Long Nineveh Poems

Something strange

and unexplainable comes this way,
this way, it comes to us sly and fast, 
some say, perhaps, 
it has already arrived, 
it walks unseen, in the midst of all, of us 

we go about our...

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			I

The Holy Bible said seven kingdoms would arise,
then like windblown grains of sand, fall to the dust
Six kingdoms have come and gone, blinked their eyes
and we’re now, in these last days, living on the cusp

But...

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Nineveh *
*Deep I have fallen 
    eyelids leaden with sleep
       just a hole to crawl in 
         and...

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Waiting waitng...... 
For the all-mighty godot 
godot godot.....I ask myself 
Where are you? 

I have searched the 
tempestuous seas 
I have toiled the arid desert 
All to no avail 
I have defiled timidity into the...

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The Love Song Of Shu-Sin
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Darling of my heart, my belovéd, 
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey. 
Darling of my heart, my belovéd, 
your enticements are sweet, sweeter than honey....

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commissioning and attempted escape
“Son of Amittai, to Nineveh, go
And tell them of their great impending woe;
Their evil, like a stench, has come to me.”

But Jonah ran; he traveled down to Joppa.
(Wait, Jonah who? Oh, Amittai’s...

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(continued from 'Son of Amattai - 1 of 2')

in the belly of the fish
Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord, his God,
Deep from the belly of leviathan.
“I cried out to you, Lord, in my distress,
For I...

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Jonah guardian angel 
Great prophet 
of Israel 
In God's path 
You ran away from the Lord 
On a passage 
From a seaport 
Of Joppa 

God commands everything 
On a ship 
heading away 
Everything in his...

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America is not only an anti-God nation but they are exporting throughout the rest of the world!
What are some of the ways? Through the wide spreading of its pornography all as part of its entertainment...

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The word makes sense to those who see sense 
senseless to those who senseless so see it
so in the beginning there was the word and with the word was God and God was the word
With...

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there are some parts of your personality
you must never look at
or Aristotle's logic will pay you a visit
for a 15th century anatomy lesson
an eye for an eye a throat for a throat
gargoyle armies hovering overhead
tongue...

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Russia is now in the Middle East as earthquakes dramatically increase
A couple signs of the beast but in these times such signs don't cease
As the twelves tribes of Israel return with anti-Semitism on the rise
Many...

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Noah survived the flood with sons Japheth, Ham, and Shem.
Along with the animals of the earth, God spared them.
With floods, He vowed never again to do such a thing.
God made a covenant with Noah and...

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Jonah's Calling

A vision of Jonah I did not see,
Nor did I hear the Lord speak
(Who pitied the wicked city of Nineveh)
When He said to His servant, Jonah,
“Arise and go to Nineveh for me.”
“Set me free!”...

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He is sworn in holding a branch
Cut from the tree of life and a vine
That's sacred he swears to protect
His people the tree and the vine
He swears by the sacred abode

Shortly afterwards he gets the...

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Climate change became a World
Popular song sung by millions 
Of people who are praising 
The scientists, mediums, 
Wizards and ignoring 
 Prophets of most 
 High God. 

Was the climate change the reason 
Of the recent disaster...

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There once lived a man named Jonah,
whom God asked to go to Nineveh.
Warn the people of my judgment,
was God’s specific commandment.

Jonah resented being sent
not wanting his foes to repent.
but wishing the annihilation,
of that vile and...

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Methinks there are many of us who have given up on us.                       ...

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When the call of the Lord came to Jonah,
“set out for the great land of Nineveh!”
he was angry inside,
and decided to hide,
on a Tarshish bound ship leaving Joppa.

Then the Lord sent a great wind on...

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I never wanted to be your mighty mouthpiece
I never asked to be the morning trumpet
in the troubled town
or the prophet clown
that would be scorned from all around,
I just wanted to be a mason
like my forefathers...

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Daniel Joshua and Jonah
            (children's song music & lyrics by Joan Donnelly 1991)
Verse 1
 Now Daniel was thrown to the Lions but he was...

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The Lord is a jealous and avenging God
coming with vengeance full of wrath
for all His enemies He will defeat
with His mighty hand from His path

This is a God of awesome power
who delays His anger so...

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One or two of us
Were home on leave;
For the rest of us,
Christmas came by mail.

Our callsign: Gunslingers.
Our Military Transition Team
Was embedded with 
The "Triple Deuce" Iraqi Infantry,

For a year our home
Was LSA Diamondback
Mosul, Nineveh province,
In...

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   Repent America, for your 7 great abominations. Like Ancient Nineveh, you have also shed innocent blood,
you adulterous and ungrateful drunkards. You have forsaken God for another. Your Apathy is telling and your...

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The sonorous voice of God woke Jonah from his siesta one fine day,
Saying, "Arise! Get ye to Nineveh and I'll brook no delay!
I've volunteered you to go there and preach in that wicked town,
The people...

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