drawback
dire, detrimental
damaging, threatening, menacing
debt, injury, bonus, knowledge
aiding, supporting, calming
pleasant, delightful
benefit
Breath can be taken away by what’s beautiful, or something detrimental too.
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I was becoming breathless
as if a noose squeezed my neck
I'd lost my way in the park
with daylight becoming dark.
Overcome with dread and fear
wishing I could disappear
Then I heard an awesome sound
trees talking to me out loud.
Telling me which way to go
the way that the wind does blow
I felt love, answered prayer
guiding me from out of there.
* * *
many of us fail because
we made distant decisions in life
and then we tried to blame the devil
when it caused us nothing but strife
because distant decisions can be detrimental
to your destiny
as you didn't consult God in prayer
nor give Him the opportunity
to weigh in on the path
or the choice you had to make
for you went rogue and completely
forsaken your faith
to say you trust in God
and then don't go to Him in prayer
you then make dumb decisions
and find yourself in dire despair
so stop blaming the devil for the unsanctioned choices you decide
for when you get to the judgment gate
the Lord God will tell you to please step aside
God created mankind upright.
Inventing their own schemes
humans later chose to sin.
Driven by pride, self-interest
and desire for power
man has become a devil.
Selfish motivations centered on personal gain
such as land, resources, have made people
face the consequences of war.
War is the ultimate result of unchecked egos,
where leaders live in luxury
while the general public face the destruction.
War in any form is detrimental
to the safety of humanity.
No matter which side of the conflict you’re on
everyone suffers greatly.
Why do you hurt me every time we meet?
The things you say
Are so hurtful and detrimental.
I try so hard to be understanding.
You’re so abusive
So, demanding.
You make me promises
That always fall through.
Your honesty is awful
And mostly true.
Why do you hurt me so?
Why do I keep coming back?
I can’t stop looking.
It’s like a train wreck.
We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails," by Dolly Parton ,
Hot summer was over. A mighty wind roared
out of nowhere bringing back the nasty dark clouds.
Where did the wind come from? No one really knew.
I did not know nor did I care, so long it brought
no rain, for then the wind would wet me all over.
That's when I saw a woman huddled near a bar.
Raw wind whipped around, so detrimental for her.
I could see her trembling with cold; her clothes tattered.
She was quite near of getting hypothermia.
The wintry wind was of no actual help.
I got her in the bar where at least there was warmth.
Two women helped and I paid for a tot of scotch.
I left the bar, the wind was like a breeze now.
I wandered round the area, heart-broken,
the cold breeze wrapped itself around my heart.
Its gust echoed in my heart calling for Rose.
How could I find her in such a wind-swept city?
The swirling wind insisted on its forceful call.
Listen to the wind, it churns her name in my soul.
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The time and energy it may take to search for poems to steal
It is a waste of time if you’re not going to be authentic and real
It’s also a crime to take credit for stolen art, poems or any other copied matter
And only a matter of time before a lawsuit may be served from a silver platter
It must be a type of severe mental illness or some type of character flaw
To want to claim poems as yours, that are not, is against the law
It would behoove you to think before you continue to copy and paste and post
We are on to your shenanigans and the deceitful liars are despised the most
Please remove your pathetic copied and pasted posts and leave our page
Because your reputation, integrity and legal recourse may be a lot to wage
There is an incandescent glow in the “not to know”,
Like sprinkler mist on my secret garden.
There is a horribly beauty in leaving it as is.
No knife to be turned in your back again,
just leave it and watch your body grow around …
To leave a tiny scar where an innocent pain once felt detrimental to your world, but it really meant nothing cause the wheel of time.
Hello to all soupers.. My best wishes to all.. I am trying to get to grips with a
Narrative account, of a meeting I had way back in 1994 which only popped back
In my mind January of 2023.' It is mentally difficult to recall the exact sequence
Of dialogue.. Not least because I know now this ( random meeting ) with what I
Now know was a 'w e 'f operative had me initially be- moaning human overpopulation
And its 'so called' detrimental effects on the planet.' It was me who started the talk
To the complete stranger who I have never seen since..I validated the event by checking
Lectures in the university he noted the was working..And some of what I considered
Unworkable ideas that I aired on the day I now see coming into existence in our world
I had obviously picked up ' some ideaology' also 15 years prior? So It seems from what
I see spoken at davos.. and catchphrases I have some part in our current predicament
Which I need to address, and it is a mental stress..I will finish now, I hope to get on I
Could finish this in a few hours now, but it's so depressing.'
I may get on to make the odd comment but please bear with
Me? All the best, all my love.'
My knees held tightly to my chest,
I thought the storm clouds were miles off in the distance,
Of someone else's distress.
But morning came, and the storm remained.
No water nor washing could wipe away the stains of sorrows
And restlessness from my covers-
My detrimental haven...
I could rot away here, the irony being I already do.
What treasures can shake me from my trance?
Little seems to speak to me anymore-
I have become stale.
First come, first served love
Is confusing and detrimental
Kind of relationship heart thing.
Never love if force is being made
Neither happiness with money based
A guarantee of secured relationships.
Give love not out of necessity
But love that is pure and natural
An attraction that is free flowing spirit.
October 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Mark 13-14
Key Verse – Mark 13:5 And Jesus answering them began to say, Take heed lest any man deceive you.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR WARNING US
AGAINST DECEIVERS
Praise be to God for warning us against deceivers with their:
Dishonest words
Disgraceful ways
Disrespectful witness
Detrimental worldliness
Dysfunctional waywardness
Mark 13:32-37 Praise be to the Lord for
commanding us to be watchful while:
Waiting actively for His arrival
Working abundantly by His affirmation
Wanting His approval along His assurance
Walking against arrogant and apathetic attitude
Withdrawing from abominations through His assistance
Mark 14:6 Praise be to the Saviour for
delighting in our good work wrought on Him:
Dearly with dedication by His divine design
Diligently with determination to His direction
Dutifully with dependence on His driving defense
Devotedly with decisiveness through His distinction
Determinedly with discipline and discretion from destruction. Amen!
October 19, 2024
The universal, eternal Atman, the endless soul
Resides in me as my breath, and makes me a single whole.
As the breath of the almighty, it is born without sin.
It drives, as a life changer, the physique it enters in.
When my physique is devoured by the detrimental death
My soul takes flight, and in a new life after, it takes birth.
With no color, form, shape, taste, or odor in its pure form
Its nature shifts to a flower, bird, or beast with its norm.
Commanding and demanding, approaching and reproaching
With peaceful, pleasant consciousness and conscience, heart-broaching
Within physical flesh, bones, and veins like blood, it would flow.
When and to which universe it would fly, I do not know.
Sometimes the dreams are better than being awake, yet even when im sleep, from you I never get a break.
At least in my dreams I could believe it's true knowing damn well this isn't you and whats before my eyes is fake.
yet every details precise as my mind our futures gliding through and when I wake its like someone hit the brakes...
She leaves not talking rake, just to realize I was only being teased and whats next is a sharp pain in my chest as if that of a stake.
She seems to know me best I profess but that parts the most detrimental mistake.
in turn I like every other woman less as my mind you caress, to you id hand it over but she left so now with her its my mind that she takes.
The only thing I cling to are treble clefs and probably will till my dying breathe, sometimes dreams are better than being awake...
Inside, I was compelled to decline
How could I be yours when I was mine?
Though now acknowledge true transcendence
Identifying independence.
Quenched quality of being free
Prime power of owning me,
Spiralled down to feeling blue
Detrimental déjà vu.
Though wishes made came with season
As does choice and fair reason.
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