In simple words
...Contemplating as a thinker thinking,
self-appraising rate of our vibration,
we dwell not in awareness unblinking
but ego distanced from God’s creation.
It’s not about knowing but becoming,
whi...
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Categories:
appraising, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet
fairways
...Lisa and I played a round of frisbee-disc golf today—let’s reminisce.
I love the ‘live performance’ of sports, how you must physicalise
discipline. You get this instant feedback that you have to ...
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Categories:
appraising, golf, perspective, school, sports,
Form: Free verse
Business of Poetic Economics
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Words much like coins
find their value in their quality
their rarity and worth
in gold silver and every
other precious metal
Poetry may as well be
the economic activity
of juggling assets
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Categories:
appraising, business, money, poetry, words,
Form: Free verse
A LITTLE HUMILITY A LITTLE LAUGHTER
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I’m bringing back an old memory
because with my internal American flag flying at half-staff
I could use a little humility…and I certainly could use a laugh:
It was the day a lady…after starin...
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Categories:
appraising, humor,
Form: Rhyme
FAITH IN GOD WHO CALLS US TOWARD HIS HOLINESS
...January 27 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 28-29
Key Verse – Exodus 28:36 And thou shalt make a plate of pure gold, and grave upon it, like the engravings of a signet, HOLINESS ...
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Categories:
appraising, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
FAITH IN GOD WHO MAKES US FRUITFUL
...January 10 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 28-30
Key Verse – Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitud...
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Categories:
appraising, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
FAITH IN GOD WHO IS MERCIFUL UNTO US
...January 7 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 19-21
Key Verse – Genesis 19:16 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, and upon the hand of his wife, and upon the ha...
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Categories:
appraising, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Oscar
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In the mountains, lived a special pup
He was gentle, kind and so amazing
His antics were true, never made up
My meals he was forever appraising
He often seemed to be star gazing...
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Categories:
appraising, animal, appreciation, cat, dog,
Form: Quintain (English)
Congratulations are premature
...“We are almost there but not quite ~
Not yet graced with spherical sight”
~ quote by poet
Intermediate truths whence known,
in as seen because we have been
to subtler realms d...
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Categories:
appraising, spiritual,
Form: Hybronnet
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY FAITH'S REWARDER
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December 9 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Hebrews 11
Key Verse– Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he ...
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Categories:
appraising, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Soccer
...Lisa and I had been watching some boys strut about, as they played soccer, in their little shorts, in the freezing cold. It’s an old animal story.
The game ended, or it was intermission and about ...
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Categories:
appraising, boy, life, school, student,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Resurrection Hope
...October 8 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on John 11-12
Key Verse – John 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dea...
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Categories:
appraising, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Miracle-Desire's Gladness
...October 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 23-24
Key Verse – Luke 23:8 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, beca...
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Categories:
appraising, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Natural Finery
...Natural Finery
Gazing out the window from a coffee shop, came an image that changed the world. Like a breath of fresh air, light and refreshing, that could be immediately enjoyed in the lu...
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Categories:
appraising, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Who Would Ever Have Thought
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Who would ever have thought
When written words would finally speak
Topics in form when stanza's script
In the hope two poets finally meet
Then the prospect of writing together
From ...
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Categories:
appraising, boy, celebration, love, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
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