The Bashan Bull King (Poetic Prose)

The Bashan
Bull King

((Poetic Prose) (with notes))

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It happened right down in the Bashan Valley ((in what is now known as the Golan Heights, in Israel, once Syria) (about 1400 BC)), close in front of what is called the Wheel of the Giants, also known as, Stone Heap of the Wildcat (a kind of shrine, temple, astrological site, for the Rephaim Giant Cult of old), you could see King Og (( jababirat )(whose bed was cast in iron)), and Ohaho ((one of the two-hundred Angelic Renegades, enemies of the Most High) (who had left his first abode—before the Great Flood, to cohabitate with the loveliest of earthly women)) snarled at each other, and cursed one another like two Bashan Bulls, on the Bashan Plateau. And when Ohaho charged King Og, the Iron Giant of old, thirteen feet tall (son to Azaz’el the renegade archangel, who had hung onto Noah’s Great Ark, during those far-off trying days above those masculine waters, that obliterated mostly all that dwelled above the earth), three-forth superhuman—of immense weight (his waist four-feet wide), he swung back firmly like a wildcat when the wind hits its face, his legs held in a firm stance, apart, the heavy iron mallet in one hand, a double-edged sword in the other, both crisscrossing following his zigzagging curve in front—as he stepped forward, then he cursed Ohaho, threw the mallet at him, wounded his thigh, broke his balance, as it flopped to the ground, then King Og, swung forward from his charge his feet heavy and sturdy, the heavy sword curving in the wind, and with each swing, each forward thrust, the circling crowd of Rephaim demonic type accursed Giants, roared mercilessly as Ohaho stepped back.
When he started this devastating rush—it was all in one ongoing motion, like a bull charging, looking straight in front of Ohaho, hating with anger, and thirsty for submission. He dropped his sword, picked up his mallet and sighted with the same movement, the side of his temple, and called to the renegade, “Ohaho, Ohaho!” and Ohaho—regaining his equilibrium, charged and just for a moment they became solitary: they become one, and then it was over. King Og was still standing straight with the iron-end of the mullet firmly by his side, griped in one mighty fist, an inch away from Ohaho’s temple. King Og, his other hand raised to the crowd, he had defeated his foe for Kingship of the Rephaim Cult, in the Bashan Bull Valley Plateau, once more. The crowd roared for more blood, and then looking straight down at Ohaho, his legs going into spasms, he dragged him around by the hair—to show his conquest, then, ostracized him from the Bashan Valley— complete.

The King’s smile inflaming, and all that watched dignified and glorious in admiration, entirely filled with awe and fear, forever their pious king of the Bashan Plains (they murmured and whispered among themselves) — personified the king in mysticism. And these Rephaim Giants of old, as tall as cedars and strong as oaks (with their king seventy-generations older), souls of pleasure, they lifted him up, up onto their shoulders and they took him, and like a whirlwind, paraded him around the great stone structure, of 42,000-tons of stones—boulders as round as large oaks, they marched, around this enclosure, within its four circles, to the tumulus, the summit of the stone heap, and like light and thunder, for an ultimate end to the parade, lifted him up as if unto the heavens for the Almighty to see, as if he was the setting of the sun, the righteous one: as if he did not defile, oppress all the children of the people from the earth: where nations had once worshiped him before the great deluge; and a great darkness befell the valley just then, and out of the darkness cautiously came a storm to be—Joshua and his armies.




Note 1: in the book of Deuteronomy 3:11, we see King Og’s bed, monarch of the trans-Jordanian kingdom of Bashan, “Only Og, King of Bashan was left of the Rephaites (Rephaim Giants). His bed was made of Iron and was more than thirteen-feet long and six-feet wide” Also, ancient writings indicate there would be a great battle to come where King Sihon of Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan would war against the Israelites—King Og, would be the only survivor.

Note 2: At one time, iron was as precious as ivory is today, thus the writer of Deuteronomy, felt it necessary to make a point of this, by making a remark on the subject of King Og’s bed.

Note 3: Bashan once contained some "sixty walled cities" with great bars and gates and many un-walled towns, had capitols at Ashtaroth and Edrei in the region of Argob.

Note: The land of Bashan was famous for its prized cattle and oak groves. Lions also once roamed the area in ancient times.

"The Amorite" the giants within this area were as high as cedars and whose strength was like the oaks, dominated this area. Amos 2:9

No: 2798 (9-21-2010)

Surviving Obama, and Now Summers (9-2010)

Surviving Obama
And now Summers (9-2010)




I thought by now Obama would have learned how to run a government, but it looks like he’s a slow learner. Anyhow, Larry Summers is getting out of Dodge and quick and here is a guy who brought the United States down to its knees, being praised by Obama for his “Brilliance…and Judgment”. Obama and Summers have been so destructive for America, I’m, surprised our country’s currency, our paper money can even buy wallpaper. It is becoming more worthless by the day worldwide: we simply print it up, in the name of God.
On the other hand, 60% of Americans are coming to their senses, figuring it out—that Obama’s not the Messiah he pranced about and allowed everyone to claim him as—and after making president, said “Don’t expect miracles…” how humbling can you be; perhaps the opposite: something I’ve been saying for eighteen-months; I guess some of us are slow learners. Obama is the worse medicine America has ever had to swallow, but like a sore throat, you adjust to it, until you can’t take the proper medicine.
It has been officially proclaimed by the White House by Obama, professionals, Harvard schooled professionals, that America’s recession is over, has been for a year, by gosh, this is a surprise to Americans, when the unemployment rate is near to 10%, perhaps is beyond ten-percent, if we include those who have lost all their weekly unemployment benefits, and now are looking at what to do, and how to do it—and this is when crime starts to rebuild its pyramid.
To be quite honest, I’d give Mr. Summers a one-way ticket back to Harvard, and tell him: don’t return. And to leave—: the sooner the better. And let’s pray we can survive Obama, before he gives away the country to the Arabs.

Sean Penn ( Monkey Politics)

Perhaps one of the most un-loyal, unmoral, and un American, Anti Americans alive, living off the sweat, honey and fat of the land, is Sean Penn; why he hasn’t been critical of Obama yet, is beyond me. I mean here is a man, Obama that has done nothing for America, leaving 50,000-troops in Iraq, and calling it, victory. He should have gotten our troops out long ago, actually, Bush is the one who got the troops out, he set the date and the pace, not Obama, and all Obama is doing is rerouting them to Afghanistan. Where is the big mouth, Penn? (Perhaps He and Obama are like to like) I mean he was full of starch when it came to Bush, now he’s hiding over in Haiti someplace; and Obama has turned out to be the biggest failure sitting in the highest seat in America in the last 100-years; we couldn’t have done worse by picking out Ahmadinejad.
Matter of fact, Penn’s friends seems to be all the enemies of America, Iran, and Mr. Chavez of Venezuela, and at one time Saddam’s. Too bad they didn’t take his Passport away. A man who never spent a day in the Army, taking out an add in a national newspaper, paying $56,000 for it, and telling America to impeach their president, the Commander and Chief, when he hasn’t shed a once of blood, or given an once of sweat for this country, telling us Veterans what to do. Actors should do just what they’re trained to do; they make fools of themselves with all that money they don’t know what to do with so they throw it into politics because they’re bored to death of make believe.

Obama: Turning Pro Islam

Obama (Hussein): His Middle Name is coming out Loud!

I think it might have been wise for Obama to have let this issue alone, let it be settled with those who have died in 911 instead of siding with the Muslims who blew up the two Towers in New York City, now they’re going to own the land they’ve cultivated that the two American made Jets plum full of Americans got blown up on taking down those two towers up so they can make a mosque on it—how ironic can you get, I’m sure Bin Laden is laughing all over Pakistan on this one (use American free enterprise, and a pro Muslim President, and let’s mock the United States right in front of them in the center of the Greatest City on Earth), it’s the joke of the decade. He didn’t need to say anything, but why did he? Perhaps because he isn’t a Christian, or isn’t all he proclaims to be. His Hussein middle name is showing, the very one he doesn’t use so he doesn’t have to remind us American who he really is, where his heart’s desire is.
I can’t think of a worse slap in the American face than this, but I’m not surprised. And “No!” the Muslims, or anybody, nobody has a right to put a mosque up where so many Americans died. That is like Japan putting up a Japanese Flag on top of one of those sunken ships at Peal Harbor, but he wouldn’t understand that because he never shed an once of blood in a war for this country, or put on an American Uniform, he’s from Kenya, how could he understand. But we Americans got what we deserve—a President that lulled us to sleep (lulled you to sleep, not me), that doesn’t care about public opinion and this is just the beginning, wait until he gets warmed up. He’s celebrating Islamic holy month with the Muslims, of Ramadan, I haven’t seen him celebrating anything Christian, or Jesus Christ to be his Lord and Savior; since he took office he has only taken from them.

Funny, the Mayer of New York is for the Muslims—how ennoble can you be! But the Governor agreed to give them State land if they’d moved to a new location (keep that guy in office), but the Muslims said “No!” Thus, trying to provoke, and increase American anger. By the same token, this all could have been avoided had the New York City Landmark’s Preservation Commission granted it landmark status, they must have gotten paid off by the Muslims: perhaps Bin Laden.

What is next on his long and hidden agenda, perhaps to tare down the Jewish Wailing Wall for the Islam? It might be wise for Israel to think ahead, Obama is not going to stop the Russians and Iran from building their nuclear bombs; they’ll have to act on their own, lest they want to be sitting ducks.

Octopus Waters (Poem)

Octopus Waters


And he who loves must swim in Octopus Waters.
And he, who is hiding, should stay out of the waters.
The deeper you go there is no light, just a black
And blazing watery abyss
I could tell you how it is at the bottom
All who have loved and lost and keep loving, can.
I could tell you because I’ve been there.
Back then, until today I could tell you,
Because, I have been there…!
Nothing grows like on the moon, just darkness.
And the more you have loved, the darker it grows.
And still I choose to love and live
And swim in Octopus Waters.
God recognized me, woke me in the morning,
And then I came up for air, remote—
Ready to leap again, like a jackrabbit
Into those Octopus Waters,
Truly this had to be the final straw
And then we made a home
(And you can guess where)!

No: 2689 (5-15-2010) a Jewish style, or form of poetry/inspired by DAVID AVIDAN

Obama's World for America (Letter: 2)

Obama’s World for America
The Obama Syndrome

Everyone is on a high with President Obama, because he is the thing that will bring America if not the world change. I think the world is more in love with him than America to be frank, and they should be, he is what they want. With Bush, who made some big mistakes, made some good decisions also? Only two days in office and from what I see Obama is clueless, if not directionless. We don’t need miracles, we need sound judgment.
In less than 48-hours here are the decisions he is making, and planning. The planning part is more conjecture at this moment, but from what has said and he didn’t say, this might be pretty close to the truth.
First, he is going to release the prisoners at the Cuban, prison (Guantanamo) United States military facility, the one they just built a $500-million dollar addition to. Furthermore, he doesn’t even know where he is going to put them, great planning, how about mainstream America? Where else? I hope not in my backyard though, perhaps his. The point being, you have terrorists there, and no one wants them here, these terrorists want rights, not responsibilities, but rights, perhaps the ones doing all the complaining, from Europe over to Mexico and down to South America and Asia, should take them in, house and feed them, send out the welcoming wagon (but on that subject they are silent like mice). There are no takers, just complainers. I understand, it makes America look bad, but perhaps we are a little hasty here, I mean, do we have to have them looking through our kitchen windows to make America look pretty to the rest of the world, this is dangerous, and when some American house wife gets stabbed to death by one of these fellows, then what?
The president needs to find a better solution, not one the World wants, but the American Citizen wants, and I say citizen, because the president of America works for us, not us for him; we sign his pay check.
Having said that let me address the abortion clause he is in the process of signing. There are not many Americans I know that want to pay for a strangers abortion counselling, or abortion per se, but Obama doesn’t see it that way, so he is going to force feed us, like a baby, that neither is here or there, he will make some people happy by doing that, just as many mad. But the problem is, as it has always been, he kept it a secret until now, you know what I am talking about, those little deletions, generalizations, and distortions, we used to call them little white lies, because you didn’t really lie, you just fibbed. How many more will pop up soon?
Let’s go on here. I seem to be full of beans today writing all this on his second day in office, but he’s been a busy president these last few days, so what can I say.
On top of the one-trillion dollars America is in debt for, he is going to put $825-billion dollars on that, trying to kick start a dead lion. It is better to be a live dog than a dead lion. That is about 16% of our annual GNP, this is not good. The Monopoly Game money will be worth more than our dollar soon, with that kind of forecasting of spending just brings the world into a fright. And let’s hope, China and Japan, and Europe don’t call in our debt, god help us all then, we’ll have to all move to Peru, their money is a much higher value than the dollar at this moment.
Next, he is implying to overhaul our immigration, this may be another thorn in America’s side. If he is thinking, and I think he is implying, about opening the floodgates for Mexico, and Asia, and the rest of the world, I’d send the Statue of Liberty back to France, it is too high a price to pay. The Statue of Liberty reads, and perhaps he should read the saying on it, and I shall paraphrase, it’s been a while since I been out there, “…for the despaired…” not for the unemployed. In any other country, and I have been in 60, you do not demand citizenship because your government is to lazy to find a job for you, they don’t want you there if you do not have money in the bank. We could learn from them.

Last but not least, now what do I expect in the near future? One thing I think is that the United Nations will want the United States to bend their knees a little more, I mean we give them $20-billion already, but they’d like to control more than our pocket books, and this president I think is willing to hand over more than the piggy bank, this will come soon. And let me add to that, the World Court, which we have in the past so solidly defied and not allowed our solders to be overmanned by, lest we be on trial day and night and the enemy would love that (as I predict the terrorist at the Cuban prison will soon). What I fear is what I think he’ll do next, He will, I predict, hand us over to the wolves there. I hope I am wrong.

Another worthwhile note is, I feel the new president is being a little careless with the North Koreans, lifting the so called regime from the bad guy list, or terrorist list, when just a month ago, they told South Korea they would blow them off the map. I spent 11-years in the military, I realize we have a president who hasn’t spent 11-days in it, and is making decisions that can be very costly for our alias in that area. He needs to stop and think his decisions: ask the question, “Who will my decisions hurt?” It’s a simple question, not just go ahead and give the benefit of the doubt a secret society will come and hug you with open arms, that is a fairy tail way of thinking.


Well, that is enough for letter two, I did write one the other day, it is somewhere on the Internet.

The New President: now What? 1-2009

The new president—think as you will—is directionless, even though he has convinced the world at large to the contrary; presumptive heir to the Kennedy years, and Lincoln, saga. He has engulfed all the classes, although, perhaps into what soon may be known as the wishful-dreamers table in some lonely cafe. He has as I said in other articles, saved his complexities for a later date, and one has already emerged, the turning back of tax money, few Americans want to spend out of their pockets, on someone else’s kids getting abortions. He didn’t proclaim he’d do this of course, he’d note dare to, he only whispered it behind solid walls, like when he eliminated his middle name, for the sake of the presidency. He got the Mexican vote, but I doubt he is going to do much for them.
They are comparing him with heroes that have long been proven heroes, he has not done a thing but generalizes, delete, and distort. You are not witnessing a sour mouth, I would have voted for Rice, or Hillary, which I didn’t care to do, and I didn’t like the other choice running for president he was worse then Hillary, so I didn’t vote at all, how can one, with such a selection: one cancer, the aids. God help us.
He is going to put 800,000 billion dollars on top of the already one trillion dollars of money owed out, we will have to cut a lot of trees down to print up all those dollars. We see already, the financial world is gripping for their life. You don’t heal a wound by putting salt on it.
Everybody gives the president 90-days to see how he is doing, and in those 90-days we normally see what damage he has caused or what good he has done, but of course this may be different for Obama, simple because he has voiced his opinions so loud, we expect miracles from him now, only the devil or God himself can give. But all presidents have done so, prior to becoming president that is how they made president. Few do what they say, and those that do, always get enemies somewhere along the line, in either way. I hope the best for him and America, they sure put on a good show for him anyhow, and that is worth something, and if that is all we get, we might be lucky.

Siluk Horror writer: Bram Stoaker Award (2009)

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"In the Pits of Hell, a Seed of Faith Grows" - a review of The Macabre Poems: and Other Selected Poems (Volume III) by Dennis L. Siluk for Calenture: a Journal of Studies in Speculative Verse (Volume 1 # 1: September 2005).


"Interview with Dennis L. Siluk," for Lost Sanctum #2 (Wild Cat Books, 2006).


“He Is What He Writes: The Weird Tales of Dennis L. Siluk" for Dissections: The Journal of Contemporary Horror #2

(http://www.simegen.com/writers/dissections/February%202008/dissections_page_06.html>, 2008).