Best Given(A) Poems
From the greenest acres of laden wood
The painted asphalt of a future's path
In breathless moments of events withstood
Upon the virtue of Jehovah's wrath
Founded a nation in united task
Brought forth the torrent souls of righteous gain
The restless embodied from shackle's drain
Grasped upon the mountains of western earth
Spoke forth the sound of Man's forsaken name
Under God is given a nation's birth.
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Evils carried from past down times of old
As the horse pulled coach acquires new ground
The loot of war traded for food and gold
Twenty souls to work for free in Jamestown
Honored men and women of darkened brown
Though freedoms hide in masks of truths bestowed
A new age ends the era, quid-pro-quo
As pennies now define a man his worth
A right tiptoes in by D' Angelo
Under God is given a nation's birth.
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Prosperity of a nation divides
The father's musket lays his son to rest
Here within, rises the Jekyll and Hyde
As the babe has bitten the mother's breast
It is what pleases you that we detest
Sounds off the blood of the servitude man
We shall fight you now if even by hand
No more are we twopence halfpennyworth
We all are God's image since time began
Under God is given a nation's birth.
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In wondrous acres of built city wood
Ushering in an equal common good
Where all men glimmer the strength of the earth
Judged not by color or value or worth
The dawn brings light of a life understood
Under God is given a nation's birth.
By: Darren J McMurray
January 20, 2009
If given a choice between wisdom and beauty
I’d have to choose wisdom out of pure sense of duty.
Duty will call me to be all that I can
And wisdom will aid in my service to man.
While wisdom is there to be used every day,
Beauty is fleeting in a physical way.
Wisdom is solid – has so many uses
While beauty just lies there, spouting excuses.
Yet, beauty has value that wisdom will seek
And wisdom is silent when others might speak.
Silence is golden and down through the years
I have seen wisdom prevent beauty’s tears
I hope in your traverse through life here on Earth
Through eyes of beholders you see wisdom’s worth.
Apollo Creed was the master in the ring.
Most fighters thought facing him was a foolhardy thing.
To defend his title, who was he to fight?
There were some contenders, but none of them seemed right.
From the ranks of unknowns, Apollo chose a fighter.
Practically nobody knew this Italian-American amateur.
This street smart Philadelphian worked as a meat packer.
For a loan shark, he was an enforcer and collector.
Out of some possibilities, this one looked right.
In front of his hometown crowd, Rocky would be in the spotlight.
Given a shot at the title, Apollo was the one he would fight.
What happens in the fight? Do you want to see?
All I have to tell you is watch the movie.
Inspired by the 1976 film “Rocky”
wife has given a list of few items to buy
husband after seeing has exhaled a big sigh
items were of one kg honesty two bags of love
five kg of kindness so he given her a hefty shove
with shy she said Oh! my love, to win you let me try
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Limerick : Once a Heavy Weight was given a choice
Once a Heavy Weight was given a choice
Either to eat rice or curried lice
Mice in his training camp
Carried lice for their champ
So he ate raw rice with curried mice.
© T. Wignesan – Paris, 2013
I would much rather risk having an encounter with a cougar or grizzly bear,
as opposed to being alone in the wilderness and cross paths with a stranger.
If given a choice
Or had my own way
My current address
Is not where I’d stay
But rather I’d opt
For nautical terrain
And dwell along
The coast of Maine
No more meetings
Or phones or faxes
I’ll dig for clams
To pay the taxes.
ALL LIVE FOREVER
BOTHER EVER NEVER
If we lost our lives for every mistake we made
We wouldn't make mistakes
So I'mma give them a break
Some say my soul may perish in flakes
So for now I'mma cherish these blue lakes
Later I'mma give them a break
You living right, Die any given night
Dig up your corpse, no remorse
Mistake for mistake
Now I'mma give em a break
I script my soul, this uncherished life on blank disc
Lie killed, smothered by the only blanket this fire missed
Taken by the same barrell you kissed
Come back in twenty years if your truly missed
U.P.D harrassing me
Patting me down, chestising me
Claiming they smell marijuana
Different topic if you choose to sell at a beach in Laguana
I've never puffed a blunt
Never gripped a new port
Should I ever bluff a stunt
But I got better things to do than sue the courts
Duck tape ankles to knees
Hands to thighs
Let their flesh dangle in ease so simple to please
No demands, my spand to die
Pulled me over nine times in seven days
Twice in ten minutes
Stressed my shoulders, I'mma define crime, murder, each in in eleven ways
Roll the dice, darkness begins
Uniformed body's being pulled up by janitors and tenants
I work my anus off, literally I work it off
Taking 17 hours, working 3 jobs
70 hours of production a week
For this promise I will keep
Your nightmares
Are preminitions of me coming for you during sleep
God is everywhere at the same time
Evidence of faith
was provided to science of a quantum kind
Understand this about God,
and it will serve you well
Being all places at once
is omnipresence unveiled
Poor science wedded to rich faith,
a marriage of man's evolving progress
to reach modernity
Civilization's baby was born in antiquity
Those who profess that God is great,
do you understand
that your knowledge of Him is but a speck of sand
Those who profess that God is good,
do you understand
that the next quantum phase will be eternal brotherhood
God has given us a glimpse
of the future ---
to see things as they will always be
Love and peace will reign forever
when the transformation begins
At the next quantum phase there will be no end
Now do you understand
the science of spirituality
Now do you understand
the mystery of infinity
My Lord, which you have given to the
Dwellers of the earth,
They never pay attention to that or
They did honour it.
You have given a lot and lot,
You have made the world with the
Great Love and harmony-
To each and all.
You have given a variety of fruits
The grains and the trees and
Vegetables for food.
Your have given the sources of food and water
Plenty in the river and ocean.
You have also given sky high humanity
Deep into the soul and heart.
You also provided the inner eye of knowledge
To realize the things heartily.
You have made the human the superior
Among all of your creatures providing
The power of speech and understanding.
You have given the superior feelings
Such like sympathy and the compassion
In the human heart.
To and for living better in this world.
My Lord, which you have given to the
Dwellers of the earth,
They never pay attention to that or
They did honour it.
They forgot all and entirely
That you have given to them.
They have became the culprit and they
Engage themselves in worse things
Like hatred and the enmity
To each and every direction of this earth.
They engage themselves in bigotry of religion,
They are doing the nuisance
To kill the innocents to make
The flood of blood in every corner of the
Earth.
They do even think a little bit to torture
Mother and the sisters.
They are totally helpless today.
Oh my lord, you could hear
The sound of weeping
In each and every corner of the earth.
All that you could see the Hooliganism and
The terrorist activities with the
Atomic weapon,
Each and everywhere.
That's enough my lord, that's enough.
I would pray to you, my lord,
Please pay attention to my lyrics
In which I express the terrible condition
Of your creation.
Please don't pretend as blind, my lord,
Please don't.
You have to mend each and all
Here.
They chased me down and took me up.
I was stunned by a ray for it was the sixties, was it not?
The Fifty Foot Woman and My Favorite Martian were on TV
These guys were supposed to have glass domes spaceships.
They did not; but the blinking lights were there.
I was given my choice; return to earth and do something spectacular
Or get put into their zoo, and entertain the other Xentilitans.
This was the first time I had even heard of their galaxy,
Did not know until this second that the Milky Way had a sister.
Almost immediately money appeared in my backyard, in my home,
In my life. People ran up and handed me a plethora of twenty dollar bills.
Do something important now, they would urge me. I was surprised but pleased.
I built an orphanage, a dog city, a cat haven, a home for unwed mothers.
Newspapers wrote stories about my feats, and I asked them to stop.
I am a simple person I told them.
They followed me around taking photos.
I was more photographed than Jackie.
She called and asked me to lay low, so she could retain her title Queen of Press.
This was the sixties, but her voice was annoying.
I toyed about it for a long time.
Two or three hours.
Then I let her have the title.
The big mystery now, looking back is,
how did I know about unwed mothers?
This was the sixties and I was only eight.
GOD GIVEN A WOMAN FROM HIS HEART---
Oh, Lord give me love
Give me a love that’s never failing
Give unto me someone who is faithful and sure
Honesty pure grant me your daughter
Father God give me agape
Give me your finest
Help to live long to find her
I am worthy, surely
Oh, Lord give me a love of your heart
God given woman from His heart
1/5/19
Written words by James Edward Lee 2019
Would to love to end in hurt, be worth the love at all?
Most would agree that hurt is not worth the fall at all.
But then again there is the rarest of loves.
The love that has no boundaries, no limits to what it can accomplish.
One such as I have felt this love.
And to feel it, is to need it.
And then to need it, you begin to dread it.
For in all the world there is only one who can match this love I feel.
One whose heart can cry with pain,
Sing with joy and weep with sorrow.
Someone whose heart is as deep as an ocean and as wide as the sky is long.
Can there be another? Who is equal to this love?
Oh, yes he is there.He sees and he feels.
He has begun to know that hunger, only the other can feel.
He's opened his eyes as if from a dream and saw what love there is for him to
see.
He wonders, can he believe in it?
Can he be relieved in it?
Or shall he be cursed to know of it and feel it, but never shall he be able to act on
it.
Oh, some may say, yes let him crave.
Carve this love, let him yearn for something that other's just long to feel.
But alas he is given his chance, he is relieved of his thirst.
And how he chooses to live is all in his words.
For Given A Gift such as this,
Well he had to have known what to do,
For at the end of his journey he finds you.
What tomorrow will never bring if today hasn't been given a chance,
It's hard to see, but everyday is worth a second glance.
Most of us seem to skip over the details of life of which we could actually learn
from,
So many of us will never know as a person what we had potential to become.
Everyday is a new day to decide to have a good day,
A lot of us do not choose this, we walk around in great dismay.
Everyone has had a day gone wrong that they can recall,
It's a test God has thrown you a curve ball.
You either hit it hard and make the best of it or let it take you out,
some choose to watch it fly and will be ahead beyond any doubt.