Damsel in distress seeking knight
Muffled cries resound from distant castle tower
~ haunting pleas on moonless night
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 1st place 2025
On my plate, I get to taste new things,
Every day—flavors that life brings.
Sometimes it's healthy, sometimes a mess,
At times I bloom, at times—distress.
I feel ruptured, torn apart,
When it’s finally my turn to start.
Oh! The fight between my heart and mind,
Oh! The silence and the violence entwined.
For ease, we chase some clever trick,
Like knowing "ominous" means an "ill omen" quick.
But the peace we find—doesn’t truly stay,
It feels more haunting than lighting our way.
A continuity of emotions, a stream of desire,
We wear them daily—our soul’s attire.
Colors fall and echo a subtle truth:
To win as a learner, not as a brute.
I’ve seen birds fly from morning to dusk,
To feed their young with love—not just as a task.
Struggles can bloom into moments of joy,
If love is the reason, not pressure to deploy.
That night
with a warm, bitter scent,
I watched the sad sky.
Your footsteps echoed far away,
and your hand, like mist—
I couldn’t touch it, only feel it;
but you were already gone.
You taste like goodbye.
Blue Cheese and Old Pickles Poetry Contest
Craig Cornish
A dish of disappointment
mocks the kitchen chef
two anomalies sitting on his cutting board
all in their glory, dumbfounded
... and unappetizing
plated for aliens and not humans
or for a horse that doesn’t know better
this recipe’s giving him the blues and he’s seeing red
where …
his yellow brick road has two strangers today
two lost food groups
arriving earlier in hearses
a funeral procession
mythically carrying the deceased to his kitchen foyer
… some blue cheese and an old dill
that are down for an undressing
of his bitter words
like, fudge, where’s the beef
… or better yet Mars is up there
as a cloud of despair hovers over the kitchen
not a spaceship as one might think
darkness begetting light
salt, pepper and garnishes spooked
… a ready barf bag crashes this meal
Amazing, breathtaking, charismatic damsels
ensnaring fierce, gallant heroes into jaded knights
languishing malingerers, nincompoops,
ostracized plebeians.
Question rises surely then—
Undeniably verily, why?
Xenial yeomanly zeal!
Distress
Miracle Man
1/13/2025
Why should you worry?
Worry doesn’t solve problems.
Seek God for your peace.
The click of the lock
The turn of the key
My palm on his cock
The moan of our kiss
I heard the fall of his belt on the floor
For a moment I forgot I am poor
"This is why you are my favorite"
He said as he sank into me in the dead of the night
For him, it was a passionless adventure of just cooling off
For me, it was an anticipated emotional and passionate adventure not just for cooling off
I am not an Operating System
But he saved my number as OS-3
How do I make him understand
I no longer want to be seen as an Oloso by him?
©ABSOL
you can't turn me on and off
like a lightswitch
i don't work that way
you're hot you're cold
you're unpredictable
it's wearying to live in limbo
i'm the elastic that's been stretched
till it can give no more
my compass has lost its north
i no longer know what i feel
if anything at all
i'm the candle without a wick
i'm spent and empty
hollow and fake
i smile but my eyes don't lie
the eyes never lie
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Unfinished business, it's causing me distress,
A connection so strong, yet full of stress.
Speaking through glances, so hard, I’m dead,
Harder because I can’t get through to your head.
If only I had been a little braver,
I could have made "something" into a matter.
Even if your heart belonged to another,
It’s your love that I am after.
But now it's too late, there is no rewind,
A dream left a dream, difficult to find.
It feels like an ending, a love never begun,
Just "what ifs" and regrets under the setting sun.
You'll never know the pain I feel inside,
As I lost somebody, my love needs to hide.
Although I know that you already know,
We’re both playing blind,
Yet I’m the only one in sorrow.
She was there, the wilted flower of a day gone by,
Hair in disarray, and eyes tender,
He spoke of her with passion, like one speaks of an innocent fool,
Hands trembling from having loved her blindly.
Time slipped away, a faithful companion to taciturn distress,
The sky weighed heavy, like a sullen memory,
Forever engraved on the chains of his penance.
Tears slid between each sigh of his solitude.
What remained of them were the scars of abandonment and desolation.
Blasphemies flew, fragile, clumsy,
Like ashes carried on the sturdy back of a loquacious wind,
They collided with those crumbling walls of silence.
And in a desert of sadness, amidst the mockery,
Love remained silent, discreet and cold,
Beneath a shroud of morbid regrets.
Delicate distress of the loon
beckons plaintive thoughts
return home, as they wriggle
desperately away from where
our past confronts us
April 11 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 1-3
Key Verse – 1KingsSamuel 1:29 And the king sware, and said, As the LORD liveth, that hath redeemed my soul out of all distress.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO REDEEMS
OUR SOULS OUT OF DISTRESS
Praise be to God for redeeming our souls out of all distress by His:
Mercy and His grace
Might midst His greatness
Miracles along His goodness
Magnificence marked by His glory
Marvelousness with His governance
1Kings 2:3 Praise be to the Lord Who
commands us to keep His charge:
Alertly fulfilling His will
Always walking in His ways
Absolutely abiding in His Word
Assertively declaring His worthiness
Affectionately praising Him in worship
1Kings 3:10 Praise be to the Saviour for
teaching us to please Him with our:
Speech declaring our faith
Service of dedicated fervency
Sacrifice displaying divine freedom
Stewardship midst determined faithfulness
Steadfastness in soulwinning despite fierce foes. Amen!
April 11, 2024
John 14:1-4 KJVAAE??
[1] Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. [2] In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. [3] And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. [4] And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.
??Psalm 18:6 KJVAAE??
[6] In my distress I called upon the Lord, and cried unto my God: he heard my voice out of his temple, and my cry came before him, even into his ears.
In the tranquil of the night, the thought of you is my haunting shadow.
July 7, 2023.
Damsel In Distress
Galant Knight in shining armor,
riding high against the wind,
Fighting the dragon for the damsel,
Royal Prince of the King, for Lady Earth’s soul to win.
Thorns and thickets in deepest forests,
Cries heard by wolves to ravish men,
Save the damsel in her distresses,
How shall her timeless story end.
Behind gates of solid pearl and gold,
Only one found worthy to defend,
Fighting the dragon day and evening,
Not to let the dragon win.
He is her knight in shining armor,
Relentless to fight from start to end,
Willing to die in crucifixion,
Raised up to conquer death and sin.
Young maiden promised bride to give Him,
Forever to the very end,
Her heart and soul, rewards the bravest,
The King’s most noble among men.
Fearless One with sword and shield,
The fight of a lifetime for a friend,
To save her from the fierce monster,
Captured her heart, for her soul to win.
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