Long Lowliness Poems

????1 Corinthians 1:22-24 KJV??
[22] For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom: [23] but we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; [24] but unto...

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Five Words of Change 

There are words that make my toes curl, my skin crawl and the hair on my arms stand straight up like taking off a polyester sweater in winter crackling with static...

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I sought a place to post my poems and thought I'd found a fit for me.
At first I was thrilled and felt I belonged to a pleasant community
But I lost my taste for soup and...

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Furtive blue eyes do glance away to hide,                           ...

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Revelations of the Spirit!

Good things are known to come to those who come before their God,
who praise release from earthly woes by celebrating days
of spilling sperm (that meets its end or egg that sparks new...

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November 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Galatians 4-6

Key Verse – Galatians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called....

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The Bohemian Grove

There is a place in San Francisco called the Bohemian Grove. It’s a boy’s club you might say. But when is the last time you saw boys offer sacrifices to Lucifer and burn...

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The Almighty’s love*
sublime, gloriously divine
awesomely magnificent
overlooked my human nature's defiled stature
to re-create me --- to be His peculiar child.

God’s love, so wondrous
redeeming transgressors from sin’s wages
assures me peaceful bliss, heavenly indeed
when I accepted His offered...

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From loftiness one becomes lowly
.   and from lowliness one becomes lofty.

Consider the highest of the peaks; 
.   it has nothing but rocks and snow only.
Consider the lowest of the plains; 
....

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June 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 48-53

Key Verse – Psalms 48:1 Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised in the city of our God, in the mountain of his...

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“Charm is a delusion and beauty fleeting but a God fearing woman is to be honored” - Proverbs 31:10-31

Capable Woman
 
A capable woman plants seeds to birth in a harvest plan
Buys a fruitful vineyard and...

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braising thoughts arose as my lifeless 
body huddled in a fetal position i' d completed 
thirty hail mary's an yet my macerated flesh 
lay still as the sun began
to settle embedding itself almost oh how...

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Its ardor grew like the sprouts being verdant green,
As the lowliness of a meadow's reach for sun.
Their whispered breaths trails farewell to a doting Spring,

Neath the grassy spreads of life, seeks a saffron sky.
Enters the...

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My pen is mourning the agonies and the sufferings
Of my people, who are drowning in the sea of misery.
My keyboard' strokes are shadowing the slow rhythms
Of the wandering beggar, who's lost in the sanctuary.

My voice...

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Dedicated to my mother who, in my youth, I did not fully understand.. 


I wish my callings be sweet to thee; 
Abate not Oh lady the tenderness I'd missed 
Prolong thy tenderness and never a...

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She has been gaining on us

Our hold heavy

With burdensome loot

Our riggings pock-marked

From the shot of exchanges

And the stress of this South Sea.

Duties never change

Sometimes lightened with song

But many a time

On our knees scrubbing.

Or hauling sheets

Or...

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November 7 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on John 9-10

Key Verse – John 9:3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest...

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FEAR

FEAR is a curse that has ME in it's grip
I want to flow like a river
Indtead I sowly drip
my fear is it insecurity or lowliness?
Possibly im scared because its YOU that  I MISS
How did...

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I have marked my place,
I stand now in the
bulging vein of the moment.
No more hunting for meaning
or for anti-meaning,
all socks are white or not.
I am here.
a one-sized loosely fitted mind,
a tick and cross 
on an...

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Why does my heart go on weeping
Why my eyes bare these tears…
Why must I still feel so lonely?
Even in a crowd.. 
full of laughter and cheer

Yet.. I still feel so out of place.. 
and in...

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in my lowliness you remembered me 
after man had torn wrappings 
of my soul leaving only 
my flesh to devour
small things withered 
beneath my earthly realm 
oh how i'd beckoned your rapture 
i wasn't as...

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Humanity is filled full of self
always wanting to be number one
such folly is plain to see
for those enlightened by God's son

God warns us of ambitions self
being conceited and uncaring
this does us no good at all
for...

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Lady,
I call you Lady,
never met a bit of you,
not in a painting, not in a photograph,
not on a street
nor as a reflection in water or glass.

I see you though,
you're the very youngest
and the most ancient,
you're...

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Let us put on humility,
Even being on center stage; 
Remain meek and modest amid
Honor, glory, praise, and prestige.

Meekness may elicit picture
Of someone saying 'I was wrong'; 
Or one telling 'I need help' from
A certain group...

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The song of the soul is not jazz
Lowliness crumbles beneath the bruised conscience
Its a new day but the world is still the same

Pajamas can create a riot when they are not washed
Dirt and disorderliness of...

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