Long Replenishes Poems

***Part 1 of the series, Not Focused (written entirely by J.W. Earnings)***

Resurrect my hushed, pleading voice from the dead
Give me Your water and nourish me with serenity 
Renew my rejoicing spirits, wholesome like bread 
Wandering...

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Mother’s dirty offender seeded life that demanded nurture, demanded attention….
Demanded unforeseen fate
Twins, thrust upon her…. strained to love, and yet…. 
This happening urged her to live

Her head lifted, agitated,
Soaked from head to toe in the...

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screwed.bumped.bruised.fingers caressing a flossy silhouette which happens to be a cup of
brewed coffee.savoring its stunning richness while helplessly  drowned in sincere fondness
from its hypnotic scent.better than hell.better than a new-mown hay.better than anything
else that...

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“i’m only happy when it rains,”
moans shirley manson when she’s backed by
butch vig & an orchestra of overdubbed
distorted guitars enhanced by sythensizers
a la trent reznor
the genius who is credited in garbage’s first album---
one doesn’t have...

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In air of awe,
...I write the pain of my heart,
each beat of tumult,
each throb of incite,
...which merges with my tears
in release of woe.

A cry of tragedy unheard,
...the final words of a dying bird
with clipped wings
called...

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The dry cracked earth moan under its crust while the languishing trees hold firmly beneath its grit absorbing little moisture within its root sending memory of hard time way back to its youth. The grass...

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My Black Is Beautiful       



My Black is beautiful because I belong to a people that shows its beauty 
through a wide spectrum of rich shades of brown, vanilla, walnut,...

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I watched the sun going down this evening
leaping over mountains and towns
ascending long rays of light upon still water
sparking lights of infinite glory mesmerized
my thoughts keeping me in perfect harmony. 

I lay motionless on the...

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Your Graceful Culture
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I am struck by a graceful sense of silence...

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LAURELS TO GREEN.


Mum has prepared an avacado jam,
green tints in chroma highlight the campus,
a stoll dyed in artichoke green is on my shoulder,
gala time with friends in green,we hang around in green,
Myrtle plants rejoice..Yeah! festive...

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This is the Cannabis song,
they've turned something good. 
made is seem wrong,

It's illegal why?
Come on politics,
don't be shy

So many uses for this wonder drug,
Wonderful for clothing and sometimes rugs,
Fords model T car was built from...

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In my blank slate status…
serenity engulfs my soul
whenever I’m enclosed by God’s presence
with His providence sealing me
and sovereign protection serving as my fortress.

With my blank slate admission…
grace reigns over my heart
as the Saviour draws me...

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Thank God... the taunting is diminished,
Because that is not what life is all about,
We are meant to connect and give but you made this all about yourself,
Maybe if you realized from the door that that...

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Eleven years ago, it was a glimmering, gleaming, spanking new house
And we were so pleased, as we had designed it, our way, for us.
We immediately eliminated a dining room, preferring to eat in the
Livingroom on...

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Time can only tell when that special person 
comes across your eyes & reveals 
the true colors of love
Push comes to shove 
I want to re-create a cinderella story 
that applies  to when i...

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January 19 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 4-6

Key Verse – Exodus 4:5 That they may believe that the Lord God of their fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and...

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The floodwaters shimmer with opalescence in the morning sun
The torrential rain finally comes to a halt

In the stillness of it all floats the body of the banker’s son
Six feet above-ground, his grave on the asphalt

Birds...

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August 4 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 38-41

Key Verse – Isaiah 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with...

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Spend five hours on Resurrection Sunday 
At the cemetery  
Left at Twilight Visited my loved one who are not there

Their remains are there but their true self with the Lord

But yet they were laid...

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March 7 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Deuteronomy 26-28

Key Verse – Deuteronomy 26:7 And when we cried unto the LORD God of our fathers, the LORD heard our voice, and looked on our...

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My gaze lowers building to the ground
Multilayers empty landscapes, graffiti, murals.
Past buildings merge into present car parks. 
I currently buy my daughters shoes here in this
empty section. We eat here at this lovely restaurant, this...

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As the waves rush over
	crashing down whatever is in its path
So do the things of this world
	crash down, bruising and tearing my life

I struggle to get to calmer waters
	only to be drug out again with...

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As after reading the psalms, my heart was moved and my spirit stirred ~

Considering this truth to impart unto the fallon ones; a path set afore myself

While the dawn breaks and the stars say goodnight...

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A steep rocky eminence 
Is too tough to climb; 
One will feel the glory 
After the hard and trying time. 

A steep rocky eminence 
Expresses the Lord's power; 
It speaks of His mighty hand 
That...

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February 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Leviticus 26-27

Key Verse – Leviticus 26:1 Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set...

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