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Premium Member Anti-Intellectualism: Being There

I never think my thoughts deep thoughts  --
although I'm no Peter Sellers, they are
but common trite reactions.  l do not live
an examined philosophic life; nor have I
focused, full-fathomed understanding.

But -- there is, everywhere, wide-eyed blank confusion --
crowds who do not listen, do not hear, cannot ken,
and can not even choose NOT to grasp
what is said or shown, read or written.

While reveling in company that towers
oh! so high in intellectual singularity --
such myriad dazzling talents! -- alas! I
still am only another erstwhile 
clumsy Chauncey Gardiner.

Where (perhaps in hiding?) are all
our popular current Feynmans -- Sagans -- 
Hawkings -- even Einsteins? Still, I will -- 
I must! -- ask: think YOU that ignorance 
might NOT be bliss?


Premium Member FAITH IN GOD WHO ENABLES US TO ARISE

November 16 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Acts 9-10 
 
Key Verse – Acts 9:6 … Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

FAITH IN GOD WHO ENABLES US TO ARISE	

God enables us to arise, giving us heavenly wisdom
Toward seeking first by faith His kingdom
In our desire to enjoy salvation-freedom
Midst worldliness’ ignorance and humanism’s boredom.

God enables us to arise, granting us divine understanding
Toward reading by faith His Scriptures of truth’s finding
In our devotion to learn from Christ’s love, always attending
Midst fake news and rumors, socially trending.

God enables us to arise, instructing us with His Word’s knowledge
Toward applying by faith His precepts we mindfully acknowledge
In our decision to abide in Biblical standards’ privilege
Midst intellectualism and logic’s reasoning espoused by any secular college.

God enables us to arise, teaching through His perfect workmanship
Toward labouring by faith in producing acceptable fruits of stewardship
In our diligence to harvest service-yields through His partnership
Midst slothfulness and complacency that hinder real worship.

God enables us to arise, converting us along His miraculous transformation
Toward manifesting by faith proofs of our Christian conversion
In our dedication to win souls and build lives with His compassion
Midst trials and hardships in ministry-function.

God enables us to arise, bringing to us triumphant revival
Toward doing His will by faith while waiting for His arrival
In our delight to serve Him beyond temptation-survival
Midst doubtfulness’ upheaval and unbelief’s interval.

God enables us to arise, empowering us by His authority 
Toward living for Him by faith along His magnificent sovereignty 
In our declaration to exalt Him upon His truth’s certainty
Midst the Holy Spirit’s guidance and enabling capacity.

November 16, 2025
Form: Quatrain

Black joy vs the world

They hate us not because we’re bad but because we are everything they cannot be
Because while they stew in their own misery
Formed from their own jealousy 
We live life fully
Because that’s the beauty of Black people
We create joy where joy has been locked out

Then try to hide it through false superiority
Whilst trying to convince the world and themselves 
That being black equaled inferiority
Because if black people were truly inferior there’d be no need to work this hard to suppress us

Because while they drown in the rain
We dance in it
We take each rain drop
To feed the earth that breeds life
That brings joy into our existence 
Just like black people
We paint the blue back into the sky
We make the flowers bloom just through our smiles
The trees come to life as soon as it feels our presence 
We are the love the earth craves 
So when we give it
It's gives gratitude through elemental beauty 

They seethe in anger 
Their spirits Soaked in venom
Jealous 
That nature is on our side
How it enhances our beauty
But dies in the presence of their hate 
They hate not having control of the earth 
And it's reaction to their existence 

Because their egos can't handle the thought 
Of being lesser than a black person
To which they use their tears 
To poison the ground 
The ignorant feed of
To distort their image 
Of who is the real villain

But that's what happens when you build a system 
Funded by racism
That has been around longer than intellectualism

Premium Member An Existential Curiosity

Anti-intellectualism may breed anti-curiosity. 
Harsh reality can frustrate existential sternness.
They tied backlash against "mere" curiosity. 
Yet, every human behavior has a purpose.

Conveying a full breakdown of all the key sights.
Tangling, multiplying tendrils sepia from white.
My character has changed significantly already.
Rhododendron in blooming; existentialist edgy

The moon pendulum is at its most vulnerable.
Strong, direct sunlight makes vivacity visible.
Recognizing oneself in the gaze of the Other.
Transtemporal throws ages in a shadow cover.

Romance, paraphyllium, and aurora snow,
harvest moon, opaline luster, and coral glow.
Eurasian plant calyxes with spicate bloom.
Five stars in the sky; a red glow in the gloom.

Wake up, mystery, and join me on Mars.
Latte, belt out a song that heals my scars.
Opal in black, a ruby for the crown gem,
Is that thunder? You infer my heart hem.

Is this a dream, upon a shimmering silver sky?
Antsy flow, a phantasmagoria of my avow mind.
Chimes in Venice, a piercing stare into my eye,
as though we've always been close, my kind.

Sparkle up the universe and unveil thyself.
Moon wake, I'm steering my rise from a shelf.
Who were we if not to serve the whole world?
How do we fathom where we'll be stirred?

The darkness shrouded the vision of man. 
Scattering flies at dawn since they had begun. 
We face the share of the world with blackness. 
Having to push and shove away the darkness.

1St Place Contest Winner

Written: December 18, 2022

This or That, Vol 15 Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh 

Your Favourite Rhyming Poem From 
The Second Half Of 2022 Poetry Contest

Sponsored by: Julia Ward
© Sotto Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

surrender

when everything everywhere
whispered in irresistible languages

hey you there
stop resisting


i began to surrender
was flowing free

burnt as bright sun
starlike spent explosive fuel
stretching
wings flapping

toward the unknowable
inside

experimented with ditching
body as identification
name as identification
personal history as identification

faded off
mad word searching
explaining justifying
reiterating too much information

i loosened my squeeze grip
on intellectualism
tell-me-how-to-be spiritual books
whatever the famous someone
said once then got bronzed over

i surrendered to universal unity
where i lavishly decorated
my living changing dream
with my own snap choices
what i wanted

i was flowing with fresh
synergetic synthesis

returned outside to pedestrian streets
where angelics mixed in
wore transparent disguises

i began to flow
forgiveness out and in

skipped a light fandango
splashing puddles was
answer to inclement weather

i set wooden faces
to smiling after
i switched my own

i rolled on through
perceived stop signs
of the everlasting no

erased all my karma with
nownownow
wonwonwon

made myself
stock still

experienced
yes yes yes

relaxed awareness

breathed
emptiness

opened all my hands


Premium Member My God, Thank You For Loving Me

September 7 Scripture Meditations Based on Malachi 1-4

Key Verse – Malachi 1:2 I have loved you, saith the LORD… 

MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR LOVING ME

Thank You for loving me even though I’m impoverished in sinfulness
Because of my carnal stubbornness…
I repent from naughtiness’ haughtiness
As You uphold me by Your gentle kindness.

Thank You for loving me even though I’m afflicted with iniquity
Because of my idolatrous infirmity…
I repent from vanity’s futility
As You cleanse me by Your sanctifying purity.

Thank You for loving me even though I’m unfaithful against standards
Because of my complacent attitude not good for stewards…
I repent from slothfulness’ regards
As You pull me to improve by Your training safeguards.

Thank You for loving me even though I’m inconsistent in serving
Because of my worldly involving…
I repent from selfishness’ cleaving
As You restrain me by Your gracious driving.

Thank You for loving me even though I’m unsuccessful in discipleship
Because of my lack of wholehearted followership…
I repent from hypocrisy’s intervention during worship
As You deal with me by Your guiding partnership.

Thank You for loving me even though I’m disobedient to holy vision
Because of my faithless decision…
I repent from unbelief’s malfunction
As You transform me by Your working perfection.

Thank You for loving me even though I’m tempted toward humanism
Because of my proud grip for intellectualism…
I repent from revival’s pessimism
As You teach me by Your biblical theism.

September 7, 2022
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Why love?

Why love?

Why?
It’s not eternal
Creating Suffering
After love

Suffering loves me
I don’t need its life in mine
Love, dear Love give me love

‘He can’t hear you.’ Satan said.
‘I don’t want suffering.’ I answered.
‘That’s right. Then?’ Replied Satan.
‘Something good.’ I said it to Satan.

‘There is a plan for you.’ Said Satan.
‘Is the path? Is the Path?’ I asked.
‘That is a good choice, but…’ He said.
‘But?’ I asked.
‘This is a higher and so long way…’ Satan Said.
‘What is that??’ I asked Satan.
‘Intellectualism.’ Said Master Satan.
   ‘Stay with me, there are no dead human feelings.’ Said Satan.
       ‘Only a high-tech mind’s life in all parts of the intellectual life.
            Everything, everything, and in poetry, philosophy, and theology…
                                                                                            What you like.’
                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    Said Satan                      

‘I want this plan.’ I answered.
‘Already in your mind.’ He answered.

Life
Lives
Angelic
Demonic
One
All

All
One

Together
There are
More

Premium Member Living Water

"No one stands in the same stream twice"

It's a lofty thought and the phrasing is nice
But we often lose the rest of the quote
Oh, we know the water's not quite the same 
But then we get lazy and miss the boat...

Cause the one in the water is changing, too

Water has life, gives life, takes life
And we can't take a step without it
But what happens to us when we step in it?
It's a baptism contemplated by few, I think

Water under the bridge is where it should be
But over the dam is not part of the plan
To confuse the two is something we do
But controlling it's not the province of man

The water will do what it's meant to do
Whether brown, or green, or crystalline blue
Sometimes when it's deep it almost looks black
And when it gets angry we've learned to stay back

Clear water's the type that looks so inviting
We boil it and spoil it and use it for fighting
We tame it as much as we've power to do
But water will seek its own level it's true

We live on it and in it but when the day's through
We can't live without it or we're what is through

---------------------------------------------------

Was Athena responsible for contemplative thought?
Or just born in a place where it was carefully taught?
So many deep thinkers we revere to this day
And thoughts we still think about come into play

I think it not likely an accident there
Where gods and kings got in each other's hair
Classicists oft give way to classism
Elite thought the way of elitists and schism

It's all Greek to me and it was to them, too
But the water that changes men came from a Jew
Where olives again played a pivotal part
His words intended to cause thought from the heart

The water he used and the water he sought
Were both meant to cause us all deeper thought
And the water he used from the head to the feet
Provides us a cleansing, a comfort complete

With water that lives in all those who will think
With their heart as well as with what they might drink
It's water that cleanses heart, head, and feet
Under what's built between us, a bridge where they meet

Amandla Stanberg : Burning Heart

Your pupils are like the sun
When peeping at prime of the day-
Liveliness it strikes in turn,
As her gaze touches the summer's day.

Your smiles are like honey,
But not like honey:
Sweetening a battered heart.
Yet, it's your cheapest art.

Your voice is the communion
Of the waves and the sea,
Apt communication,
Driving attention in crazed velocity.

Your steps are like the gazelle's,
A point in time: another the next.
Comportment of aligned structures:
The most contentious infrastructure.

Extended intellectualism in sensitive fares, 
Amandla the burning heart, thoughts trailing tears. 

24/08/19
Contest Sponsor : William Kekaula. 
Contest Name : MY UPCOMING BIRTHDAY (09-03) CELEBRITY - Any form
Form: Sonnet

Premium Member HEART BELIEVES THAT GOD IS THE LORD

January 21 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 10-12

Key Verse – Exodus 10:2 And that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son's son, what things I have wrought in Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know how that I am the LORD.

HEART BELIEVES THAT GOD IS THE LORD

We believe that God is the Lord Who fills us with heavenly wisdom
As our heart seeks first His kingdom
While desiring to enjoy salvation-freedom
Midst vanity’s ignorance and humanism’s boredom.

We believe that God is the Lord Who guides us with divine understanding
As our heart meditates His Scriptures along truth’s finding
While learning Biblically through His love’s enfolding
Midst hatred and bitterness’ destructive binding.

We believe that God is the Lord Who teaches us with biblical knowledge
As our heart strives to apply His precepts we mindfully acknowledge
While clinging to His standards for our advantageous privilege
Midst intellectualism and logic’s reasoning espoused by secular college.

We believe that God is the Lord Who molds us with divine workmanship
As our heart trusts His Word about stewardship and discipleship
While labouring for service-yields through His partnership
Midst slothfulness and complacency that hinder real worship.

We believe that God is the Lord Who sanctifies us for our holiness
As our heart abides in His purification for our forgiveness
While confessing our sins repentantly in our walk of righteousness
Midst worldliness and haughtiness’ deceptiveness.

We believe that God is the Lord Who works for our meaningful transformation
As our heart manifests proofs of our Christian conversion
While winning souls toward life-building with His compassion
Midst trials and hardships in ministry-function.

We believe that God is the Lord Who gives us revival
As our heart continues to do His will, waiting for His arrival
While delighting to please Him through faith against mere survival
Midst doubts’ upheaval and unbelief’s interval.

January 21, 2026

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