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Prayer for the 8th Commandment
Oh Father God, You have commanded us not to bear false witness
This I must, this I observe with carefulness
For You hate those who make lies
It is not healthful like a vice
Oh Jesus Christ, help me not to be a liar
Lying and false accusations can ignite war
To the Lord I confess everything that is true
From the Lord comes the truth for me & you
Oh Holy Spirit, help me not lie & falsely accuse
This is God's command, this must be put to use.
Amen.
-10/30/2017
(Dumarao)
*Prayer for the 10 Commandments
Veggie Pizza, my favorite-
Enveloped in soft, stringy cheese.
Generous with broccoli sprouts,
Grated carrots, and mushrooms too!
Intermixed with sliced red peppers
Embedded in white pizza sauce.
Plus, it makes me feel extra well
Ingesting vegetables and fruit!
Zestfully, with a glass of wine,
Zanily adding healthful grapes!
And there! I have a balanced meal!
Both aired, but unalike
Processed of minds.
Anarchic; sane.
Harmful. Healthful.
Both aired, but unalike.
First, last, seethe. Lull.
As devils, as angels
Enfolded by.
Street and track-walked.
City; parkland.
As devils, as angels.
Morn, eve, expand.
There once lived a one eyed girl who had twenty twenty vision
she used her imagination each time she turned on the television
One peeper would sleep while the other one looked and looked
through a slit she did perceive each dream her mind had booked
Viewing the world from an angle of one hundred and fifty degrees
her reverie was safely tucked inside an eye of healthful protease
A whimsy girl that she was with a soul that always gave thanks
in a dress of Eiffel Towers, one eye saw the other drew blanks
Monocular hallucination, she'd often see things that weren't there
and when she saw something she liked she'd pluck it out of the air
Visualization of the highest order, fluid as the wild Pacific Ocean
creating pure fantasy with one eye open, as the other one slept.
Juicy and sweet, these berries delight,
Unique flavor with a hint of almond's bite.
Native to North America's land,
Eaten fresh or dried, both are grand.
Baked into pies or made into jam,
Enjoyed in wines, a treat for the fam.
Rosy bronze leaves in spring's embrace,
Rich in nutrients, a healthful grace.
Indigenous peoples cherished them so,
Essential vitamins they bestow.
Saskatoon berries, nature's gift we know.
"The forest is my loyal friend A Delphic shrine to me." Ralph Waldo Emerson
I lie upon the forest floor
In motion with the lull
Of the wind’s instrumental snore
Around and stretch curiously null
Growing use to its poetic rhythms
Of nature’s calmness and peaceful
Trees of yesteryear strum hums
Walls that embrace and healthful
Its mysteries diversity unclears
Diffusing rainbow sunlight over me
Sounds become orchestral tears
Echo a moment and flees, an epiphany
5/16/2024
"But green's the color of spring
And green can be cool and friendly like
And green can be big like a mountain
Or important like a river or tall like a tree"
Verse from Bein' Green by Andrew Bird, sung by Kermit the frog
Grasshopper, caterpillar, praying mantis, gecko, and iguana
Really healthful veggies and fruits like grape, apple, pear and lime.
Eyes like mine, fields, tennis courts, and plants like marijuana!
Emeralds and jade, Kermit, Hulk, and Shrek, and yukky slime.
Nature wears it best with trees and leaves, and ivy that can climb.
A feast of eye-catching hues swirl midair,
stoic fragile leaf a chill whisper,
overt orange, deep vein red,
pallid yellow, scaly amber,
jumble upon bright clad jumble,
earthbound mattress on a grey mud plot,
bald cypress, Norway maple,
crepe myrtle, pin oak,
shed their raw-hewn splintered twig,
amid the waning sun in bleak morph,
late August and September tread,
damp weather bashful pilgrimage,
acorn mulch stuck between the grooves,
of rugged footwear on limp moss,
along harvest ripened pastures,
hardy toilers lay their white ash scythe,
they reap, gather and proudly stack,
turnips, pumpkins, squash, beet, zucchini,
lifeblood to thriving market square,
rustic idyl diet, whetstone oven backdrop,
whiffs of healthful soup simmering,
bowls scraped, hunger sated,
red ember coal fire glows,
aromatic haze taunt the frozen nose,
symbolic fall eon meter pending,
still a buoyant risen spirit
I do not like the taste of zucchini,
so might I please suggest
we have instead fettuccini?
That dish has zest!
Zucchini is considered a veggie
very healthful for you,
but I’d rather get a wedgie
than eat that poo!
Baked in cakes or bread, it tastes good to me.
Sweet is better than raw.
Eating it plain should be
against the law!
Jan. 5, 2023
For Writing Challenge - Zip, Zig, Zag, Zing Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
All seasons are healthful,
but we can succumb
of so much love before
summer heat...
We can let ourselves be contaminated
by the discouragement of autumn and
become tired of idyll...
But we can gather bones
and feelings to warm up
the winter cold...
We must not exhaust ourselves
by the immeasurable pleasures
of spring...
We can live in luxury
all seasons...
We can preserve the gift
of each and do
the balance...
It's the ultimate in life
that we should learn... !
"The sounds of Earth Is the Music of my Soul"
Earth Seeks to Entertain
No sound pleases me like falling rain.
When it drums on my roof
It banishes my every pain.
Its little drops both cheer and sooth.
When it hisses majestically out there
And I'm keeping warm indoors
It makes me want to show I care
And I thank the heavens, its source.
Thunder also talks to me
Whether it growls, rumbles or cracks.
Of greatness an epitome
Alone such awesome power packs!
Waterfalls are no less wondrous,
Especially when they are multiple.
Their clamour is continuous,
Playing for us a natural fiddle.
Out in the veld when I hear a croak
From the husky throat of a crow
It dresses my soul like a cloak
And I think: "What a show!"
There's a myriad of healthful sounds
That Earth seeks to entertain with.
The list of these knows no bounds:
Sounds of Earth that scare or sooth!
Date written: 8/20,2022
Contest: Writing Challenge - Let Your Muse be Inspired
- R Form Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Constance La France
Conversations on this message
Are exchanges of meaning about
A message with no meaning..
In this manner religious seeds are
Planted which distort the
Full-on simplicity by placement
Of word fences and adherents..
Departure from conversations
May be a healthful antidote..
Another may be an expansive
Stance of welcome to all
Conversations as already not
Excluded..which Poetry Soup
Would likely prefer..
Valued for fiber and
Vitamins are lovely
Veggies grown world-wide in
Valleys, fields, and gardens.
Vast is their array, and
Very healthful are they.
Vegan style's all the rage!
May 6, 2021
Checked by Howmanysyllables.com
for Kim Merryman's V Plieades Contest
Ambulance chasers
have morphed into
Civil Rights Attorneys...
salivating at the gurneys – a big
paycheck a chance to obtain,
making a living by inflaming
already blood-red, fiery pain –
Compounding perceived
prejudice -- hate; propagating
color-division...though good
blindness has been of late
on many lips and in loving sighs
contradicting rank media allies
(conspiring enclaves – perpetuating
malicious, racist lies)...
manipulating facts for
evil purpose; they are
the “Mess” in cesspool...with
only one rule, win at all cost,
and a healthful society though
not so gullible as they think
forced to wade through
foul sewage
a shyter's manufactured
legal stink....
In my eyes
So beautiful and amber brown
You saw the blood dripping down my cheeks
Like mountain dew drops.
In my heart
So genial and benevolent
You saw the pains hidden in my pride
And tearing me apart.
In my words
So soft and soothingly amazing
You heard dejection, insecurity
And rumors of suicidal tendencies.
In my life
So divine and healthful
You saw that I'm dying to live
When I'm just living to die.
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