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Early Christians used paganus as a term for non-believers or outsiders who did not follow the monotheistic God. Pagans and Christians "jive" because they share deep historical roots, celebrate similar seasonal holidays, and value the same core ideas about community, love, and respect.
Christianity and paganism share a complex history of theological opposition, cultural borrowing, and eventual transformation as Christianity expanded throughout the ancient and medieval world
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We keep going back and forth in our minds
We tell ourselves we just need some time
The truth keeps staring us in the face
So we put up a hard fight to change our ways
What is it that we're afraid of losing
It's better if we let life do the choosing
Better safe than sorry is what most people say
Fighting because we don't want to regret it one day
We ignore the signs that screams it's time to let go
So we decide to take a break or to take things slow
It's hard to let go because of the fear of the unknown
Enduring each fight than the pain of being alone
Letting go would mean being alone with the memories
While asking ourselves why did we gave up so easily
Meditating over should of, could of, would of's
Not sure where holding on would have put us
We would eventually ruin ourselves keeping up this charade
So we need to let go and stop marching this parade.
REPORTOIRE OF THEMES
improvised
performance
with
variations
according
to mood
a
synaesthesia
of opportunities
in
meaningful
interpretatIons
devoted
to
absolutely
quiet
orderly
security
&
compatibility
reflected
drifting
orchestrated
combinations
attesting
to
immediacy
in
virtuosity
with
harmonic
moments
with
feeling
motivates
personality
LIFE AS IT IS-:-
imaginative
truthful
realms
precise
beautiful
with NO DISTINCTIONS OR DIFFERENCE
feelings
compassion
sympathetically
expressed
actions
of CONSTANT CARING
attention
forever
unified
plain
compatibility
Is the one click worth it?
Is the online love connection genuine?
Does it get better like fine wine?
Searching for love requires compatibility
Truth and appreciative the love between couples
Respect throughout
True love not false love
Open heart into romance
Actual person with a real photo
No hack in scam
Name worth giving
Not something made up
Love is about enduring heart
Enchanted spirit
Love within
Online love must work out from the very start
Emotions must be felt
Above all trust
There is a start and depart.
Indeed, lovers must not rush into
long-term relationships.
Such decisions are to society’s detriment.
As for the assertion
that no test exists
to measure compatibility,
I must protest.
I propose the use of personality tests and
astrology charts to show like-mindedness.
Choose head over heart for long-term love relationships.
I failed the relationship?by being myself too accurately.
There was nothing dramatic about it.?No betrayal.?No fight worth remembering.?Just the slow discovery?that I was a compromise.
You didn’t leave suddenly.?You adjusted.?That was worse.
I watched you subtract effort?the way someone stops watering?a plant they’ve already replaced.
Same sex, same bed,?and still I felt like?the wrong answer?arriving confidently.
I needed more than you could give?because I had less than I pretended.
I asked questions?that only insecure people ask.?I noticed things?secure people ignore.
That was the problem.
I made my doubt your responsibility.?I turned love into maintenance.?I required proof.
Eventually you realized?being with me?felt like work?that never ended.
You didn’t say I wasn’t enough.?You didn’t have to.
The silence was efficient.
I understand now:?relationships don’t fail loudly?when the flaw is fundamental.
They just stop trying.
And if I’m honest—?this wasn’t about timing,?or compatibility,?or even love.
It was about me arriving?already behind,?and asking you?to slow down?so I could pretend?we were equal.
Deconstructing Human Compatibility'
The overriding mission of w e f and
Afilliate organisations.'
I Tried to Unlearn
……. his name , his face, his memory
but each morning they kept resurfacing;
rubber ringed feelings that would not sink
no matter how hard I pushed down.
So I journeyed to places
that had rooted our relationship:
The park where the broad-shouldered oak
unwrapped delicacies of intimate memories
then leaning in much closer
it shared a consolatory shadow.
The river that coiled past
churned up affectionate thoughts
then rippled onwards to twist back
with a scornful smirk that made fun of me.
The café where he teased
about expressoing our shared ideas
and consolidating coffee compatibility.
Then on the butterfly wings of symmetry
our relationship seemed to fly to new heights
but was I another Icarus on a solo flight?
So the past that I had plucked at
offered no signs of warning, no signals of regret;
sadly the present, the here and now,
yields no guidance on how to….. forget.
Ian Souter
C-harming
H-armonies
E-nchant,
L-etting
S-ympathy
E-mbrace
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Monocrostic
Wisdom is a gift from God
That anyone has endowed with it
It differs only in application.
Education enhance wisdom
To boost personality development
Develop the countries economy.
Leaders should use wisdom wisely
To profel the country to become first
First in GDP, industry, infrstructure and technology.
The followers use wisdom to create something
That would help self-sustenance, contribute income
To the government, maintain peace and buy things local.
We use wisdom for everyday's work
To apply it is critical for safety
To execute is fruitful to all the result.
Besides love, we use wisdom to choose someone for matrimony
Marriage is a lifelong relationship, so as thinking sanity
Life is full of choices, decision-making and compatibility.
Soft as the nights darkness
The speckle in your eye
Those pretty blues
Who wouldn’t choose
Flaxen hair in the air
A beauty that shimmers in the sun
Skin illuminated by the light
So pure and bright
Love filled with such promise
A promise for life
Here today and tomorrow
Forever together
Hitched at the soul
Love combined with such greatness
Souls intertwined as one
A compatibility matched to none
She is the one
While we all share in humanity,
Our hopes & beliefs may differ in kind.
Such that one may vary in uniqueness,
To the point where fear & solitude unwind.
This isolation may leave one as a castaway,
Wondering if anyone else could feel the same.
Leading to searching for some compatibility,
Where another could join & share in the blame.
As our civilized nature has become more social,
Our communication is truly global and widespread.
Yet I wonder if the messages are truly varied,
Or does some editing form an incomplete letterhead ?
So while the data runs along the info highway,
Much of it is compressed & passed on by vocal speech.
And while the shortened message is delivered, I'm
Left to wonder if the complete truth is out of reach.
How Do You Mend A Broken Heart
*
I stand by your grave
Hands clasped before me
My breathing shallow
My legs unsteady
I summon every
Ounce of strength
To keep from falling
*
All the days to come
Without you
All the nights to come
Without you
How will my heart
Endure your loss
*
In hospice
We reminisced
You were comforted
By the memories
Of our time together
You were proud of our
Rip-roaring compatibility
And our never going
To bed angry
*
You held my hand
And said
Fall in love again
*
My smile was faint
I said
No woman is interested
In a man with a broken heart
*
With a mischievous smile
You said
She is
When she knows
She is the one
Who can mend it.
*
Fingers intertwined in
wondrous oneness
together foreverness
breathtaking bliss
Eye to eye in
lyrical longing
melodic memories
soul symmetry
Backs turned to
bygone brokenness
solitary sanctums
heartbroken hibernation
Face to face in
aromatic anecdotes
possibility potpourri
enmeshed essences
Voices join in
rondos of rendezvous
chorales of compatibility
madrigals of mutuality
Heart to heart in
a fulcrum of fulfillment
a seesaw of serendipities
a trapeze of timelessness
Lips engaged in
passion's pendulum
voluptuous vocabularies
intoxicating innuendoes
She is lyrics and I am music
~ harmonizing a hypnotizing love song ~
a dizzying duet of delight
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