Long Girds Poems

Sane sexagenarian scribe seeks asylum in Canada...

should Trump swindle electorate by hook or crook,
(1003 days, 9 hours, and
32 minutes until 2024 election),
yours truly steels, girds, braces... himself,
and plots serious outlook
pondering exiting United States
(stage door left)
while...

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Not every woman’s dream 
 	of procreation 

can be fulfilled;

not every woman dreams
	of procreation, 

her body thrilled.

But loved and lovers’ inclinations – 
	recreation
not 	re-creation – 
cannot, will not be stilled.

until

one day

intervention
bypassed her – 

she –...

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Take me , my love to the waters source
souls naked to each other and our course
my praise lifted the apple of  mine eye
art thou glorious , tis mine song to cry
 
You must lead...

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Lamentations of a proletariat 

Loaded to the brim, withouted in a pack of "obersver-non participants"
folded like a wrap, yet forced to lack in the ranks of "server-run-anticipants"
dare to pass a comment and... a knife to...

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May 22 Scripture Meditations Based on Psalms 93-95

Key Verse – Psalm 94:12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law.

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR CHASTENING ME

Thank You...

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April 26 Scripture Meditations Based on Job 37-42

Key Verse – Job 38:1 Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind…

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR  ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS

Thank You for answering my questions with...

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I do hunger and yearn for the Almighty’s righteousness
To enjoy His offered relationship-graciousness
Only He can fill my soul’s grievous emptiness
Midst my heart’s need for total forgiveness 
With His redemption-completeness.

I now hunger for God’s approval that...

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As I make my morning drive,
tired and enjoying music as on each day,
some spell the weather seems to contrive,
a wistful melancholy I oft keep at bay.

Left, a wave of fog spills o'er the trees,
right, one...

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I hear the words. In autumn's silent verse
lie anapestic wafts of falling leaves
with golden syllables both bright and terse,
the crimson pluck of summer as it grieves

its loss of verdant shimmer.  In the wake
of crisp...

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With sounds that gather round the ocean’s shore,
the whimsied muse her lithesome being girds
in utterances from unfathomed store.

Akin to Alice dwelling in absurds
the words go round and round in Cheshire grin
when off I go on...

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The night's breath is mumbling in my mind. 
Maybe I'd never heard it once in a decade. 

After this, I must share my story forever. 
A Gift to a shrinking heart and sea dispatcher

Purplish blue-colored waves...

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The man when born
and die,
In ruefully and
spiritless sigh,
And in middle of his
youth, he uproar,
Again and again
loath, with roar,
In this fiery
arrogant ways he
astonish,
His vitality and
humanity of mannish,
In this mid of
couple years he
repercussion,
And made a blast of
hatred...

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GIRL OF PARIS AT CHAMP DE MARS
Beneath the girds of steel, rising to the sky;
where tourists go to watch the world go by;
the children come to play, and lovers walk
through myriads of life and idle...

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Wisely Waiting
By Curtis Johnson

I love to tell the story about the time I answered the phone several years ago.
It was a new experience for me when I said, “Hello”, and the caller said, “Please hold”.
My...

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GIRL AT CHAMP DE MARS
Beneath the girds of steel, rising to the sky;
where tourists go to watch the world go by;
the children come to play, and lovers walk
through myriads of life and idle talk,

this is...

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Power and fame requires discipline
No such thing as a lawless hero or heroine
The scope of celebration is the scope of condemnation
You cannot sway a nation to refute your apprehension
Once you are caught defying the norms
For...

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GIRL AT CHAMP DE MARS
Beneath the girds of steel, rising to the sky;
where tourists go to watch the world go by;
the children come to play, and lovers walk
through myriads of life and idle talk,

this is...

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I tried to hold onto you but could not—
You slipped through my fingers as water will
When run through a sieve. And how like the plot
Of some dime-store pulp it all seems now -- shrill

Yet so...

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You haven’t found among notable faces
Or even quotable phrases
Any bankable aces
Even as your appetite chases

Though the teaching remains taught
The pursuits remain unsought
For many hearts resist being wrought
By the Blood of Christ, by which we are...

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Mightier than fibs and sharp swords, 
Manacled truth will with time prevail
Against high peak and gigantic vale, 
And glossed lips' deodorized words. 

Sharper than lucre's nectared studs
Stabs tested truth's right-driven nail;
Till all wrong-worn tongues wax...

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Elrond lives there
     His memory 
      goes bak for eons
His daughter"Arwen Evenstar" 
resides in Rivendell
She is as beautiful as the evening stars
Soon the elvish folk 
must...

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"To study psychological trauma is to come face to face both with human vulnerability in the natural world and with the capacity for evil in human nature”— Judith Herman.

I once knew a girl resolute 
With...

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Grace of God* girds me with mercy’s control surely
Toward faithful spiritual life fruitfully.

Wondrous, God’s grace provokes my motives
Enabling me to do well with goodness’ directives.

Marvelous grace upholds my yielded heart
Sustained by the Lord, right from...

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Gentle words from a tongue have a honeyed flavor
Utterances... "from the mouth of the wise bring favor
But the lips of the stupid one will be his ruin."*
Even if he foolishly doesn't know what he's doin.'

To...

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Child of God* am I, cleansed from being sinfully defiled
Hoisted as His redeemed from hell’s fire and transgression-wages
Illumined to esteem and magnify the Lord by faith’s light
Loved and led toward virtuous transformation…
Driven by the Holy...

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