My father is a hard working man
He will offer anyone a hand, do you understand?
My father is a man who makes end meet when it looks like a place of defeat.
My father is a man who works tirelessly on his feet so diligently with no complaints where others may have faint.
My father is a man who takes accountability
who handles responsibilities
his encouraging loving words make me realize there’s so many possibilities
My father is a man who demonstrates love , courage, kindness, compassion, and strength
He’s the type of man who will go the full distance and length!
So many rules,
Such utter folly
Rules, rules, rules
How can one stay jolly
Rules at home
Rules in school
Rules in the workplace
All too cruel
Reductio ad absurdum*
My guiding light
Just abolished all the rules ~
That feels about right!
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*In case it matters, 'Reductio ad absurdum'
demonstrates that a proposition is true by
showing that denying it leads to an absurd
outcome or conclusion.
clusters tend to blind the eyes
overwhelm and hypnotise
I appreciate how that occurs
temporarily reality blurs
daisies fade and daisies wilt
though Earth remains on its same tilt
constant vase sometimes contains bliss
I'm temporal and aware of this
I watch as time demonstrates this fate
there is no sense asking time to wait
nor comfort in letting time past conflate
with our present or future state
each burst of joy that bloomed in view
was gift in moment and threat in lieu
yet yin and yang cannot accrue
and balance is the resting hue
I'm temporal in the schemes and storms
constants are not truthful forms
though Earth remains it can't contain
daisies if there are no rains
temporarily we pause or rush
I appreciate calm in the hush
overwhelm there taught to rest
clusters tended will manifest
Komodo dragons do not breathe fire
I’ve seen one and I’m not a liar
Their 90 per cent kill rate
Demonstrates they'll lie in wait
For Smokey the Bear’s funeral pyre
Amazing fellow, this Wind.
No hands to clutch.
Yet demonstrates a sculptor's
Deftness of touch.
Behold, as an example
Dune's hilled sample.
As which spirit, wizard-like
This abstruse too
Nothing, nimble-fingered, felt
Works our lives through.
Look again; that built up for
No sand! Steeled more!
Pressure, pressure
Why can’t they leave him alone
Today the bay window
Demonstrates a panorama of beauty
He longs to go there
Taste the salt sea
To sail away from all this
Back to Jamaica
To places he had been when young
When laughing in the rain
When there was a now
The future too far away to contemplate
Clouds are gathering
There will be rain in the afternoon
The bay window
Has tearstains from
Too many yesterdays
The Lord of Psalm twenty-three is committed
He will finish what he started
God the Father is Able to finish what He started
Composed in beauty
The unity of your passion drives you
The legacy of your destiny
Demonstrates your pre-destination
Alleviating the production of your time
Your future was trapped in the beginning
But now it will be maximised in this generation, so
Remember that Jesus is committed to your future
The Lord of Psalm twenty-three is committed
He will finish what he started
God the Father is Able to finish what He started
Mark Frank
Copyright 2025
Buck off a twenty; should twenty
buckshots mean nineteen too many?
Extinguished abruptly,
with Godspeed so mighty,
effortlessly shattered,
sending molars afar.
So far they say a
shard was found in
the neighbor's yard.
Found someone at the bar.
Didn't want to get in the car.
Pray tell, that didn't get far.
I arrive at the walkway;
I push past a pause, just
I can't stand until
standing right side up,
I saw this rerun show.
Chest cavity. Ghost town captivity
to gesture from behind,
telling, "They were scared."
Startled, so too are we.
Starting up again, approached
closer with a tender voice.
Damn! Blasted fantasy poaching,
encroaching as the situation
abused the determination. In
determination abused, saw
and became amused.
Morals annihilate as
fury eradicates saving grace.
Roof off mouth demonstrates a
desperate need to escape.
Erupting out, fountain snatch;
flung, streamers are strung
about—it's raining.
However, it had ended
before
any ringing got started.
Destroy the annoyance so
they
can bury a face,
not only a body.
At least...
Mark Twain wrote how Tom had Huck paint his fence
using reverse psychology on him.
Tom bamboozled Huck, yet in his defense,
Huckleberry Finn was known to be dim.
Tom baited Huck by acting possessive,
taking great pains to express his delight.
He made painting the fence seem impressive,
taunting that Huck could never get it right.
At first, Huck laughed; then, he begged for a chance
to whitewash the whole fence and prove Tom wrong.
Tom planned on tricking Huck well in advance:
bruising his pride, until Huck went along.
Such reverse psychology demonstrates
how the subconscious mind manipulates.
I love the words of love I create for her,
Her heart becomes the sky, her figure, star
She is the pure diamond, she is the quintessence
In her heart she demonstrates pure consent...
How dare you try to shrug it off, Joe
as 'one bad night'
when you didn’t deliver...
...Just like you didn’t deliver on Afghanistan, or
on picking a competent VP, or
on ending COVID school lockdowns, or
on reigning in reckless government spending, or
on combating skyrocketing inflation, or
on maintaining order at our southern border, or
on giving Ukraine what it needed to stop Putin, or
on keeping the pressure on Hamas instead of on Israel, or
on telling the truth about Hunter’s laptop, or
on supporting women’s sports for biological women only
on fighting unprecedented urban crime and disorder, or
on so much more
Your failure to deliver on debate night
once more reflects your utter lack of insight
demonstrates why you have absolutely no right
to continue to make a mockery of us
in this, America’s darkest night
Joe! Give up your maddeningly selfish fight
for the Presidency ~ you’re too far gone to see the light
A red sun rising soon turns gold
So quiet this morning
Nothing new being told
Until the woodpecker's loud warning
Heavenly Father what a beautiful sky
A pale blue blanket cover
Kissed by the sun's golden touch
A stillness, quiet lightly does hovers
A dove awakes the crow
Then a songbird greets the day
There's a mockingbird in the distance
Singing his song while at play
Slowly mankind begins to awaken
As the sun almost touches pines.
Those tops that are high reaching the skyline
Soon the sun will reach its designed define
Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he (it) arose.
God intentionally confined the oceans within certain parameters, establishing coastlines and boundaries they cannot surpass (Psalm 104:9; Jeremiah 5:22). Even amidst powerful storms, the seas obey God’s appointed borders. This demonstrates God’s sovereignty and reminds us that the forces of nature ultimately answer to Him.
Written: June 07, 2024
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Mistakes stain death
we cannot deny our heritage
some may address an illness
whilst considering restraints
those words are not theirs
It must be your heart's iron.
everybody stumbles and falls
everyone aspires and fails
resurrection is the delight of life
happening on several occasions
when you endure an injury or fall
as a phoenix rising from a dormant volcano.
With a few steps forward
and a step back
evolution is ongoing
what demonstrates resilience
Inner confidence and self-worth
every effort you put in has an impact
even yet, we often stumble.
Look ahead to the horizon
remember your proximity
then yesterday or earlier.
Retain the flame blazing
It is a fact that will endure
would you stumble tomorrow
it does not define your worth
a tale of remarkable achievements.
Do not tell me a thing about love no
Sure. Say a thing or else I resort to
Loveless none emotion. Do you if
You can exercise devotion would you?
Then then this DO NOT tell me of
The emotion I have explored on
Relentless unforgiving ground sound
Then down around. It's what all men
Know all to well from the almost
Belly OF HELL! Do NOT TELL ME MORE
I think I know the score. I have said
Before and I say again LOOK MY LOVE!
This then demonstrates the one I
Am. And this too it is a measure MY
HATE TOO MAY BE GREAT! Do not
Tell of a love forsaken me often
Mistaken.
Toddlers Storm The Capitol
*
Sitting on the beach
I watch and listen
To the ocean waves
Caress the shore
*
The Beauty of Nature
Keeps me steadfast in my
Fervent Prayer for Redemption
*
I beseech You
To touch the
Hearts and Souls
Of the burgeoning leaders
In commerce and government
*
Enlighten them to a world
Where greed will destroy
All we treasure
*
Let the toddlers of our world
Keeping their legs wide apart
Hesitant between each step
Jerking from side to side
Walk to the capitals
And stage a massive sit-down
Where no one moves
Where we all watch
*
As the toddler sit-down
Gloriously demonstrates
Our innate desire and will to keep
The future healthy and viable
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