Deafening
Disturbance
Does
Dolefully
Dictate a
Detraction
Dancing
Diligently
Despite the
Daring
Departure
Decision; for
Diminution of
Distance,
Derogation of
Distraction,
Depreciation of
Diversion all
Determine
Dedication
Devout
Disciples
Douse in
Dreams of
Deity in a
Developing
Delicate
Silent
Desire towards
Delightful
Devotion of the
Divine
Will your success through any distress
Will your intention though any detraction
Fill your hands with presents
Fill your mind with kindness
Bill your freewill with a list of fruits of the spirit
Kill your ill-will and the roots that sprout it
Freewill transcends the benefit of ill will
Freewill was contrived to vindicate good will
God wills freewill not for us live freely
God wills it for us to live godly
To revere His divinity with a choice of right over wrong
To endure His invincibility with a choice to belong
God wills freewill
Free it for God’s will
It eludes me,
the delusions and illusions touted on the news.
The left, the right, the pseudo ruse,
talkers converging to voice their own views.
That desire for fame, fortune and power,
the many who seek to hold that ivory tower;
I'm content down here in the trenches
but every word spoken in DC sours
to make my stomach heave in wrenches.
Most of us are watching, trusting you, trying to believe
as we make our way thru life and time undeceived;
we search for understanding, spiritual divine abstractions,
the fire and the fury relieved,
which we never seem to achieve.
If you want to speak for me don't be a distraction
be careful of what you say, not abstract detraction
let be it factual -
accurate, respectful, precise and tactful
and senators, shame on you and your inaction.
That presidential position is a gift and responsibility
to us the people you should be our voice of sanity,
be kind, be humble, down to earth, if you please,
stop playing games of show and tell in our democracy
for the sake of all humanity.
Major Detraction Horn Limerick
Instead of Trump being major detraction
What about him could give us satisfaction
And after having to look for a long haul
About having Mexico build a big wall
Taco truck on each corner, what is reaction.
Jim Horn
Talking about other people can hurt you and them
Even if you meant no harm
You could be guilty of a serious sin called, “calumny.”
If you believe the negative reports you hear about others without verifying the facts
You will be guilty of rash judgment
False reports contributed to Jesus’ condemnation and death
Having suffered from them
One can imagine that Jesus takes a dim view of calumny and rash judgment
“Detraction”
Another serious sin that involves disclosing someone’s faults or misdeeds to listeners who didn’t know about them
Without an objectively good reason
Such a disclosure almost always impacts a reputation
Rather than risk hurting someone or sinning yourself
Follow grandma’s wise advise “If you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all.”
The "Rhymers" guild; archaic faction,
We garner all the more detraction
Less, are we, in our attraction
More, we are, the poetic infraction
When free is verse, a form accursed-
Murders Art, fetch forth a hearse
For they coerced the Poems reverse,
And left our lines inverse- perverse!
*Title is a play off "It's Hard to be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World"
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