Come forth darling
Take your shoes off
Allow me to rub your feet
Letting me pray
Pray for us
I'll place your bare feet in the Nile
Dipping them in the Euphrates River
Come let's embracing together
in front of heaven's gate
I reiterate
Come come forth my darling
Walking on Holy Grounds
Barefoot in all
Categories:
euphrates river, analogy, devotion,
Form: Free verse
The famous mountain where Noah came to rest,
ending the ecliptic flood, building an altar for time as test.
Flourished kingdoms at the upper Tigris grew,
Babylonia and Urardhu created powers to sew.
Persian legends refers the holy Vulcan as the cradle of human race,
Armenians built a monastery in honor to St. Jacob’s pace.
Mount Ararat as omnipresent and utterly elusive,
snow capped peaks imaginative conclusive.
Magical countenance almost not of this earth,
crisp air in endless blue white mountain infinite birth.
Center of legends, myth and story,
the fire God Vahagn stumbles upon Ararat with all gory.
Giving life to Tigris and Euphrates River,
pagans visited ghost of royal ancestor in shiver.
Armenians and their homeland of Kurdistan under fire,
centuries in war for nationhood and holy place entire.
Good spirits in distillation known as Ararat Brandy,
Sir Winston Churchill called his favorite tipple, ‘handy’.
No Arc ever found beside many tries on Mount Ararat still today,
keeping mysteries in holy books still at bay.
Categories:
euphrates river, 12th grade, humanity, meaningful,
Form: Ballade
fleeing from slaughter
as opposing forces
clash for supremacy
innocent blood flows
on the Euphrates River
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Categories:
euphrates river, war,
Form: Tanka
Judea is now the West Bank to many people that means nothing
They sit there drawing a blank in not knowing "what they bring"
Tensions have spilled over before it's a problem with no solution
Remember the six day war where God bought His own resolution
Russia who is now in the Middle East and China is it's new friend
Revelations mentions that beast and just such a 200 million army
Now near the Euphrates river flow the West Bank seems so bare
Yet when they begin to flee though you had better of been aware
Those in Judea must flee to the hills not in those books you read
For it is all in what the Creator Wills as so now with you I plead
Understand it's previous verse but you can't understand it alone
For you are under the biggest curse in that His Light hasn't shone
Even if we are all wrong and everybody lives happily ever after
As it is for Christ that you long and in that there is no laughter
But the news has a reflective glare up on the Broadway stage
Of course there'll be many unaware in this the end of the age
But you needn't be one of them!
Categories:
euphrates river, earth, war,
Form: Rhyme