Long Entreaties Poems

Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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Oh soothsayers   of        Beth El
who prophesy in the name             of Jehovah
but disregard  ...

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Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within as lava
Anger is camouflaged with the cloak of reticence
Ardour suffocated...

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June 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 63-67

Key Verse – Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for...

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"Great Sculptor!
In your presence I am,
With my forehead
Touching the ground.
I am here
With entreaties
You alone can bear."
"Pour them at my feet.
But do not forget
It's ripe corns only
That I hang on my eaves."
"My legs, Great Sculptor,
They are...

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May 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 35-37

Key Verse – Psalm 35:1 Plead my cause, O LORD, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

LORD GOD, YOU...

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May 4 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Nehemiah 9-13

Key Verse – Nehemiah 9:3 And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God...

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March 10 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 13-15

Key Verse –Judges 13:3 And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest...

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Gentling verses, like softly spoken dawns,
Pour out rhythms, releasing hungers,
Stirring hearts to breathe, restoring hopes,
Prayerful moments trembling,
Echoing, glistening shafts of heated praises,
Mysteries in shadows, embracing – erasing
Shades of inspiration, focusing on joys
Alive like the dancing...

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Oh death, 
You are ugly!
Get away from me!
Each time you laugh
Your guttural laugh,
Like a Python,
I know you have devoured
Another poor soul
I know because evil forest
Lives next door
Every witching hour,
I observe your lifeless victims
From my tiny...

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May 24 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 20-24

Key Verse – Psalm 20:1 The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee.

LORD GOD, YOU...

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So we cross this threshold of war as awful friends in freefall,
and with these trumpets and drums shaking the graves
of ancient days we bring forth instruments of death's call
through our very own homeland where the...

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I’ve brewed so many potions still you are
I’ve made elixirs from hydrogen to quiet you 
Nothing I do is a cure for my lonesome electron
We all have a voice spinning around in our heads
Are yours...

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A Devotion Poem, FATE
(Written for my husband, Jim)

My beloved and I, with our hearts not only 
aligned in love, but also in the empathy and 
compassion grown in the fruits of our years 
together, in...

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It was one of those splendid mellow golden days 
in early autumn when many trees, though still green,
begin to betray a trace of red or yellow. 

In the afternoon I took little Eleanor to the...

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Apparitions of buried memories exhumed with rash eulogies
Arouse dried up tears that ever fail to cleanse the robe of guilt
Arraigning again before the partial jury of tormenting thoughts

Kaleidoscopic filial relationships hypnotize the mind to dumbness
Kamikaze...

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I rest my hand, 
upon golden sand 

My glittering sword 
In faith, it has been forged 
for the cross of St George 

Jewelled  rapier and soft silk, 
the men I fight, 
is of that...

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I rest my hand, 
upon golden sand 

My glittering sword 
In faith, it has been forged 
for the cross of St George 

Jewelled  rapier and soft silk, 
the men I fight, 
is of that...

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September 18 Scripture Meditations Based on Matthew 24-25

Key Verses – Matthew 24:4-5 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I...

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December 27 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 15-16

Key Verse – Revelation 15:2 And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had gotten the victory over the beast,...

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Little children live in their own pure world;
They behave like colorful banners unfurled.
The joyous toddler takes its first tentative step.
Looking at those around, sitting seemingly inept.
He grins, waves his arms, ventures forth, falls;
For a moment...

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Musing on The Muse of Your Words

All the flowers of Epiphany
I have designed and collected
The flowing words through ink 
Came to me
Unbidden and as yet unwritten or encapsulated

They lay sanguine indistinct 
And are birthed in...

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It startled me awake, screaming raw obscenities
Blaming me for something I did when I was five
Before bed, we reverently spoke prayerful entreaties
In the morning hours, our alliance took a nosedive

It introduced itself while I played...

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March 29 Scripture Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 1-4

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 1:7 In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR...

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The Silvery Scenes

By Stark Hunter

The silvery scenes,

Above the sensuous Mexican bloom,

Of transcendent yellow, red and orange,

Back there – in the digesting side garden,

Next door, adjacent the obscene lemon flowers,

An old sot sits and peruses 

A...

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