it happened as we rounded the roundabout
which is supposed to happen
are you lonesome tonight? (laughing version)
my daughter has been yelling at the smart speaker
to play a katy perry song the speaker has never heard of
for the last forty minutes
she bops down the street
imitating the bass from rick james'
super freak
the stress management course advises to
cultivate a non-work identity
in which i have decided to be Jim Morrison
i've been standing outside the back door.
i need to develop authentic communication skills,
confidence,
and a depth of knowledge
pursue travel, and athletic challenges or
a mental health professional
i have been advised to carry a notebook
and wear the leather jacket
and grow my hair
two out of those three i can do
The west may be attacked in four years a German military
Officer advises.' This after forty years of enc-roaching
N a t o by extra-sizing..And three years into the war by proxy..? My they're patient.!!! What could be hiding? Its
Much like convid maybe? Bio un logical war.' Direct by
W h o.? Now by this officer just be warned.)
I have been deceived all this while,
By all the angels cloaked in a dear disguise.
'Follow the way of light, my child, ' they all cooed,
For they knew too well I was never shrewd.
Off I went, probing for those lights,
Something to put an end to my wakeful nights.
But manipulation, oh my dear,
Sounds sweeter when it is feared.
I never found those lights, I never did indeed,
In the cruel footpaths of naivety and those angels' deeds.
All I ever found was a world so shadowy,
Lit up with lights that glow darkly.
There are no excuses in the Kingdom of God
It is God’s Kingdom and
He will provide for the situation
You have a coach
So don’t approach a situation
Without the Holy Spirit!
He advises, corrects, instructs, trains, tutors, guides
directs and prepares you for your assignment
The Kingdom of God has everything you need while
You are on earth, so ask in His Name and
Align your prayers with His Purpose
You have a coach
So don’t approach a situation
Without the Holy Spirit!
Mark Frank
Copyright 2025
I Got Her
motherhood is fraught with mistakes
hanging from her charm bracelet
hourglass wrist; anchor was hooked
she’s silent as I longed for her to erupt
I needed her warm ear, not judgment
one thing I did wrong; not the worst
much later she stabbed me with her kiss
those lips left a saturated wound; grab chest
I was brave; I handed her the tray of hurt
oh how quickly, blinking tears, she apologized
I hang that memory on my high school bracelet
I tuck it away to reuse when I ostracize progeny
air punches like exhales, soft hands, soft heart
must lay out my cards - she was better than the rest
some moms are rabid, some too friendly
I found my mom just right; her sayings wrong
she advises me, “There’s more fish in the boat.”
I lay down the ace, “Yes, Mom, and they’re all dead.”
she’d fall upstairs, get blood poisoning, eventually cancer,
loved her soaps, got news from the tabloids - I got her!
Above mentioned places, how I feel so for you with an m p
mark holland, who dragged you all through, the agony of con-vid oh
What a 'to-do' I beleive hes proud of locking your elders? Away And proud of that potion..The coercion and hey! He's
Glad that your churches were closed all around he's proud
Of how upon the truckers they came down, if you've blood clots
He's happy.' If your homeless and sick, he's estatic he was
Paid well. His wallets real thick, not as quite; as thick as his
I Q now thats something else yet back to my thoughts on
His inflated self' i lhear' he advises eye contact, why not
Take him at his word? Confront how he stands before you in
True actions get heard.!
Lisa had never lived alone, she did not know what to expect.
I am scared, she admitted, alert and self-circumspect.
She left her fiancé’ and his baggage, of which there was a lot.
Moved away to Wisconsin, arrived at two o’clock on the dot.
Had taken a risk and landed in a wonderful place for her.
Now has new friends who are the same age, who know the cure.
They get together for dinners, luncheons, potlucks and other stuff.
She advises single living to everyone, there is no longer anger or huff.
We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. ~President John F. Kennedy, 1962
Don't you just hate that weekly test
When it interrupts the morning broadcast?
It advises me in the event it is real
Stay tuned for further information what to do!
Yeah right because if the bomb is falling
I'll be heading out back to our fallout shelter.
Dad put it in way back in the day
When Russia was doing its thing down in Cuba.
We had no inkling it wouldn't come true.
We had no idea Kennedy would be killed.
We didn't know he wouldn't live to see his dream
Of those men walking upon the moon.
Bible
The Bible is life that is eternal, forever. Phenomenology. (Reality.)
Violent ideological idealism ruined me. Psychology.
The Bible noticed me, revealed its teachings to me, and now I live. Theology.
I will read the Bible until the end of my life, my faithful companion in life,
This book is always with me.
Wherever I go, wherever I go, the Book is always with me.
It is with me and will always be with me. My new life grew out of it.
Growing up, I got another life in my present life.
The Bible will always be with me, life also advises this,
And everything will be decided by its faithful guidance.
Thanks to the Lord and all God's writers for this masterpiece.
Thanks to the ancient sages, prophets, evangelists,
apostles, martyrs, writers.
Many, many centuries ago, the writers of the Bible had no idea what they were doing,
But I testify that they have saved many, many lives with their work.
The Bible is life, history, theology, philosophy, future, faith and hope.
Truth, reality and future. There will never be a utopia.
A mother's advice
When you get up
make your bed
straighten your bedroom
if someone comes in
it will be clean and straight
Old age advices
Just get up
Provided you're able
Or
Sleep in the recliner
A mother's advice
Make a full breakfast
Homemade biscuits
Bacon, eggs
To be well fed
Old age advises.
Simple will do
Go out or
A sandwich or two
Too quick to speak
Too quick to judge
Just a little nick
Just a soft nudge
And you will reek
With your heightened urge
You heed no advice
You heed not restraint
Rude shock and surprise
Unknown to any saint
Aims at you to suffice
To make your strength faint
All because you refrain
To be upright and to respect
And you could still avert the pain
If you would pause and reflect
And be whole after being slain
And have your purpose resurrect
For God advises love and service
To both He and fellow men
That ye may find solace
In Him and among brethren
That you may end you chase
And live on earth as in heaven
K. Muitherero
Applause…applause for a magical dove
transformed
coming out from
betrayal after betrayal
Once - well that can happen
Twice - hmm, wow, scratch the head
Third time - you best get wise
The scratch of a psychiatrist pen
eyeing you under a microscope
Jesus asked the man, by the pool of Bethesda,
“Do you want to get well?”
Too much serpent - scrupulously hands Eve an apple
Too much dove - disadvantage unsettling
The Bible advises: Be as wise as a serpent
and as harmless as a dove
Priceless precious what we speak,
We all do and far too quick,
O let your heart weigh words well
Ere tongue turns them out to spell.
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Boli ek anmol hai, jo koi bolai jani,
Hiye taraju tauli ke, tab mukha bahar ani.
Everyone knows to speak, but few know the value and weight of their words, nor their capacity to make mischief. Kabeer advises people to weigh every word with the weighing balance (taraju) of their heart (hiye) before it is uttered. A fool is he of a worldly-wise school that knows it not.
Standing in a market square
Kabeer wants everyone’s welfare,
Nor friendship to any,
Nor any enmity!
_______________________________
Kabira khada bazar mein, mange sab ki khair,
Na kahu se dosati, na kahu se bair.
Kabeer advises us to look at everyone with the same equal eye, no one as an undue friend, and no one as foe either; hailing all, hating none. What Isha Upanishad said, and what Bhagavad-Gita too, Kabeer has put it in a layman’s language.
Snow flake moments
In winter's bite
The frost advises
Resignation from winter's sight
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