Long Straightly Poems

I.
He was patient very-very
with child's tenderness in eyes
yellow winged angel's unwary,
He was living quiet in skies.
Without disputes, without roughness, 
without want to weep and moan,
He was dreaming among heartless
building cloud castles alone.
He was waking up...

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Note: This is the 2nd half of one of my MANY long story works, and the 1st half can be accessed, of course, at "poems by Mark Stellinga" on the soup.
My wife and I were...

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If Laudato Si'
were written by Pope Francine
and not me
replacing Pope Francis's
root anthrosupremacist choices
with similar
but more nuanced
and multiculturally inclusive choices,
cooperatively healthy premises
might further enlighten
to resolutely empower
a rather more transubstantially engaging
creolizing catholic haute cuisine.

#110.  The LeftBrain...

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The Soul Errand
To Sir Walter Raleigh Tomb.

Since my soul shall though go
Upon a thankless arrent too
I fear not to touch the best so
The truth shall be my warrant through 
I went since I need must...

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"The Arrows"


                            The arrows found their mark as...

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June 3 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 68-70

Key Verse – Psalm 68:5 A father of the fatherless, and a judge of the widows, is God in his holy habitation.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE...

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November 5 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 3-4

Key Verse – 1Corinthians 3:7 So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
	
LORD GOD,...

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January 21 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 11-13

Key Verse – Exodus 11:3 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians.

LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY FAVOUR GIVER
				
Lord God,...

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From loftiness one becomes lowly
.   and from lowliness one becomes lofty.

Consider the highest of the peaks; 
.   it has nothing but rocks and snow only.
Consider the lowest of the plains; 
....

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5/10/21
"Strangely"

Withdrawals getting shaky
I can't think or see straightly
I'll stay stuck or I'll break free
They thought I was just being shady
It made me
Or was able to break me
A change in me
Or still the same me
Continued on...

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--- Storm Surge ---

 Beyond the sweating window
   Howls a wind as if in pain.
 The tapping of the droplets grow
   Passing way to pounding rain.

 Trees once motionless and straightly
...

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COMING BACK HOME

Who says I have no choice to sin
To love and live and delight in sin?
T’is my choice and one I can choose
To live in lies and follow the flies
But here now is the...

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I look unto the wall I see the health heavy handed pictures level straightly upon the wall I asked myself really I wonder which one of these first child soon fall is a shadow waiting...

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The distracted lady
was a complete stranger,
with a pre-occupied finger
pressed to her gypsy lips
Choosing between two items
of indeterminate value
Which held more, I couldn’t tell
I only observed that she made the choice
with molasses deliberation ... 
slow and...

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HUMANNESS
-the quality of being human-

Angels or Demons?
No, we are Humans.
We preach divinity or devilish?
No, we preach Humanity.
Oh! Although in the logical world!

Divinity is for the divines, not us.
Devilish is for the demons, positively not us...

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One bad day,
my elbow was hurt,
and i decided to see a doctor
near my father's home.

When i was going,
i met my friend along the way
who told me like a doctor
that all i was planing  was...

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Your mother and father have both passed away
But you had good friendship relations...
You are young but your life made you find the way
That was full of hardships and tensions...

You'd been going so long, you were...

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I’m trapped in this nightmare,
A never ending dream of violence. 
Is it because you don’t care,
That I constantly receive silence?
I’ve looked to hope,
I’ve looked to fate. 
At the end of my rope,
I feel your benevolent...

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I laughed one morning,
when my mum took my sister
to a near by hospital,
hoping her to die any time.

The doctor asked her,
what's wrong?
and she answered straightly away
that my beloved  daughter,
she keeps on getting fat day...

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John and Joyce
are not really twins
but they love themselves
like flies on meat.

Every  time  they  meet
they  feel  so great
with a lot of joy.

John stands up
straightly  like  a  nail
to...

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In the cold darkness of the night
	looking to black sky and the stars so bright
Reds and gold’s and blues and whites
	and bright shining moon high overhead

darkness is silent cold and hard
	the heart lies empty of...

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Hey you, looking me
I am not like you and my madness
You are beautiful like shining star
I am the dirty waves 
Never try to come near swimming 
Your tears might loss values. 

Straightly you look to...

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I would unfold my hand
As I show it to you,
Steady, fistful of sand.
You'd trace creases time drew,
Dedicate direction,
Lean ever closer, still,
Tracing my skin's section,
No collected landfill.
Psalm pilot, calm zealot,
Future's moments' to read,
Psalm pilot, psalms yet...

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All do long for short reprieve 
From labor harsh that burdens them. 
Some dream of beaches, vast and wide, 
Some dream of forests, dense, to hide. 

Where do I desire mine own? 
I fear that...

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I was walking straightly along the street,

Eyes of unknown were saying their warm greet.

Feels like that I was being stripped,

Eyes of unknown were trying me to grip.

 

 

I was walking straightly along the street,

Grins...

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