Because of his verbal opacity
--Tim Chastain

Philip in Samaria

Philip went down to Samaria
A very significant area
And even his rival
Joined in the revival
Til money became a new baria
--Tim Chastain

Israel in The Wilderness

For 39 years they had et it.
They all (though none had quite said it)
Were so tired of manna
For half a banana
Would walk back to Egypt to get it.
--Tim Chastain

Wendys

They's a Wendys just acrost from Barnes and Nobles
Hits the Wendys I went to as a child.
They have burgers, they have chicken, they have salad,
And at Wendys, the frosty's always good
--Tim Chastain

My son Drew wrote and sent me the following poem.

Jesus Rhyme

I'd like to make a rhyme
with Jesus, but all in fun,
in which I make Him chime
that "Three's us, but all in one."

I responded with a poem of my own. I do not reject the idea of the trinity, but I am ambivalent about it.

Homoousion -A Response to Drew

God is like a single committee
Of two or three or four.
God is like a single apple:
Peel and flesh and core.

God as committee is tri-theism,
Heresy! We scream;
God as an apple is modalism-
Equally off the beam.

One God in three persons made much more sense,
when I was a young academic.
Now I find myself hard to convince
Of this Greek philosophic endemic.

As I grow old, the scholastic device
of Father, and Spirit, and Son
Seems too contrived and less precise
Than God as One-in-One.