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August 13 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 37-40
Key Verse – Ezekiel 37:14 And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD.
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SPIRIT REVIVER
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your revitalizing hand
Thank You for causing me to be victorious upon trial stand
While welcoming me to Your service-command
In my journey toward the promised land.
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your caring performance
Thank You for cleansing me from detestable defiling arrogance
While bringing me to Your covenant of peace-assurance
In my worship inside Your sanctuary midst worldly disturbance.
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your shielding compassion
Thank You for carrying me to Your will’s perfect habitation
While purifying me with Your sanctification
In my faith-venture for Your name’s magnification.
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your peace-granting fulfillment
Thank You for curbing me of my pride-driven achievement
While propelling me to sacrifice with sincere commitment
In my ministry-involvement of satisfying contentment.
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your guiding authority
Thank You for creating in me virtuous functionality
While transforming me by Your sovereignty
In my spirituality that enjoys Your blessings’ bounty.
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your ready forgiveness
Thank You for calling me to behold Your holiness
While bracing me upon the altar of prayer-steadfastness
In my stay in Your fellowship’s sweetness.
Lord God, You are my spirit Reviver through Your empowering might
Thank You for charging me up with Your Scriptures’ truth so right
While ushering me toward great commission participation height
In my dedication for You with devotion’s delight.
August 13, 2023
(Constanza Poetry Form)
The Nativity
We first hailed the Nativity
To honour birth of the Lord`s Son
During a cold winter season
With a deep sense of piety
When all the world was in delight
At the Messiah`s divine sight,
When stars of creativity
Were shining bright at midst of night
As tokens of His Son`s birthright
And shepherds flocked to to the Mighty
To greet the only son of God
To the full best they could afford
With white wreaths of sincerity
To thank the Lord for the Shepherd
To lead followers to the shed;
We first hailed the Nativity
With a deep sense of piety
When stars of creativity
And shepherds flocked to the Mighty
With white wreaths of sincerity.
My God, make me the vessel* You want me to be
marked by divine craftsmanship… not
bearing grandeur of self-exalting potter the
aim is to become finest, full-fledged first…
Help me, Lord, to settle for Your favour toward sweet by and by
verily cognizant that You are my Fortress Whom
my faith clings to against human Gibraltar the
pillar of which wavers vis-à-vis the branded new…
Keep my heart in Your care, my Saviour, since it is
Yours… nestled in Your breast; cheered triumphantly when tried
all the more fortified by Your grace; neither retreating nor
surrendering while geared by Your compassion; yet
empowered toward reaching-out pursuits for the
glory and honour of Your name that will forever last…
Here is my spirit, my Almighty Creator, Whom I indeed cling to
while grateful worship upon Your altar my soul does lay
trusting Your guidance midst grievous attacks of the
foes, mocking my servitude, trying to resurrect old
nature of mine You sanctified and finally set aside.
"Be not the first by whom the new is tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
Alexander Pope – An Essay on Criticism
*2 Corinthians 4:7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
September 28, 2023
It's a form invented by Terrance Hayes called "Golden Shovel" because it borrows words from classic & or previously written poems and incorporates them into your own write. The process is to take a line or lines from the old poem and each word becomes the last word of each line you write and...the quantity of words will, therefore, equate to the number of lines in your poem.
4th place, "NO 1247 NEW POEM ONLY" Premiere Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 10/7/2023
Strange Currents
by Amir Khusrow
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
O Khusrow, the river of love
creates strange currents—
the one who would surface invariably drowns,
while the one who submerges, survives.
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Becoming One
by Amir Khusrow
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I have become you, as you have become me;
I am your body, you my Essence.
Now no one can ever say
that you are someone else,
or that I am anything less than your Presence!
***
I Am a Pagan
by Amir Khusrow
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
I am a pagan disciple of love: I need no creeds.
My every vein has become taut, like a tuned wire.
I do not need the Brahman's girdle.
Leave my bedside, ignorant physician!
The only cure for love is the sight of the patient's beloved:
there is no other medicine he needs!
If our boat lacks a pilot, let there be none:
we have god in our midst: we do not fear the sea!
The people say Khusrow worships idols:
True! True! But he does not need other people's approval;
he does not need the world's.
(My translation above references a translation by Dr. Hadi Hasan.)
***
Amir Khusrow’s elegy for his mother
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
Wherever you shook the dust from your feet
is my relic of paradise!
***
Paradise
by Amir Khusrow
loose translation by Michael R. Burch
If there is an earthly paradise,
It is here! It is here! It is here!
8.4
“When there is no “I”
there is only liberation
When “I” appears
bondage appears with it
Knowing this, it is effortless to refrain
from accepting and rejecting”
’I’ as in i-dentity
Not the ‘I’ as in i-infinity
The doer
Not the mover
With this knowing
Let our contemplation keep flowing
Bondage however is not in the doing
Rather in indulgence resulting in stagnating
If we choose to seamlessly embrace-hold-release
With nonchalant ease
We become like Krishna in midst of lovely maidens many
Dancing in ecstasy yet not attached to any
This verse too imparts this knowing
Distancing from both accepting & rejecting
For any action that be not in effortlessness
Is ego manifest in serpentine surreptitiousness
Looking a little deeper what does this entail
What should be the attribute to effortlessly sail
Flowing in the timeless here & now continuum
We find ourselves at the fulcrum of the awareness pendulum
The periphery moves but we are not there
Although we witness its movement in darkness & the glare
All images unreal and yet we engage
In but not of the world as would a sage
(20-August-2019)
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Verse revisited on 27-October-2021
When we be in a continuum of silence
Thought rested stillness, vibrant innocence
Identity disappears, the void and we become one
Likewise, when lovers entwine hearts, ego comes undone
As also when we’re transfixed by a sunset beauteous
Rise of mellow blissful joy currents is fortuitous
We are, at that time, in our native element
Devoid of ego thought sediment
Employing thought as an instrument
Default fulcrum the vibrant bliss current
Heart centric, as we so align with love divine
Essence of presence for God-connect does pine
Empty mind-body shell, is by bliss magnetised
Resting judgment, nothing weighed or sized
Flows like the breeze with effortless ease
Hermit mode, embrace and release
September 24 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Jonah 1-4
Key Verse – Jonah 1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the LORD, and said, We beseech thee, O LORD, we beseech thee… for thou, O LORD, hast done as it pleased thee.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR RESPONDING
TO OUR BESEECHING
Praise be to God for responding to
our beseeching as He helps us in our:
Iniquity-illness
Infirmity-infection
Ignorance with His illumination
Intercession along His inspiration
Interaction by His influence and impact
Jonah 2:7 Praise be to the Lord for enabling us
to remember Him always, not only during our:
Astonishments against awful abominations
Apprehensions midst apathetic argument
Afflictions along agonizing angst
Anxieties around arrogant acts
Anger toward adversaries
Jonah 3:10 Praise be to the Saviour for
seeing our works of:
Faith by His fortification
Fruitfulness in His fellowship
Fervor while fighting fearfulness
Firmness in our focus to His fixing
Faithfulness through His furnishing festive
Jonah 4:6-7 Praise be to the Holy Spirit
for preparing the best for us by His:
Graciousness for our generous giving
Greatness for our governed growing
Gentleness for our geared-up going
Goodness for our gripped glowing
Gladness for our guided goading. Amen!
September 24, 2024
Have you ever witnessed a murmuration…that beautiful and wondrous sight…when birds all together change directions in the middle of their flight?
Seemingly they work as one…as the flock swoops left, right, lower and higher…murmuration is another reminder of nature’s beauty and her ability to inspire.
I noticed them walking ahead of us on the beach…an older couple holding hands…and I marveled at the graceful synchronicity with which they walked upon the sand.
There, with the waves of the ocean splashing on the shore, in the midst of the setting sun…were two people walking together…but they seemed to walk as one.
I stood there for a moment…mesmerized…my eyes wide open…unblinking…for it seemed that as they walked…each one knew what the other one was thinking.
Perhaps they’ve waked together for so long…perhaps they knew every inch along this sand…or perhaps they gave each other silent signals as they held each other’s hand.
Whatever the reason, to me, the beauty of the beach that day was thoroughly enhanced…for this couple did not just walk together on the sand…they danced.
Suddenly a flock of birds circled overhead…just out of our reach…and I felt blessed to watch a murmuration in the sky…and another on the beach.
And I wondered…were these birds heading in this direction or was it purely by chance…and seeing this older couple decided to join them in their dance.
After watching the sunset…the beach was deserted…we found ourselves alone…so I immediately took Deborah’s hand in mine…to dance a murmuration of our own.
It is something I’ll never forget…how we bathed in the beauty and the wonder nature can create…and how, following in an old couple’s footprints,
we learned it only takes two…to murmurate.
December 29 Scripture Meditations Based on Revelation 19-20
Key Verse – Revelation 19:6 And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR OMNIPOTENT REIGN
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, transforming my personality
By Your divine creativity
Midst academic rigorous tenacity
Toward Your help for submissive and pleasing humility.
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, checking my ignorance
By Your truthful endurance
Midst foolish deceitful appearance
Toward Your wisdom for confident and trusting assurance.
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, abasing my disobedience
By Your compassionate diligence
Midst rebellious defiant resurgence
Toward Your grace for joyful and willing dependence.
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, correcting my stubbornness
By Your great goodness
Midst ambitious personal selfishness
Toward Your guidance for gentle and inspiring kindness.
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, encouraging against my worries
By Your glorious victories
Midst perilous injurious miseries
Toward Your gladness for triumphant and cheering stories.
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, satisfying my discontentment
By Your plentiful supplement
Midst vain futile engagement
Toward Your sufficiency for plenteous and abounding dependence.
Thank You for Your omnipotent reign, guiding against my doubts
By Your wise routes
Midst skeptic critical shouts
Toward Your discernment for sure and uplifting whereabouts.
December 29, 2022
September 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Joel 1-3
Key Verse – Joel 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath burned all the trees of the field.
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HEARING OUR CRY
Praise be to God for hearing our cry of:
Faith to flourish by His faithfulness
Fervency for His fruitfulness-fulfillment
Flight toward His freedom against futility
Fight against fear by His force midst fatigue
Faults along His forgiveness to flee from frustration
Joel 2:13 Praise be to the Lord being gracious
and merciful, always:
Securing our salvation-settlement
Sanctifying us from selfishness-strife
Sufficing us with His satisfaction-supply
Strengthening us by His Scripture-statutes
Stabilizing us for steadfast service-stewardship
Joel 3:16 Praise be to the Saviour for
He is our hope against:
Catastrophes causing to us crises
Curses clinging to our chastisements
Conflicts contending with our cravings
Clamors creeping against our contentment
Calamities creating our cries for His compassion. Amen!
September 21, 2024
(Valentine's Collection)
47.
Come, my beloved, and sing now with me,
a song of desire into Luna's grace.
A Valentine song, love shall ever be,
when we stand together in love's embrace.
Come, my beloved, in dance steps of time,
moving with the melody our hearts sing.
Oh, sweet Valentine, together we rhyme,
united by our love, everlasting.
Oh, praise divine, our passion is flowing,
a river that flows into love's own sea.
Your heart is a bright star, ever glowing,
now you are love's song when you stand with me.
As Luna pulls us closer with the tide,
we rest with a halo shining above.
Our souls move with water, you are my guide,
In our Valentine's song, singing our love.
Oh, heart divine, in thy wonder singing,
lead me to your arms in the midst of night.
Through Luna's skies, we both shall be winging,
within your tender heart, I find delight.
Come, my beloved, where all the stars shine.
I will hold you in the flight of our dreams.
For your delight in heart, is also mine,
Spreading love's song in this dance of moonbeams.
"A Valentine's Song."
A Collaboration By,
Heidi Sands.
&
Michael .P. Clarke.
09/02/2019.
Heidi, thank you for sharing ink with me on this wonderful write. It has been an honour and a pleasure to work on this collaboration with you. You have made it an easy and enjoyable process. Have a wonderful weekend. Hugs....Mike. XX