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Your Word Is A Lamp Unto My Feet And A Light To My Path Eber and Wein and other submissions

Your holy word, Lord Jesus, is a lamp to my feet
and a light to my path.  I will not hide my candle
under a bushel but I will place it on top of 
a lamp stand to brighten up my hometown's
Evergreen's city of Everett Washington USA.
It is the capital city of Snohomish County

as well as

Mandrake and Other Temptations

I sat where the ferns stood guard—
solemn sentries on wood pedestals—
my back pressed against her bookcase,
cradled in the soft hush 
of the window seat
as snow rehearsed its silence
just beyond the glass.

Like a priestess reading spells
I turned the musty pages
of her herbal catalog—
wild ginger, mandrake, devil’s claw,
some deadly and some to heal—
and I whispered their names

A Shrunken Head and Other Mysteries

In the book nook I found it—
a face no bigger than my palm,
leathered and silent,
its eyes forever pressed shut
against whatever it had seen.
Grandma said a missionary friend
brought it back from a place
where spirits walk in daylight.

On the dining room window sill,
a dozen squat green strangers
kept their spines to themselves—
silent travelers from the Southwest
when my dad

fear and other things

Fear and other things

I have recurring nightmares and tell myself
 to remember the dream in the morning
but I'm unable to recall the gruesome dream
I think it is about nuclear war 
When a seaman, I was often afraid of the ocean
especially in the Pacific, where waves look like 
the mountain that even unbalanced hangar ships
the ship on top

Sound, Words, and Other Deaths

The air turned black all around me and the fear truly set in. The darkness is surrounding. Who's to know what lies within? The voices spin, dizzying in my head. They repeat all those words to me. All the words they said are closer than memory. As my blood runs out, the darkness swirls around

Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks I

"Okay, tell me, who's gonna be next?"
said the writer of the too-long text.
"No, please, not me," said the lean noun.
"Cut that fat verb there, two lines down."
And they all watched with their faces vexed.
The women in my Viking village
don't like domestic work or tillage.
They get much more excited
when they all get invited
on raids to go

Bunch of limericks and other funny tricks II

I hate it when a girl rolls her eyes,
because that means she's on to my lies.
And then it's harder to get her
to let me under her sweater,
and then on to the ultimate prize.
I never once said that you were fat.
I'd never be as nasty as that.
I think you’re a real cutey.
I just adore your booty.
But

Limericks and other funny tricks III

My wife's housekeeping skills are lackluster.
For getting things done, I just can't trust her.
And her oven runs too hot,
and the sole besom she's got
flies only between Salem and Custer.
I caught that crass, old man on the moon
sneak a peak at my naked wife, June.
In anger, I discussed the matter
with my good friend, the mad hatter,
who

What I don't want to miss in the eternal hereafter and other verses

In the life that's to come after this,
here's something I don't wanna miss:
in the eternal hereafter,
I don't want to be without your laughter,
or without your morning or goodnight kiss.
Oh, just let her!
Don't do anything to upset her,
if, as you say, you love her, and all.

Let her make her girly noise,
with her retinue of giggly boys,
who

My lot in eternity is to forever gather dust and other eternal observations

My lot in eternity is to forever gather dust.
And I agree.
For the way I lived my life, that's probably just.
But I'd so hoped for a task
were at least part of the ask
was to do something fruitful with the excess of my lust.
I asked this whiz of divinity,
"What's heaven like for infinity?"
He said, "Each day, we

Completeness and other matters

Completeness
May appear 
Incomplete..
The incomplete
Already
Complete...


Freedom
Is already
Not confined..
But may appear
As our 
Confinement...


Longing
May appear as
The experience
Of wanting...

How far from earth are heaven and hell and other hellish verses?

How far from earth are heaven and hell?
And which way do you go to get there, pray tell?
Did God create a GPS for the soul?
Or did he give little devils or angels the role
to escort you to the place where for eternity you'll dwell?
It was so hot, my nose melted off my face.
It was so

Dreams and vision's of the rapture by people on Cloud nine blessing and other sites

A young woman recently had a vision that she shared on Amber's Cloud nine 
Blessings You Tube Channel.  She saw a royal crown, and Jesus was reaching
his hand out underneath it, and there wasn't much space in between.  She also
saw a large grassy field and a tall metal looking building called a monolith,

Today, even the hills seem blue and other painful verses

Today, even the hills seem blue.
Unhappiness is just happiness ~
being torn to shreds by you.
Bartleby:  "I would prefer not to."
Lawyer:  "But Bartleby, you've got to.
Pull yourself together, somehow,
and make a copy for me. Right now.
It's your sad lot to."
Bartleby:  "I would prefer not to."

Someone stomped on my heart with their feet.
There's the

Trump verses and other mild curses

All for the price of a dozen eggs,
America stands on shaky legs.
Globally, the claim is heard ~
"The US ~ laughingstock of the world,"
as daily, we star in our very own theater of the absurd.
Said the lion to the lioness,
"You know what, dear Tess.
We need to send our cubs to college
so they can acquire the modicum

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