Long Besetting Poems

Move on over ole Joe...

and let the youngbloods take the reins
infusing our promised land with hope.

You done good for America,
serving as laudatory President
from 2020 to the present
Vice President from 2009 to 2017,
and in the United...

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My dreams became galling
To my fratricidal brothers
My father's favor appalling
Birthed from different mothers

"The master of dreams is coming."
Down the cistern they tossed me
Their plan to kill me numbing
My dreams engulfed in irony

Reuben discouraged their plan
They...

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My dearest Mama who is now in heaven,
       
       God be praised and thanked for giving you to me; and yes, to our...

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MEMO for Destroyer Poet A Linda: 3. 20 p.m., 23rd April 2013 – Paris, France
  
If you are Red   I am Brown
If you’re not 
Then as one concrete painter using phonemes 
...

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March 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 9-12

Key Verse –1Samuel 9:9 Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the...

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December 12 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on James 3-5

Key Verse– James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE...

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April 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 8-11

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 8:1-3 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house of the LORD,...

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October 28 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Romans 3-4

Key Verse – Romans 3:22 Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe…

LORD...

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September 29 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Luke 18-19

Key Verse – Luke 18:1 And he (Jesus) spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to...

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The journey began from birth
 Since presented out into this life,
 The brow beating experience,
 Gloom besetting this vagabond soul
 Are harrowing like the trail in front,
 The ancestors had proclaim the future
 To be...

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Hoof beats...palpitate and pound,
A sudden rush...rapidly...rushes by.
Leaving overturned leaves in a swirling...whirl.
Pursuers...persistently follow the tainted...trail.

A Magnesian...mare crosses his mind,
A debt of dreadful...death woefully bestowed.
Death...the debt to breed on forbidden lands.
Centaurus relentlessly...races his hurtles.
Leaving his luscious...love...

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“I am the light…”* Thus declared the Source of eternal radiance
Jesus Christ Who assures faith's glow in His presence   
checking vision blurred by selfishness and pride	       ...

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March 24 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 16-17 

Key Verse – Judges 16:28 … O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee…

FAITH IN GOD WHO STRENGTHENS...

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May 28 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 110-112

Key Verse – Psalm 112:7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD. 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR FIXING MY...

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Hailed as “Pearl of the Orient Seas” is my country
God has blessed her with bounty so richly precious
Including a glorious, peculiar history…
That really makes me constantly freedom-conscious.

In Southeast Asia is where she's settled grandly
Possessing distinct...

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Former CIA Director
John Brennan scathing headlines
Washington Post op-ed sharply
published critical accusations

muted excoriation slams
Commander in Chief
volcanic blatant pathological lying
spews like lava his American

foreign policy boilerplate brazenly
bastardizes by banditry blueprint,
balefully balkanizing beautiful bracketed
booming brady bunch brand,

bests best-buy...

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DYING GRACE

When I reach that final hour that life holds here for me
And I face the coming prospect of life eternally,
It’s then I’m sure I’ll know it--this thing called “dying grace,”
As witnessed by the countless...

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From the tales of old, it has always been known
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The God of heaven prospers us in life building*
While we yield to His patient scraping shovel’s might
Molding us to guide others to righteousness-light
Perfecting our masterpieces by His leading.

With abundant supply of provisions’ bounty
The God of...

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Arousing achievement ardor
affirming assertive aspirations
Beaming brightly 
beyond besetting blight
Carving creations consciously 
circumspectly with care
Dreams are stars of clarity that direct 
delighting desires to dare and do…
Empowering exploits midst pain-exposure
earnestly enabling with empathy
Freedom to fight fear
fortitude...

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He stood beside the basin and watched her
Cower before him and his musk enchantment.
He took great pleasure seeing how
Her breast would quiver when he stroked her side.
He held her underwater for a moment with his...

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"But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain..." 1 Corinthians 15:10-11 King James Bible

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HOUSE OF CHARACTER
(Based on Matthew 7:21-27)
If your house is built on sand
It will never, never stand.
The sudden storm which comes someday
Will blow and wash it all away.
Yet if you know your Savior true
He’s spent much...

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Aroused by achievement ardor, awakened by the Almighty

Blest being of mine blossoms beyond besetting boredom blight

Carving creations circumspectly

Delighted by dreams’ desire to dare and do…

Empowered toward exploits* earnestly enabling

Freed from frustration toward faith-fortitude flight

Girded, governed,...

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Embrace and release the Lord’s grace
Offering forgiveness delight
Marked by love of caring gaze
Toward sharing midst kindness plight.

For heart to bask in peace nurture
Embrace and release the Lord’s grace
Reaching out through bliss-filled venture
Glowing bright, smiting gloomy...

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