Admonitions Poems

Let’s please God with our faith* while growing biblically
Showing Christ-likeness believably
Revealing scriptural wisdom boldly
Presenting eternal life blissfully
Exposing heaven beautifully.

Let’s please God with our love while proclaiming His message confidently
Sharing the Gospel and salvation plan capably
Conveying Bible truths for Christian nourishment...Read More

Choices you make in life, kid, especially abominable

Ones eventually lead you down the road to perdition

Never keep dangerous company; it could cost you your life!

Stay far away from such ilk; look the other way.

End friendships with bad influences, quickly.

Quit handling...Read More

a dream creeps sultry while I sleep
   whispering      a balmy breath
hints seductions

unintelligible invitations to

a lazy labyrinth where the lost
prowl    reach awkwardly 
for themselves

there in its midst
we are born

only to return...Read More

Now* is the time to assert God’s truth-verity
Affirming the Lord’s love of mercy’s certainty
Especially His salvation along eternal life’s security.

Now is the time to avoid falsity and deceit
Abiding not in discouragement defeat
Vanquishing unbelief with Scriptures’ heat.

Now is the time to...Read More

Abased* from arrogance-assertiveness

     apathetic affections of mine  

          accept Almighty’s admonitions

               against...Read More

He was caught in a mine of a mind in reprisals admonitions and self-reproach 

Had been looking for diamonds and gold but then the escape shaft caved in

Gotten shafted and the stake stuck like an iron rod from rock bottom...Read More

Oh, oft' times did I watch her in the sand
          Trace sweeping loops with ballerina toes
               A...Read More

Science's
True
Enthusiast
Pioneered
Hope
Eternal
Notwithstanding
Withered
Human
Admonitions!
Who
Knows
If
Noosphere*
Goes On?
_______

*Noosphere - the sphere of human thought, from Teilhard de Chardin

(In Honor of Dr. Stephen W. Hawking, 1942 - 2018)

2/25/2019...Read More

Midst biblical knowledge
Along the verse Psalm 14:1* I acknowledge
Yet in self-exaltation along vested interest’s mileage
I cling to humanistic tenets gained from secular college…
Forgive me, Lord, when I deny You with the atheist’s heart of blasphemous sacrilege.

Midst exposure to awesome miracles
Along...Read More

When very young, we blindly may dismiss	
Our elders’ admonitions about Time,
Or future grief or pain, for in that bliss 
Who recks of illness, death, mischance, or crime?

And in our prime, with life’s distracting needs,
With open, seeing eyes, we still are...Read More

Title: My Admonition
By: Saka Afeez O.(Psychology)

Many a time you've been told the stories of the prophet and his companions,
His wives and children, to Allah is their total submissions 
These lessons aren't for fun, but to reflect and make new decisions
Then,...Read More

 ~ I - I Arrive in Glasgow ~

When I arrived in Glasgow town
I knew nary a soul
So tired I's nearly fallin' down
Yet I'd no place to go 

I wandered up Buchanan street 
In hopes to find a bed
Or e'en...Read More

Parent-like, I looked at my past and the Resolutions
 once made.
In doing so I asked myself: "What are Resolutions
anyway"?
Are they initial Collections of thoughts, plans, 
Plots, fine proposals, investments and more,
That were all carefully thought out but gradually 
came to...Read More

This quiet noon of winter
Enters softly my leaves
Puts on the chlorophylls
A wave disintegrates me
The quiet breaks free

The quiet breaks free
Uproar from the dark
Admonitions stark
Trauma in the tree
Comes back the noon

Comes back the noon
Fright, flight and night
Then the stars bright
And the...Read More

Once, it was a time of true magic, 
when the world was small and soft.

It had to be magic, my mind of five told me:
how else could my brothers and I go to sleep 
on an ordinary, dull and quiet...Read More

[Continued from Part One]



The youngsters were oblivious— so entranced were they
in their childhood amusements and entertaining play.
That door was small and narrow to leave the family home.
And, oh, their lives were fragile, like bubbles on the foam!

These children viewed the...Read More

My long-sufferin' Mother tried to teach me the rudiments of social graces,
So as not to make a fool of myself at fancy affairs and such other places.
But even so, at the school prom I splattered sauce on the tux I...Read More

My best friend and I
Keep ourselves secret
Within the soft whisper
Of our headscarves-
Yet a beginner 
In this disappearing act,
I still need her help;
In danger of falling over
Ourselves and each other
In the backseat of the car,
We giggle-
Over misplaced pins
And her mother's admonitions
From...Read More

                            Part Five

Some couplets apart
        ...Read More

Expert skiers ought to know
That skiing ever faster
And off the beaten track just might
Precipitate disaster.

The specialists who gauge the snow
For slickness, depth and such
Put warnings out so all who ski
Stay out of danger’s clutch.

Yet more and more, those athletes
Who love...Read More

you are the glint in my eye
you are the sinew in my arm
the very DNA in my cells
you are my offering of time

father, your actual bones bore
me through childish dreams
and youthful ranting angers
to find as i pulled away

as far as...Read More

Today, loafing on the porch I reminisced about yesteryears,
Recalling Mom's admonitions still ringing in my ears!
As a feckless youth I let them go in one ear and out the other,
Alas, paying little heed to my long-suffering Mother!

"Stop slamming the screen...Read More

Artificial Sentience

Another bad idea doing a number on the gist of guilt
Of nothing new, 
the same old talking points voodoo
Of everything left to prove
Of everything left to hide
Sides being taken, swilling back another last gasp
Zoning in and out, coming to
To...Read More

(for: ’niyi osundare)

the goldness of those eyes,
like the eye of the earth –
beaming, mirrors the secret softness
hidden by the ash-like depths of our souls!

many of them, brother, so learned;
 o! carrying shrines of empty superiority,
as they coaxed the lads
to believe...Read More

In matters of nutritious foods to eat, I am so befuddled!
Admonitions about what to eat and not to eat are so muddled!
First, they warn that it's bad to eat grub of almost any kind,
But, "New studies have shown....., eat what...Read More