Long Firming Poems

April 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 12-15

Key Verse – 2Chronicles 12:6-7 Whereupon the princes of Israel and the king humbled themselves; and they said, The LORD is righteous.  And when...

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Admonishing against arrogance and apathy
Building lives buttressed with leadership brace
Caring for his children, blending compassion and circumspection
Daddy* dearest is decisive, determined, diligent, dedicated, disciplinarian...

Empowering with his enabling encouragement
Fatherly figure, firming up family fortress by his...

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My poem is patterned after John Crowe Ransom's "Blue Girls." I suppose you could call it a parody. His poem appears below mine.


Styling in your leggings, wildly designed,
Strutting to classes in your modern schools— 
While...

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Winter's Perfect Heat 


“Snowflakes gather in crystalline drfitings”

Lifting your hair, kissing the nape of your neck
Warm flesh waits on tippy toe desires
Lips brush skin, lower beyond silver chain clasp
Sighs slip past moon shadow echoes

“Frost bitten...

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Breathing the new air, grasping a trembling news
Firming my grasp, and holding my grips
Asking anyone to trample on my shoes
As me flying my mind, and stiffening up my lips

I cannot cry, as my tears are...

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Sunlight hot strikes hard
	White concrete shimmering
rippling mirages of water far
	piercing cleanly the boundary clear

Gliding swaying moving near
	linen blinding bright conceals
shadowed curves hinted within
	softly moving rhythmically

creamy white buttons
	within slits that hold
unfastened slowly setting free
	moistened flesh lying...

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Nature is a fugitive here now
the air thick with metallic salt
silver waves lap a barren shore

Governments bend and lie
as we all do – yet a silent army 
of synthetic colors and dyes 
march on attacking...

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How often have I asked myself this question
As I reflect upon my image in the mirror each fine morning
And wonder,
Who would want you, really want you
And wonder too if sanity might be an arrow in...

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Winged Vamp – for contest


Hey, who’s in charge here…?
I need a serious makeover,
spent a summer eating a very…
well….green diet
put on a few ounces..
had some of “those” curves.
Been in here working
on my image, you know,
buffing it...

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Crows move in.
They perch quietly
in the coaches looking at us
from their window seats.
For us it’s a strange thing to see
but the crows know.
They are staring, waiting patiently
as if willing us to move on
so that the...

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As coveting's exchange, and grandeur's aim
does follow course of some insane
new coveting, while a boast proclaims
its piety real, while cause not same.

But teach me God to wear Thy name
in honest truth, as only can -
and...

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No seeming sight, as left to right were space,
nor style to look upon, not of thy face.

No holding central, like my heart was waste,
and solely rental, as to live were place.

To need you, every way,...

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I think of rooted gods.
gods that are encompassing, seed-bearing,
life supporting, blossoming, sky inhaling,
earth exhaling, ground firming, shelter offering,
reach confirming, water retaining,
fire to ash feeding, and forever sight inspiring.

High beings as lowly as the soil
they share...

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