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Best Ordained Poems

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Windowpanes
An ancient river, centuries-old shops and restaurants steeped in a 2000-year history and 
culture set the scene. The ambiance seemed divinely contrived to facilitate the...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordained, caregiving, friendship, hope, introspection,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member Night's Requiem
As light escapes, the lustrous moon ascends
a prelude to the majesties of night
with shining constellations that transcend
and shooting stars that burn with heaven's light.

Night's canopy...

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Categories: ordained, inspiration, night,
Form: Rhyme
Categories: ordained, society, war,
Form: Ballad
In the Name of Dove -With Ram R V
little Rock
               Doves at my feet
     ...

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Categories: ordained, appreciation, bird, , cute,
Form: Shape
Premium Member Pursuit of Infinite Knowledge and Understanding
(In a Lush Garden Somewhere Out There)

The student stands where shifting sands of thought,
Once firm with reason, now elusive truths are sought.
Its splendor wanes, a...

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Categories: ordained, journey, passion, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Premium Member In the Middle of the Universe, I Stand
In the middle of the universe, I stand 
My mind seeking comprehension 
The mysteries of life tantalize my tenacious grip on wisdom
I stand
Observing omnipotent organization
The...

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Categories: ordained, mystery, universe,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Long-Suffering Wife
Believing that marriage was ordained of God; 
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing, 
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope 
that stretched...

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Categories: ordained, forgiveness, husband, wifehusband, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Yellow Roses
(A conversation with my wife Vera Selena (Osburn) Hinshaw on our 70th wedding anniversary 12 October 2022)

Honey, I thank God every day for bringing you...

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Categories: ordained, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Faithful Wife
Believing that marriage was ordained of God;
that, like a seed, it needed constant nurturing,
she sowed her deep devotion with a hope
that stretched beyond an ordinary...

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Categories: ordained, devotion, faithlove,
Form: Narrative
Death Is Not the Enemy
I have found myself at the threshold of death on several occasions. Each time I managed to 
look it in the eye, doff my hat...

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© Jim Fish  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordained, death, hope, inspirational, lifelife,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member The Word-Heroic Crown of Sonnets
BEGINNINGS

The WORD was there before the dawn of time
the Trinity communed in sacred tongue
with sounds unheard, unspeakable, sublime
they uttered words of their unending Love.
With power...

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Categories: ordained, beautiful, bible, life, love,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member The Sacred Drops
Forth from the heaven, from the misty moorlands of all sacred woodland greens,
drop by drop by striking the pebbles and untouched vegetations oozes, 
the intoning...

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Categories: ordained, beauty, journey, nature, philosophy,
Form: Romanticism
This Life
This Life

Your eyes saw my unformed body,
Yet even then, LORD, You knew me.

In Your Book were all Your plans laid,
You gave me life and I...

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Categories: ordained, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member An Interior Mechanism

Since childhood,
as alexithymia struck my soul.
I kept all my hopes a secret,
hidden in a bucket of unshared dreams.

I kept my soul sweet like marshmallows,
but life...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ordained, analogy, emotions, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Scum of the Earth
There’s a sense in which all life is scum on this earth
(without God as creator), life here (more debris
that just floats on the surface of...

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Categories: ordained, faith, fun, philosophy, science,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs