Jesus lays dead in his tomb, the world is sad and quiet.
Jesus had been dead, all is dark, and many are sad.
Jesus’s voice has ended, and many are in shock.
Jesus is believed to be gone, never to be heard from again.
Jesus is believed to be descended into the darkness of death.
Jesus some believe has gone to free many from death of sin.
Holy Saturday may be the day Jesus fought with good and evil for the rights of us to live in heaven.
Holy Saturday, was silent on earth, yet we ponder if Jesus did battle for the rights of all his believers to be freed by his work on the cross and in his life.
Holy Saturday is a day, we reflect and pray, and love, and remember all of Jesus’s teachings and his sacrifice on the cross.
We love you Jesus, and thank you for all of your works, today and always we pray.
Lifting prayers to God, today and always.
Palindromes Poetry Contest
Joseph May
MADAM IN EDEN, I'M ADAM for you
Do bite into the apple and make do
Please, WON'T LOVERS REVOLT NOW
Can gardens reap what they sow
Does the first man know what he was into
They call the darkness light and light as woe,
Twisting the truth as shadow claims the day.
Who dares to teach what hearts refuse to know?
Sweet becomes bitter as false virtues grow,
Their words a mirror’s haze, leading astray.
They call the darkness light and light as woe.
Blind to the path where honest rivers flow,
Lost in the fog of pride, their feet delay.
Who dares to teach what hearts refuse to know?
Right becomes wrong, and wrong no longer low,
In tangled tongues, they veil the righteous way.
They call the darkness light and light as woe.
Truth stands apart where only few bestow
The courage to resist, the strength to say:
Who dares to teach what hearts refuse to know?
Echoes of prophets: warnings long ago—
Evil as good, as night consumes the gray.
They call the darkness light and light as woe.
Who dares to teach what hearts refuse to know?
Isaiah 5:20 Poetry Contest
1/31/2026
Sponsored by: Anthony Biaanco
Evil surely exists.
And it’s as simple as
That which is anti-life.
But each of us
Has a touch of evil
Within us.
If we are healthy
This touch is like an inoculation
Preparing and protecting us.
If we are unwell
Then without balance, without direction
We feed the evil
Thinking somehow we are the good
Without question righteous
And can do no wrong.
This is how evil grows after all
One heart at a time
Turned from the fluid warmth of Life
To the rigid chill of Death.
(11/7/25)
You cursed a girl to die at the age of sixteen,
Yet you also gave Life to a girl suffering in her teens,
You cursed a girl to die at her own home,
Yet you blessed the other who could now stay permanently-
-In the Prince's home.
You are both Good and Evil,
And become both Mother and a Devil,
On one hand you save a girl suffering from her step-mother,
While you also make a girl suffer for no fault of hers or her mother.
I have both my opinions on you,
And see you with both Hope and Despair,
You must do more Good on others too,
Even with your cold and evil stare.
(“Evil Eye”, 2024, original encaustic)
A Dance of Opposites
What is the world today?
Good and evil in perfect balance
A dance of opposites
With none the wiser, nor more powerful.
But good after all is good
And evil, evil
And in that, is all the difference.
(11/17/24)
Good and evil
Is relative by itself
It's like a pregnant fish
The womb has countless
Caviars inside anytime soon
To be released to the world
Imagine the propagation of life
Imagine also the casualties of death
That this world could have imagine.
Whoever thinks evil does not think well
If you imagine you think well, but...
you do harm, to yourself or to someone else...!
For a ringside seat to watch good and evil battle it out,
You need to go no further than your own back yard,
And you will see the flowers battle it out with weeds,
You will see the flowers slowly being smothered to death by evil weeds,
Such as convolvulus,
Unless you intervene and make it a more even contest.
Of this never ending battle you should not doubt,
And the chances of good winning in our lifetime I deem impossible,
But the good news is that we can reduce the harm evil can do,
Which when I see a well tended garden in full bloom,
Is reason enough for me to keep fighting the good fight.
Good And Evil
And The Heart
Miracle Man
6/9/2023
Good and evil,
won’t reside for long
in the same hotel.
For like oil and water
they won’t mix,
just co exist.
One dominates the other,
until a luxury suite
becomes a cheap room.
* Numbers 32:23 KJV
*“and be sure
your sin will find you out”
*Image of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by WordPress.com.
The Garden of Good and Evil
Alieferous winged hues span's flung, fun in light's sun,
Insidious thing's cues hands clung spun delight's won.
2022 February 04
the bread and the drugs
are sold free at the market
you just adjust floods
sharp nocturne of boughs
super powered as bird of
bhakti and tantra
(the word ‘bhakti’ relates to God and ‘tantra’ associates with witchcraft)
Owl Haiku Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori
Date: 16-10-2021
There is no such thing as a good or evil person.
Everyone becomes who they are because of their environment.
Those who believe that God is not omnipotent
Because he doesn't prevent adversity,
Judge with the human criterion of good and evil
Which doesn't apply to God himself, for God's kingdom
Lies beyond the planes of upheaval!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
16 April 2021
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