Best Sovereignly Poems
~ANGELS~
Within the abusive abyssal air, I greet you with a prayer
Within weathered winded wear, I defend in your despair
Thru calamitous city crumble I find you in your stumble
Thru mankind’s malignant mumble I bow to your humble
In the frightened fermenting fog I cleanse you in your clog
In the seducing smothering smog I seek of your demagogue
Lowered by love’s lamenting lust I return to heal and readjust
Lost in love’s layered crust I’ve come to rattle the restless rust
Of valleys low and mountain peaks I hear as the silence speaks
Of cinematic curving creeks, I glide in grace with solace sweeps
With the cascading canonized rain, I’ve come to break the chain
In pulsating punitive pain I’ve come to retire the ravaging reign
Hiding in hellion halls sinners scatter as Satin sovereignly stalls
With lasting Love and fireballs waiting upon the Masters' calls
Hovering over horrific hells I flap my wings to reflect the spells
Detaining evil in dormant dwells releasing love in wishing wells.
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Sept.04.2017
ANGELS
Sponsored by: Mystic Rose
Before the faint feathered light of dawn becomes airborne
and the world around me lies hushed in peaceful slumber
I often ruminate on the rose and its weaponry of a thorn
equating them to thoughts that both please and encumber
I delve deeply into my soul where passion has been worn
How resplendent the petals of a bloomed dew-kissed rose
Velvet to my finger's touch, in its long-stemmed splendor
Like tender blessings I receive as I reflect in quiet repose
the echoes pulsing within my heart, in grateful surrender
It's there I remember whispers of love and its tragic woes
Uninvited comes the sting of thorns; my cause for bleeding
Deep scratches that inflict mordant worry and sullen pains
but never have they breached my stoic faith by misleading
my heart to cast asperse shadows of scars and bloodstains
on the life of this servant who for God's mercy is pleading
I hear the love song of a wood thrush, calling to its mate
Through a window glows golden glimmers of morning sun
I'm imbued by a breath of warmth, garnered as I meditate
on the generous gift of a new day, sovereignly being spun
I humble myself through life's rivers that I must navigate
6/24/20
Reflection in Silence Poetry
Opalescent orb,
so sovereignly-suspended,
calls forth primitive instincts.
Bathe in her beauty,
revere righteous radiance
and cherish moments ere dawn.
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My first Sedoka. Written 8 September 2017
For Russell Sivey's "Moonlight Delight" contest.
(2nd Place)
In this life on earth with it's burdens
each and every day so much toil
it all seems to have no point at all
within your emotions your blood will boil
But the master creator has a plan
in his eternal mind before time began
He would create a people for himself
in them a purpose for the good of man
This God who is eternal in all things
who knows everything and everyone
his will is sovereignly free and good
he alone will accomplish it to be done
For this Lord our God is in his heaven
preparing a place for his very own
which is filled with awesome beauty
this knowledge his holy word has shown
So think of this eternal glory
when this earth tries to bring you down
there is a blessed life to come
created by the one wearing the crown
This heaven will fill you with joy
a joy spiritually in all it's fullness
you'll be aglow to know true salvation
giving yourself an eternal completeness
What a thing it is to know God's love
really blows the mind to think upon
how could God think so much of me?
such love beyond words or a song
But in calling us in His sovereign love
God takes you down many a road
not all pleasant but so necessary
so our seed planted should be sowed
This is a God that knows it all
even the beginning to the end
so He can be trusted fully and truly
assuring you every hitch He can mend
The key secret is to have a close walk
with Jesus moment by moment every day
then your faith increases to say, Lord
with conviction walking in His way
The Lord knows my way He's planned
every detail my God sovereignly has done
believe with a capital B not a doubt
His presence so precious is God's son
Remember your
Creator
In the days of your
youth
Let your zeal seek
His favor
His discernment and
truth
And the things of
His Kingdom
For your patience
and resilience
Fronting his
unrivaled wisdom
Against your
fragment of
experience
For the choices to
be made
Are solemn vows
To take on a desired
trade
A sovereignly
preferred spouse
And a guiding
principle
Amidst many in the
offing
But preserve your
bodies as God’s
Temple
And lean your minds
to His understanding
Be the first of a
blossoming breed
That will
resuscitate the
dying moral
Among a people in
want and in need
For one truth stands
overall
True life and the
living truth
Graced by wondrous
miracles
Were in the
Messiah’s youth
And are today’s
unrivaled pinnacles
Attracted to her since my youth
Like the swerve, sovereignly proud
Of an iron filing towards a magnet,
I had left free the reins of my fantasy
To let it weave a necklace of poems
To glorify the mystery
I had seen hung around her.
Fear, it was not, when we had first met.
Yet, the words failed to emerge from me,
Pointless though they would have been.
Such was the influence
Her presence had on me
That silence was the only edifice
I could rest upon
To feel the intensity of that instant
That catapulted me
Into a state of love and its longings
That give it wings, I knew not 'til then.
July 29 Scripture Meditations Based on Jeremiah 11-15
Key Verse – Jeremiah 11:5 That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O LORD.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PERFORMING YOUR OATH UNTO ME
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your grace
Letting me see Your goodness along Your kindness’ rays
Amidst busy days weakening faith-walking pace…
Oh, how I honour You, giving my praise of worshipful ways.
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your holiness
Letting me fear Your wrath over my unrighteousness
Amidst vain compromises of worldly worthlessness…
Oh, how I hide in You, repenting from my shameful sinfulness.
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your provision
Letting me enjoy Your bounty full of satisfaction
Amidst grievous complaints along scarcity’s vexation…
Oh, how I trust You, confessing my discontented reaction.
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your guidance
Letting me obey Your direction toward truth-assurance
Amidst chaotic situations because of confusing allegiance…
Oh, how I follow You, subduing my skeptical arrogance.
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your mercy
Letting me rely on Your ready, available clemency
Amidst serious threats of guilt needing pardon’s sufficiency…
Oh, how I seek You, overcoming my doubts and lack of persistency.
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your wisdom
Letting me regard Your work in advancing Your kingdom
Amidst foolish opinions causing intellectual boredom…
Oh, how I cling to You, turning from my humanistic freedom.
Thank You for performing Your oath unto me with Your covenant
Letting me appreciate Your faithfulness, sovereignly dominant
Amidst carnal accomplishments making me in Your service, stagnant…
Oh, how I abide in You, casting my cares as an earthly tenant.
July 29, 2022
The God who calls everybody everywhere
to come and worship Him alone
is the one who rules and reigns
making His creation all a living stone
This God is Lord of all creation
everything made the Lord has done
He is the king ruling fully in control
for the word incarnate is His son
Jesus Christ God's son in truth
came to earth to die for sin
not His own but He truly loved
those He chose to enter in
This God works by His miracles
displaying His great awesome power
showed here to open a donkey's mouth
simply as easy as a beautiful flower
Truly this is the eternal God
who can do absolutely anything
sovereignly ruling over His creation
as master Lord saviour and king
(Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times". ')
Numbers ch. 22 v. 28 (ESV)
Long ago, a Savior was born
and hidden within a humble birth;
covered with the cloak of humanity,
His presence impacted this earth.
Although we remember His birthday,
know that Christ is no longer a child;
He stopped being an infant, who was…
helpless, quiet, tender and mild.
He grew in strength and wisdom;
He demonstrated His holy authority;
He lived as He divinely taught;
He set the example, for you and me.
He gave of Himself completely
and paid the ultimate sacrifice.
He embodied God’s covenant of love;
His actions were timely and precise.
After suffering the shame of crucifixion,
He was briefly buried in a rock-hewn tomb;
three days later, He triumphantly exited
with a glorified body from Resurrection’s womb.
Today He lives and sovereignly rules;
so people of faith, it’s time to agree
that we must continue to live Godly lives,
seeing that… the manger is still empty!
Author Notes
Loosely based on:
Matt 1:18-2:15, 27:46-54; Acts 2:22-24; Heb 7:25;
1 John 2:1-2; Rom 8:34
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Lessons on fig leaves make me reflective
Learning them from biblical perspective
Serving as meaningful life’s directive
Taught by God Who’s sovereignly assertive.
Fig leaves’ clothing, though nature-propped fashion
Adam and Eve sewed to hide transgression*
Covering their disobedient action
Earned them the Lord’s grievous admonition.
Fig leaves show hypocrisy-disclosure
Admitted as human nature’s pressure…
While yielding to sin-denial leisure
Conscience seeks justification-pleasure.
Fig leaves**, sans fruits in Christ’s time were worthless
On withered tree, considered as useless
Deserving rebuke for trust that’s faithless
Needing revival from being hopeless.
With such fig leaves’ Scripture-brightened insights
My soul asks Almighty for pardon plight
Confessing iniquities midst guilt-blight
Thankful for grace to start anew --- aright.
*Genesis 3:7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
**Matthew 21:19 And when he (Jesus Christ) saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Dramatic Monologue in Rhyme form
April 10, 2020
3rd place, "This or That, Vol 11: Fig Leaf Theme" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Edward Ibeh; judged on 4/22/2022.
The God who calls everybody everywhere
to come and worship Him alone
is the one who rules and reigns
making His creation all a living stone
This God is Lord of all creation
everything made the Lord has done
He is the king ruling fully in control
for the word incarnate is His son
Jesus Christ God's son in truth
came to earth to die for sin
not His own but He truly loved
those He chose to enter in
This God works by His miracles
displaying His great awesome power
showed here to open a donkey's mouth
simply as easy as a beautiful flower
Truly this is the eternal God
who can do absolutely anything
sovereignly ruling over His creation
as master Lord saviour and king
('Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times". ')
Numbers ch. 22 v. 28 (ESV)
With his football prowess
strategically he placed his nation
blazing around commendation spotlight
blissfully uniting country men toward well-meaning endeavour…
Along his sports acumen
his impact powerfully led the youth to soar
ushering their dream-fulfillment despite frailties
toward reality of impossibilities, achieved with others’ help…
Midst his fame in the athletic realm
he then is blest to have indeed realized
the “hand of God” as his might, working in his moves since after all
the Lord King* is sovereignly in control, deserving Maradona’s honour!!!
*1Timothy 1:17 Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
December 24, 2020
2nd place, "Maradona Obituary" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mohan Chutani; judged on 12/26/2020.
May 25 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 102-104
Key Verse – Psalm 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR PITYING ME
Thank You for pitying me, Your dear child
You’re my Father Who loves me despite my being worldly wild…
I cherish Your care, gentle and mild
Always keeping me from becoming defiled.
Thank You for pitying me, Your ordained steward
You’re my Creator Who molds me to go through faith-maturity upward…
I trust Your guidance as I march forward
Always propelling me so I will never turn backward.
Thank You for pitying me, Your chosen servant
You’re my Master Who prods me against becoming stagnant…
I obey Your commandments though sometime my flesh doesn’t want
Always driving me toward labor-sacrifice in Your service that’s never vacant.
Thank You for pitying me, Your called follower
You’re my Leader Who guides me with Your power…
I follow Your guidance in marching forward
Always propelling me so I will never turn backward.
Thank You for pitying me, Your enlightened student
You’re my Teacher Who makes me prudent…
I seek Your precepts, sovereignly provident
Always directing me to Your truth that’s divinely ardent.
Thank You for pitying me, Your called ambassador
You’re my Ruler Who sends me for soulwinning outdoor…
I bow to Your authority with humility’s candor
Always controlling me despite my humanistic ardor.
May 25, 2022
Great effects came about at the fall
There man fell a very great depth
far more than we like to really admit
no matter the times you rise, man hits a wall
The real need of the hour
humility, really just being humble
realise you're not what you think
learn well not to moan and grumble
The world's bigger than you think
far larger than your imagination at all
even God is bigger than in your view
which is tiny compared to God so true
Remind yourself again you're not God
God is God and only He's the Lord alone
all peoples are made in His image even you
sinners saved by grace describes all to atone
Be humble and learn to be wise
these two ingredients go hand in hand
God blesses them when the two meet
showing it's all sovereignly planned
Holding a posture of humility
so godly showing HIs true mark
filled by His holy spirit in His fullness
shining forth His light putting out the dark
("When pride comes, then comes disgrace,
but with the humble is wisdom." - Proverbs 11: 2 (ESV)
(' Be humble, the world is bigger than your view of the world and certainly, God is much bigger than your view of God' - Eugene Cho )