Egbert the Adorable Octopus
...EGBERT THE ADORABLE OCTOPUS & OTHER NONSENSE VERSE
Egbert the Octopus
is so damn cute
& smarter than u
(the point is moot)
'cause he doesn't pollute
when he commutes,
only, perhaps,
when...
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Categories:
enticements, animal, funny, giggle, hilarious,
Form: Rhyme
Sappho Translations III
...Sappho Translations III by Michael R. Burch
Bed the bride with the beautiful feet,
or bring her to me!
—Sappho, fragment 103b, translation by Michael R. Burch
I long helplessly for love. Ga...
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Categories:
enticements, beautiful, beauty, desire, earth,
Form: Free verse
WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
...WOMB OF ALL BEGINNINGS
In the delicious womb of all beginnings
we learnt to giggle electrons
to bear all things
without nusturtiums, pink lilies or doughnuts
warm gurglings of God’s dream...
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Categories:
enticements, allegory, creation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
The Game of Love
...There are many games you can play in life,
But the only one, that one stands any chance of winning,
Is the game of Love.
I have been playing it for seventy years and hope to die still in the gam...
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Categories:
enticements, age, analogy, appreciation, autumn,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY OVERCOMING POWER
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December 20 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Revelation 2
Key Verse– Revelation 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overc...
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Categories:
enticements, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Your Enticements Are Incitements
...Never say never
It could happen
It could not
Committed to
Non-commitment
Vocalizations stuck on
Silence
It's enticing?
It's inciting
Riots
Put your President
Behind bars
Unlocked...
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Categories:
enticements, deep, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Magic Glasses
...Magic Glasses
In the lost and found
One glitzy pair of glasses
Dusty - forgotten
Cast off and outcast?
Living in land of the lost
Corrections for sight
Mystic mystery
Calls to the curio...
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Categories:
enticements, magic, self,
Form: Choka
Whose Words
...Whose Words?
By Mark Stucky
Hissing whispers in the garden
twisted the warning words of God.
A shadowy tempter in the wilderness
shouted enticements to the Word made fl...
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Categories:
enticements, conflict, confusion, god, love,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Integrity Upholder
...May 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 30-32
Key Verse – Job 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
LORD GOD, YOU AR...
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Categories:
enticements, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Song
...April 23 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 16-19
Key Verse – 2Chronicles 16:23 Sing unto the LORD, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.
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Categories:
enticements, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Sweet and Sour
...The tang of the vital body
scents an inner sky
the fleshy funk
as it surfaces to be perceived.
Aromas; the perfumed stench
of the incarnate
so like a flowering orchid
its thick leafed presen...
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Categories:
enticements, poetry,
Form: Free verse
My God, Thank You For Nourishing Me Up
...November 26 Scripture Meditations Based on 1Timothy 3-4
Key Verse – 1Timothy 4:6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished ...
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Categories:
enticements, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Every Thought Captive
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I’m captivated by a verse from Paul:
take captive every thought that enters in
so that you might obey.
A cry is raised above the din;
hard pressed, I am assaulted, under siege.
To me! ...
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Categories:
enticements, inspiration,
Form: Other
Voltaire Translations
...This is my modern English translation of a French poem by Voltaire, one of my all-time favorite writers. The poem is followed by two translations of epigrams by Voltaire.
Les Vous et Les Tu (“You,...
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Categories:
enticements, crush, french, kiss, lost
Form: Free verse
Bookmarks
...Charities in search of cash
Send envelopes with pleas
And sometimes little gifts in hopes
My giving gene they’ll squeeze.
Most often it’s a sheet or two
Of labels with my name
And street a...
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Categories:
enticements, giving,
Form: Rhyme
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