Best Involvements Poems
September 24 Scripture Meditations Based on Mark 11-12
Key Verse– Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR EXPOSING MY ERROR
Thank You for exposing my error of showy spirituality
By Your revealing sovereignty
To prove me toward tested Christianity
Midst pretenses along beliefs’ uncertainty.
Thank You for exposing my error of deceptive relationship
By Your converting leadership
To turn me toward faithful stewardship
Midst prayerlessness along worldliness’ friendship.
Thank You for exposing my error of impure motives
By Your sanctifying directives
To straighten me toward holy prerogatives
Midst poverty along discontentment’s alternatives.
Thank You for exposing my error of shallow devotion
By Your empowering salvation
To transform me toward genuine dedication
Midst preferences along doubts’ confusion.
Thank You for exposing my error of subtle hypocrisy
By Your enlightening mercy
To illumine me toward sincere fervency
Midst pride along complacency’s deficiency.
Thank You for exposing my error of worthless engagements
By Your fulfilling involvements
To lead me toward heavenly investments
Midst persistency along commitment’s agreements.
Thank You for exposing my error of selfish interests
By Your faith strengthening bests
To uphold me toward good work-harvests
Midst persecutions along priorities’ tests.
September 24, 2022
September 25, 2022 POTD
I am a real scaredy cat
and there's absolutely nothing that
I could do about that.
I'm scared of 'roaches
I'm scared of rats
I'm scared of spiders
and afraid of bats
I fear all arachnids
and I fear those gnats
Oh I fear all the kinds I find
of those creepy crawly brats!
And but what can I do about that?
Huh and who woudn't fear
a midnight rat-a-tat?
So I've resigned myself to being
a lifelong scaredy cat.
Yeah and I'm scared of heights
Scared of noises at night
Gah, I'm really quick to fright!
I'm scared of grasshoppers and even of dogs
Gosh there's hardly a thing that I ain't scared of.
But I admit I am a timid tigress
otherwise I'm a harmless human who don't hurt a fly
Normally just a normal lady, a humble poetess
I attack only when provoked to the limits
so as I'm a cat after all
I do show my tiger claws if the situation demands
or else I don't mind chickening out
of aggressive and foolhardy involvements.
And maybe if everybody was a coward like me
they wouldn't hurt each other with sheer brutality.
I guess for ladies it's not so bad to be
a bit more cowardly
In any case that's far better than being
a ruffian who's dastardly!
And oh, lastly but not the least
ah yes, I also greatly fear
any lustful male leer
I'd rather I'm invisible to their view
So I really find huge refuge
in the dear divine idea that exhorts me to
to drape and wrap myself from top to toe
in flowing garbs when I step outdoors
and that veiling attire does make me brave
as I feel vulnerable no more
and that's when I feel the transformation from lil kitty
into the big cats
from scaredy cat to formidable tigress
and that's when for once there's NOTHING I fear anymore! :)
as I go out veiled in soft armour from top to toe.
And I feel I can face the chauvinistic foe
Two men were murdered in the Massachusetts town of Braintree.
They were Frederick Parmenter and Alessandro Berardelli.
Both were employees of the Slater-Morrill Shoe Factory.
The culpable individuals absconded with payroll money.
Two followers of the infamous anarchist Luigi Galleani
were immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolommeo Vanzetti.
Neither had police records, but espoused militant anarchy.
Both were connected to the Braintree murders circumstantially.
The two arrested men became world centers of controversy.
The first trial was filled with questionable testimony.
There were numerous requests from all over for clemency.
After two trials, the defendants were found guilty.
The twenty-second of August in 1927 was their last day.
Controversy about their involvements persists up to today.
I thank wikipedia.org online encyclopedia for information I obtained to write this poem.
Pressing toward the high calling of Christ*
I’m resolved to do my best, grace-sufficed…
First, to love the Lord by His gracious might
while in His Word, will, work and ways delight…
Second, I should be more prayerful
with increasing faith as God’s steward, fruitful…
Third, my soul must practice prudent mindfulness’ moments
midst varied multi-tasking role-involvements…
Fourth, to continue in working partnership
around the Master's fellowship midst praise-filled worship...
Fifth, with the Holy Spirit's guidance and compassion glow
may divine virtues of kindness and charity I can show...
Sixth, I persist daily, all by the mercy of the Almighty
to be a blessing to others, marked by cheerful serenity…
Seventh, cleaving to the Father, I must stay blissfully blest
conscientiously fulfilling list along healthy zest.
*Philippians 3:14 I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
List in Couplet form
December 12, 2021
Edited on December 11, 2022
2nd place, "Resolutions for 2023" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Anoucheka Gangabissoon; judged on 1/5/2023.
1st place, "A STRAND (1059)" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 1/26/2022.
"There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky." Deuteronomy 33:26 of the King James Bible
Everything can be possible by God’s omnipotence, always right
Anything, yes, through faith in Him brings delight
Nothing is too hard along His truth and might
Something simple by His grace becomes beauty of wondrous sight.
Everybody enjoys good moments
Anybody as well welcomes blessed engagements
Nobody does not like to plunge into discouragements
Somebody must wisely usher others to meaningful involvements.
Everyone regards life as the Creator’s gift of goodness-leisure
Anyone acknowledges its price --- precious treasure
No one denies its value for the Almighty’s pleasure
Someone ought to be reminded of its worth that’s beyond measure.
Everywhere can be a place to share God’s love and mercy
Anywhere indeed with His guidance-fervency
Nowhere should I go against His safety’s constancy
Somewhere is my willing heart where He reigns as Supreme Excellency.
July 9, 2019
Edited on December 4, 2021
2nd place, '' 'Z' Contest, New or Old"
Sponsored by Constance La France; judged on 12/7/2021.
Title for the contest: DEFINITE ZEAL OF INDEFINITE PRONOUNS
While in the hall,
music pervades.
People of different cultures
enjoy what night holds -
a Christmas celebration.
Young and old alike
savor each food being served;
a delight, a source of nourishment
that means so much for all.
A great deal of caring,
a gesture of sharing
describe what relationship means:
in friendship and family involvements.
What a lovely night!
meeting friends and other acquaintances;
an avenue of reconnecting
a way to share God’s gift in ourselves.
In the course of conversation,
lies the act of intervention;
it’s asking ‘how you’re doing?’
in today’s world of human actions.
A familiar episode – a reality
that speaks who we are
indicates interconnectedness,
being one with Christ especially this season.
Too weak to speak what’s alienating me from the things
Persons I love I look around me to find I stand alone
Me strong myself worthy I believing I can
The air is toxic no shame in feeling this way and in what you say
The heart has its own way of expressing how it feels
To often miss cured as having a missing screw
Who are you to judge with no jury if the shoe fit wears it?
Let’s see how far it takes you with standing someone else’s adversities
The rainbow comes only when the sun and clouds collide
No shame in your step for stepping out is a sign of independence
We’re not necessarily forced to agree not to in-stent that my cause
Discomfort to others was a mere reflection of our self- involvements
We're owed something that we must gain on our own respect for self and others
Time has its way of making you wiser and sees things in a different light
Much lighter then accustom to the different lightening people things change
Some for the better good some for the worst keeping in mind staying true
To yourself is always the key and golden rule treat others as you would yourself
Not often practice makes perfect sense I have always stand-alone not really
For there is one that I have always felt standing by me through thick and thin
To him, I give the glory when feeling overwhelm take a knee speak from the heart
For he already knows just like you to hear yourself and believe
He who made me gets me through thick and thin through day and night
Through ups and downs through the go around I’ll keep my head above water for
That’s what he want me to do in writing this I am not alone not at all
He that has the greater power is and has been with me amen
In our country’s
calendar of events
September is replete with
pursuits worth enumerating
reminding me to bask in meaningful
involvements, optimizing God-granted strength
midst pressure, propelled by blissful functionality.
With well-being focus…
I learned that September 16-22
is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Week,
thus, my schedule seeks for appropriate
on-line seminars for the sake of our special child.
As to educational endeavours
Sports Heroes Day was celebrated
on the 10th, while all virtual classes for
Academic Year 2021-2022 did start last 13
along festivities like Family Thanksgiving Day.
Then birthdays and anniversaries
of loved ones radiate with greetings...
thus, fellowships abound, although compliance
to social distancing and health protocols is practiced.
Topping these all, September
commences Christmas celebration…
now, here am I preparing for my teaching
engagement, grateful to God for opportunities
to do* my life-building roles, with joy and diligence.
Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
September 17, 2021
Let me not so much be lost in involvements
as would make me incapable of
recognizing the fragrance of the flower
beaming in my own yard; as would
divest me of time
for the merry sports of children
glee with the total joy of creation
radiant in their midst.
As would render me oblivious of my time
for the wind carrying the scents of love,
for the birds chanting the notes of life,
for sparkling waterfalls falling yet gay
and, too, for the stars fireflies carry
through the immensity of darkness.
Let me not so much be swept by haste.
Let me not lose the sight of myself
in the rush of life’s vicious circles.
Let me not go spiraling towards a peak
where vision would be blinded with
tears, washing down life’s rubles.
Not so much be lost as would have
no time to look at myself
ever. Not so much, so much be lost, just
to see the hue, grace, glory gone
off the face of my beloved
as I’d wake and be conscious.
How long would I run after the
time,
my mind just a cosmos of void?
Will you please go journeying
for your own sake,
till I come living a moment of life?
(Translated from Nepali by Manu Manjil)
Assuring breathing for seeing tomorrow
Seriously tick tock and tit for tat the scatted hands borrow
Unfanctioned hairs are shaved daily
Getting the forgettable minds
Lime dunking the flight feathers
Yodle provides core enjoyments
Assassination involvements in the fields
Sometimes sin portray fresh partition
Segregated air taste the flavor
Impossible twist the nose end over
No one to believe the achiever.
A is for attitude that’s what I got.
N is for nothing that’s what I'm not.
N is for no that’s what I say.
E is for everyone that gets in my way.
T is for trouble that’s where I've been.
T is for time that’s what im in.
E is for everything that I meet.
D is for danger that I beat.
E is for evil that’s what I see.
L is for the lies that you told me.
I is for the ice cream that I ate.
L is for the lives that I hate.
A is for the asking that ive done.
H is for the heart cause I have none.
M is for the moon that looks so free.
E is for everything that’s inside me.
D is for danger that ive met.
I is for involvements that I cant forget.
N is for never cause I will never quite.
A is for the answers that I never get.
Mathematically speaking,
Life is not a continuous function,
but holds discrete chapters
to be closed at different times on journey of life.
Carefree childhood terminates
alarming to get prepared
to lead life on self confidence.
Bubbling vibrant youth : Most alluring period
to fulfill ambitions, dreaming and dreaming.
Aspiring chapter offering opportunity
of activities in broad spectrum at random.
Onwards start struggling taking life as a Challenge.
Career, Family, Responsibilities, Duties are embowered.
Success to access, Failure to endure
Love, Betrayal, Happiness, Sorrow appear in series.
Inevitable last phase shows
Achievements, Emotional Involvements
turning obsolete, seeming Life to be meaningless,
only to wait for last call to reach the ultimate end of Life.
Digging into and detecting deep roots gives me a thrill.
Though raking up the foregone quarrels is a tiresome drill,
Values I have lost in the name of modernization,
Traditions that, like ancient hills, succumbed to damnation...
Should threads of exuberant cultures be quickly broken?
Isn't repristination an existential token?
These broken vessels of my ancestors... these torn garments,
Each has its fingerprints of involvements and debarments.
Would the spirit hovering around these yet be chased out?
Don't these cups that touched their lips have an endless silhouette?
Each rusted shoe of lost horses has tall tales to tell.
Of curses of petty kingdoms and kings, that, on them fell...
The processes and procedures of progress proceed fast.
Changes, as though perpetually changeless, seem to last.
Temples, mosques, churches, synagogues, Jinjas—what else is left?
Towers, bridges, forts, ramparts, glamorously cleaving clefts
Quality and quantity have, now, quickly shaken hands.
Don't, yet, covertly clouded hopes construct castles on sands...
Thick layers of dust and dirt constrict entire peripheries,
of principles of pristine prophetic epiphanies;
These should be removed! Truths, like the galaxies, should brightly shine.
May past foundations pave fraternal paths for a sacred shrine;
May virtues, values, and visions fill the veins of the past,
Flow flawlessly through blood vessels, cells, and the heart at last!
Poetry Soup friends are rare, yet precious treasures
Offering kindred bond beyond poetic measures
Empowering communication prowess midst word-usage pressures
Tending to souls with every remarkable message that assures
Reaching hearts’ fissures with hope and love enclosures
Yes, indeed expressing honest approval of favor’s pleasures.
So privileged am I to have friends in this global poetry site
Opening to me opportunities to express myself as I earnestly indite*
Upon truths I believe can build lives according to what’s right
Prompted by my faith and relationship with God of blissful delight.
Friends, I thank you for your kind comments
Really pleased am I with your sincere encouragements
Influencing me to do my best in my submission-engagements
Enabling poetic gift* to be harnessed through your compliments---
Nourished and nurtured midst varied sentiments and predicaments
Dealt well around differing perspectives in my exposure-involvements
Satisfied am I, sustained with triumph of writing endowments.
*Psalm 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
**2Timothy 1:6 Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
September 23, 2019
3rd place, "Pick a Friend on Soup" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Bobby May; judged on 9/27/2019.
June 14 Scripture Meditations Based on Proverbs 7
Key Verse – Proverbs 7:2-3 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR BINDING ME WITH YOUR LAW
Thank You for binding me with Your law’s commandments
Along Your love’s caring accomplishments
That I may esteem Your favour in all my divine involvements
Sincerely glorifying You in my engagements.
Thank You for binding me with Your law’s wisdom
Along Your truths about Your kingdom
That I may seek Your will with spiritual freedom
Surely pleasing You while overcoming boredom.
Thank You for binding me with Your law’s direction
Along Your guidance through Your instruction
That I may follow Your ways with devotion
Steadfastly magnifying You midst praise-filled jubilation.
Thank You for binding me with Your law’s standard
Along Your principles in moving spiritually upward
That I may value Your entrusted ministry with due regard
Soberly offering to You midst trials so hard.
Thank You for binding me with Your law’s righteousness
Along Your holiness for my uprightness
That I may labour in Your work with willingness
Strongly depending on You for my diligence-goodness.
Thank You for binding me with Your law’s record
Along Your inerrancy as my Saviour and Lord
That I may trust Your Word, the Spirit’s sword
Securely living for You along faith-ford.
June 14, 2022