Best Girding Poems

All are feeling anxious on the old camp ground this night.
Weary Yanks are girding for tomorrow's awful fight.
Young soldiers loll about, staring blankly into slowly...

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Will you burn the earth`s  skin  to glass?. 

Yet, right there , in Harmony of `69
I bent  in adoration 
before the dusky...

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For those who should
Be on watch
In our defense
Opted for a romance with her
Chasing the treasures on her neck
In an endless discovery

The Sword is on the...

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A steel sky, wan and dull, littered
	With ragged clouds and
		bitter dregs of a world girding for
	Sleep
		But no rest
by day, draws a frame over grim roofs...

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The God of heaven prospers us in life building*
While we yield to His patient scraping shovel’s might
Molding us to guide others to righteousness-light
Perfecting our masterpieces...

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"Andrea, with the accent on the dray",
she coyly introduced herself to me.
Exotic, dazzling beauty; to this day
her face still lingers in my memory.

My life till...

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Fizzle....a balloon loses its size.
My heart bled and I lost my weight.

Like a rose crushed on a stone,
But up,I stand again!

Like a tree,I stand tall.
With...

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The joys and pleasures of drinking
Having been asleep and submerged
Re-awakened and buoyed up
As a herald of the great war within
Never ceasing but ravaging my soul
A...

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The Ruba’iyat of Créteil Lake – Part Seventeen

Of late the tepid cold only rebousse poil her coyness
Nowhere the slushy mud caked into strands of crunchiness
Even...

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Factions are girding their loins for war during this Season of Peace,
In what has become a clamorous and annual national bickering piece!
Do we say "Merry...

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Reigning over my life is God
Enabling me to enjoy His granted eternal life
Guiding and girding up my faith for trust’s height
Instructing me thru the truth...

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Last Laugh 
© Ben Burton

Petrified slaves
Worshiping stars
Nobles and knaves
Uncaged in the dark

Gallantly fought
Gamely defended
Quietly wrought
Uproaringly rendered

Hearken to clues
Enriddled in rhyme
Ladled from pews
Instinctively mimed

Fault the accursed
Who...

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March 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ruth 1-4

Key Verse –Ruth 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might...

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What makes my son special? Let me highlight his qualities…
since his milestones are  my accomplishment-trophies.  
He recently received his “Most Generous” and “Most...

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Leaving heavenly throne to reach-out mankind, the Messiah bore the status of condescension: His birth in the Bethlehem manger brought to Earth’s calendar a divine...

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