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Premium Member Far from You

Far from You

Live far, autumn is my life, your summer is the sky, sunny life
Just give me silence, and feel you close, give hope to a poor heart

From far I want your closeness, be my heart, and give me love
Your hand is the way, I want to walk in your street; hand in hand for

I am here for you, far away…, but loving you, I am blind to you
Please destroy the dark clouds in front of my eyes, your light is my truth

Far from you is painful suffering, but the hope of love projecting you
Only you, no one else, my heart says my way to life comes from you

My hope is full
I believe you
Only in you
A heart is beating
Still far from you
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member Ball and Chain

No mirror shows reflection
were it not for light and
dark, that which surrounds
and enfolds us, warms and
chills our inner – the deeper
degrees of being. Numbers,
weights and scales are our own 
inventions, for God keeps no such account, 
seeing only, who walks in with
us, and how we arrived – 
Our internal image charged
by those oscillating fuels of love
and hate; spoken and driven~the 
engines moving us forward
and back as a humanity...can stall at 
the foot of a mountain, or on a one-way
bridge – gleams that never find
a return channel to steadier stars, 
unable to escape the firmament-gravity
of super-glued ego –  

Lust for Power, jealousies, need to control
others and all else in our environments,
are some of the Balls And Chains we
sing about, rhyme and push our poetry,
while leaving our souls trailing behind – 

True Soul-life, not only sentient feelings, but
the spirit body of God appealing to us, from out
the mist of our wanderings, longing for conscious
reunion –

Premium Member The Life Of A Serial Killer

My day-to-day life is pretty routine.
With the rest of the world, I blend in.
There’s a side of me that no one has seen.
It’s quite a story… where do I begin?

I know that it may be hard to believe,
But it began when I was very young.
From the start, it was easy to deceive.
I was a little hyper and high-strung.

I may have gotten away with a lot
Because I was the youngest of them all.
But to the bullies, I gave what I got.
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

I know that it’s not much of an excuse,
But my siblings would always pick on me.
So, I learned psychological abuse
And tormented all of my family.

I would steal many of my siblings’ toys,
Knowing I probably wouldn’t get blamed.
The stuffed ones, I would completely destroy,
And I never felt the least bit ashamed.

As I got older, it did become hard
To hide what I’d ultimately become.
I buried everything in the back yard.
If they were ever found, I’d just play dumb.

But, no one ever discovered the truth.
I got away with it all of these years.
From just a little puppy in my youth
To a full-grown dog that nobody fears.
Form: Rhyme

For the Perfected Promise of Imperfection

Commit to me the art of you and I will be alone
See to me you are the light and I will be blind
Rejoice in me your very soul for I cannot atone
That in the very faith you hold, I knew not any kind

A flower bent with broken root, a pretty sight still
As naked night is veiled sight, this I am to you
The happy fear laughed away is a nervous shrill
Echoed in the heart of you, abounds within me too

So drain my thought and make me straight, and you will be thrown
Into a gale of rememberings, there will we be found
Again another knowing known, a screening show shown
Predictable enlightenment in repetition bound

Please make this truth the truest, and lies the first I heard
Please take me to a garden wild, and lose me in the fray
Please find me scarred wanting more, whisper me that word
Love and love and love again, my dark and light of day
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Navigating Through Life's Highway

If there were a diagram of my life's journey,
it would begin in The Southern United States;
and crossing the mighty Mississippi River,
proceed North and slightly East for about 600
miles.

After some 5 years, it would then point further
North but slightly west for about 100 miles.
One year later, career circumstances would then
force a return to the point from which it last came.

After another year, the lines would then portray a Southern
turn back to the point where my life began. Another 4
years would pass, and the line would then point straight
West for some 2000 miles to the Pacific Ocean.

After a stint of 8 years there, the diagram would proceed North
and slightly East for about 100 miles. After a long duration
of 36 years there, the line would about-face and show a
return all the way back to my Southern roots. Who knew?

This navigational diagram had no prior dream of pursuing
such a course, but life happened and a Divine Plan unfolded.
I went along for the ride. There were some difficult navigational
twists and turns, high tides, and troubled seas. There were good
times and bad times, fires, quakes, flooding, and perfect storms.
But what could be a final landing has proven to be a God encounter.

Through the journey on life's highway, I have learned the truth
of God's word which says, "In their hearts, humans plan their
course, but the LORD establishes their steps". *

012523PSCtest, Pick-A-Title, Vol 34. Edward Ibeh
Title choice: Navigating Through Life's Highway.
*Proverbs 16:9. NIV
Form: Narrative


Premium Member Three Sides To Every Story


As you chase the melting mirage in the desert storm
I look at your evasive eyes permanently petrified,
see the void vision fixed in the personal frame.
As the shroud of devious dust spreads on sneaky you,
you wane in the waste land,
like the shrivelled shadow of the skeletal tree,
green once, but I know, you've lost your roots,
turned into a stubborn wooden entity.

Layer on layer the dubious design of deception 
morphs into motif of masquerade mask,
the chameleon skin fashions your face
with the smoke screen, I can't see through.
The epitome of pretense creates the cloak of charade,
thwarts the rays of reality,
so, you make obscure onyx world of your own,
don't discern you turn into an ambiguous antique, 
but I know, for I walk in the museum of masked people.

You build the bastion of enveloping emptiness 
of abysmal abyss of your vagabond valley, 
no window opens on the secluded sapphire sky.
The eradicated sunburst sequined sense
doesn't illumine your insipid isolation.
Your fixated mind remains fossilized in dark dereliction,
becomes slate slice of starless night.
You don't know why all the dreams disappear,
but I know, no rainbow ribbon wraps
your remote opaque heart,
for an obstinate object you become.

The ubiquitous vivacity ingrained in every story
gets the dormant light of the absolute truth,
yet each one is a tree on the thicket of diversity,
each one is a flower in the garden of plurality.

The Wayfarer and the Thirteen Kingdoms Part 2

The seventh kingdom sings that he was a drop of gold 
Who fell from the sky of golden sunlight to earth so cold 
Dragons brought that drop to their caves thousands of years old 
It grew into a gold child who shone for all to behold 
A white dove baptised him, and brought him back to the blue 
He received the glory of heaven’s sunlight as he flew 

The eighth kingdom proclaims that a cloud wrapped round a rock 
A young man broke out of the rock with white flames that could talk 
He held a dagger and torch as doves came as a flock 
The doves from the cloud cared for him as he began to walk 
He received glory and power as candles were lit 
Lit by man celebrating that the ancient rock was split 

The ninth kingdom sings that from the nine muses, one left 
She flew to a high mountain to think about the bereft 
She desired her body whom none can take by theft 
As a lone virgin, she birthed a son whom the angels blessed 
Every angel sang hymns to nourish him with glory 
And went to the waters to save men from purgatory 

The tenth kingdom sings that the son came from the sun god 
Who loved a white cloud and dropped a pearly tear as a prod 
The cloud opened and gave a child, and the sun did laud 
And the child received glory. This is what they all applaud 
And the kingdom sings that the child fell as pouring rain 
To the waters of the earth to ease humanity’s pain

The eleventh says that he was born with vile power 
Born from a father who desired his precious flower 
The plant opened its petals and became a vower 
It vowed to take its sole offspring to a tomb to cower 
An angel dressed in white roses came and cared for him 
And through the angel, he came to a lake filled to the brim 

The twelfth kingdom sings that he came from the moon and sun 
He was cared for and nourished in the heights as a loved one 
He was bathed in power and bright glory as the son 
He soon rained down into sparkling waters as should be done 
But in the shimmering truth, he was above those two 
Who came to save pearls, using the shining boats to get through
Form: Musaddas

Speak the Action Not the Words

Actions may speak louder than words 
but an action missed didn’t occur, 
if from start to finish 
it was never witnessed 
evidence is of the thinnest 
it’s you that did begin this
it’s just your word 
you making sound 
when you’re heard 
no truth is found 
nothing was noticed 
until they noticed you 
when you’re in focus 
saying words untrue 
you began this 
when you accused 
a disadvantage 
you will lose 
what they did 
they wouldn’t do 
you sound stupid 
no one’s amused 
so the interaction
their harmful action 
doesn’t factor 
or even matter 
you’re the trouble 
that their aware of 
the more you struggle 
the more you’re sweared off 
you are the victim 
shouting abuse 
you are inflicting 
bad attitude 
words are spoken 
truth sees a twist
the can is opened 
respond with a fist
© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Poem Letter To My Spiritual Director

Decided to speak poetry
Words are painful
To not be hurt
Thought to be friends

Not to be in pain
Guess the revelation is not that powerful
To be terrified is understandable
Frightened too

Guess the Divine needs to convey
To transfer the truth 
Certain women are having difficulty
Read their stories

Where is your compassion?
Did you not feel it too?
Higher power is you
Those women had, are having difficulties

Told the Divine not to be powerful
Mad or angry
Don’t be
The unborn are suffering inside

Women
Ladies
Mother
Can’t bear seeing her child suffering

Thought Humans needs to mirror the Divine
Ended unborn suffering
Tell Higher power the unborn are safe in heaven
The Divine wants to give women chance/choice to save themselves

Have pity on them
Population needs to hear the truth
To understand, discern, comprehend
To live harmoniously, peacefully

Calling the Divine
Hear the population
Unborn, living are suffering
Tell Higher power the truth

Written: 06172020
Poetry form: Dramatic Monologue

Premium Member He B L E S S E D Me - 2

He blessed me with hope
When my feelings told me
I didn’t have a chance
That misery was my condition
And I’d never see the wisdom
Of giving from my heart
A part of my kindness and grace
Knowing that my prayers
Would somehow bring my faith
All the assurance that I needed
To just let go and keep believing

He blessed me with courage
When I wasn’t feeling very strong
Almost like I was completely wrong
And didn’t have a leg to stand on
Because my heart was weak, so weak
It felt like I couldn’t breath
Like something inside me stirred
In the darkness and dread, the fear
That awakened my yearning for
A sense of serenity and strength
That comes from giving in to Him
Leaning on His power and love
Without ever doubting His grace
He is the One who can lift me
From the darkest of the shadows
The dimness of the bluest tear
The night of that piercing dread
The feelings that bring terror
Beckoning me to nightmares
And coloring my hopes in blackness

He blessed me with fulfillment
Serenity amid the chaotic
Joy when all seems lost
Inspiration when life is hard
A melody when I don’t have a song
Light when the night is so bleak
Beauty when gloom seeks me 

He blessed me with a everlasting love
The kind that brings true joy
And wisdom from His home above
The kind that grows truth and kindness
Laughter amid the haunting despair
Gentleness when all else seems futile
Friendship that will never fail
The miracle of a faith that is alive
Living in the soul, coloring all the life
In sincerity and wonder, elation
That comes from knowing
This God of the bible, the same One
My whole life and hope is based on
Will someday welcome me home
To the heaven where He is waiting for me!

He blessed me with His Son
And His love lingers on and on

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