Long Lay aside Poems

From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah

His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive...

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                             I dreamed I went to heaven,

...

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“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”

Mental “Masturbation”

(The title...

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Wondering, pondering, contemplating
The moments when I’ve felt different
Because of my ideas, my dreams, my feelings
The way I think and the way I believe
Struggling to be who I am inside my heart
Instead of someone who is...

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"For whatever reason, you don’t like me,
All is forgiven, you are forgiven.
I will lay aside all your acts of guile,
Ye have heard that it hath been said.
I shall love my neighbor, and hate your enemy.
But...

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"Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done," I began to sing during three weeks of prayer from 9 in the morning till 5, a full "work" day. I challenged my church, If you want the...

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Not enough? Am i not enough? I thought I was the one. You lied to me, yes indirectly but a 
lie is a lie the same. my heart aches with fear of uncertainty but knowledge...

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“I found flowers growing in my ruins”

Once in a dark cave their lay aside devastated ruins 

The chains of weeds of my strongholds and failures that had over grown my deflated plans,goals and dreams 

Confusion...

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Tis the season, for"Love"....

The time of giving and caring

Peace on earth, and good will, to all of life!

To lay aside the swords, the spears, the guns

Embracing the hope of a tomorrow

Clear, from the sediments of...

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III

What shame if might measures not with muscle?
  What disgrace awaits those who fail?
Should wanting life be held lèse-majesté to a tussle?
  Should a nation thrive as in a sundered jail?

To the high...

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Before I tramp the course of my cause,
A family indeed we were, I and Kole
But I short of years from the other.
Only by words we keep memory of
A deceased mother like morning dew
Sought for by...

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I guess I thought a couple of years or so ago

To hold the cures or hold the ills, or even myself, alone....

But in the end I found no reward anymore, within the world of my...

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Amidst AGGRAVATION of sin-game schemes, I appeal to the Almighty…
Beseeching His pardon for my transgression-caused BOGGLE
Cleaving to His compassion with mercy’s CATCH PHRASE
Declaring earnestly “I’m SORRY; please forgive me”  
Enabled with repentance, not religious...

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Copper blooms, titanium too below the iron of the sky
Rich fields of ore, quarried, lay everywhere without a quarrel
In conjunction with all things shiny on the land and rust of day

Mountains pinnacles are miles high
With...

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Introduction

From the city on the river
Where the Sage of Monticello
And the Great Emancipator
Birthed the country, saved the nation,
Sounds a call for civil discord
In the service of ambition
From a man whose God is power,
And his name...

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,,, ---…C l o u d s…--- ,,,

Wondrously enchanting
clouds have pulled my sight above…

Greeting me with “Behold our beauty”
clouds constantly check my appreciation-appraisal
engaging me to thank the Supreme Being beyond the sky…

Captivating me since childhood...

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There have been days
When I just couldn’t find
The inclination or light
To shine through my life

I might not know why
But I do know the One
Who leads me on, through
The struggles, the dark
The worries and pain
The feelings...

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Prophesy oh Son of Man
whose garments drenched in blood
make the people understand
they are a brotherhood
 
I freely gave the land to you
and sent the gentle rain
you stole it from your brother
and struck him down like...

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Part Two

A Prince may not bring dishonour to his kingdom
   In times of strive for the sake of Christendom;
If he seeks spurious honours to feather his nest
   And alienates a people...

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I was born in sin and in sin did my mother conceive me;
I wallowed in my iniquities and allowed satan to deceive me.
I hurried out to do things which were not just and right;
Occasionally they...

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The Hunting of The Madorexual


For many a year from boy to man
The quest had led him
Through clues he’d found
And whispered words
On careful nights by fire light

Madorex 

They said, those flames 
In the Caves of Madorex
Where...

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Shimmering brightly
In the darkest of skies
Reaching down to guide me

Through nightly brawls
With melancholy visions
That flood my heart with

Secret hues of misery
Discovered within the mind
Who knows what it means

To break with earth shattering
Mistakes, despair and fear

Facing...

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BLOODY TRACKS A TRAIL

I am England bound and am keeping this journal because upon a train shall I take this trip
“well young lady don’t order the scones at Briggs and Dale’s , that’s just a...

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This is an Easter poem my mother wrote to her mother in 1944, at the height of WWII, while my mother was doing her part for the war effort in Warner Robbins, GA.

"The Easter Poem"...

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As we look back at our years past
but look forward to what's to come
we see our need to walk in faith
walking on keeping our line truly plumb

So heed Paul's exhorting words
to leave behind all of...

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