Long Illumine Poems

Translation of Eric Mottram’s Courbet: Elegy 8 by T. Wignesan

Blanches oeuvres ouvertes
résident dans les jours
la surface du banc de travail est noire
les géraniums-lierres
les fougères et les adragans
accumulent leurs oeuvres et jours:
La toile noire de Courbet
un...

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LIFE IN ETERNITY*


1.

The cheerful trumpet of miraculous life, imperatively sounded in 
My mother’s life-giving womb,
Heralding with its melodic tune another animation: MINE!
And as my innocent infantile heart was provoked by
The challenging divine call, 
Started beating...

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It stood there
looking empty and old,
neglected and sad
with windows shuttered,
covered in shadow 
both day and night,
hovered over 
by trees whose branches
disguised the house
and made it seem 
a part of the 
overgrown landscape, 
completely surrounding it,
keeping...

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MY LIBERATOR
(Written upon the death of a thirteen –year –old girl as eulogy)



The ill-fated day of death came unexpectedly 
To my great surprise
As life’s iron grasp of my hand, had lost its
Strength and vigor
And that...

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Name, a label, for mind-body identity,
which across past lives, we have had many,
as also gender rotation, for an experience spherical,
so this time around, now assimilating our earth life sojourn,
given pseudonym humbly confesses, there is much...

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November 30 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Timothy 3-4

Key Verse– 1Timothy 3:15 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which...

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November 16 Relationship to God Bible Meditations 
Based on 2Corinthians 10-11

Key Verse – 2Corinthians 10:17 But he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.
	
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY CAUSE FOR GLORYING			

Lord God, You are...

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June 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 1-4

Key Verse – Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY...

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February 23 Relationship to God Bible Meditations 
Based on Deuteronomy 25-28

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 25:1 f there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they...

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Deepening Dusk
                by Odin Roark

How might this relentless approach of final darkness
present its final moments before curtain?

The acts have been...

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The meadow reverberates with delightful pleasing harmony………….
The little brook meanders and dances over polyphony;
Remember the distant mountains surpassed with drizzling snow,
Through the flurry of iciness in night, we came alone. 
 
The desolate land in...

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Outside Looking In

Date: Tue, Dec 1 2015 at 4:21 PM

God is Love I see why Love his Son "Desires"
I'll build a Castle just for my Queen to look at our "Empire"
I just wanted to Ignite...

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Honestly, I feel I am a grown-up child
I express my feelings intense or mild
As and when they take birth, never concealing
Not allowing them to settle, before revealing 

Even minor mishaps of mine or others upset...

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This life

In the dark alley of time 
My life stumbles in blunder pitfalls   
Uncertain future casts shadow of despair 
Plunges my essence in darkness of torment.

I search for the divine route of escape
Carved...

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If there be some one thing more breautiful
Than to lie with you in warmth and dark,
I would fear that it might burn my soul away
Before the purging purity of light
Its perfection must diffuse.
Your love is...

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pain and suffering is all that I see around
though now I don’t have them to seriously confront,
yet a nameless unease weighs me down	
at the sight of hundreds cruelly beaten down

how many, under eternal shackles, tied
and...

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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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“Little Star, twinkling so beauteously bright
I greet you again a very blest night
Enthralled with mirth to see your sparkling light
That beckons me to delight in sky sight.”

“Nice to see you with your starry-stare zest
Oozing along...

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Flames from numerous lamps flicker, refusing to die
Like shimmering flakes of gold adorning the night sky
Burn on, shine bright – shed some cheer in my tired life
Illumine with your light, let peace reign in place...

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Dear God, please grant me Your wisdom*, without defilement
…but so pure along sanctification’s fulfillment
Teach me Your truth against sinfulness-detriment
…never fallacious in assuring my redemption’s eternal settlement!

Oh, I need Your wisdom, without turmoil
…but so peaceable along...

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December 28 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 17-18

Key Verse – Revelation 17:17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the...

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September 24 Scripture Meditations Based on Mark 11-12

Key Verse– Mark 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?  

MY...

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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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Take life for an escalator
Go both through its ups 
and downs
Ride it like on an elevator
Expect both smiles and 
frowns.

Take life for a suspense 
novel
you and I unaware what 
the next day will hold
Meditate and...

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The splendorous span of my fervent firmament,
twinkled with the tinsels of the cerulean night, 
where my yearning gleamed with transparent tinge, 
suffused with the sequins of the silver moon,
sequestered within the stream of stardust.

The beguiling...

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