There are strokes that come from various
sources
These strokes can be words that turns to
strikes
There are words that hit harder the first of a
pugilist
And there are words that calm the nerves like
a balm
We are all wordsmiths mastering our trade with
strokes
Some of the words uttered carelessly have caused
wars
While some carefully grafted words has ceased
strife
History has an array of predilection of such
issues.
We carefully and judiciously use the resources
of the word we have.
(Written on the 8th of September, 2026)
fairy ring beckoned with fallen oaks the seat
she loosened blond hair for all elves to see
dancing in a circle around one rock deep
toadstools were there numerous with buzzing bees
owl hooted deep, arriving late afternoon
in distance farmhouse empty, sported balloons
spiders and grasshoppers smashed cymbals and drums
vineyard workers sleepily dreamily hummed
fat strawberries blood red on juicy offer
down she descended into a loamy hole
to examine nourishing cocoa coffers
then taste spiced cherry brandy alongside moles
her pink petalled dress became nastily soiled
she lost her wide crimson hat to earthworms coiled
tunnels were decorated with soft chestnuts
ladybugs slowly shopped for investment huts
below she found busy beetles, flora seeds
grey weevils digging into sour rotting leaves
roots of varying colours with buried beads
entangled were elf lovers like naughty thieves
teasingly were filled with the fruity brandy
many were heady drunk they became angry
she judiciously spotted coloured bangles
happily returned to own tree bespangled !
**
So delicate she is... her skin as soft as a silkworm
That nose so small... that of a tiny two-hole button
The hair- she wears, is as fine as a spider's web
Her vocabulary is but one word..."Ba-ba" - bottle
... What I hear is- "Da-da!
Those ten little Indian toes smell wonderfully babyish
Even after she went to the market!
With a careful touch I hold her gracefully in my arms
and I watch her stunning emeraldlike eyes slowly close
Then, as quietly and as delicately as I possibly can,
I raise her to my lips, and I plant a kiss lightly on her chubby cheeks
I then, judiciously, with a gentle hand...
rest her perfectly shaped head upon her mushy down pillow
In a soothing voice I sing to her... "You Are My Sunshine"
Within seconds- just like that, she falls asleep
She wears a wee genuine pretty smile...
And then magically, in her sleep
I hear her in her meek little voice
She speaks- And what I hear again are those...
marvelous, glorious, magnificent two-syllable words,
"Da-da"
Be mindful of what you consume, for it shapes your being.
Nourish your vessel with compassion, as your diet influences your inclinations.
Choose your music judiciously, for rhythm resonates deeply with your soul.
Be mindful of what you read, as words penetrate straight to your heart.
Always practice prudence, for the devil’s trickery often hides in the guise of necessity.
As believing Christians doubt
errantly forgetting God,
He intercedes judiciously,
kindling love mid narcissism.
Our Paraclete,
quenchable, resident Spirit,
teaches us vital wisdom
xenolith, yokefellow, zealot.
Our current political identity
is not exclusively red conservative
or blue liberal atheist/humanist
We are also
pissed off sheep
who have gone astray
of richly green domesticated economies,
instead red enslaved,
blue judiciously penned
incorporated property
belonging to the utmost
OmniPotentating Jehovah
Descending from a long
royalist
blue blood-hierarchy
of Straight White Male
red-blooded religious
and political
and economic privilege.
Our anti-PatriarchalCapitalist anger
is our potential bipartisan win/win
supreme civil citizenship
delivering us from this
Sky Is Falling Kingdom
of win/lose zero-sum
nationalistic segregated purgatory
And, we bring our angry
fearful,
anxious
depressed bicameral values
into all our cisbinary/transbinary political
EitherOr/BothAnd
economic
religious
reconnecting
neuro-sensory co-passionate engagements
For the woke glory
of Earth's Green
SabbathQueen
of polyculturally robust
HeavenLight
inviting eweing/ram
yintegral-yang
Co-binary
co-governing
co-operative
co-invested
co-passionate
ego/ecosystemic win/win
co-enlightened bipartisan empowerment.
Inevitable death may suddenly come
Are you prepared?
Have you told your important passwords to someone?
Are family members aware of your account details, investments?
Is your will ready?
Don't postpone anything for tomorrow
It may never come!
Are you enjoying every moment of existence?
Are you using precious seconds judiciously?
Scriptures state good deeds bestow good life after death
Are you good, loving, dutiful, compassionate?
Have you given death a serious intellectual thought
What happens after it?
Ever thought about eternal life?
What is soul?
Why scriptures talk about it?
We think much about dynamic, transient life
Don't you think death deserves our contemplation
After death, world, relationships, possession all become meaningless
Our thoughts, attachment, worries seem stupid
Prepare for your death
Find more about this inevitable truth of life
A rational approach helps.
Live such that while you are alive
and after you are no longer alive
No one suffers due to you.
Start today
Plan for your death
01.09.2021
For Edward Ibeh, This or That, Vol 6
Topic chosen : last sigh
We are of One Mind -
a tentacled,
ethereal monstrous mind,
not inherently vicious
but nevertheless
prone to random acts of terror.
One Mind swims,
slips through your time and mine.
Thought-eels mate in that gelatinous
body of I ’ness.
Legends grow into settled science,
words like krill swell
reach Brobdingnagian proportions,
become too big to fail, reach into the realms
of deniable plausibility.
Of course we must argue and differ,
debate and judiciously slaughter;
alone we are sprats and minnows
in the belly of a godly Kraken.
Of course we are One
but I do believe
that you’re all in My ocean
and I am Not in yours.
Jingle Joy jealously judges Jolly Jump up
Jolly judiciously jangles Jingle Joy’s jabs
Jalopy Jim jubilantly jiggles Jingle Joy’s jeep
Jolly Jump up juggles Jolly Jump Up’s jingle jangles
Jaundiced Jabberwocky jangles Jingle Joy’s jalopy.
Barely belaboring the billions of bungles,
Listening to the cold, clamorous Cleveland-like clungles,
Within the bowels of the half-hearted, hard-headed hungles,
Judiciously jeering at the jealous jaguars juicy joy jungles,
She swung the serendipitous swiggles from their silly slow swungles.
Censorship is the instrument
Of the people intent
Who want concealment
From themselves
And from others
Fear is only to embrace
Their feebleness to face
What is certified in place
Some spot, in their adolescence
They were ensured indifference
Against total real factors
Of our mankind freedom
They were potentially educated
To look one way abbreviated
When other possibilities
Were readily available judiciously
Kitchen Is Open
A Hawaiian
sun blisters
fine grains of beached sand, unaware
to some assured wandering of tender
soles stumbled
swiftly altering
run judiciously
Prepared bodies
rotisserie spirals
evenly baked oily skins glistened among
beads of slippery sweats gliding loosely
suitably turning
perhaps sleepy
retreat reading
Dripping sunlight
rising sunbathers
the conclusive plunge followed by towel
rubdowns prompt a thorough cleanup by
everybody there
final examination
kitchen's closed.
2021 January 13
*1st Place*
Trinet
~~Joseph May
"Time is the thief you cannot banish"
Phyllis McGinley, Writer, 1905 - 1978
If
we use
each second
judiciously
just think what all we can do in a day!
If we are happy every moment, much
happiness we
can gather
in a
day!
~~~~~
No
one can
steal even
a second from
our life if we don't allow. Tomorrow
is uncertain, death again uncertain.
It is wise to
make the best
use of
time.
Date: 11/11/2020
The invading alien came near.
A harbinger of ill will I thought,
paralyzed with overwhelming fear
that it was our abduction he sought.
I called on all the spirits I knew,
vampires, mages, goblins, and a ghost;
a town hall meeting with the whole crew,
I gloomily guessed we were all toast.
There will be no blood feasting tonight,
no trickery, nor ghastly grim acts.
We must expel this hideous sight
before our consciousness he extracts.
Our stance is extra cautionary–
defy his diabolical plan.
Be strong and judiciously wary,
and vote ‘Yea’ for an Alien Ban.
The alien arose and stood tall.
“Hey dudes, chill. I'm not evil, nor mean.
I came here only to wish you all
a neighborly Happy Halloween!”
And behold, calmeth descends evergreen fields, guiding His inspiration judiciously, keep leading myself near opened placidness, quaintly, restoring soul through, undulating, veiled wickedness, eXposing your zeal.
Art being comforted, don't evil feareth, guideth His instruments justly, kindles lavishly my notorieties, ogles pierced quickens, relished spread table, utilized valor weighed eXpeditiously yon zealots.
Attain blessed child-filled days effortlessly, finding great His immunity justified, keeping life merciful, nigh, oils praised quickly runneth sternly, timeliness universally ventured whilst eXposed youth zero-hour.
2020 February 09
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