a single stone
placed on the scale~
the smallest weight
we offer to explain
why we did
what we did.
WAR’S OXYMORONIC JUSTIFICATION
(An Awareness Haiku Trio)
They say, sowing war
is a profound investment
reaping fruits of peace:-
Billions of bucks spent
uprooting trillions of lives:
Quadrillion bucks reaped:-
Yes, sowing war seeds
to reap peace, continues
to be justified:-
JUSTIFICATION
Oh, what a distressing frustrating situation,
I’ve suddenly lost all my poetic imagination,
Nothing tickles me pink, no stimulation,
I want to create a poem of deep inspiration,
Which will meet everyone’s expectation,
But my thoughts are edging towards nullification,
I want to scream out loud, a slow dilapidation,
I’m reaching an uncomfortable exasperation,
My muse, has succumbed to misinformation,
Intimidation, and deviant calculation,
Goodness gracious,
Heard word she wants my poetic elimination.
Someone is knocking at my door, to my jubilation,
There stands a muse, I welcome with elation,
She is well known for helping those
Experiencing mortification,
Such a refreshing sight, she must after
Careful deliberation,
Give one month’s notification,
Looking forward to her presence,
Such a welcome application,
She will help me with my recuperation.
Behold, a rhyme is forming, what scintillation,
Delivering both articulation and jollification,
My previous muse jumped from poet to poet,
Everyone realized, fickle her motivation,
But my new muse and I realized justification,
We Popped a bottle of champagne in celebration.
new seat arrangement
focus on final exams
we will all get A's
When all your plans collapse
Please check for any lapse
Only when you analyze
You can know where lie lies
It is not easy to win easily
Even if we work very busily
We may put the best toil
Still, fate may try to spoil
We may try with real hope
With problems we may cope
In spite of it if we badly lose
Attempting is really of no use
Your hard-work may not fetch
Real success by removing hitch
Instead it may shower troubles
And your agony greatly trebles
Terrible loss may shatter guts
And destroy completely wits
You may be attacked by defeat
Stopping your great golden feat
Thousand times you may try
And decide never at all to cry
Still will come disgrace to kick
Worry formed may be thick
With no scope you may linger
And go weaker, never stronger
Losing the appetite to pursue
As you have lost in every issue
Still, please believe in your capacity
And maintain your unique equanimity
This is the best method to survive
Surely time will rescue and revive
Always God will not test your life
He will end the present strife
Confidently carry on my friend
To all your duties, kindly attend.
"Justification"
They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions , my excuse for sipping got me feeling like l need a healing for l have been dealing forgive me.
What a great feeling , jumping onto the ceiling now that's a meaning , the world in reverse as l search for myself only to realize l was never lost .
Deep in thought the mathematics to the sum giving out numbers yet the working wrong and they say it is a fact .
Cannot argue with time for it has taken and shall take the minutes it meant something to the moon for the sun to appear.
I bask into his glory as l beg for grace over my transgressions all l am is a man yet l got a choice to do better and be better l choose to feel better with poison polluting my lungs tick tock to the hour of the Grim Reaper .
I dodge bullets , inhale the herbs after church just to get an Amen as l lose faith due to refusing to acknowledge his omnipotence only to be wiped away by the reality of moments.
Therefore let me forgive so l can be forgiven for yesterday ' s mistakes trying to rectify today 's forgotten flaw .
The lies you tell yourself,
As you look in the mirror.
All the times you alibi the,
Justification of things you did,
In the name of insanity.
We're the decisions a motive for,
Rationalization in your,
Mind for an excuse.
Such an excuse you tend to,
Overlook as you regret the,
Choices you had to make.
How do you look within yourself and,
Forgive those who have wronged you?
I look back and I know,
I am a good person,
I don't lie,
I never cheated,
Yet now I find myself asking, Why me?
What have I done to deserve all,
This evil being brought down on me?
Just a simple question,
To a very complex answer.
Just asking,
Not really expecting an answer.
I ponder as I look into the sunset, smiling.
I wonder with so much beauty,
How can there be so much,
Evil in the world.
One answer:. The scales must balance.
Good vs Evil will always be present.
It is our job to make sure,
Evil does not prevail.
Vindication by arguments of choice,
controlled egos justification by voice.
Behaving that provide a power decision,
circumstance to create false vision.
Presumed facts to align justification,
politics and its pathetic sensation.
Inferior reasons crying for an acknowledged act,
attention seeking become an criminal fact.
The names of the desperate decorating every corner,
for the state of justified great job mourner.
The accounted right of just, free from guilt,
the act of the state in the name of God to be killed.
Justification of human rights in wicked hands,
perjuries and its titled legacies in demands.
Fanatic delusion from colorful comic books,
not justified hero syndromes in tragic pain as it looks.
Impossibilities and its boundary limitation,
the human mind in dark consideration.
Responsibilities by conscious action,
are worth more than any justified distraction.
The Wind of Time
Time is our enemy, born by the dawn of creation,
and imprinted into the fabric of everything made by God.
It passes like the wind.
It is more abundant than sand.
It moves with every vibration,
and never contained in our hands.
Time becomes our friend, with salvation, born by the dawn of creation,
and imprinted into the fabric of everything made by God.
With time, the Holy Spirit blows like the wind.
With time, justification pours out like water from land.
With time, blood walked and was shed for our redemption,
and with Grace life is promised abundantly, everlasting, without end.
Glory and honor be to God.
by, Martin Braun
7/2/2020
Simple reminder in Genesis 9
rainbow we see in the cloud,
sign from our God that He honors His Word.
Balaam affirms the demeanor of God.
Numbers gives verification -
God is not human for He does not lie.
Six, if not seven, bad habits God hates;
chronicled down in the Proverbs -
lying – deception is listed twice.
All of us need to endorse such a rainbow;
speaking no lies; reaffirming our word,
earning pure gold in the end.
August 14, 2019
Inspired by these biblical references:
Genesis 9:12-16;
Numbers 23:19;
Proverbs 6:16-19.
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Blames and allegations
Conceited self-admiration
Habitual fabrications
Never ending Justifications
Maligning reputations
Backbiting and deceptions
Derogatory manifestations
Avoiding responsibilities, remembering dispensations
Friendships and betrayals
Unjustified humiliations
Killing exasperations
………………………..
This needs proper clarifications
We need moral and ethical upgradation
Focus and proper determination
Instead of shortcuts and distractions
This world is one and we have beautiful relations
Empathising and developing patience
What we are is our creation
Education inspires aspiration
Life is a pledge, we are not on vacation
Race is not just about directions
4/3/2019
Justification
By: Tom Wright
3/27/2006
Ever notice, that those most vocal
About the perils of having money,
Are those who haven’t any?
It’s all in keeping it in the proper perspective!
You can control it, or it will control you.
Condemnation or Justification
Written: by Tom Wright
11-1-2016
Withdrawing harsh words might be our choice,
They leave us to passionately apologize at will.
To retract is no option once uttered by voice,
Because the impact persists in that heart still;
Frequently abrasive words are voiced in haste,
Leaving collateral damage on those unknown;
Like grenades they leave the landscape waste,
And we only remember the last one thrown.
Justification wept
Why are you pale O brother rule?
Did you meet some unruly cause?
Seems tired and crest fallen today
Or you blamed innocent so that far!
I know, I know short of some thing
Certainly happened deficit in your try
Your mind said different than written
But you needed to rule different
A cause of genuine was walking laming
hopping having support of stick
Walkers on the street didn't care him
He was dressed up poorly untidy
Why are you only in paper O brother?
Justification cleared throat with hoarse
Sound submerged not coming out
From the mouth but let out cough
Solicitor turned page and clause sub clause
To satisfy his client defeated
Remembering his loss of property
Thin claimant teared eye whispered- O God.
Justification thought to suggest to act and law
Of previous and will be of present,then
Future didn't care stepped his way
I do not know even the angel wept .
My daydreaming
Is not my imagining
I am yearning
For it to be living
Will you be acknowledging?
The Truth, you owing
Or will you be denying
Taking it to be a monstrosity
I may seem to be a freak
Yet I am weak
My action can be justified
For I was mystified
How could you love me with so much fervor?
And hurt me with so much ardor?
You showed your love behind closed walls
It was known only by my calls
Yet, You are the Cause of Everything
Without You, there is Nothing
What is the use of Living
Without your Dawning?
I miss your Adoration
And I do feel trepidation
Of the anticipation
Of the outcome
Will my Love emerge Winsome?
Written in 2011
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