Long Jesu Poems

Daylight Savings Time – March 13th,   2022

A long time graduate courtesy 
Hard Knocks alum,
once again yours truly 
posts reasonable rhyme 
about shortest day of the year.

Two o'clock Ante Meridiem 
nostri Jesu Christi 
hour...

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by Vicki Acquah 
Monday, January 17, 2011

Do you hear it; Brother can you hear it? Sisters do you feel it? I can't hear it! I been listening, but I do not hear it, cause ain't...

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To the bride of Christ I pen this letter.

Aya Jesu
Nwanyi Chineke.

I see you wobbling your feet lazily.
Blissfully content with the comfort of this world.
Forgetting you were sent on an errand.
For this world remains a marketplace....

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“What is he, this lordling, that cometh from the fight?”
by William Herebert, 14th century
translation by Michael R. Burch

Who is he, this lordling, who staggers from the fight,
with blood-red garb so grisly arrayed,
once appareled in lineaments...

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“Where does Love live
It lives in The Light within
where time never ends it just begins”. 
Lady Labyrinth


"50 Words for Poe: The Lacrimosa"

Room 9 was haunted
this much was known 
with great fear and trepidation
all patients avoided...

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John Audelay translations by Michael R. Burch. John Audelay was a medieval English poet who died circa 1426.

Dread of Death (excerpts)
by John Audelay
translation by Michael R. Burch

Lady, help! Jesu, mercy!
Timor mortis conturbat me. [The fear...

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Daylight Savings Time – March 8th,   2020

Two o'clock anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi 
hour hand clock sprung forward sixty minutes 
round about same of month every year, what a bum
er, an inconvenient truth...

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Memories of Bach

At 17, I performed a solo ballet to Bach
Below a sparkling sky,
On a park’s open green grass.
The choreography flowed.  
I was well-rehearsed.
The opportunity, special, before 
Some of our gathered city’s spectators.
This genius:...

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Angifi Dladla

BAYEDE    

Bayede , Son of man, Bayede!
You who outsmart the invisible God of our ancestors,
You who perfect the creations of the One-Who-Cannot-Be-  
      Imagined.
Modernizer of...

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I know you see me from up there,
from halfway up the steep and twisting lane.
In early half-light as you take your walk
I no doubt seem to loom as you descend,
appear to grow, to rise from...

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Keresimesi (Christmas)
Jesu Kristi (Jesus Christ)
The reason
The reason why we celebrate
The reason for the season
A King so great
The birthday that causes all to unite
Friends and family we invite
A day of love
A season of love
Gift giving
Busy kitchens
Carol...

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For I knew I had no escape route to take.
My adversary had succeeded this time in his assault. 

To my redeemer I turned to.
To Jesus I faced once again.

My saviour, who I had wounded once...

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have you ever grappled with despair
not in imagery, symbolism or portrayal.

I mean, have you ever felt the elevator drop
the watery weakness that extenuates breath
a depth of fatigue that makes lying on the floor a burden
an...

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Jesu, Joy of man’s desiring,
thank you for Joy’s life preserving,
from the day she started breathing.
For this and your constant keeping,
you, her Lord this day we’re thanking. 

Grant her health in all her living.
From your storehouse,...

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Affect matters more than numbers do
Reason without love ,so blind to ends
Rational means were  used to kill our Jews.

Searching  Europe’s “haystacks” for a clue
Reason makes its wondrous,  obscene blend
Affect matters more than...

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In the silence of the air 
the piano plays softly, inviting us to 
dream a little, forgetting all our woes 
A million butterflies of joy settle in our hearts, as we 
withhold the strum of...

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Thousands of freshly cut lilies in bloom
                           Signify life...

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Let serene tranquility transport me
     To my highest poetic aspirations.
Let me feel the thrill, the chill, the bliss
     When this exquisite operatic song
Encompasses my entire body.
 ...

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i pray every day
with my drapes unfolded
and all vanities shut out,and
mind steady,that than bracelets
a gracious maiden be found,to 
entangle my thin arms,and than
diamonds be found,a sparkling love

everyday,every morning the skies
are assured of my cries,and 
lightless...

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Awaiting the release
Emerging from a cocoon stage
Producing a power within.
That transforms from the
   Inside out.
Making me more aware of my abilities
 And that
 true dependence on others is faulty at best
Realizing there are...

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*JUST A REMINDER: Some of these words are made up to go along with the story line. For 
these purposes, the lyrics must sound like they are being said in a ritual.

[CHORUS]
Nona, Kemina, Su So...

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O Jesu, Jesus, Jesus
You came when I called.
You brought Your loving touch. 
Your angels were fully armed
With purpose of victory.
Every visit You make is exciting.
Nothing is mild or mundane about Your presence.
When You arrive,
You bring...

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