Best Invites Poems
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Not long, but clear and strong, came Dad to me.
He'd died six months ago, grief still my decree,
yet Dad's words steered me away from tragedy.
This gave me proof that death invites no fear.
Souls ebb and flow, roll like ocean's own tide.
Death must be two doors, one souls pass through,
and one love-sealed to hold humans earth bound.
When flesh life dies, one's spirit life remains
on journeys aptly mapped for souls' growth-gain.
Each soul endures umpteen human lifetimes
'til spirit consciousness shines light divine.
Now mortal senses hold the universe,
when spirit senses would spare us our worst.
In race and gender, many are fast wrapped,
yet death shakes gone both sad, human rigged facts.
Misplaced emphasis could be what ends us.
When spirit sense outweighs human nonsense,
we shall seal heavenly wrapped, peaceful traits.
Down where the privet hedge blooms
And doves sing their coos
A woman feeds the birds
Now her life resumes
God's love is an ocean
And mine a small-streamed river
The tide comes in and rejuvenates
The small stream's thirst for life
Dear Lord in your son's name
Let the water flow
And my life like spring flowers blossom
Amen
The President Invites Romney to Lunch
By Elton Camp
His rival to the White House he’s invited
It’s unlikely either one is really excited
There is a whole lot of public doubt
As to what the two men will talk about
But most observers have a hunch
It’ll be quite an awkward lunch
“Hello, Mitt, welcome to the White House
I’m sorry I had to call you a lying louse”
“Likewise, Mr. President I had to say
That the economy you would betray”
“Before we eat, let me give you a tour
For you’ll never live here for sure”
“I did try to make you unemployed
Out of a job that you really enjoyed”
“I know you don’t want coffee or tea,
So water & serving of crow it will be”
Soft rain at window
invites reflection retreat
solitude cuddle
Nonetheless suicidal ideations severely
whipsaw punctuate, lacerate, assassinate
frescoed fiasco failure grimly livingsocial
ah...that dull cutlery eyed with temptation
one painful thrust hemorrhaging, whereby
carpeting permanently stained blood red,
(security deposit forsaken) cremation ought
not outrageously expensive, I subsequently
chickened out imposing eternity of fire and
brimstone self condemnation, denunciation,
excoriation gently tested as serrated knife
made contact against flesh of left arm..., no
strength prevails this Father's Day 2019
beset with gravity of black hole son wracked
fiasco frescoed across psyche adrip with
bajillion pearl jammed tears aghast at blank
tabula rasa with few hashtag marks evincing
feeble effort contrasted with abundant
adventure awaiting eldest daughter agog
at countless opportunities availed since...
her birth, when she exhibited above
average intelligence made bee line high
school International Baccalaureate program
(at Lower Merion) testament, asper flying
colors one keystone linkedin destiny toward
eventual linchpin, viz IVY League University
(handsome financial aid package allotted),
plus exemplary academic job well done, now
finds blessed progeny enroute to west coast
(sharing pricey apartment with emma man hint
beau), whereat this papa overjoyed at bountiful,
delightful, faithful indomitable laudable
achievement starkly aware how bleak and
forlorn hogtied hobbled horrid mine existence
never knowing "seat of spongebob squarepants"
experience analogous to rite of passage gaining
positive result regarding electric kool aid battery
operated litmus test forging steely mettle
comprising organic entity NON GMO, nor gluten
free genetic gifted body, mind, and spirit attaining
inherent maximization allowing, enabling and
providing decades to acquire financial means
to enjoy relative versus countless squandered
prospects yours truly (me) neglected to cultivate
leaving barren an existence not worth trumpeting!
My healthiest ego-loving master plan
converses in truth and beauty communions
with my wealthiest imagined eco-habitat
mistressingly designed
For co-invested
cooperative master planned
in win/win work distressing play,
mysteriously
mighty curious
BiNomials,
all double-capital eccentric
UnCentric
neither positive
or negative
bipolar
yet both positive
and negative dipolar
to become regeneratively healthy
enlivened
enspirited
enlightened
BiNomial awareness
means ecosystemic flow
streams positive/negative
full win/win through empty lose/lose
double-fractal octave spectral
not quite resolved
for leftbrain deductive-only
closure
Of Both/And hypotheses
for synergetically multicultural
polycultural healthy democratic theories
impressing/depressing cultural values/disvalues
CoAligning,
syncing up and down,
out and inside
safety and health
Organic NeuroSystemic Life
as love's enraptured energy
and not so much death of sacred grace
secularizing entropy,
More of an ecofeminist
egalitarian restorative order
and interdependent punishing
dissociative patriarchal complex
reductive negative
pathological memories
Shadowy monocultural v polycultural awareness
of chaotic complexity
felt inside voices
touched by darkening outside choices
Except for MultiCultural
GlobalGreen
InterFaith CommunioNations
restoring wellness-sung FaithPower
healthy-wealth invites
LoveLight
binomial dancing Communications.
My healthiest ego-loving master plan
converses in truth and beauty green communions
with my wealthiest imagined inter-faith eco-habitat
mistressingly win/lose competitively designed
in this unfaithful GreatTransitional moment
toward win/win healthy democratic
green peace revolution
of Earth's HealthJustice
My healthiest ego-loving master plan
invites converging
in truth and beauty green inside communion voices
in my wealthiest imagined
multi-faith ecohabitat informed choices
for healthy leftbrain deductive powers
and wealthy rightbrain inductive light.
God Invites You to KNOW Him!
Wouldn’t it be nice to make heaven your home?
To have a mansion next to God’s throne?
You can know God with a certainty…
Where you’ll be spending your eternity.
You can, right now, have your sins forgiven!
Christ’ love can change the way you’re livin’!
You can assuredly know
beyond any doubt.
The son of God is what life is all about!
Christ gives eternal love so pure!
In the loving arms of Christ…
You are secure!
Jesus can make you a
brand new person!
Living for HIM is an important lesson!
Come now, and know
the peace of God today!
Meditate on his word
and what it has to say!
Just think for a moment or two…
And just tell God; “I need YOU!”
Wouldn’t it be great to give your heart to him?
And experience what it means to be born again!
Wouldn’t it be great to choose
a new direction?
And accept God’s heart-felt invitation?
Wouldn’t it be great to know God’s
life-changing power?
What are you waiting for?
This could be YOUR hour!
By Jim Pemberton 03/19/16
The strangest act by a loved patron:
Inviting police and his baton
Over missing drinks in a carton
Reported stolen by a matron.
Now, dragging down club Electron.
She shall change her name to Neutron
Or, still nice and as sweet proton;
She might be sued if it's "Citreon".
But this is lesson for Miriam,
Who would into a cellar ram:
Loved for being a workaholic
Disliked for being Alcoholic.
Jesus invites everyone to join him in heaven.
He did this through his blood stain hand.
But yet so many turn there back on him blood.
Finding there self in the wicked ways of this world.
Far from Jesus blood, but yet he still invites all.
Even the wicked ones, for his blood cover all sin.
All you need to do is to ask for the covering blood.
And forgiveness from above, Jesus will cover them all.
With his love and the blood .
Christmas Invites
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Were His birthday in spring
With all new blooms inviting, or
With the winter solstice
Bringing a new year, new beginnings…
As the magi obeyed
The invitation of the star,
As the shepherds heard the heavens
As the angels sang, “Alleluia!”
Up
Filling the sweeping winds
Circling all the Earth…
As our thoughts of infant Jesus,
Swaddled in his manger
— against the pricking hay —
Inspire us, century after century,
To imagine…yes, to feel
Ourselves transposed, present,
Standing there
In the stark chill of that stable,
Hearing our own short breaths,
By the jostling of the sheep and
the blessed donkey…
We dare shuffle closer
With a pulled desire
To see
With our gift of awe, by
Witnessing Divine evidence —
Of this birth foretold.
More than our meditating heights —
As our senses are also extended
And our vision widened —
To perceive even the auras
Presenting those to be loved
Before us. Before us…
With a tingle rushing along
Our spines, our bodies, our minds,
and souls, aligned in Being,
Have gone diving with God
Through the two-thousand years
Of human time,
To know what could feel like
A truly experiential reception
To our wondering path to a
Presence through Advent to
This blue midnight, Christmas Eve
Before the stable,
Where the wind blows strongest;
We kneel, bowing our heads
Upon the instant
Of Jesus waking
With a hunger-cry.
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(c) sally young Eslinger 12/24/21
All Glory to God!
No more a cheerful giver
Than this, bird-voicing.
Who lights up the prettier
Fruiting for fruit tree.
Which sound, uninhibited
Look, of sheeny gloss
Intensifies, when upsped
With basket, dearie .
Outside it’s breezy and twenty degrees
in here the air feels humid and still
the floor’s elbow-to-elbow and I guarantee
dance for 40 minutes and the heat can kill
I left the dance floor
fully drenched
we drank at the bar
til our thirst was quenched
I peeled off my overshirt
but that didn’t work
I still felt flushed and sweaty
a guy motioned me to dance
but I wasn’t ready
Then someone opened the door
the icy air rushed in—I didn’t flinch
It felt like heaven—I wanted more
dance guy was back, the entitled prince
the 05611 is full of pushy guys
when they want something
they try and try and try
I pretend I can’t hear them
cause the music is bumping
Friday nights are such a release
a time for fun and controlled caprice
but it’s also a hot-point time to do-a-prendy
when you say no, divers can turn unfriendly
I’m not Julie Andrews—I’m not offended
It’s kind of a complement, I’m just not interested
If you can take a yes, then you should take a no
I could be protecting you, for all you know,
so chill-out playas, don’t be so gung-ho.
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Songs for this:
Hit My Heart by BOY
Cake By The Ocean by DNCE
BLT Merriam Webster word of the day challenge 01/23/25:
Divers = numbering more than one
do-a-prendy = a quick hookup
05611 = Yale's zip code
February 1 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 1-4
Key Verse – Leviticus 1:17… It is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INVITES US
TO OFFER A SWEET SAVOUR UNTO HIM
Praise be to God for inviting us to offer
a sweet savour unto Him with:
Willing sacrifice
Worshipful spirit
Worthy surrender
Whole submission
Wondrous satisfaction
Leviticus 2:2 Praise be to the Lord for enabling us
to give Him offering that signifies:
Oblation of holiness
Oath of honour
Obligation of helpfulness
Obedience of honesty
Opportunity of helping
Leviticus 3:12 Praise be to the Saviour
Who wants us to offer:
Unblemished gift
Undefiled generosity
Unselfish gentleness
Undeterred goals
Untainted good works
Leviticus 4:31 Praise be to the Almighty Who forgives us
as we offer ourselves along:
Confession midst His compassion
Consecration for Christian conduct
Commitment toward His commission
Conformation toward Christlikeness
Contentment, devoid of covetousness. Amen!
February 1, 2024
March 24 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 19-21
Key Verse – Judges 19:18 … I am now going to the house of the LORD…
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INVITES US
TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
Praise be to God for inviting us to go to the house of the Lord:
Assured by His Word toward salvation and redemption
Accompanied with His wisdom to seek first His righteousness
Awakened from worldliness for stewardship’s responsibility
Admonished against weariness toward restoration and replenishment
Active in His will for servanthood of rejuvenating revival
Judges 20:2 Praise be to the Lord Who helps
us present ourselves as His people:
Gathering together as one for holy worship service
Going as a team to spread salvation story
Giving thankfully and sincerely
Governed by truth of His Scriptures
Girded as tasked to triumph in the war against sin
Judges 21:2 Praise be to the Saviour for
welcoming us to abide before His throne and to:
Recognize our nothingness without His power and grace
Respect His name we exalt along His providence of grandeur
Rely on Him while trusting His precepts along His guardianship
Repent from our lack of faith with the perspective He grants
Return to Him with humility through His purposive guidance. Amen!
March 24, 2024
February 6 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 16-18
Key Verse – Leviticus 16:12 And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail.
FAITH IN GOD WHO INVITES US
TO BRING TO HIM OUR HANDS OF SERVICE
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service by His grace
As we turn away from idolatry’s rays
For us to remain in His righteousness along His holy ways
And be victorious by faith in our stewardship days.
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service since He is our Lord
As we abide in His will according to Scriptures’ record
For us to overcome curses with His divine sword
And be glad by faith around His love’s strong cord.
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service through His authority
As we seek His forgiveness for our trespass and iniquity
For us to express our praises of sincerity
And be peaceful by faith in honouring Him with our humility.
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service for His name
As we close our eyes from evil along tempting fame
For us to face His sanctifying flame
And be purified by faith from wickedness’ shame.
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service in His mission
As we share with others His compassion
For us to stay zealous along His persuasion
And be cooperative by faith in the fulfillment of His great commission.
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service for His glory
As we draw nigh to Him always in prayer against worry
For us to offer our best, involved in His ministry
And be consecrated by faith to win with His infantry.
God invites us to bring to Him our hands of service with His anointing
As we trust Him to help us along His uplifting
For us to flee from worldliness’ tempting
And be courageous to continue despite fainting.
February 6, 2025