catching a fish is easy
getting the hook out of the mouth not so much
I feel guilty
wondering how much pain they are in
feeling sad
while at the same time
wanting to cut their head off
so those fish eyes will stop accusing me
June 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 32-34
Key Verse – Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INSPIRES US
Praise be to God for inspiring us:
Giving us understanding
Granting to us usefulness
Gearing us by His uprightness
Governing us with His upholding
Guiding us against untimely unions
Job 33:12 Praise be to the Lord
for being the greatest with His:
Wise ways
Worthy will
Wondrous works
Watchful wellness
Winsome warning over wickedness
Job 34:23 Praise be to the Saviour for
making us delight ourselves in His:
Victory and valour
Values against vanity
Virtues for our vibrancy
Veracity against vagueness
Voice vouching valid ventures. Amen!
June 9, 2024
Feelings fill the page
but can confound the sage
by the poem's mouthful
True, Good, Beautiful
transcending to the thoughtful
I find these engage
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My reply to the poem: "What Inspires You" :)
posted 2023 by PoetrySoup poet Tom Woody
When I in silent moments ponder life
And think of all the suffering I see,
I can’t but weep because of all the strife,
And wish for how this thing and that should be.
But in so wishing all the more my pain
Increases still as though to test my will--
How far I’d bear this grief yet to retain
A sense of hope amidst a world of ill.
While in this rueful state I think of you,
Your charming smile, pure heart, and innocence;
What joy I feel inspires me to push through
In spite of all that don’t make any sense.
A Light and Reason in a dark abyss:
You are to me like Dante's Beatrice*.
*In Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, Beatrice is a symbol of Divine Love and serves as his guide in Paradiso.
April 4, 2023
Baguio City
Pegasus symbol intrigued me as a child, maybe it was fate.
Loving it without knowing Greek mythology or the story behind it.
There was something about Pegasus that made me feel great
Inspiration for artists makes sense as I create projects with daily wit.
He also gives power to heroes, so that fits in well too.
Heroes are everywhere, it’s easy to find them all over.
Pegasus, I admire, revere, and welcome your mystical hue.
You have inspired me from Dorchester and Leeds to Andover.
"The sun cannot set without a poem being born."
Quote created by _ Connie Marcum Wong
Trees were her friends, her serenity and her peace,
reflections of nature found in many a written piece;
she often wrote- I do not fear Heavens realm above.
Writing poems was her dance- and she inspired me,
she left me with her kindness and her poetry filigree.
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September 25, 2022
Poetry/Rhyme/An Angel Inspires Me
Copyright Protected, ID 09-1490-396-25
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France
Written for the Standard contest, Short Connie Tributes
(How Did Connie Marcum Wong Inspire You?)
sponsor, Andrea Dietrich
First Place
Nothing inspires me more to paint or pen
Than trying to clean
I despise everything about cleaning
I would rather be pushed into a canyon
With five hundred hungry salivating wolves
Than pick up a dust rag
Proof of this could be seen yesterday
When I ran over and wrote “clean me”
with my finger in dust on the table in the living room.
My husband was horrified.
Or anyway, he acted like it.
Scoff. Scoff.
You cannot have happiness,
Without sorrow in your heart.
You cannot live a great life,
Without first falling apart.
You cannot find an ending,
If you never even start.
You cannot find the light,
Without walking through the dark.
This is where the line lives,
Between the living and the dead.
You have to breach them both,
Or you'll always be in your head.
Life will always be, uncertain,
Like the rainbow I've spoke about.
And the light could not exist,
If the darkness, Never, came about.
The dead, do walk among us,
Feeling hopeless and ashamed.
While the living, dance around us,
Embracing the past, that they claim.
Failure is not a burden,
But a lesson we all need to learn.
Success is not about the money,
But rather, the life we all deserve.
So invoke the darkness to join you,
Show God your not afraid.
Let the darkness guide you, to your prize,
Which is the light that awaits.
R.K.HARP
11/03/2021
I.
Like the muse, Rose inspires his songs;
and breathes into his gloomy lines
her tender love, which rhyme prolongs.
Like the muse, Rose inspires his songs,
like verse free of errors or wrongs
that sweetly flows like fine, aged wines.
Like the muse, Rose inspires his songs;
and breathes her love into his lines.
II.
The love of Rose, within her heart,
which overflows with lovely songs,
inspires life into rhyming art.
The love of Rose, within her heart,
brings them closer though they're apart:
but love makes distance never long.
The love of Rose, within her heart,
always flows with her lovely songs.
You entered my life,
Like a person with unknown vibe.
You are there, I am here,
Like to seperate Heaven's lover.
You feel lonely rare,
but I feel it ever.
You haven't seen me near,
But I always have the care.
You know you are,
I know you are,
But who know where we are!
Where we are!
The Pink Moon Inspires Lunacy
On a moonlit night
The Pink moon
Shone casting a baleful light
On the world below
A man sat drinking
In a depraved bar
In an evil part of the city
Drinking up a storm
With his buddies
Johnny Walker, Jack Daniels
Jim Beam, and Mr. Evan
And Old Granddad looked on
Encouraging him to drink
One scotch, one bourbon, and one beer
He looked up
At the naked dancing ladies
Dancing up a storm
With an attitude
A Z tude
That could kill
He stood up
Stepped outside
And howled
At the Pink Moon
Who smiled at him.
Helen Reddy, Cher, Bette Midler, Tina and Reba have all inspired me
Showing me women can be more than I thought women could be.
I am inspired by Adam Lambert and his predecessor Freddy Mercury.
They are both not afraid to live their lives, and be all that they can be.
Inspired by singers, dancers, Jennifer Lopez, and friends who live their chi.
Every child I have ever met, which is a lot of children, has inspired me.
My mother and aunts who showed me strength at their knowing knee.
Everyone I know including dad, in-laws and husband have inspired me.
L-itterateur
A-uthors
V-erse
E-mploying
R-apturous
N-atal
E-vent's
T-errific
R-egards
A-s
P-oem
S-imply
I-nspires
Topic: Birthday of Laverne M. Trapsi (November 20)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
M-essage
A-bout
R-apture
I-s
A-iming
T-o
H-ave
E-xcellent
R-egards
E-mploying
S-weetness
A-s
Q-uote
U-niquely
I-nspires
N-egating
T-he
O-ngoing
S-orrow
Topic: Birthday of Maria Theresa Quintos (December 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Vogan Poetry inspires us all
Couth super- of the world
trailer, stringendo travels afar
Rent center bank me bark me
recipe, stringendo.for sure for sure
National poetry month prompt day eight Vogan Bot Poetry
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