Long Hearkens Poems

"Ransom"




Held to ransom 
words inject your mind
pierce your skin
drawn backwards 
you transcend, 
you look within
a bloodied mind
the numbness melts
inconsequential ignobles
and dreary misfortune
a polar ice cap 
lying cold on stony heart
rescinds


Blue blood bleeds Red
Mystery Girl
Implodes your...

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Governing my emotions through my faith in Jesus Christ.***

Only Jesus Christ is the very best pathway to preventing my emotions from going on an emotional roller coaster ride.  However, it is also true it...

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Spectrums, Tints and Shades

Like the painter’s palette awash with hues and tones – white to tint and black to shade, greys scattered in between: 

What risks we run:
Shaving a little too close that we get...

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It is funny! 
Very funny how
A masked preacher can preach honesty; 
And even points at the wrongs with his
Fingers of hypocritical righteousness…

We stare with grim satisfaction
Because the black winged Angel 
Ridding a flaming chariot tells...

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Written: October 1st 2023
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In the ocean of silence, I’m stunned 
Astonish by its grandeur as I descend.
A comely curtain of conciliatory calm
Elapse the chaos, surreptitious and warm.

In the hushed embrace of the twilight sky,
A...

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March 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Samuel 9-12

Key Verse –1Samuel 9:9 Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus he spake, Come, and let us go to the...

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August 18 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Daniel 9-12

Key Verse – Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine...

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February 19 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 5-9

Key Verse– Deuteronomy 5:2-3 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.  The LORD.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY COVENANT MAKER
				
Lord God,...

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April 15 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 8-9
 
Key Verse – 1Kings 8:28 Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O LORD my God, to...

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Saint Augustine so eloquently stated, “Our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Thee.”

Restless heart, “Listen to the silence”
The whispers of kindness inspiring joy
Wherever it reaches, beyond the wings
Of caressing gentleness, meek and...

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March 23 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 13-15 

Key Verse – Judges 13:9 And God hearkened to the voice of Manoah; and the angel of God came again unto the woman as...

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With small, small steps
I’ve come to You, disheartened…
Listening to the hope, the joy
The peace that abides
When my heart hearkens Your grace
Promising me a love far more 
Alive than any love I’ve ever known
Any love I’ve...

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When sorrows bring me down
And I haven’t a friend to be found
When dread darkens my thoughts
And nothing I feel is worthwhile
When fear colors my whole world
And hues of black flow all around

There is the opportunity,...

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Penetrating the window the moonlight casts onto my desk wheyey cream of gleam

Bypassing the door ajar extends afar my reminiscence in wee wisps of waft,

Ferreting out your memo and dusting dog-eared pages before sallow lamp...

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We Are 

Oftentimes my internal oneness saunters, 
     boosting stones wouldst enthuse convictions path ... 
     dawdling tenuous themes, elucidate...

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IMPACT

Perhaps the weather is wistful or bonnie bonnie good,
who can say, but i think on the grayest of gray days,
eyes stay closed, sunshine is but a bitter dream,
unless you’re the rare goody-goody Pollyanna-type,
before the huge...

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Oh land of the free
And home of the brave, where are you?
Where is the torch that hearkens
The tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to be free?
When did freedom of religion
Become acceptance of
Only one religion?
When...

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March 12 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Joshua 9-11

Key Verse – Joshua 9:9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the...

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Over the moon? 
Below the stars!
Betwixt a waking dream and benumbing reality ...
A baby-faced blossom tries to summon up its courage
before faring on a quixotic quest to face the raging current
that all the while
is threatening...

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March 22 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 13-15

Key Verse – Judges 13:8-9 Then Manoah intreated the LORD, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come...

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Hide me in hell, not long, less I'll be wait...
Unto her whispers and cursed crooked floors
'Twas many a year ago when I was eight
That I traveled beyond my darkest tours

A game of hide and seek...

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February 20 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 21-22

Key Verse– Numbers 21:3 And the LORD hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their...

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As long as I can remember
came Christmas cards in December -
     my aunts back home to thank.
With glad tidings at yuletide 
      and always tucked away...

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April 24 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Kings 12-14

Key Verse – 2Kings 12:2 And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest...

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“Follow me” is the Lord’s wondrous command
My heart hearkens to with willingness’ glow
Being my privilege, divinely grand
As God’s dear child enjoying blessings’ flow.

Called to serve Christ by faith with willing mind
“Follow me” is the Lord’s...

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