Long Anoints Poems

World War 1 

The Sergeant

The rose cannot compete
with the sweet smell of death,
only her image can forgive.
 Laid upon the silence
of another boys coffin,
which hides this journey in life.

Your shame will not bring him back.
So...

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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of the rainbow at one point I thought I was rare...

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Unlikely Mike
by Michael R. Burch

I married someone else’s fantasy;
she admired me despite my mutilations.

I loved her for her heart’s sake, and for mine.
I hid my face and changed its connotations.

And in the dark I danced—slight,...

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Though they said not a word, but of their thoughts He could comprehend
Jesus turned to His disciples and said this to His men
"To follow Me you must deny yourself and take up the cross
For there...

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So much money isn’t necessary, yes! It isn’t necessary
to live a life of luxury and sophistication.
Enjoying the simple things, each and every one of them
with contentment, patience and discipline
gives advancement a cameo appearance in simplicity’s...

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As restoring love is our EcoMentoring Shepherd,
we shall not pathologically want
or fear any shortage of timelessness,
we are HereNow,
lacking nothing and no past or future time,
in organic multiculturing meadows
of deep green nutritionally healthy grass.

Earth Hosts our...

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*Image of The Lord is My Shepherd by Our Daily Bread

My Shepherd Lord

*Line 1, 3x repeat scales; Larghetto/Largo 60 tempo.               ...

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April 7—Figure something out in a poem

Why Trump?

For the last six years
I have been trying 
To figure out 

Why 40 percent
Of my fellow Americans
Still support Trump.

Still believe he was
The greatest President ever.

I  just don’t...

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Children love
Not only with words
Or with deeds
But with hearts
And souls 
And beliefs

They love beyond words
Beyond thoughts or ideas
More than we can reveal
With mere poetry or prose
With a heart of pure gold
And a soul inspired by...

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Therewithal, profluent life ettles it's while.
Thitherward, from Death's bleak campanile
Grim antiphonals serenade.

A capriccio, the slashing swipe of the reaper's scythe
 will serenade.
Stringent Death forthwith anoints the mithridate to
Life's cantankerous and rankling ado

Hither now come, anon...

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The Lord is my shepherd
I pray for my soul to keep
But how can you
Cage a black sheep
I shall not want
Though inside
I really do
Just a fool
Wanting a life anew 
Given only to
A chosen few
He make me...

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There are brushes with death that we all have I’d guess
That survivors don’t notice (their eyes on the future,
Not bridges they’ve crossed.) Spans collapse with lives lost
That might well have been yours but for giftings...

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All but these bonds who forged ironies chain's                           ...

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Working as a missioner in a foreign land
involves a heart deeply rooted in human sacrifice;
there’s a global awareness of being a migrant
perceived to be a great challenge, filled with trials.

God and his people as a...

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Purple, the color of royalty
Breathlessly risking every dream,
Awake, yet sleeping – just napping
Through the glowing grace –
History revealing the promise
Will He remember me, the silent thought,
The joy and hope, the broken heart?

Will He see me...

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It's the most beloved and recited Scripture 
In the whole world
Psalm 23 a psalm of David 
God's Holy word 
And its no wonder that as human beings
The number 23 has significant too
For it's the number...

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Soft silhouettes sashay by my window
Grievingly gazing out unto a world of which you may never know
Linen curtains briefly ruffled in the breeze
Old drunken Julius finds shade under the huge oak trees
The echoes of poverty...

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Mimshak*
by
Rick Folker

As the Lord lives, it must be the Lord himself who will strike him, whether the time comes for him to die, or he goes out and perishes in battle. But the Lord forbid...

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Its ardor grew like the sprouts being verdant green,
As the lowliness of a meadow's reach for sun.
Their whispered breaths trails farewell to a doting Spring,

Neath the grassy spreads of life, seeks a saffron sky.
Enters the...

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February 12 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 3-4

Key Verse – Numbers 3:1 These also are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that the LORD spake with Moses in mount...

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“1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want. 2 He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. He guides me...

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Frantic searching for my sanity as the odor of explosives and burning flesh assault my soul.  Longing for the boredom of stuffy barracks my eyes my friends constantly search for your return I hide...

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after Ho Chi Minh

I
The stone basin holds
still water. The still water

drinks the arid sponge
as rays of pure energy

slake their thirst on
the ebon wings of crows

II
Yangtze flows from widows peak
pooling briefly in the lock

of a tired...

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You’re an enduring eclipse of quotidian winsomeness, 
Existing in front of all others, compelling the aforesaid into your shadow: 
My Beautiful One… 
Surpassing their talent for beauty, 
By allowing the world to witness your gift...

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Painted by many masters of distinction throughout history,
displayed in Museums and Cathedrals with touches of mystery.
In agony and sorrowful tears or in blissful prayers,
the woman with Christ by biblical affairs.
Saint patron of cruel Dominicans and...

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