"All access beyond this point
Is now discouraged".
As sternly, dourly upheld
By its ice-cold will
That, iron gated, confines
All that's skin and bone
For graveyard's place, spooky-sombre
Wailed back through. Nerves chill.
Number of Words: 25
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Short lines must I carve,
Or else I shall starve;
Twenty-five words, a firm decree:
Let me fly like bees,
Chasing scents on flowers, free.
Blessings to all.
I declare and decree
By Michelle Morris
19/02/2026
I declare and decree
Good things are coming to me
I declare and decree
That I am forever free
I declare and decree
I am protected and blessed
I declare and decree
That I am Heaven-sent
I declare and decree
My life is abundant and guided
I declare and decree
That God's Grace is my tidings
I declare and decree
I am happy and at peace
I declare and decree
God's Angels love me
©? Michelle Morris, 2026
To Hades, black as ink, our souls shall sink,
And all our lives are gone within a wink!
Yet fleeting! E’er so fleeting! Though it be,
So well we love what leave the Fates decree.
Sanctified, sealed, once written in blood
Shipped on the seas and fought in the mud
Swords and arrows and battering rams
Sparing the rich to sacrifice lambs
Multitudes sent to battle by hand
Manpower spent to confiscate land
Another war by the King's decree
Fought by the poor and always will be
Sadly though, many lives they barter
Proudly though, many souls they martyr
Death from wars are always repeated
Kings, in time, are always defeated
Blessings I decree and declare upon you.
Father's graces, peace, mercies,
Love all inside and around you.
Blessings I decree and declare upon you
Our families break through
This season plus His will in our lives.
Always Good New Day Beloved
Blessings I decree and declare upon you Amen
1/18/24
Written by James Edward Lee Sr. 2024 © CR
Let us realign what is out of place
Decree what needs to be decreed with might
Walk a nation to its future with grace
And lead it towards a future that is bright
For shifts are happening now in heavens above
Your long-awaited redemption is drawing near
Dance to your heart's beat, embrace God’s love
And according to heaven's rhythm, let us steer
Yet, learn to wait in His presence, for one step at a time
Divine access will be granted to each and all
So stay diligent, do not lose sight of your rhyme
For you are being called in a new way, hear the call
With every step, move with determination and poise
For we are about to be called to function in new ways
Let us walk with faith, make decrees with joyful noise
As we lead nations toward their prosperous days
So let us realign, decree and walk
For we are the ones called to make a mark.
In days of old the poets told a tale
A scout rode out to search the unforseen
To gather food and drink, to blaze a trail
A pious nobleman, charged by his queen
He was a fearless man and very wise
Outwitting those mistaking him a fool
His principles he would not compromise
His creed of life, "Obey the Golden Rule"
For many years he rode and sacrificed
His health and wealth, yet never one complaint
His pay for services grossly mispriced
They mourned him in the end, a selfless saint
The poets often cried, the tale so sad
His queen decreed henceforth,"He'll be called Dad"
Daniel Turner
Thank you Dad
when crops are graces
can weeds claim to be the same
both have their places
in the book of god whose aim
is change of heart and not shame
30 May 2021
Tanka Contest Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: M. L. Kiser
I salute you oh, mighty Time:
My best friend,
My worst enemy
For
To live without you is simply
Unimaginable!
Throughout my existence
I have, unsuccessfully, struggled to accept
Whatever you brought to me,
Either it was a sweet smile
Or a bitter tear with
Equanimity
Since
I could not enjoy the one
Without
Suffering the presence of
The other
For
This, you told me, is the order of things,
This is what the heavens
Decree,
But
I, a fool ignorant, resisted!
Now, however,
Older and wiser, an obedient child of yours, oh Time,
I have finally become
So as
To abide by your universal rules
Of growth and decay
Without
My tightened lips, a single complaint to
pronounce!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
24 July 2020
Non-essential! It takes time to
digest the public offense, bruising the poetic ego
essential only to itself, as broad as the world.
Howling winds, dark clouds, ghost cities,
horizons overbreaming with despair, the low
widespreading doubt and the high feverish days
filled with progressive red dots on world map, the
incalculable pain, spirit out of sight, from my home
so far away from and yet so close to work, I run
hope's high tide hour, caught on its windblown antenna, its gentle touch on my parched lips, manifesting in form God's grace like raindrops on
windows' pane, a poet's disease of tides, insisting
on poetry's essential nourishment of the soul, with lion's pride, uplifting earth's exhausted staff not knowing who'll feed the hungry and the birds – poets
decree their own confinement to rules of beauty, unhinged freedom,
requiring no appeal.
love and be loved
life's ultimate goal
is that not God's decree?
Questionku)
10/19/2019
Get in touch with your Zen
Sponsored by: Richard Lamoureux
Hollow frail starved words
Hover in lost cavern's path
As the poet's road leads
On walks with dim lit dreams
Finding light wakening one's soul
Second Edition of Wayra
Sponsored by: Nette Onclaud
August 18, 2018
"You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here!....
We have the right to remain silent.....
"Now if you'll excuse me, I have a fully provisioned
Underground luxury shelter to see, if it meets my
needs." ( Paid for with taxpayer money. ) Re-elect.........
I wonder how many suckers they'll get this time around?
Remember Lucy, Charlie Brown and the football?
Midst faith's test, I'm resolved* to optimize my best by God's blest zest.
*Luke 16:4 I am resolved what to do...
December 31, 2018
2nd place, "New year resolution in one line" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Silent One; judged on 1/1/2019.
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