Best Nor Poems

No gold nor silver, weights my needy purse
Spun silk and finery I have no need
Such poverty of wealth be not God's curse
For bless'd the man who covets not for greed

My wealth is in the lilies of the field
The colors of the sunsets thrill my soul
Fruit...

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I feel it so strongly deep inside the cry of your heart
It but echoes my souls endless fear of being apart 

Use your strength to go on with life even though it is hard
Where is life’s joy when treated with such reckless disregard?

I wonder can...

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praying
knowing

faith is 
growing

blessings
flowing

Scripture
reading 

God’s Word
heeding

Spirit 
leading

my soul
feeding 

on the 
right road

such a
light load

God’s peace
bestowed

*******
tide is 
turning

feelings
churning

anguish
burning

trouble
knocking

Satan
mocking

faith is
shaken

peace is
taken

*******
life can
plunge me

from the 
mountain

to the
valley

God can 
lift me

from the 
valley 

to the 
mountain

dwelling
with me

at each
level

of the
spectrum


     
February 28, 2023
written for the Brian Strand...

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The wind is break dancing with the trees.
beating a rapper’s song.
Limbs flail on the tarmac.
Rain flies like sweat from corn rows
across the expanse of asphalt.
A barrage precipitates
against the window pane
with the rata-tat-tat
of a machine gun’s bullets
as the front passes....

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I will not be another statistic
out on the street without a dime to my name
I will not be another out cast
Who can't go into a store with being looked down on
I will not be someone's deadbeat baby mama
My kids will have a dad who is...

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As I lie in this box all dirty and scuffed
I remember the time I was shiny and fluffed
Alone and forgotten I doubt that is true
For I was once savored in red white and blue

Although it may seem it was a long time ago
I once flew...

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** Neither Silent Nor Still **

With you…by you…in you
Lord,
I never found silence
To be stillness.

With you, silence is
  elevating, escalating,
Eternally
An ongoing current — a soundless ocean
With an unending 
   Roll-over of crested waves,
But silent  with the pulse of my soul.

In silence I...

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Here.

I will give all,
All for less,
Less.

Ask more of what?
What of the rest?
Rest to break,
Break.

Trivial with purpose,
Purpose to give,
Give more,
More for you,
You.

There....

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Love is a deep desire, a longing ache,
and a passion, oft tethered to a wish.
And like a decadent chocolate cake,
so delicious you want to lick the dish.

Love is a bond that never gets broken,
outflanking logic; it assumes control.
And stronger than any promise spoken,
born in the...

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I feel it so strongly deep inside the cry of your heart
It but echoes my souls endless fear of being apart
 
Use your strength to go on with life even though it is hard
Where is life’s joy when treated with such reckless disregard?
 
I wonder...

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Let not rash ejections of the mind
Blind thee of rational occasions
For idleness renders you unhappy
Yield not to whims 
Nor be rash
Restrain ridiculous mentality
For it is thee mind
That makes thee truth
Remain or disappear 
Yield not to prejudice
Yield not to succumb
Uneasy and insipid constraints
Shall not render me
My...

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A semi baked semi colon is neither a seminar nor a seminary session. It is in fact the whirr of wheels from the large overweight apostrophe on a bike. Uphill downhill and all around the picturesque towns, villages and hamlets but not cities for cityscapes'...

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So small are tiny peas in a pod
And how great is our gracious God
If I have faith in Him either/or,
Neither/nor will I sin anymore.

If God is my leader and fine friend
In His open arms, I will end up in;
For sure either/or love until I die;
Neither/nor...

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NEITHER  UNDERSTOOD, NOR EXPLAINED

I was believed  the mightiest  of all,
The thing known was only my countrymen soul.
I worked upon day and night in silence,
For my nation I had the path lf violence.

I commanded  work with me, don't  stop till you...

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Our bodies are made from stars,
The lustrous sanguinity of speckled nocturne,
The dispelled chemistry of supernovas.
Trillions of years old,
Trillions of miles traveling,
We are children of spacetime.  

Our bodies are made from stars,
Our psyche emerged like fire 
From star formulas of life’s order.
Spontaneous beings, 
We always...

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