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I spent my day shopping with Ruby
(I find her an absolute pain)
Torturous tale to transmit truthfully
You'll kindly let me explain...
Friday I purchase veg and fruit routinely
A schedule pleasing to retain
Ruby put a spanner in habit supremely
Consumed by cranky campaign
Fondling each ripe piece - ridiculous
Their intact skin forsaken
Commentary made us conspicious
My cheeks stung pink as bacon
Fumbling excursion injected remorse
In friendly familiar domain
Ruby's cruel fruit critiquing discourse
Done with utter disdain
Finally (red faced), we got to register
- feat she pulled when paying
Whole shop hushed as a seminar
Short change accusation relaying
In dulcet tones in foyer, I refuted it
Calm voice rigorous to contain
Ruby's shrill insisted the fruit was s**t
Plus she'd have to check coins again
Adament she had been ripped off
- I found the debarcle innane
Cash register accuracy blatantly scoffed
Treatment of clerk barely humane
Pressed lipped shoppers regarded us
A pair of loons, I shaking frustrated
Hoped the dear got hit hard by a bus!
Notched her up to cousin most hated
3rd August 2020
Written for Contest : I Went Shopping With Ruby
Sponsor : Julia Ward
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
I am smart
And God told me this is how it is
(My smartness enabling me to recognize God)
And so what I say
(Being what God told me)
Then is correct and true
And, perhaps most importantly, unique,
(Because God told me).
And the fact He told my whole tribe at once
(Through the intermediary Moses)
Makes it proven to be true
(Even though there is no other proof).
And this is the ground,
The very Holy Land itself,
I stand upon.
This is all well and good
For forming the basis of a distinct civilization
Unified and bonded on ethnic grounds,
But it doesn’t do so well
In the broader world of many other civilizations,
And tribal bonds,
Each with their own creation myths,
Each equally valid
For explaining what is,
And how it binds the tribe together
And thus apart
From all the rest.
It also doesn’t hold up to rigorous logic
Where the postulate needs more proof
Than the postulated existence
Of said postulate.
What it does do is provide a context
For confidence and solidarity
Within the tribe
And the self of each member.
But again, this is what all selves and tribes have
To some degree or another.
But when the Jews say
They have a special covenant with God,
And with their intellectual skill
Explain it in elaborate detail
Convincing at least themselves,
What they are really doing is merely adding a layer
Onto what simply is
(In their case, so and so people
In such and such place),
And although this intellectual conceptual layer,
Held to be The Truth,
Is distinctly Jewish,
The underlying reality of what is,
Is universal
And so the basis for whatever every other tribe
Thinks about itself, its origins and its world.
In others words, all religions are different
In how this world and life is explained,
But this world and life is the same for each of us
Until we become convinced
The conceptual layer our religion provides
Is true.
And heaven help those
Who disagree…
(4/8/25)
We salute you:
committed Frontliners, to the fullest
for your fervently driven-zest
propelled by dedicated service-crest
geared with devotion's best toward triumphant life-saving quest.
We commend you:
courageous Frontliners, midst task so rigorous
you’re indeed facing challenges, grievously torturous
sacrificing yourselves in this pandemic, costly injurious
battling tenaciously, spiritedly victorious.
We pray for you:
caring Frontliners, for constant steadfastness
likewise extra strength from God’s graciousness
and rejuvenating peace to conquer all sorts of weariness
as you, with well-doing*, aid people against attacking virus’ harshness.
We entreat the Lord for you:
conscientious Frontliners, to bless you and your family
to shield you with His protective fortress mightily
while upholding your faith to trust Him fully
in your rescue-efforts badly needed verily.
We thank you:
compassionate Frontliners, with our wholehearted engagement
marked with loving concern to fight global health-crisis’ detriment
yes, we are with you, along compliance to our government
that by the Almighty’s power, we can overcome for healthy betterment.
*Galatians 6:9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
April 13, 2020
2nd place, "The Last Token" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Mystic Rose Rose; judged on 4/21/2021.
3rd place, "STRAND PICK 12,any theme,any form" Contest
Sponsored by Brian Strand; judged on 4/14/2020.
Serving God offers no bed of roses
With obvious “thorns in the flesh” sorrows
Brought by persecution darts and arrows
Yet, He upholds me with His promises.
Following God requires my yielded heart
Despite despair from rigorous struggles
Midst entrapment in challenges-tangles
Thus, in Christ, I stay; never to depart.
Pursuing after God gives sure delight
While I entreat for His gracious favor
Trusting that He is pleased with faith’s fervor
Glowing in the brightness of service light.
Abiding in God refreshes my soul
While I linger in His joyous presence
Enclosed by divine peace-iridescence
Confessed sin-guilt pardoned, making me whole.
Seeking God ushers me to His wisdom
Attesting great sovereign omniscience
Defying lustful, worldly, proud conscience
Toward love-propped ministerial kingdom.
*Matthew 16:24 "Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me."
August 16, 2019
7th place, "Writing Challenge 2, August 2019 - Enclosed Rhyme" Poetry Contest; Sponsored by Dear Heart - Wiishkobi Ode; judged on 8/22/2019
If only I could shake off long rigorous winter;
and embrace secret hidden in the cool of spring.
Enlivened by nature; the twitter sound of the Scarlet Tanager,
its red-orange and black feathers, the flame of spring.
As the natural oak loses its yellowish-beige,
worm-like male catkins dress everything in sight
with its yellow pollen; leaving tiny female flowers
for new growth on the limbs.
If only I could see the Overwinter Oak Leaf Rollers
green caterpillars that later turn into adult moths,
feed and hang on silk thread from the leaves
and branches then fall to the ground.
Brown May beetles attracted to the light
And wobble when they fly or walk.
If only I could see the sunlight reft
through sturdy limbs and myriad leaves
of trees and shrubs and from somewhere
hear the rapid clatter drumming sound
of the harbinger of spring, of a single woodpecker.
If only I could see the brilliant and stunning plumage colours
of the blue Jay and the red cardinal and hear them sing
their melodies so freely; feed on sweet pleasing berries,
grown amid full foliage that have had soaked
in the open warm radiant sun.
If only I could shake off long rigorous winter;
and embrace secret hidden in the cool of spring.
3/29/2023
Poetry Contest: 'This or That, Vol 17'
Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
alternately titled: breast damned fallacy hi-jinxed!
In her “60 Minutes” interview aired
Sunday (March 26th, 2018),
the **** star known within red district
as Stormy Daniels bared
her "naked lady" version
swearing oath of honesty,
she emphatically dick cleared
on a stack of video nasties,
and x-rated 'zines
now she can live rest of life
guilt free offloading
hush money endeared
a posteriori into infinitely
jesting bordello loop
with calmly enchanting bug eyed,
drooling media hounds,
whose nostrils flared
squelching the trumpeting Don,
who maliciously glared
for traitorously breaching
“genital man's agreement”),
playing the (sock it to him role
of goody two shoes)
christened Stephanie Clifford)
shaggy long haired
pseudo Mayflower madam averred
to right justice in sought after
condom free nation,
where the turkey
ought tubby national bird
mandating free codicil
to second amendment as of furred
thus, that ass hide from right to bear arms
premature sea r man ejaculation
of Peter ought to be heard
where sudden sound
sans pubis seams burst
jock strapped unseen bulging Johnson's
onslaught hail of expletives cursed
out the mouth of salty sailor spewing Prez,
hook halled for a recess first
and foremost before
questioning resumed
automatically immersed
within tawdry tabloid pulp pit
whore sing Bacchanalian refused to quit
particularly when groin
set zipper (flimsy – obviously,
NOT put thru linkedin
locked down rigorous paces
realized, when pry vet eyelit
of trouser snake split)
yielding singular (nada so sterling)
gamut gallimaufry variegated erector set
with singular bulbous
ram rod rocket like trivet.
The Lord is so kind to shower his bountiful blessings for one and all. It is for the the perceptive mind to realise and be thankful for them always.
Almighty aligns all atoms of a rare creation
Blessed beings beget beautious revelation
Clairvoyant clergies chant Holy hymns
Delightful deific divinity solemnly sings
Ethereal evangelics eye His secret signals
Faithful figures foretell subliminal symbols
Gorgeous glorious godly is His universe
Holy heavenly ambrosia He does nurse
Immaculate inimitable perfection He paints
Just judicious jubilate jewelled are His saints
Kindness knowlege are virtues to imbibe
Luminous lustrous light to instill inside
Merciful magnanimous He forgives faults
Never needlessly He ordains our assaults
Omniscient omnipotent He provides for all
Paradisiacal plentiful profuse bounties tall
Quenching our needs but not the greeds
Retribution rigorous He logs on sin deeds
Sacred sacrosanct sermons if we all sing
Transcendent tranquil lives He will bring
Unimpeachable universal laws if we hold
Venerated blessings we get from His fold
Winsome wondrous ways lead us to Him
Xeroxing Xraying Xanadus seemingly dim
Yearning yodling for His yielding boons
Zooming zenith vistas in Zen's saloons
16.7.2020
OLD GREAT GRAND OLYMPIAD Acrostic
Ocean creatures organized overwhelming Olympiad.
Land animals appreciated, approved courtyard.
Dreadful dragons, daredevil dinosaur drunkard.
Great grand gorgeous gone celebration
Rigorous vigorous rattle snake rolled, rang tail- rings.
Elephant arrogant fought haughty hippo, won wrestling.
Aggressive antelope attacked ants, angry ass chased.
Tigers terrified tortoises taking gun, putting paws on triggers.
Grey goat got gold medal galloping on green grass.
Raccoon ragged reindeer ramping running rat race.
All alert expert winners achieved trophies.
Nine naughty notorious narwhales were expelled to neglect rules.
Dear, Donkeys,Dodos, Doves, Ducks were delighted.
Opening orison was displayed by outstanding group of owls.
Lame langur, leopard, lion loitered, leaped on ladder.
Young yeti rode on yellow yak, yawned, yelped.
Mandrill, mammoth, monkey met mouse tickling mermaid.
Peacocks, pigeons, parrots, pelicans proudly participated.
Immodest Incorrigible iguana irritated infant ibex.
Athlete acrobat agitated alligators assembled.
Deaf dumb Dog driving double-decker was declared Champion.
08/21/6
Olympic Mania Contest by Janis Thompson
God’s wisdom is what we need…
…Such upholds the veracity of our salvation-brace
While we face various challenges along life’s race
Midst struggles marked by sinfulness and weakness’ trace…
For us to stand on the winning side of His awesome grace.
God’s wisdom is what we must ask for…
…Such arms our sanctification-holiness
While battling against many facets of unrighteousness
Midst enticements of materialism and worldliness…
For us to do good works in His will’s truthfulness.
God’s wisdom is what we seek…
…Such secures our soul from doubts’ infirmities
While we conquer several stages of difficulties
Midst sufferings brought by atrocities and calamities…
For us to trust His unfailing promises’ certainties.
God’s wisdom is what depend on…
…Such intensifies our standard-convictions
While we flee from different angles of temptations
Midst allurements packed by lust and deceit’s intentions…
For us to follow His instructions toward heavenly decisions.
God’s wisdom is what we must lean unto…
…Such corrects our human-ignorance
While we subdue pride of towering arrogance
Midst ambitions of personal and carnal extravagance…
For us to stay humble under His great deliverance.
God’s wisdom is what we pray for…
…Such proves our self-denials
While we pass through tough and rigorous trials
Midst persecutions along foes’ betrayals…
For us to reach service-triumph’s peak thru His miracle-portrayals.
God’s wisdom* is what we share…
…Such powers our labor-victory
WhiIe we do His will for His glory
Midst hindrances in proclaiming Gospel story
For us to rescue the perishing from hell’s fury.
*1Chronicles 22:12 Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding...
June 23, 2019