you have these moments i am held
dazed in your essence
when your concern catches me deep
a vividness my heart surrenders to
the slight reverse touch to your heart
apprehensions walk deep within
a countenance of a mein
a soft prayer in a breath
God stop this
the soft plea only a woman possesses
that carries the dire warning
there are the unforgiven
pariahs who never return
this is one jewel in a chest
i keep in my heart from other moments
such as you looking up
lost in your garden, hands in dirt
upon knees, wiping a moist brow
asking, would you get me some iced tea
alas, the fate of a man who only drinks coffee
a man whose only wish when crossing the veil
accompanied by a chest of jewels
Oregon 9/26/26
Serpents, scorpions, owls,
Swingers, stingers, wise old gals,
Dogs, bones, bow wow wows,
Paws, purrs, cat's meows.
Canines, felines, feral creatures,
Headlines, deadlines, double features,
Ping, pong, pink expressions,
Sing, song, apprehensions.
Sows, cows, milk-bag givers,
Scaredy-cats and chicken livers,
Porky pigs and truffle treasures,
Dorky wigs and other pleasures.
Polywogs and rollie pollies,
Gollygogs and holly holies,
Ice cream trucks and cone packers,
Dumb clucks and silly quackers.
Gritty Kitty, kitty litter,
Nitwitty babysitter,
Baby bottles, bubble slumbers,
Rubber baby buggy bumpers.
All around are funny creatures,
Rabbit Ears and bunny features,
Serpents, scorpions, and owls,
Trick-or-treaters call them pals.
October 3 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Matthew 5-7
Key Verse – Matthew 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR LETTING OUR LIGHT SHINE
Praise be to God for letting our light to glorify Him for His:
Graciousness and goodness
Greatness amidst His gentleness
Generosity along His gladness-glow
Grants and gifts around His guidance-grip
Governance for our growth as well as guarded going
Matthew 6:33 Praise be to the Lord for leading us
to seek first His kingdom along His:
Reigning righteousness
Reassuring rejuvenation
Reproving restraints and rebukes
Refreshing restoration midst replenishment
Rekindling revival toward renewal and reformation
Matthew 7:29 Praise be to the Saviour
for teaching us with His authoritative:
Assertion amidst our attentiveness
Assurance above our apprehensions
Affirmation against our arrogance
Accuracy around our appreciation
Assistance, abating our apathy. Amen!
October 3, 2024
During the stillness of the night I lay awake
Gripped by a blend of fear and unease.
The future, an unexplored sea
Leaves me pondering in uncertainty what will it be?
The shadows cast by tomorrow seem vast and daunting
Each step forward feels like an uncertain venture.
An orchestra of worries a tempests roar
I cannot simply dismiss the fear of what lies
Amidst the darkness a glimmering ray of hope emerges,
A guiding star that calms my apprehensions.
For, within the depths of my soul, courage resides,
Empowering me to confront the unknown and find wholeness.
Uncertainty may resemble stormy tides
It is, within these challenges that I refuse to hide.
I shall navigate through crashing waves finding my path
With resilience and strength observing everything anew.
Though fear, anxiety and uncertainty may endure,
With each sunrise, I shall endure well.
On the canvas of tomorrow's possibilities,
I will paint my way,
With hope and determination, come what may.
September 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 34-36
Key Verse – Ezekiel 34:11 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR SEARCHING AND SEEKING US OUT
Praise be to God for searching and seeking us out to:
Save us against sin-spoilage
Suffice us toward our satisfaction
Settle us upon His Scriptural standard
Sanctify us for stewardship and service
Strengthen us with His safety’s steadfastness
Ezekiel 35:12 Praise be to the Lord for hearing our:
Lamentations He answers by His authority
Love-led aspirations with His assurance
Longings as well as our apprehensions
Loneliness-lengthened by anger
Litany of anxieties and angst
Ezekiel 36:11 Praise be to the Saviour for doing
better unto us than at our beginnings:
Calling us from carnality’s cage
Cleansing us with consecration’s claim
Changing us toward commitment’s conversion
Commanding us to cleave unto Him and His comfort
Caring for us while we cling to His compassionate clemency. Amen!
September 9, 2024
July 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 22-23
Key Verse – Proverbs 22:4 By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR INSTRUCTING US TO BE HUMBLE
Praise be to God for instructing us to be humble making us:
Spirit-filled
Scripturally framed
Salvation, fully founded
Satisfaction, festively flourishing
Sanctification-fueled, faith-furnished
Proverbs 22:19 Praise be to the Lord for
bracing us to trust against:
Attacks of apathy
Afflictive addiction
Abusive accusing authorities
Apprehensions of accursed appeal
Anxieties arising from arrogant affairs
Proverbs 23:17 Praise be to the Saviour for
warning not to envy sinners, but to:
Rest in His grace
Rejoice in His goodness
Repent from greediness-gain
Remember His generosity’s glow
Rely on His great governance and guidance. Amen!
July 19, 2024
Confined by the borders of your mind
Isolated with apprehensions
Life is merely a complexion of a dream
You'll never be truly awake.
Written: May 09, 2024
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Acquiring a partner soul entails a careful dive,
In calm depths, their true nature comes alive.
Only then do waves prevail, twisting their prey,
Can we track a hint of empathy in society today?
All life begins below; we are just on the surface,
It's a labyrinth of anxiety, a bay of turbulence.
The objective is to grasp peeves and apprehensions,
Despite dread, we will learn to swim via emotions.
Shadows, depths, and darkness intertwine,
We drift along in the current, seeking our line.
We bear the weight of their weary waves,
They share their aches and abet safe paves.
Yet it was a deep gaze, not one of shallowness,
Stepping into another's universe, fallowness.
To appreciate their journey and their plight,
Let's embrace depth to find peace in the night.
So, we'll all jump into the same pit in tandem!
Where does the wind lie, where truth is random?
Down memory lane, in a passionate embrace,
Can we utterly claim to comprehend your grace?
They sing their own songs
In the spirit of light.
No, they do not take credit for that.
Nor, do they drain under dust and disdain
That suffers hollow minds.
They compose their verses in the wind
And revel at their spirits’ charm, or so as it seems.
They inspire dance in a dragonfly,
Touch in a bee, or a butterfly.
And quiver not at the bleat of a goat.
They do not complain, nor do they seek---
Attention, that spoil ribbons of love.
They bury moments in pure delight,
Unlike men that lose sight of purpose.
And coil under their own vulnerabilities.
They do not fantasize their own glory
Nor live a lie that do not define them.
They swell in pride with pure submission,
That, for man, would take years to fathom
As deliberate apprehensions rip off their minds.
They sing their verse, unheard, unsung
Revel, in the breast of Mother Earth.
They feel Her beat, Her heat, and in sweet surrender
Submit to the gallows of Time.
Though hated, sometimes scorned, undervalued
for their power to produce and reproduce.
For encroaching unknown territories,
Yet they don't complain, for they know
Love is for all and they are no exception.
I stand and stare at the empty branches,
stripped now of all the regalia of Christmas,
naked and sadly alone in my gaze
like the gray day beyond every window.
All the celebrations have been swept to yesterday
like prom decor, bridal rose petals and
melted birthday candles.
The quiet haunts every New Year's day -
no more parties to smother apprehensions,
just sober reality, but, unlike crepe paper
embellishments, aisle runners and cake crumbs,
the tree trimmings will await an encore in
eleven months once more - one more time
one more time ...
colouration of intent displaying love’s hue
flowing gently in mode embrace and release
with no remote viewing of the past or the future
there being within soul no aspect that has a desire
save of course a burning yearning to entwine hearts
momentarily estranged owing to memory erasure
knowing not in active cognition truth of being
sentience numbed to pulsations of rapture
borne by bliss magnetism at play within
with this recognition called upon to act
we cheerfully go through all the motions
of gentle persuasion employing love alone
as the medium of music setting up a rhythm
in vibrant nonchalance forecasting no outcome
flowing moment to moment enacting life’s role
attempting to hush the blush of pessimism
being but ripples created by lower mind
spawned by apprehensions of the ego
Some nightmares find you
while you are sleeping
Others apprehend you
in the midday sun
Some nightmares seize you
and pull you into the darkness
from where you stand
in the midday sun
Those are the type of nightmares
that freeze my blood
Those are the types of midday dreams
where everything is nothing
and nothing is as it seems
Those are the type of nightmare
that drives me to my knees in prayer
beside myself in fear of the midday sun
A mind fractured
and cast away into the sun
There they appear; those apprehensions
legions of haunting apparitions
with malevolent intentions
those which freeze me in solitude
in the heat of the afternoon sun
I am screaming
I am clawing
Am I screaming?
Am I clawing?
Who is that pounding!
Who is that pounding at my walls?!
That is my monster
that which fosters
occupancy in my thoughts
A nightmare
This is what pursues me
That is what moves me
and keeps me awake
screaming at myself
at the top of my lungs
in the heat of the midday sun.
Between you and me
Your thoughts and my feelings
My loves and your passions
Your fears and my apprehensions
Your friends and my dears
Is there any connection?
I fathom deep within and
You search your mind
No, nothing seems to merge and unite
Between you and me
there are puzzling divides
we know, how hard we tried
to merge and unite
but never did we lose our core
and we remained ever on parallel shores
Between you and me
we know, the faces that are real
are so difficult to bear
so we found a way to survive
now, we don our masks so tight
that all differences
between you and me seem
so surreal and light.
Once upon an unravelled thread
I travelled to the very end
To live the story that you said
And make true what was once pretend
Looking for the happy ending
Once upon an unravelled thread
Fixing flaws that needed mending
Beyond closed eyes safely in bed
A hedge rowed path just lightly tread
To knots that held my breath suspend
Once upon an unravelled thread
I lived a life I could defend
Inch by inch as I descended
Through years that lay in wait ahead
Apprehensions apprehended
Once upon an unravelled thread
Fear ran rampant through the streets of all the cities, escalating wows and tribulations.
It holds back the manifestations of life’s improvements, because of apprehensions.
It knocks on every door in the neighborhood causing chaos, bedlam, and despair.
It is a muffled whisper in the mind of many, permeating and penetrating the atmosphere.
Fear is bent on destroying lives without the slightest bit of care.
Worry is the child of fear and he leaves his siblings everywhere.
Fear kills the desires of a person and scoffs at his great ideas and says don’t you even dare.
Positive thoughts produce positive results, so fear festers ideas of envy, malice, and despair.
Fear came upon a humble house near the edge of the wood.
Fear shook and rattled at the front door and shouted obscenities as loud as he could.
Fear banged and kicked at the door yelling things that to the biggest and strongest man, would scare.
Love answered the door and found no one standing there.
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