Hail, fair Aphrodite, foam-born, star of the sea-ways,
Mist-veiled sovereign, mover of mortal bosoms,
Bearer of sighs and bloom of the secret garden—
Hear now my praising.
Thou who mak’st kings bow low and shepherds mighty,
Thou whose glance sets the coldest spirit burning,
Soft is thy yoke, yet none may flee thy binding—
Sweet is thy governance.
Dost thou recall our hours in hush and amber,
When breath met breath and time itself stood hearkening?
Say, if thou wilt, in dream or sign or whisper—
I yet remember.
Take thou this vow, by rose and hidden ember:
No tongue shall loose the tale we twain have carried;
Close kept, sealed fast, our chronicle unspoken—
Veiled be our history.
Hearing vibrations
passivity strains
Learning to listen
hearkening reigns
Sound and resonance
euphony binds
Volition the ears
— eternity finds
(Herb Alpert: June, 2024)
April 14 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 8-9
Key Verse – 1Kings 8:11 So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory of the LORD had filled the house of the LORD.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO FILLS
HIS HOUSE WITH HIS GLORY
Praise be to God for filling His house with His glory:
Exposing to us His sovereign worth
Enabling us toward sincere worship
Expressing to us His shining wealth
Empowering us for servanthood and stewardship ways
Emphasizing to us His separation from wickedness
1Kings 8:61 Praise be to the Lord Who exhorts us
to make our hearts be made perfect by Him:
Purified according to His truth
Purged by His teachings
Powered with His triumph
Prepared for His testings
Peace-propped along His touch
1Kings 9:3 Praise be to the Saviour for hearing our
prayer and supplication with attitudes of:
Christ-caused hallowing
Consecrated hopefulness
Conscious hearkening
Chaste heart despite heaviness
Cleansed health of hoisted happiness. Amen!
April 14, 2024
February 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 21-22
Key Verse– Numbers 21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HEARKENS TO OUR PRAYER VOICE
Praise be to God for hearkening to our prayer voice:
Delivering us mightily
Dealing with us mercifully
Defending us majestically
Driving us meaningfully
Directing us manageably
Numbers 21:34 Praise be to the Lord for delivering us by His:
Guarding hands toward triumphant servanthood
Guiding holiness of true sanctification
Girding hope along tenacious standards
Goading help with trustworthy strength
Gripping hoisting up against terrible selfishness
Numbers 22:38 Praise be to the Saviour Who puts
in our mouth what we must speak about, which is His:
Word upon prevailing truth
Ways midst powerful teaching
Will along profitable testimony
Work of perfect task
Worth so peaceful against trials. Amen.
February 20, 2024
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday
Hearkening back to the days of the pilgrims,
Giving thanks for a bountiful harvest this way.
Over the centuries, celebrated by millions,
A time for reflecting on blessings received
Among them is the example of Roger Williams.
Who stood up strongly for what he believed
Establishing a free church in Rhode Island,
The right to worship as we please was conceived.
Reasons for Thanksgiving throughout the land
Are as numerous as our citizenries’ imagination
Always pertinent, interesting, and never bland.
No matter what our circumstances or station
Let’s give hearty thanks for our blessings indeed
But most of all let’s all be grateful for our nation,
For forefathers who nourished freedom’s seed.
Written November 19, 2022
As psoriasis; old scoros is'
With vulgarity; of method-biz
Darkening all hearkening
Bloated out ego-cankering
Blood money his diocease!
Tonight I will write
no profound verse,
nothing negatively terse –
alternately worse,
I will only, in my reconsidering mind
and multi-chambered, often corrosive heart,
rehearse my better, positive part; where
I should and could mostly dwell, hearkening to
heaven's angels, as opposed to earth's usual
demons of Waring hell....
of a world on the brink,
the poison man's ill temperament
is too quickly to buy and drink –
Tonight, I will not think, of man's moral stink,
but focus on sweeter scents, those of springtime's
charming, whirling nectars; and a bright moon without a tinge
of hazy blue – I will plant new garden memories
for the now season of fresh cultivation, rotating my
gifted seeds as a respectful steward, not wanting to deplete
the soul of a fertile land on loan – pausing to listen
to the awakening, champagne fizz of gentile showers,
the aeration of my crops~
uncorking, nose tickling
delightful pops....
skin soft, giving
ego plump, accepting
talk embellished, aware
mind a sponge, absorbing
resolve earnest, resolute
awareness listening, agile
love unencumbered, bubbling
debate boisterous, hearkening
heaven can wait,
not done
Deep within the crevices
Dire valleys deepen
Hearkening to the Thunder
Channel Rivers spiral
Voicourss thunderclouds
Clapping loud
Sun beams bright
Focusing on it lights path
Darkness Shadows await the night
Moon switches places
Evening tides river rides
The grounds follows
Deep within the crevices
8/3/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr 2020
https://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htsf/20160301.aspx
Beneath the rubble of the Ocean
Where Panoply Swirls Decadent
Memories of Jupiter
Before the Flood-Omega
and, retro-spect, the turn of Archimedes
Poseidon in A Rage
Prophecies the Doom of the Titans
The Rush of the Nightengales
In the Dark of Obsidian Night
In the Cool of the Shrouded Dawn
Whom Fell to Earth
Without Hearkening the Runes of the Sibyl
Or Gilding the Armor of the Hoplite
"They Came Only to Procure the Heat of Day"
Poseidon proclaimed to his Daughter Ocean
Or Complained,
Perhaps
In Damnable Rhyme
With the Flow and Beat of Her Tides
Steadily Plummeting Above
"Yes, And I Love Him For It."
>Venus^< Demurred Coquettishly
"His Day is the Urge That I Hear,
---In the Night."
Quietly, she returned to her Lonely Merman
Almighty is God; and I’m thankful* to Him for His blessings abounding:
Builder of my life by His beauty’s brace
Compassionately caring for me ceaselessly
Defending my soul against deceit with His deliverance
Empowering me in my spiritual endeavours.
Faithful is He to fortify my faith midst frustrations
Guiding and girding me up by His gearing grace
Hoisting my hopefulness while hearkening to my cry for help
Illumining, inspiring me toward godly influence
Justifying my righteousness thru His holiness-jubilation!
*Colossians 3:15 …Let the peace of God rule in your hearts, …and be ye thankful.
April 8, 2019
Children playing, picking flowers
on this April afternoon
up and down the grassy hillside
shadows will be fading soon
As the sudden storm approaches
all of nature darkening
the children dashing homeward
to their mother's call are hearkening
The rain begins its rhythmic dance
as to their back door they both race
once inside they make their way
into their mother's warm embrace
Perched beside a picture window
fresh hot cocoa for each one
they sit and watch the treetops blowing
passing storms can sure be fun
Breaking clouds give way to sunshine
beams of light go flowing by
and like a heavenly artist's brush
they paint a rainbow 'cross the sky
Children sit and watch in wonder
Mother Nature's wrath subside
as dazzling buds and fragrant blooms
beckon them to come outside
the stars lifted up
and the earth —
we stand hearkening
10/22/2018
Divine angels of blessed stature
Do serve the Lord as souls’ vanguards
Vanquishing spiritual hazards
From grueling evil torture.
Heralding tidings from heaven
Divine angels of blessed stature
Set ablaze hearts for love’s gesture
While in trials, faith is proven.
With gentle, holy forbearance
Driving for eternal venture
Divine angels of blessed stature
Uphold saints’ wondrous assurance.
Now, in grateful prayer-posture
I praise God midst glorious worship
Among friends in sweet fellowship
Divine angels* of blessed stature.
*Psalm 103:20 Bless the LORD, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.
August 9, 2018
Edited on May 3, 2020
3rd place, "BRIAN'S CHOICE 2,any form,any theme" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 5/4/2020.
R-eality and fantasy deliciously intertwine, with
O-pulent stars and pearlescent moonlight,
M-ystical pheromone tango and waltz,
A-ncestral hearkening to the lyrical
N-ewness of love. Warmth of rapturous embrace,
T-rill of songbird heartbeat - pulses flutter in
I-dyllic skies of amorous twilight, utterly
C-harmed by a pink tie and a blue rose in stiletto heels.
2/18/2018
John Hamilton’s Romantic-acrostic contest
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