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As daylight fades beyond the distant hill,
Dusk paints the sky in hues of soft repose.
Through swaying boughs, the birds their songs distill,
While gentle breezes dance on tippy-toes.
Lotus treads the path with a weary stride,
Her thoughts are as heavy as the fading light.
Yet with each step, her burdens seem to glide
Away, as if prepared to take their flight.
A flower, bent and worried, catches sight
Of Lotus passing by with a slowing gait.
Its petals tremble in the dimming light,
As if to share in her conflicted state.
The blossom and the woman, kindred souls,
Find solace in their shared anxiety.
As twilight deepens, nature takes control,
Embracing both in sweet serenity.
In the evening's hush, a transformation blooms,
The flower straightens, and Lotus' spirit lifts.
The worried stem no longer bends in the gloom,
As peace becomes the night's most precious gift.
Together in the gloaming, fears subside,
A fresh perspective blossoms with the stars.
The day's concerns, once seemingly amplified,
Now fade like distant, long-forgotten scars.
Soft black leather
tight formfitting
curving about you
holding you firm
padded leather wheel
vibrating lightly
is slightly damp hands
in tight corner turns
clutch pedal in
right hand shifter grasps
quick sharp throw
going down
eyes judge the line
fitting the curves flow
arcing down in
driving faster out
quick sharp chirping
rubber on asphalt slips
adrenaline thrills through
breaths hard gasped
gravity presses back
pedal smoothly press down
wheel easing off
line straightens out
engine roar grows deep
sharply racing now
curving softly out
next line seen ahead
"Let's get a tickle on!" Sounds from his lips.
He mischievously wiggles those fingertips.
"Her tickle-flex has been found!"
Now she's rolling on the ground.
She tucks her knees up to her chest
To resist him at her best.
Her laughter takes away her strength.
He straightens her to her full length.
Shoulders, ribs, ankles, knees
He won't stop til he hears her pleas!
He chuckles. He rises. He takes her hand
And pulls her up to help her stand.
He turns and starts to walk away.
She tugs him back without delay.
She grips his calves and starts her tease
With rhythmic rubs and the odd squeeze.
He can't escape flat on his face.
His untamed laughter fills their space.
Now he's the one who roars and begs
For the freedom of his legs.
She stops. They exhale a restful sigh,
Smiling, facing eye to eye.
"Let's get a tickle on!" She mocks in jest.
"Just wait til next time little pest."
Witticisms
By: Tom
1-19-2008
If a man tell an untruth today in jest,
And straightens it up on the morrow,
Does it yet remain a lie?
The witness that I show to another,
Either empowers positive change or reinforces a negative attitude.
I don’t have all the answers I need in life,
Just the man who does!
If the road you travel had no chug holes,
How often would you give God a thought?
All feel,
That having love for their fellow man is a good thing,
Some feel especially if that man can be of help.
I never fully learned the value of money
Until I discovered my life could be rich with or without it.
Wealth controls me, or I control it.
The greatest thing man can ever accomplish,
Is to plant the seed that leads another to know the Lord;
It is hard to comprehend that when we get forgiveness
God remembers our past transgressions no more.
They’re removed as far as the east is from the west.
God forgives and forgets, while carnal man forgives but remembers.
Tom Wright
1-19-2008
January 2 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 4-5
Key Verse - Genesis 5:24 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.
HEART ENABLED TO WALK WITH GOD
God enables us to walk with Him by His empowerment
As He gears our heart toward fruitful Christianity with faith’s enlightenment
Surely enabling us to win souls and bring them to His salvation settlement
While we cooperate willingly in discipleship-engagement.
God enables us to walk with Him by His grace
As He upholds our heart toward the Great Commission midst prayer-brace
Surely encouraging us to serve Him with sincere exultant praise
While we persist along our designated ministry-track race.
God enables us to walk with Him by His authority
As He propels our heart toward His direction of Bible studies’ effectuality
Surely illumining us to learn from His truths for prosperous spirituality
While we apply principles of stewardship’s productivity.
God enables us to walk with Him by His instruction
As He straightens our heart toward His standard of character-transformation
Surely exhorting us to disciple others with His Scriptural education
While we present Christ-like example through our dedication.
God enables us to walk with Him by His mercy
As He brings our heart toward His presence of sweet fellowship’s consistency
Surely nurturing us to delight in His nourishing clemency
While we beseech Him for constant revival’s fervency.
God enables us to walk with Him by His command
As He pulls us toward His deliverance of eternal life’s assured stand
Surely enjoining us to proclaim His love and peace, joyously grand
While we rescue sinners from guilt-penalty’s tormenting demand.
God enables us to walk with Him by His victory
As He drives our heart toward His sacrifice of blessed kindness at Calvary
Surely energizing us to follow His leadership for His glory
While we testify of His compassion in sharing the Gospel story.
January 2, 2026
Out of the blue on this summer day
Richie asks me if I want to swim with him across the lake
Sure what the hell and that is that
I will match the older boy’s vim and whim
Two strong boys armored with Nietzsche arrogance and Tolkien muscle
Armada of scarecrows and wrists assemble on Wally’s manmade beach
To accompany us on the two-and-a-half-mile odyssey
Across the cold and chop of wind
Dad hunches over a leaky rowboat
In hand-to-hand combat with splintered creaky oars
Dennis kneels on a music sheet paddle board
Pink baton at his bearded black throat
In we go
A wave and grin goodbye to Wally’s beautiful daughter Wendy
Richie to Wally’s wonderous wife Janet
And to our moms’ arms crossed up on the tennis court hill
For hours little did we know
Dad says Bobby! Sarah’s coming up underneath you ha ha
Richie separates and heads north not east like a slashing madman
Hey Hey yells Dennis his spotter
Imagine myself a turtle with hot sun egg frying on its back in the black water
Begin to feel the razor teeth of pike at my toes
Biting them off one by one
I stop and panic thrash and splash them away give them my toenails
Richie straightens out far behind me
Weight of the bloated world holding me up
Spaceship in orbit bellied against the Earth
Halfway across
I assume
I can only tell by the guess of cumulus clouds
My knees shoulders neck need an oiled wrench to complete each heave and rotation
Rust and barnacles growing on me
Finally I pass over the turquoise drop off of the other side
Pink mustard to my sutured eyelids
Line of shore the trees a quarter mile ahead
I think dad yells good enough good enough
Salvages me in with what chattering bones remain retrievable
Face gone
Snaps my arms and legs to the rowboat’s aluminum bench
Cannot bend this brass statue to a sitting position
Upside down the only way I can fit in
For the long trip back within my dad’s singing voice
Richie crawls hands and knees up on that beach
Holds its sand in his hands lets it sift through as a time glass
Never lets me forget that
I finished and you did not but we won’t tell the shimmering women
When and if
You the brother I never had and I get back
Teeth left like unrecovered treasure at the bottom of Torch Lake.
Ol' Jimmy Jam Jones
he's got noodles for bones
it don't bother him none
he just hums to the strum
of a tune, just for fun
that plays quite loudly
in his old ear drum.
Yep, he's got poor jelly legs
they whip and wobble all day
but Jimmy Jam, he don't quiver
or cry or get bitter
'cuz he knows that he's got
a mighty long liver!
Jimmy Jam's got long toenails, too
so his feet stick like glue
though at times he gets stuck
sure as heck gets in a rut
and his tongue starts to cluck.
When he straightens his back
Jimmy Jam's dentures clack
'cuz his spine is in pain
but he don't ever complain
like some folks may claim.
Yes, sir, Jimmy Jam, he's right sweet
greets ever' one that he meets
as he wobbles down the street
and smiles, at times with no teeth.
That's ol' Jimmy Jam Jones
who's got noodles for bones.
No parents, no brothers, no sister, no thing,
He’s alone with no place and no home,
Walking along the path to nowhere,
Abandoned to wander and roam,
Longing for the things the other folks say,
To the words of love they each share,
To the sounds of belonging that eludes his whole life,
Leaving him full of despair,
So, he picks himself up, focuses his mind,
Straightens the shoes on his feet,
Then keeps on his walk from one town to the next,
Walking the line on the street,
And he survives on ideas from his heart every day,
He survives with a strike off the flint,
He survives with the poems he recites in his mind,
Leaving a magic footprint.
February 23 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Numbers 28-30
Key Verse – Numbers 28:8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
FAITH IN GOD WHO WANTS US
TO OFFER A SWEET SAVOUR UNTO HIM
God wants us to offer unto Him with joyfulness
Truly sacrificing along our gratefulness
By His holiness that enables our righteousness
As our faith seeks His approval of graciousness.
God wants us to offer unto Him humbly
Truly feasting together with brethren in His assembly
By His invitation that welcomes us openly
As our faith observes His standards steadfastly.
God wants us to offer unto Him according to His instruction
Truly following His direction
By His statutes that check our motivation
As our faith strives to increase with divine action.
God wants us to offer unto Him for His glory
Truly giving our all without worry
By His provision that enriches our heavenly treasury
As our faith continues to bear fruits in sharing Gospel story.
God wants us to offer unto Him through His teaching
Truly ministering well along His truth’s preaching
By His power that results to conviction midst heart-searching
As our faith submits to His mentoring and coaching.
God wants us to offer unto Him with sincere delight
Truly obeying His commands, always good and right
By His precept that straightens our spiritual height
As our faith ascends for prayerful flight.
God wants us to offer unto Him our works of sweet savour
Truly serving with all our best along diligent labour
By His strength that fires our zeal and fervour
As our faith keeps on winning while we reach-out to our neighbour.
February 23, 2025
May 22 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Ezra 4-7
Key Verse – Ezra 4:3 But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the LORD God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.
HEART THAT BUILDS LIVES UNTO GOD
Our heart builds lives unto God against sins
With His holiness that divinely wins
While we repent from our wickedness midst worldliness dins
And seek His forgiveness from His mercy-bins.
Our heart builds lives unto God against transgressions
With His grace that girds against abominations
While we acknowledge our negative reactions
And cling to His pardon along His instructions.
Our heart builds lives unto God against selfishness
With His goodness that corrects self-exalting humbleness
While we forsake our self-righteousness
And hide in His love that rebukes enviousness.
Our heart builds lives unto God against arrogance
With His meekness that subdues pride’s endurance
While we surrender our vain craving for earthly extravagance
And abide in His satisfaction of heavenly assurance.
Our heart builds lives unto God against iniquities
With His discipline that straightens us against crookedness
While we submit our doubts and uncertainties
And trust His promises of perfection-securities.
Our heart builds lives unto God against disobedience
With His help that transforms from rebellion-insurgence
While we turn to Him from our useless expedience
And follow His ways through His caring diligence.
Our heart builds lives unto God against error-caused impairment
With His miracle that performs divine achievement
While we overcome our lack of ministry involvement
And fulfill His will through His Scriptural settlement.
May 22, 2026