Best Enthralled Poems
Strolling along streets of gold
charmed by celestial pearlescent gates
there am I with fellow saints
radiantly adorned in redemption wardrobe…
…my heart basks in gratitude
expressing joyous glee
unveiled by truth’s glow
shining in holiness-beauty
freed from feral carnality-chain
void of human nature’s tang~~~
Wondrously exalting
the Omnipotent Sovereign
triumphant toward contagious exuberance
never crimped by guilt’s torture
while devoid of hypocrisy angst…
…my soul sings worship hymns
blended with jubilant salvation thrum
only the ransomed can testify
silencing worldly stardom’s howling jeer
vain in its ephemeral pursuit~~~
Around divine fellowship
communing with the Saviour Jesus Christ
beyond glorious eventide
so timeless against infinite eons
heavenly scent’s profuse delight
keeps wafting sublime redolence
surpassing infinite plumb borders…
…my spirit succumbs to praise
bound for gracious engagement
verily eternal… Amen!
*Ephesians 3:11 According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord.
April 8, 2021
1st place, "ALL YOURS (Apr 20)" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 4/20/2021.
Spice
Spanish Harlem
Tequila under sunset
Sweet/salty spice
Margarita
Sin
Tango
Salsa
I dipped my umbrella
Sweaty ambiance
Face flushed
Feel you
Peircing eyes
Desire
I dipped my umbrella
Enthralled
I am taken with you...
My eyes can not turn away from the attraction I feel in my bones.
I am enthralled by your very presence...
If I am not with you I seek you out. My desires begin and end with you...
I am enthralled by your very presence...
A deep raven is where I will fall to my death for you... My mind is rendered useless when around you.
I am enthralled by your very presence...
You have put me in an enchantment when your eyes look into mine... Dare I ever look away I may never come back.
I am enthralled by your very presence...
11/6/14
Enthralled with heavenly love
I’m nestling in the Almighty's divine amorousness
Satiating my heart’s hunger for genuine peace
From oppressive sin-inflicting guilt
Quenching my soul’s thirst for freedom's contentment
Against affliction-pangs of bitterness and greed
While calming the vehemence of my mind attacked by doubts.
Assured by God to delight in His perpetual love
He vividly expressed in the Scriptures
And unceasingly reverberated by Jeremiah 31:3
“The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying,
Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee;”
I seek Him worshipfully in His solace
Midst disquietude of carnality, threatening my spirit
So I can invite others to bask with no hesitation
In the effervescence of His compassion.
Thus, brewing in the fervidness of the Lord’s charity,
I yield myself to His reviving grace
Blessed to serve Him with reverence.
As His faithful steward sealed with His loving kindness
May I testify that I love God* with all my heart;
And I’m striving to love others as myself… all by His gracious love.
*Luke 10:27 “…Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.”
February 16, 2019
1st place, "A BRIAN STRAND VERSE FREED" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 3/2/2022.
Hey honey
Have I told you
Lately,
That I really
Really love you
-
If I didn't
Then their is provably
A really really
Very good reason
Why
GF
Let us lie together
Beneath the sunlight of the moon
The Milky Way our blanket
As we hear the crickets’ tune
I’ll sing to you a love song
Each verse in perfect rhyme
And gaze at you with ardent eyes
Enthralled that you are mine
few anxious moments
coffee in hand, our eyes lock
hello never said
enthralled by you, all sounds hushed
just us and my cold coffee
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*I have drawn my inspiration
from MJF's new contest..
This poem is not for the contest though*
Enthralled
As crystalline, fluffy without weighing much
White perceived so resourceful, black seeded
Hand red scotched, blood stains... sweat drips
Off checks, sun heating and its rays amplified.
Picking on one to fill the packing, turmoil out
Backs bending to the weights of humiliation
Lashed, whipped and driven off the plantation
Mother's corpse never buried, I was too busy...
With the selecting process so rinsed, agitated
A third of it turns be the darkened seedlings,
Yet to sprout and shoots forth anew tardy plant
If ever green leafed, elementary hope be drawn
And the other two thirds readily matured, white
Beheaded, readily being sellouts for foreigner's
Note, and us the bandits only knows of the yoke
And that oxen drawn plough, proceeds are theirs...
He sings of a pain
that births a grotesque form
his sadness black tendril fingertips
that drags from tree stumped darkness
echoes carry tendered tears
He sings of hope
that never came
of love that learned of shame
of punishment meant
a smile gravelly buried
Happi
-------n
-------e
-------s
-------s cracked in two
all the broken bits skip the spaces
scars and bruises now replace the skin
Morose arose upon its toes
and as the umber embers
of his fires ending
licked and sprinted
around the camps shadowed edge
i caught the remnants
of others slowly rotting
trapped by songs
deadly enthral
As I roam entranced in the rhythmic poetry plateau,
my engrossed muse longs to find a panorama new,
turns into a painter dormant within so very long,
lively again listening to the nature’s alluring song.
The beauty beguiles me on the sea-shore of desire,
to morph into sun-soaked sapphire wave I aspire.
Pearly filigree of yearning I see your heart adorn,
the fresco of rapture I capture in my canvas forlorn.
The contours of your moonbeam-soaked silhouette
I'll inscribe on the sands of time shrouded in secret.
Afflatus will make a mural of me where I’ll subsist,
enlivened by sublime strokes of enthralled word artist.
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November 18, 2021
For A Brian Strand 1091 Contest
Enthralled by the presence of the hero
The kids now believe in themselves
Everyone is willing to work together
In order to brighten their future
Nothing but peace and harmony
Everyone seems to be in a upbeat mood
Spreading nothing but good cheer
As those dark clouds disappear
When my muse gets lost in the poetry plateau
I wander to find an inspiring landscape anew,
and turn into a painter sleeping so very long,
waking up listening to the nature’s luring song.
The beauty entices me from the shore of desire,
to morph into sun-soaked sapphire wave I aspire.
Pearly filigree of yearning I see your heart adorns,
the fresco of rapture I capture on canvas forlorn.
The trailing ripple of your moonbeam silhouette
I engrave on the sands of time shrouded in secret.
To draw a dreamscape my avid brush won’t resist
applying sprightly strokes of an enthralled artist.
April 9, 2021
Contest : Reveal Your Other Muse
Sponsor : Margarita Lillico
Life happens
Take it as it comes
Embrace it, love it
And move along
I'll find some way to pass the time
While waiting for your call
I think I'll write a poem
A short one, kinda small
But don't be fooled by lack of words
These two lines say it all,
"Tonight you looked so beautiful,
With you I am enthralled!"