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Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Power
April 25 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 23-25

*2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle:...

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Categories: directs, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Interlude
"In life, grief outweighs joy and laughter is an interlude between two sighs."
            ...

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Categories: directs, death, growing up, life,
Form: Free verse
Tainted Vision
Conditioned since birth by customs, family, society and ego
We go about with a clustered mind 
Complicating our simple life with our thoughts and self-imposed restrictions
We...

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Categories: directs, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Guardian Angel
My Guardian Angel


My guardian angel, God's gift from above,
   resides in my heart, guiding my mind and soul.
     ...

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Categories: directs, angel, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tracing Time
Distance directs its path in my direction- in yours
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Categories: directs, journey, time,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member My sad poems
In the night sky, a lone star's light,
My heart's scar, a poetic sight.
It murmurs tales of yearning, woe,
Inspiriting words that I bestow.

Loneliness, my muse, its...

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Categories: directs, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
My Pilot Light
My Pilot Light

In a hidden crevice
between soul and skin,
there is a flicker, 
a tangerine flame
blazing through black abyss;
illuminating infinite veins of strength 
that light like...

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Categories: directs, inspirational, introspection
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Red Road
The Shaman sits upon the sand,
the sand of ocher clay;
between the walls of ruins tall,
where ancient one did lay.

The sky above, the earth between;
took in...

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Categories: directs, dedication, devotion, on work
Form: Sonnet
Sounds In Silence
Enjoy the silence, the deep of night.
Not true silence for the word itself is illusion.
Still yourself enough to hear.
Listen for the sounds invoked in the...

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Categories: directs, nature, solitude, sound,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Let the Wind Be Your Eyes
You can hear the whispers of your soul as you
stand quietly in tune with a vast universe. As you
let the wind be your eyes, the...

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Categories: directs, introspection, universe,
Form: Rhyme
Joey Alexander-More Than a Boy Genius
He plays jazz as if he invented it
Arpeggios augmented, minored and majored
Transferring from one chord to another
Like flashes of lightning extracting emotional pearls 
all from...

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Categories: directs, boy, child, children, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Day of the Storm
children's laughter
 on the beach. . . 
storm clouds gather

  My husband, I, and our two teenaged children are enjoying a picnic when we...

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Categories: directs, boat,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Against Peace
This world has fallen into chaos 
Let's awake the sleeping demon
when a certain world leader 
has used from the forbidden book 

Totalitarian dictatorship under lies...

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Categories: directs, abortion, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Mountain of Madness
A mountain madness, Colorado Springs'
Pike's Peak, some twenty miles to summit's top,
with roads like winding snakes that coil like rings
and at the open edge, steep...

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Categories: directs, angst, journey, mountains,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Premium Member Exalting God
*Amazingly awesome is my God
*My heavenly Father … *Fountain of life
*My sovereign Lord *At my heart’s throne 
*Triumph of my spirit.

*Meeting God is a great...

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Categories: directs, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things