Long Graciousness Poems

I’m in distress
I can’t express
How I feel deep down inside
This feeling is a terrible tide
How do I impress
Everyone here in excess?
I’m just here to simply abide
By God’s Law, I don’t subside

My tears are diamonds in...

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A perfect world
From A-Z…

Actually addicted attitude apologetic they assume while I'm angst in my room
Bold not blameless but blame shooting out like bullets
Critics just quit it, calculated moves, claim to have your back until you...

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No way! It's a new day. 
Now I can sit and write poetry all freaking day.

Time to get serious.

Each new day is the most important day in this life. 

A life is a blessing. 

A...

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Happy is he who isn’t led astray
He walks in happiness in his stride
Tranquility is in His Word today
Here, I lay in silence in which I hide

Blessed is he who doesn’t speak with ungodly men
Blessed is...

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Submerging myself with water of wistfulness
Trying to be rid of the loneliness in progress
I missed going outside and swimming in a precious, pure water
I’m looking above the surface instead of the ugliness of underwater

Today is...

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Niitthaar Perumai, The Fundamental Role of the Ascetic: Canto 3, K29 and K30 of the Thirukkural by Thiruvalluvar
(In these kurals, I give both the "unrefined" versions using connective particles and modified post-positions (in Tamil: according...

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(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2')

in the belly of the fish
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God,
Deep from the belly of leviathan.
“I cried out to you, Lord, in my distress,
For I...

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Saw you cry cry cry and pout
No doubt...I don't care anymore
What are you crying about?
Can't you see I'm jaded to the core?

I hear people preaching about marriage
When they're married themselves!
No humility! Just overrighteous and like...

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G O D

God my professor who does not sit on a stool at the head of the class correcting exam papers with their columns of graphite-filled dots with each question being multiple choice and the...

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Talking about it just kills me inside
This feeling of wanting to simply hide
My pride is broken...
Words left unspoken...
I just want to get high, high, high
Got to strut my stuff - can’t deny
Low self-esteem - it’s...

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Cleanse me, oh Lord of righteousness
Mend me, oh God of saving graciousness
Believe in me, so I can fly into your cage
Reflect on me, so I can sprout like sage

Swim to me as I drown in...

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Who am I in the Outside???

I don’t mind your hurt
Yet, you need my comfort
You need some healing from distress
The light is revealing the darkness

Who am I in the outside?
You are dangerous and precarious 
Abide by...

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Agape Love...what does that even mean?

I was living in such a dream within a dream spiritually speaking...in a realm of remedy from God’s gift...God’s desire and adoration hits me to the core...how can we intervene?

By...

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We thank You, God, for mothers who love You as they love their families truly
...With all their souls redeemed by Your precious blood wondrously
...With all their hearts imparted by Your divine nature completely
...With all their...

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Dear Pastor:

Your sermon yesterday triggered memories going back more than 50 years.  
During the Jim Crow years in the South, I was about 12 years of age when out of nowhere it seems, a...

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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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Unlike as in the West, there was no dating in our time. After a formal meeting before the family members, the boy and girl will be allowed sometime for a private talk. (that too only...

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May 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 1-4

Key Verse – Esther 4:14  For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the...

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Girl, Who lied to you?
Who told you that being you just won't do?
Who told you that your flabby thighs and your big brown eyes were uncouth?
Who told you that you weren't pretty enough and that...

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I last saw him at our oldest sister's funeral.                          ...

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December 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Revelation 15-16

Key Verse – Revelation 15:1 And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them...

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May 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Esther 5-7

Key Verse – Esther 5:2 And it was so, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she obtained favour in...

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April 3 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 20-22

Key Verse –1Kings 20:13 And, behold, there came a prophet unto Ahab king of Israel, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Hast thou seen all this...

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October 7 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on John 9-10

Key Verse – John 9:1-3 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.  And his disciples asked...

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December 29 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Revelation 19-20

Key Verse– Revelation 19:1 And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour,...

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