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Your heart my Love
worth more than a thousand mines of gold
they could never purchase
the purest standards from times of old
there is such beauty
in songs where justice does prevail
where the stories told
those causes the judges never fail
in whom the welfare
of mankinds oppressions are overcome
and your pursuit of
them can so never be outdone
it is there I rest
in the meditations of your mind
songs of clarity
in which ones destiny has not been blind
and there put you forth
a call that others would you join
and fey despise
those who would virtue to purloin
in whose faultlessness
draws forth the throng and multitude
that we all might see
in us like innocence therein exude
so alas I thought
to reach this is the strivings of the mad
out of grasps reach
to imitate this pattern might be had
but it is your gift
and the power of its spirit we display
wherein are abled
we to walk its path in everyway
there we to approach
a mighty throne built of just and true
and learn these statutes
and everyday enact them what we do
where we are drawn
unto a model whose display is without equal
and to pass it on
to others its perfections are the sequel
sources :Gospels about the Christ
COPYRIGHT © 2011 C. Michael Miller
via Duboff Law Group LLC
We have refused to hearken to her plea,
Our insatiable desires have spurred our spree,
We have jettisoned her cry,
We only look and sigh,
We've been taken over by our cravings,
Pushed overboard by our strivings,
We journey towards a mammoth empire,
Stifling her free course to respire,
We desire a wholesome stress-free lane,
To her detriment and bane,
She stands listless and frail,
As we go on our splurge sail,
She said it is an equal and opposite reaction,
As some have had the premonition,
We're on a lethal cruise,
We're wearing unfit shoes,
A stitch in time saves nine.
February 19, 2023.
February 5 Scripture Meditations Based on Numbers 33-36
Key Verse – Numbers 33:1 These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
MY GOD, THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH ME IN MY JOURNEY
Thank You for being with me in my journey’s beginnings
Surely accompanying me with Your supreme reignings
Never leaving me; but driving me toward faith-gainings---
Please keep on guarding me from worldly dinings.
Thank You for being with me in my journey’s strivings
Surely helping me with Your spiritual movings
Never forsaking me; but pulling me toward trust-thrivings---
Please keep on protecting me from vain cleavings.
Thank You for being with me in my journey’s restings
Surely refreshing me with Your peaceful assistings
Never dropping me; but carrying me toward strength-hastings---
Please keep on defending me from carnal feastings.
Thank You for being with me in my journey’s goings
Surely propelling me with Your gracious doings
Never refusing me; but bringing me toward goodness-bestowings---
Please keep on guiding me from humanistic blowings.
Thank You for being with me in my journey’s strugglings
Surely upholding me with Your caring cradlings
Never abandoning me; but leading me toward sincere humblings---
Please keep on hedging me from destructive meddlings.
Thank You for being with me in my journey’s languishings
Surely cheering me with Your heavenly vanquishing and pushings
Never neglecting me; but prodding me toward provision-replenishings---
Please keep on covering me from deceptive furnishings.
February 5, 2022
November light and colors stream in
through the window
and I notice it, like in the eye of a storm,
a whirlwind that has included pain and creativity
but always distraction –
of strivings and graspings at
accumulation and accomplishment.
And in a moment – of sun, sound and color –
it all settles to be just this;
Everyone, everywhere burning like so many
points of light
like on a Christmas tree, connected by strings
amid the tinsel and baubles and
homemade ornaments of meaning.
Light that knows no division of inside or out,
me or you,
us or them.
(11/2/2010, from my first collection of poems and stories, THE HEART OF IT, 2015)
Dilapidated by harsh weather.
Ivy growing over it held it together.
Not much more than a shack.
My life ended there in that cul de sac.
~The Poet~
Twisting smiles along the way,
Struggles and strivings of the fray.
Trying to reach an ultimate goal.
Hardship seeps, destroying the soul.
Lest we show remorse for the deeds,
Bestowing ill, on suffering it feeds.
Incantations of hollow pleasure,
Rustic cavorting through our leisure.
Opulence rains in a copious deluge.
Affluence smothers yearning so huge.
Time inaudible, voices escape,
Stand on the precipice with no shape.
Trudging without courage so innate.
Leave all behind to contemplate.
Beyond reason, the battle is all uphill.
Feeling the power, we carry on still.
No stopping, no standing, yet defend,
The last conquest a mighty dead end.
Do we have the ability or the knack,
To conquer in life, fate’s cul-de-sac?
O child of stone, outcast, alone,
succumbing to desire.
Inside your chest, you’re sorely pressed,
assailed by a liar.
Do not believe the tales it weaves:
the lost, untethered heart.
Though it deceives, it silent grieves
the time it spends apart.
When realized, it bitter cries
for wounds it did impart,
and scarce conceives, much less receives
the grace of a fresh start.
But when it breaks, all of that ache,
like scales, just falls away.
A flood of tears, to be drawn near,
says what no words can say.
Your Father sates, and yet He waits
for you to freely turn.
Climb in his chair, incline your ear,
and hear what your soul yearns.
Child, fall asleep to rhythms deep:
a heart that fiercely burns.
Ah, to be blessed, and find the rest
your strivings never earned!
January 3 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Genesis 6-8
Key Verse - Genesis 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
HEART THAT FINDS GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE LORD
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a blessing
Despite our weakness of sinfulness’ cursing
Praise be to God for His salvation of faith-bracing
Making us His children with eternal life possessing.
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a privilege
Despite our flesh-strivings of pride’s knowledge
Praise be to God for righteousness-imputation we acknowledge
Making us His saints with new creation toward heavenly mileage.
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a time of gladness
Despite our selfishness hiding in hypocrisy’s brightness
Praise be to God for His mercy and forgiveness
Making us His converts toward transformation along His holiness.
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a sure victory
Despite our vain cravings and worldly thoughts’ flurry
Praise be to God for His sanctification-glory
Making us His believers following Him, proclaiming His Gospel story.
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a proof of His approval
Despite our failures attributed to enemies hindering our survival
Praise be to God for His power causing our prayer-filled revival
Making us His will-abiders shut in His prevailing love’s upheaval.
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a service-motivation
Despite our unfaithfulness brought by fleshly corruption
Praise be to God for His steadfast compassionate function
Making us His stewards who comply to His instruction.
For our heart to find grace in the Lord’s eyes is a desire of our spirituality
Despite our zeal assuaged, abated and restrained by iniquity
Praise be to God for His wisdom driving us with His Word’s certainy
Making us His worshippers who seek Him along our humility and sincerity.
January 3, 2026
“Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.”
- Mary Oliver
Poetry is an inner reassuring voice,
It is the ladder that leads out of murky waters,
It is the portrait that depicts the strivings of the soul,
It is the eye to the wonders and intricacies of nature,
It is a pathway through a cluttered and clustered path.
Poetry is a light that guides through a dark alley,
It is a pearl of inestimable worth,
It is the panacea for turbulent waters,
It is the song of our times,
It is the message in the rhythm and melody.
Poetry is the wind that blows on a hot and dry day,
It is the sun that graces a gloomy sky,
It is a chamber of lost treasures,
Poetry is a door that leads to a ceaseless fountain.
Poetry is a world that I'm glad I found.
November 29, 2022.
Poetry is a life-cherishing Force Contest Poetry Contest,
Sotto Poet.
Now is the time to be asking the night,
under a cloudless sky lit by the moon,
when in the future will all things be right?
Now is the time to be asking how soon
war will be ended, and there will be peace
under a cloudless sky lit by the moon.
Now is the time to ask strivings to cease;
when, like the breeze, so gentle, scarce moving,
war will be ended, and there will be peace?
Now is the time to pray for improving
relations with nations who are at war.
When? Like the breeze, so gentle, scarce moving,
now is the time to want things as before,
value all lives and all men as brothers,
relations with nations who are at war.
Now, for the sake of loved ones and others,
now is the time to be asking the night,
valuing lives and all men as brothers:
when in the future will all things be right?
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for AN ORIGINAL TERZANELLE Poetry Contest
sponsored by L Milton Hankins
written 04/05/2022
We live life in communities
comprised of many families
but for the success of the whole
we select some to take control.
The laws they make we all agree
are essential to keep us free.
The ones who our laws enforce
are those who wield the civil sword.
The churches in communities
comprised of many families
are governed by the laws of God
recorded in His Holy Word.
The members of the church agree
God’s laws exist to keep them free.
The ones who do these laws enforce
hold in their hands the Spirit’s sword.
The church and state each play a role
to make civil society whole.
When each one stays within its crease
Society enjoys lasting peace.
Separation of church and state
is a prime American trait.
It serves to keep religion free
from interference by the state.
When churches try to use the state
to enforce laws that they dictate
society becomes traumatized
by the strivings that soon arise.
The way to help the culture change
is to proclaim God’s message strange.
The foolishness of God’s pure Word
makes man’s wise words sound so absurd.
Christians, let’s keep these swords apart
let us not from God’s Word depart.
Give Caesar what to him belongs,
leave it to God to right all wrongs.