Best Callings Poems

Words on a page, sounds, Mother's calling
soft tones rose from leather tomes sweetly,
through rouged lips they tumble with love.
Lullabies call through the coldest of nights
as...

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Echoes can hide in places far and wide:
in valleys, wells, near walls, in empty rooms;
in hills and canyons and in ancient tombs.

In Chichen Itza, Mexico,...

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What stardust in our bones cause all these words to flow
From out of you and I like mountain streams?
What moves us to find writing 
So...

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**You name them your blood
**You fight side by side
**Against the “Enemy”:
**The different in sight

Your soldiers against soldiers
And Yet
You’re all alike
Both brothers from Adam and Eve

Alive...

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Dear Lord

I come knocking at your unlocked door
  bend my knees, humbly kneel on your floor
    mercy for time spent on...

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ESCAPE INTO REALITY

Escapists---fantasizing about worthless things
Well trained in our worldly ways and feelings
Struggling to visualize our predestined callings
Escapists—fantasizing about worthless things

Reality-- disregarding Eternal majestic dwellings
Pursuing...

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Resonating magnificent resplendencies of such rhapsodies

Resonant, amid this glowing renaissance of her resurrection....

Lost opaque dreams, awakening to find these vibrancies of colours

As if van Gogh...

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The people around me condemn and fight me;
Demons surround me;
confronts me;
My  wrong choices,
Those cuddled distracted voices;
The battles I've led;
Being misled;
In good health and sickness;
My...

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Reaching for love



Mountain top wishes in echoing fashion
Whispers in sonnets afloat on the sky
Soothing the emptiness fraught with distraction
Sifting through clouded views wandering by

Northern horizons...

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my presence was needed
the announcement echoed thru hospital halls
which meant the medical team assembled
but that kind of expertise
was not why i was called
my lot in...

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   Living simply
     rejoicing
   in their callings

   He, a shoemaker
     finest...

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Morning dew lets
drip essential
waters, the active
ripples drop,
landing, working
with the melting
ponds, to release
surface tension 
The callings of
chirping birds,
resonating
pleasantries to ears
everywhere, fervent
life, the eager
promise of things to
come...

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(Metrical form of writing worthily represented here in this poem composed by Giorgio Venetopoulos, had remained unpublished.)


The maiden's form diffuses neath the rain
and beautiful she...

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"At Times I Wonder"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Nazam)

At times I wonder what life would have been worth
Spent cloaked in soft shades of your sable tresses
If ill-fated...

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Each person who makes the confession 
That Jesus is Lord and God raised Him from the dead
And they are truly sincere and they seek God...

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