Best Choosing Poems

Even as a child of God -
when it came right down to it
she stood firmly on her child’s side -
not God’s 

.. and damn
how I envied that..

my friend
much to my dismay
chose a parent
as a closest confidant
breaking all laws of teenage angst
and going against
all preconceived
conceptions, norms...

Continue reading...

Don't fall through the cracks,
through the floorboards
past the pipes
hot water hissing
grey metallic stun gun dull.
Don't land on the basement steps,
slipping on down
bumping the back bone
breaking the fall
with your body gone white like you know it so well.
Don't let the swallow of house
and of home
consume you
in...

Continue reading...

I'm stuck in a puddle of mud,
unable to make a quick decision...
whom should I choose from among 
others who have been so noble and kind?
More than a name comes to mind:
Linda, Carrie, Deborah, Catie, Rhoda, Danielle, Charmaine and Karen... 
please don't be envious if I...

Continue reading...

The weight of old age increases with time,
dragging spirits down a depressive hole.
And taking pills, prescribed to ease your pain,
the last years are anything but sublime.
You question if believing in a soul,
is vain.

You squirrel away cash you'll never spend
just in case hard times should show...

Continue reading...

Eighty-four pounds at age 27
An illness nearly claimed my life
“You have an option,” the doctor said
But the choice was one that cut like a knife

“Pray for a miracle; linger in pain
Or negate any chance of having children”
My husband had died, my hope long since drained
In...

Continue reading...

A lighter view of the Devizes Neighbourhood Plan 
referendum on Thursday 17th September

My alarm clock shouts at me with noisy voice
“Wake up!  It’s Thursday and you have a choice!”
Of what to have for breakfast, eggs or bran
And of voting or not voting on the...

Continue reading...

April 15 Scripture Meditations Based on Nehemiah 9-11

Key Verse – Nehemiah 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING ME

Thank...

Continue reading...

when choosing between known safe sameness and true craved change -
                                  ...

Continue reading...

A zig of happiness sparked the upper peninsulas
Of my wildebeest heart, a mere tich.
Could that teensy beginning shake my
Anger, which I had determinedly
Held onto for three weeks longer
Than anyone sane should have?

Come on, the spark said, laughing. Come
And play. We can be mad tomorrow.
I was...

Continue reading...

God in His great mercy for this world
purposely chose a people for His own
this is proven in the holy scriptures
God's truth that He's spread to be sown

In John's gospel 6: 37 Jesus says
all the father gives me will come
for all that come He shall receive...

Continue reading...

He is an oppressive Master of the House
commanding all  to follow his beat;
that on a last desperate evening,
I plead relief from his vile craving
When a violent urge attempts to devour my honor :
Through rotten laughter, my primal instinct
Rises---fear to dignity—lunging extended stabs
Upon his bestial...

Continue reading...

Choosing Me

I sing today with a joyful heart, 
for the dark-clouds had left from wavering over the top. 
I wake in the light of the sun now, 
and the birds once again sing with me in a relay.

The flowerings' spread all about in the fields,
with...

Continue reading...

Your wife sits beside your bed holding tightly your hand
Smiling although she's grieving, just trying to understand
You pulled out your feeding tube, chose your right to die
To go on without you after 60 years, she fights not to cry.

A stroke 6 years before left you...

Continue reading...

Like you,
I make choices each moment
of each day.
Apparently,
we review those choices each dreaming moment
of enculturing memory.
We choose within a range
of resonance
--regenerative 
polycultural potential 
for nurturing WinWin resolution--
or cognitiveLeft/affectiveRight dissonance

Dissonance between our
Left Ego's Interior Landscape,
a land of deductive self-preservation,
of WinWin v WinLose hypothetical consciousness,
of eisegetically held...

Continue reading...

A clown car or an elevator?
A forest or a meadow?
Sad or happy?
The choice is yours.

Pink polka dots or Linen Gray?
A kitchen accident or a freight train?
Joyfulness or Melancholy?
The choice is yours.

A magical kingdom or a jail cell?
Pie or cheese?
Excitement or Boredom?
The choice is yours....

Continue reading...