Long Determinedly Poems

'Twas a sound I thought alarming, most assuredly disarming;
Up I rose from peaceful slumber to discern what it might be.
While my candle flickered, wavered; whilst my heartbeat halted, quavered,
At my window I was favoured by...

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White Dove coos the light through the bedroom window
leaving puddles of glimmering pools on the darkened floor
as the evening wanes and night takes control.
The door slowly opens and you shuffle your weary body
through the moonlit...

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CHAPTER 8 Two Paths
 
North they travelled through the jungle 
Aiming to escape from forest
Seeking an itinerary 
Near the coast in open country 
 
So they climbed a wooded hilltop;
Han attained the top-most branches
Of a mighty towering ironwood
To survey the...

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Impossible dreams that give rise to miracles do happen in real life,
How else can one explain  as riotous celebrations burst into life,
There in Leicester City when her football team confirmed their supremacy,
With a final...

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See them walking down the street in droves with books tucked underneath their arms making long strides and wide steps walking in clusters to seal the final deal.  

They are moving in a synchronized...

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I was silently watching the two Mary’s sigh and cry, 
When the earthquake hit and I just wanted to cover, 
The ground nearly parted and there was no-one to chi, 
I hit the deck for...

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Let’s please God with our faith* while growing biblically
Showing Christ-likeness believably
Revealing scriptural wisdom boldly
Presenting eternal life blissfully
Exposing heaven beautifully.

Let’s please God with our love while proclaiming His message confidently
Sharing the Gospel and salvation plan capably
Conveying...

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you're proud of your book learning and often boast about
but stand helpless and perplexed when friends shed tears or shout
your diction is so witty, your wording eloquent
but when you talked about affection no one knew...

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We’re in the common room, Lisa and I. It’s Friday afternoon, about 2 - It’s partly-sunny and 45°f. outside. We’ve claimed the two squares of temporary rectangular sunlight like the Spanish conquistadors of old once...

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March 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ruth 1-4

Key Verse –Ruth 1:6 Then she arose with her daughters in law, that she might return from the country of Moab: for she had heard...

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A little girl was walking through a beautiful forest when 
she encountered an old woman who was picking flowers.
“Who are you?” the little girl inquired, and she felt magnetized by the woman’s powers. 
The old...

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Living is like embarking on a ship
A ship having no specific destination
A ship with no captain
No sailors
No handymen
A ship which simply has to keep sailing
Amidst the rough waters of Earth's seas!

Prone to be easily sunk
It...

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"The Young Man And The Devil"


The Devil knew he only had three chances
to win over this Young Man in the wilderness!
He just knew he would prevail so easily,
he didn't realize this Young Man was blessed!

"If...

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Dear people, 
It may please thee to find,
A peacefully priced scheme to these rhymes confined for a time in a cursedly mind,
A curse! It might seam, in search of the dream,
get in line behind the...

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~~ode to the fallen~~ 

I cherish that day he chose me amongst all others. 
Attentively I watched him determinedly fight to 
climbed o'er his brothers; 
once upon a peculiar day I just happened to visit...

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Two love birds collide
Different world
Different cities
Different colour
A tale of two cities

Like a 
cinderella 
story...

The groom 
chocolatey
The bride 
lights up

What an 
attraction
Between 
Unlike 
poles...

When the 
chocolate 
enters
The bride 
lights up his 
world

He said he 
loved her
He...

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If I weren't afraid I'd still turn the lights on to keep the closet monster on his toes. I'd dangle my feet teasing the gremlin "hiding" under my bed. If I weren't afraid I'd throw...

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Where would we be without a second chance?

  Will you ever forget that pit in your stomach?
     That hollow, empty feeling when
  'The love of your life' walked out...

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Dear Muse,

sometimes
you are dull, senseless, 
paralyzingly, protractedly mute.
You determinedly adhere to the dancehall wall,
no magic spell conjuring 
when melodies swell;
instead, you seem repelled by the score,
whether upbeat or quiet.

Limp, lifeless limbs refuse to be lifted...

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It was the last year of high school and there was a lack of beaux,
But then I got an invite. Whew, that was close!
So now the Prom was coming and I was going to go!
Mom...

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Stand for your beliefs 
Despite tribulations and blues
Worry not about physical, psychological or metabolic reliefs
But defend to the hilt the values

Defining, refining and buttressing your personality and character
From infancy to adulthood
Where values and beliefs are...

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A memory from deep recesses of my mind crept
Meandering, probing, seething
In deep shafts of wrath swept
From crevices where the memory for too long held prisoner wept 

Cursing the day it saw the light of day
In...

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She had an almost insane love of life,
Her attitude exuded abject fairness,
She was the abominably busy butcher’s wife,
Cancer treatments turned her suddenly quite hairless.
 
Her love of God and Savior was her guiding light.
No matter...

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Freedom to display one’s unwashed teeth
Exhibiting the whole thirty-two,
Even as others with anger seethe 
And the keenest insults on one rain, too.
	
Voice to broadcast one’s HIV-Status
Before it’s public discovery
Or befriending some consoling circus
And waiting for...

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“Ions”

The ocean is my galaxy.
Like the infinite expanse of space and sky,
Those seas sustain astounding life in varying degrees
Of depth and rebirth.

Similar waves of ions rush across the heavens
And swim determinedly to some unknown destination
That...

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