Long Commends Poems

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Spring: Beginning, the practice run, 
      Hello, hallowed ..., Aubade;
Cringe reflections and spare the fun,
     hues, tints, oh yes, and shade,   
  ...

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This is my modern English translation of Paul Valéry's poem “Le cimetière marin” (“The graveyard by the sea”). Valéry was buried in the seaside cemetery evoked in his best-known poem. From the vantage of the...

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Alan as Buckminster
delivers Fuller Watts.

Left-Brain partisans of deductive "prickles"
and Right-Brain bipartisans of inductive "goo"
have reduced mutually antagonistic arguments
into something resembling a pile of boorish poo.

Prickly Reds are tough-minded,
rigorous competitors,
precise calculators of economic wealth priorities
for anthro-theistic...

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'I think I know why the ocean flows'


When I watch the tides send spume and surf onto the poets' swaying shore

Caress the silken sand embrace high waters so quietly or with almighty roar

As tangled seaweed...

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January 29 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 33-35

Key Verse – Exodus 33:21-22 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it...

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January 10 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 28-30

Key Verse – Genesis 28:3 And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people.

FAITH...

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God's..  Great plans all this time
Male and Female.. made to be of wholesomeness kind
As the two of you.. growing up in different places
Finding both.. had been singled out... Among faces

Godly innocence of purity
Ridiculed of.....

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January 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 29-31

Key Verse– Exodus 29:18 And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the LORD: it is a...

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August 31 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Haggai 1-2

Key Verse – Haggai 1:5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY WAYS’ CHECKER			

Lord God, You are...

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God's…  Great plans… all this time
Male and Female… made to be of wholesomeness kind
As the two of you… growing up in different places
Finding both… had been singled out…. Among faces

Godly innocence of purity…
Ridiculed of…...

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She guides, she smiles, she invites
Hearts to hope, to relish her light
She inspires, she admires, she stirs
Compassion and joy, precious wonders
Unfolding in the spirit of those who listen
To the treasure of her gift, her brilliance
The...

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God's Great plans all this time
Male and Female made to be of wholesomeness kind
As the two of you growing up in different places
Finding both had been singled out Among faces

Godly innocence of purity
Ridiculed of Morals...

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God's…  Great plans… all this time
Male and Female… made to be of wholesomeness kind
As the two of you… growing up in different places
Finding both… had been singled out…. Among faces

Godly innocence of purity…
Ridiculed of…...

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God's…  Great plans… all this time
Male and Female… made to be of wholesomeness kind
As the two of you… growing up in different places
Finding both… had been singled out…. Among faces

Godly innocence of purity…
Ridiculed of…...

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February 8 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 22-23

Key Verse – Leviticus 22:29 And when ye will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the LORD, offer it at your own will.

FAITH IN GOD...

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April 27 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 18-19
 
Key Verse – 2Kings 18:6 For he clave to the LORD, and departed not from following him, but kept his commandments, which the LORD...

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dear Lord
how amazing it is how you care about me
how amazing are your thoughts
that out number the grains of sand on a beach
where others fail to your word you stay true
loyal and faithful through and...

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March 23 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 13-15 

Key Verse – Judges 13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as...

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I confronted the ocean, 
the moon hanging low. 
I scowled at the sea, 
the Breeze processing below. 
The calming hints of the ocean welcome me. 
The ocean breeze quieted the trees to rest. 
Also, it...

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July 3 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 103-106
 
Key Verse –  Psalm 103:2 Bless the LORD, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.

FAITH IN GOD WHO BLESSES US WITH...

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God Almighty…  Great plans… all this time 
Male and Female… made to be of wholesomeness… kind
As the two of you… growing up in different places….
Finding… both… had been singled out…. Among faces…

Godly innocence of...

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Lying alone on a freshly mown lawn
Green as emeralds and warm from
The autumn sun flickering daintily 
Through the flecks of mystery dust
Welcoming my form into the folds
Of its tender tendrils of loving blades
Whispering sentiments of...

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The Sovereign Creator is pleased with helpful modern inventions
Making mankind benefit from telecommunications so well
But for sure, He feels bad when in their vexing malfunctions
Email users in their exasperation feel their brain-nerves swell!

The Perfect Designer...

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Usher me by, the power of the tidal wave, for beneath
You’ve crushed my heart and soul, washed away is resistance.
I’m a vanquished current, swept within your riptide.
A hurricane survivor dashed against your coral reef,
Rough, ridged...

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It is perfectly preposterous not

To fall in love with poetry.

For the poet creates the air…

…And the heavens 

Sweet verses we breathe.

 

The first time he made love to me

We danced.

He led me one word unto...

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