Long Commendations Poems

Next day new school day. 
Amadeus was the first to
Wake then he woke DJ and 
Damali And all three went for
The showers. Twenty minutes 
Later they woke everybody else 
Including the adults. The Hakim 
Children...

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Being the clan’s chosen representative
Dad Chimpanzee prepares himself with fervor’s zest
ready to attend this significant event
exposing creature’s welfare development
over centuries against challenges
since in his cognition, changes are inevitable indeed.

Reaching the conference hall
he shakes hands with...

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MY OLD BOSSES FUNERAL 
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS 


Went to the funeral of my old boss
After several speakers I was at a loss
Who was this person they were eulogizing
Kind words and praise was so surprising
I knew...

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society has fallen prey to the status quo
unwilling to stand up for the God we all love and know
more concerned with being acceptable in the eyes of man
afraid to step out, to blaze a trail...

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My Christ* secures my eternal salvation
While transforming me in His conversion…
He guards my soul by His mighty protection
Enabling me to fulfill great soulwinning function.

My Christ fills me with His grace
While keeping me upon His fellowship’s...

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She exudes the struggle of acquiring autonomy from her “faux mother” charmingly characterized. dramatized, and energized by Jamie Lee Curtis. The ladder reputable, suitable and quantifiable role as  Doctor Tess Coleman transfixed at the...

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Articulating midst roses' scent of God’s goodness*
     affectionately, I assert my prayer affirmations for you
Blissfully bringing bountiful salvation-gift  
     blest redemption of complete pardon 
Care and...

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Good morning, November.
It is now 1:30 AM on the 15th day;
And it just occurred to me that I have
Not spoken directly to you until now.
I do apologize because I owe you a few  ...

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beauty, blessing, January, magic, moon, sunset, winter

A SEASON’S GLOW ©

‘Bastille’ winter-lodes wait anticipating the reserved and affected invasions of the sun’s setting rays, to lay its' mark upon her surrounding ice-capped winter hood--- 
Fortifying ‘arms’...

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An Ode To Vera Selena (Osburn) Hinshaw

It takes a very special lady to be an ideal Air Force wife,
To face the many challenges and vicissitudes of Air Force life.

Even though it meant moving every few...

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Afar off you stand,
fearful of me
because of what ... 
the color of my skin?

At a distance (you deem safe)
do you judge
the worth of me
As you live in gated comfort
of isolation

Wearing a white suit of 
fruit...

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When this Corvid crisis is over
There has to be Social Reform:
We just can’t expect things to
Return to their pre crisis norm.
All those essential workers
Daily risking their lives,
The security of their families,
Their children and wives,
To try...

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Fallen upon knees in ashes of pipe dreamer’s infatuation 
chimera's collective stardust reigning through macrocosms,
world spins counterclockwise unrealistically bound hiatus
stained glass mirrors fracture in rhetorical opposition,
earthly beings condensed to mere commonplace residue
threadbare allegiances written on...

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Blessed with friends* who love me as I am
I thank God for them… precious treasures indeed
Whose compassion ways’ worth enrich my soul graciously
Along with their faithfulness --- priceless --- so dearly valuable.
Bracing me upon their...

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Shovels' scraping shows work well done
Keep it up!  Congratulations!!!
Service to God is number one
Yielding fruits of commendations.

With the Lord's strength as girding might
Shovels' scraping shows work well done
Radiating life-building's bright light
Exemplified by God's great...

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Through the doors of my heart
Her presence enters,
A trail of light, wind, and commendations
Of summer escort her footsteps
Sashaying the strands of her hourglass garment.

Impressions stretched like sunlight on a prism,
As wind whispering thru river reeds,
As...

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Each of us is a warrior:
For earthly survival,
For the Lord of our soul.

What determines the time of service
For each individual warrior?
Conscription? Consumption?
Was this culprit a volunteer?

An honorable discharge
Is really all the old warrior seeks.
In the...

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Immortality*

toward eternity’s door

ushers to mysteries' truth

welcoming quickened spirits---

…faith-propelled 

by the Saviour

blissfully plunging into

wondrous re-birth zest

pursuing heavenly 

service-commendations.  

* 2Timothy 1:10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who...

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Happiness, or ambition, dreams, self-expression and dignity, 
Asserts that you are living just as you think you should, 
Powerful enough to articulate your own thoughts, 
Possibly quietly, if a question surrounds your behaviour;
It is contentment...

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