Best Director Poems
My choir director
is a painter
a music stand her easel
the choir loft her frame
her canvas is the air
we breathe in
and synchronously exhale
Sixteen voices are her paints
organized by color palettes
low ebony hues down there
bright primary tones over here
complementary colors placed in between
the accompanist creates a background wash
under her attentive ear
Following her calling with tenacity and talent
her hands pirouetting like ballerinas
expressive decisive intentional
coaxing cohesive chorales
conversing with the rhythm
she paints a sacred symmetry of
sanctified synergy in sound
// for Janet, my beloved choir director and bride of 35 years //
written 2 Aug 2020
With her hands poised and ready, she said, “I will see you at the end!”
Then like horses at the gate, the band would all jump in.
At ease directing classical, Sousa, or big band,
It was hang on to your seat, and get ready to jam!
She corrected wrong notes, intonation, and sometimes raised her voice.
Then the band would play it again, more carefully of course!
At practice she was firm, but liked to have fun.
She was quick of her wit, and rarely could be undone!
She put in many long hours behind the scenes,
Running the band like a well-oiled machine.
She loved her sister, her friends, and her dear pets.
It was a full life, and she had no regrets.
She made the music come to life on warm summer nights,
And friends would tap their feet to the melody in delight.
Keeping in line the flutes, the reeds, and the horns,
Carol Blake was the band director, a job for which she was born.
Limerick crochetés: Once Tamil Promotion Director
Once Tamil Promotion Director
Excised wise Japanese co-founder
Called him names like rogue thief
Set himself up as Chief
All Dravidian Tamil Editor
He posed as the Royal Ancestor
Even of the Chola* Emperor
Slave-drove workers in fief
Used savants make belief
Such the Tamil Highness Publisher
He caged talents the Money-Maker
Poised as Conference Organiser
Preyed on Buddhist belief
On Chan and Zen mischief
To lard his own family bunker
Ideas he plucked from the Other
Made as if he put up with bother
Tamils to lead as Chief
No matter what the grief
None see his pen as plagiariser
All helpers rough-rode he the Miser
Shed them shorn one after the other
Damn not this common thief
Just his penchant for Chief
For Tamil knowledge made he Server
[* The Chola dynasty (among other South-Indian reigns) of the 10th to 12th centuries C.E. extended Tamil culture and civilization over the better part of Sri Lanka and Southeast Asia without having recourse primarily to conquests and/or of maintaining colonies.]
© T. Wignesan - Paris, 2017
Camera Direction:
Start high above the city.
Focus on the crowd moving below between steel and glass.
Pull in closer,..closer,..closer.
Focus in, as best you can, on one person.
Male or female no preference.
Follow them for four blocks or so.
Observe for signs of life.
If nothing, move on to new subject.
Director's note:
Be sure to have extensive film on hand for this undertaking.
God is my Director toward the glorious future
Against challenges that may build up or torture…
He strengthens my faith for Scripture-anchored venture
Till I become His perfect creature!
God is my Director toward spiritual radiance
Against achievements that may cause arrogance or defiance…
He reveals my humility’s sincere appearance
Till I show Him my submissiveness of complete reliance!
God is my Director toward fruitful service
Against slothfulness that may speak of disinterest or malice…
He assesses my labour’s diligence as His divine edifice
Till I exert my best effort with righteous practice!
God is my Director* toward holy living
Against hypocrisy that may bring selfish glorying or guilty cleaving…
He rebukes my hidden motives needing His reproving
Till I present well-doing sacrifices worthy of His approving!
*2Thessalonians 3:5 And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.
October 2, 2018
Friendships, wordy scripts, cameras, microphones and venue blips. Call security, no need to be shirty, let's go again.. scene five, take thirty. Action. Cut. Time for tea. The bar is closed but coffee's free. The waiting patiently never ends. We chat we laugh. We're making friends. The brushes flash across my brow.. my shirt is steamed no creases now. As runners jog and sound men lean. I've learned my lines, we're quite a team.. with birthday Sue and sooty Dave.. the risks we take favour the brave. It's all been worth the sweat and tears, a hundred props of seventeen years. With actors, crew and faithful few. The final shots to rave review. A shout hooray and rapturous clap.
For Acting on Impulse.. it's a wrap x
January 23 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 17-19
Key Verse – Exodus 17:1 And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim…
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY JOURNEY DIRECTOR
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your commandment-deed
Thank You for smiting my pride and its vanity-seed
Please forgive me for chiding because of my seemingly unmet need…
Help me submit to You willingly as You faithfully lead.
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your holiness-hill
Thank You for holding my hands so Your assigned tasks I can fulfill
Please forgive me for complaining because of my stubborn will…
Help me overcome carnality’s pull while on Your altar I keep still.
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your laws I must follow
Thank You for delivering my soul from travails that overflow
Please forgive me for manifesting my trust so shallow…
Help me rejoice in You midst Your goodness-glow.
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your standards for sacrifices
Thank You for teaching my mind with wisdom of prudent performances
Please forgive me for compromising along earthly causes…
Help me glorify You by Your grace in growing along biblical processes.
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your peacefulness
Thank You for ruling over my personality by Your loving kindness
Please forgive me for hearkening to the voice of worldliness…
Help me depend on You, departing from selfishness’ emptiness.
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your kingdom advancement
Thank You for sanctifying my heart for sincere Gospel-sharing-involvement
Please forgive me for ignoring Your exhortation and encouragement…
Help me commit to You my desire for revival of spiritual enrichment.
Lord God, You are my journey Director toward Your blessings so exceeding
Thank You for answering my prayer as to You I’m heeding
Please forgive me for descending to unbelief and there hiding…
Help me reach promised land of faith-increase by Your truth’s guarding.
January 23, 2023
1.Family tree me bapu ya chachu ki hasiyat say entry karvao.
2.Intruder honay kay bavajod family ka hisa ban jao.
3.Biological parents kay guzartay hi ladka ladki ko khalas.
4.Ab waris ban kay sari jama ponji lay uro.
5.Don level kay logon ki DG level kay afsaron say dosti.
Note.Every game has end and I am the end of your game.
August 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Hosea 11-14
Key Verse – Hosea 11:10 They shall walk after the LORD…
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY WALK DIRECTOR AND GUIDE
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who directs me even since I was a child
Thank You for saving me with Your love from being sin-defiled
Indeed redeeming my soul against hell furiously wild…
Keep me abiding in Your perfect will, divinely styled.
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who hinders me from being a backslider
Thank You for calling me with Your deliverance-order
Indeed letting me enter into Your safety border…
Keep me following Your commands as my all to You I render.
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who leads me by Your covenant
Thank You for empowering me so I won’t remain fruitlessly stagnant
Indeed upholding me to prevail through Your mercy, always dominant…
Keep me staying in Your love worshipfully as Your praise-filled tenant.
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who frees me against chains of iniquity
Thank You for making me dwell in Your assurance, braced by certainty
Indeed offering me Your sacrifice to rescue me from damnation’s fatality…
Keep me serving with Your grace, showing my commitment-sincerity.
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who molds me with Your compassion
Thank You for enlightening me with Your vision
Indeed driving me from selfishness toward Your kingdom mission…
Keep me sharing Your Gospel along Your satisfying provision.
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who teaches me toward wisdom-learning
Thank You for instilling in me truth needed for soulwinning
Indeed reinforcing me for discipleship and stewardship-gaining…
Keep me trusting Your Word toward continuous faith-refining.
Lord God, You are my walk Director and Guide
Who nourishes me with Your goodness
Thank You for nurturing me by Your kindness
Indeed reviving me to serve You along devotion’s earnestness…
Keep me obeying Your voice to work, practicing diligence against slothfulness.
August 21, 2023
January 12 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 34-36
Key Verse – Genesis 35:1 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee…
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY GOING UP DIRECTOR
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
calling me toward godly engagement
Thank You for communing with me midst Your divine contentment
Forgive me for not cleaving to You because of my wavering commitment
Please rebuke my disobedience against Your commandment.
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
cleansing me so I can dwell in Your grace, of best finest
Thank You for hearkening unto me as I go through faith-test
Forgive me for not valuing Your gifts to the fullest
Please deal well with me as I strive to do what is rightfully best.
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
caring for me in my distress and frustration
Thank You for building me up to strengthen my devotion
Forgive me for not pursuing after You in earnest dedication
Please help me stay in Your plan, enclosed by Your compassion.
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
causing me to be fruitful in Your prosperity
Thank You for upholding me to overcome travail’s difficulty
Forgive me for not responding with gratitude’s sincerity
Please set me in Your service-pillar, submitting to Your authority.
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
converting me to have eternal life beyond measure
Thank You for inviting me to abide in Your heavenly pleasure
Forgive me for not prioritizing Your Word I should treasure
Please bless me with meaningfulness in my days despite pressure.
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
curing me of my deficiencies to be a whole person
Thank You for healing me with Your mercy in every sickness-season
Forgive me for not seeking Your well-being lesson
Please drive me to Your mount of holiness for righteous reason.
Lord God, You are my going up Director,
correcting me of bad attitude for the sake of Your name
Thank You for satisfying me with Your fellowship flame
Forgive me for not inhabiting Your granted territory I must claim
Please reign over me by Your leadership of sovereign fame.
January 12, 2023
The Director
By Sy Roth
The directors--
For want of a nail
They were not wanting
So many nails,
A cache of nails
To drive into their coffins
Paid in jiggers of vodka
They would slog the miles
To the pits.
Surround them,
The innocents,
Choreograph their end
A Twyla Tharp ending
Accordion accompaniment
Played to a defunct Mahler
To keep them mollified.
The nails see only vermin
In their intoxicated vision
Smell their fear
Before a lightning crackle
Marks crescendic endings.
Poor naked souls stack themselves
like cordwood
On top of yet, still-warm bodies.
Melodic line met--
Last look before the darkness enfolds
Those who will entomb them
Lamblike creatures align at the flag
They queue from right to left
A Hebraic arrangement
To a two-shot tango--
One reserved for the child held aloft
By a resigned dame who sees no exit—
Child held aloft
Limp in naïve trust
To be followed by the second crack
Then hustled into the pit to join the others.
Swim in their own river of blood
The stagehand obeys the director’s cue.
He rolls them into the abyss
New cast assembles
Take their place at the flag
Unclaimed trash
While the director trods on their backs
To dispatch those who dared to live,
Souls forgotten
Sinners in the hands of an angry god.
Number of recordings of someone knocking on wood
expected inside a coffin
Friday
Why pray
Thirteenth
Heard scream
Warning
Scorning
Drug use
Smug youths
Jason
Lays in
Waiting
Baiting
Silent
Violent
Slasher
Catch her
Smash in
Slash skin
Alice
Callous
Voorhees
Your seized
Fight back
Knife hack
Behead
Sheer dread
It’s dead
Wrists bled
Weary
Teary
Night mare
Fight scared
Sequel
Lethal.
By
David Kavanagh
Decided to speak poetry
Words are painful
To not be hurt
Thought to be friends
Not to be in pain
Guess the revelation is not that powerful
To be terrified is understandable
Frightened too
Guess the Divine needs to convey
To transfer the truth
Certain women are having difficulty
Read their stories
Where is your compassion?
Did you not feel it too?
Higher power is you
Those women had, are having difficulties
Told the Divine not to be powerful
Mad or angry
Don’t be
The unborn are suffering inside
Women
Ladies
Mother
Can’t bear seeing her child suffering
Thought Humans needs to mirror the Divine
Ended unborn suffering
Tell Higher power the unborn are safe in heaven
The Divine wants to give women chance/choice to save themselves
Have pity on them
Population needs to hear the truth
To understand, discern, comprehend
To live harmoniously, peacefully
Calling the Divine
Hear the population
Unborn, living are suffering
Tell Higher power the truth
Written: 06172020
Poetry form: Dramatic Monologue
pepperishly lively
she brought the party
activity director
better than Vitamin B
Grumpy ones pretended not to like her
But the light in their eyes
unveiled their truth
And they were the eager ones
Watching the doorway on Tuesdays at two o’clock