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First Destiny Called

Laid with words
   the writers stone
A fortress was columned
  my only real home

The poetry safe
  as it stammered and tried
As my feelings unbridled
  from the outsiders lies

Each year added substance
  to this home of the verse
My thoughts never silenced
  or my feelings there terse

All that’s needed to go there
  blind captured belief
All that’s needed to know
  is that time is the thief

My vision unshaken
  from this chair with two wheels
The advice from the experts
  to wither and yield

But my place more than sacred
  an invincible throne
Independent of body
  times seed now unsown

And the moment before
  I take my last breath
I will enter forever
  where before I had left

The trumpets will sound
  as immortality calls
To that space then my refuge
  the sum of it all

As the memories chase reason
  the facts storm again
But the tents of my solitude
  keep out their wind

For generations that follow
  and their children that ask
This place I now dwell in
  is for all hard and fast

Just believe in its message
  and its fortune to change
Just believe in transcendence
  with all things the same

Until the day that that final
  trumpet may blow
And everything seen
  is all there’s to know

Your message then solid
  as the door opens wide
And those things that are yours
  to the heavens arrive

And the joy that you feel
  thinking back on it all
From that place deep inside 
 —where first destiny called

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2015)
Form: Rhyme


Premium Member The Book of Kings - 1 Kings 16:31-33

Ahab needed shore leave, 
And obsessed so on his dream,
Harpooning some sweet harlot 
Had become his major theme.
He was just a novice mariner, 
His first time far from home.
He’d made his maiden voyage 
With his wild oats yet unsown.

Jezebel liked scrimshaw, 
Always wore it like a queen.
She loved to dress in style 
And had a taste for French cuisine.
She was just another working girl, 
Young sailors were her game. 
She didn’t dig Jehovah, 
But she’d do Him just the same.

Ahab went on liberty 
With fifty bucks in cash.
He laid down ten on his first tattoo 
And a shot of sour mash.
Jezi smiled coquettishly, 
Cooed, Hey there, cherry boy,
For forty shekels I’ll show you the ropes. 
I shag like the real McCoy.

Jezebel naughtily lowered her veil 
And shimmied her best Bette Davis.
Ahab said, "Baby, lead me astray 
Where Elijah’s conceit can’t betray us."
Ahab followed Jezi 
To her boudoir’s upper floor,
Singing gayly of Nantucket 
Like some salty troubadour. 

Ahab put his hand inside 
Her open cookie jar.
The moment seemed electric, 
Like Saint Elmo lit his spar.
Just then the temple cops burst in 
And ruined his crescendo.
Ahab ran; they clipped his leg. 
Jezebel jumped out the window.

This story and its moral 
Speak of tragic dialogues:
Ahab deflowered a virgin prosthesis, 
And Jezebel went to the dogs.

Labour Day 2023

Yea if a man labours in pain
If not in the Lord, he labours in vain
But whatever a man finds to do
Be he even unto his master and to God be true
Even in his ministry to God above
Let it be cheerfully a sincere labour of love

For Christ laboured even to wash feet
And Paul condemned he that labours not to not eat
And ye are called into heights above the surface
In unity and maturity towards works of service
For even faith without works is dead
For by a working Master we are led

We are called for such a time as this
For works prepared aforetime and with apportioned grace
The will and the ability also built in us
That our days be spent in the pleasure of bearing the onus
For the awaiting judgment will weigh the deeds
A presentation of harvest, not of unsown seeds

HAPPY LABOUR DAY
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Sometime Small Things Are Huge

Sometime Small Things are Huge
Written: by Tom Wright
3/6/2014

God, 
You left with me your spiritual charge,
For this heart that only you could see.
You introduced a person into my path,
Along with a tremendous responsibility;

You burdened my heart for this one soul,
Beyond any that previously I’d known.
Years crept by while that bandit time,
Reminded me of seed I’d left unsown.

I seldom knew the correct thing to say,
And this often caused my heartfelt sorrow.
I could only pray that this life be changed,
And in some manner I’d know tomorrow.

As time whispered days grew into years, 
I oft thought of this person’s well being.
I knew my prayer’s had not been in vain,
But questioned whether again I’d be seeing.

And then one day came a joyous surprise,
A letter that made the world seem right.
The immediate change seen in this person,
God had cleansed a heart making it white.
© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Lyric

Premium Member The Grass Is Greener On the Other Side:

The grass is greener on the other side,
So sit on the fence and watch them collide,
The geese fly south to a kinder climate,
As we philosophise to find our fate.

Many say religion shall save your soul,
And this is fine if you wish to be whole,
I'll drift into the mystery unknown,
Planting all my seeds but keep some unsown.

While reap I shall from above and below,
Never knowing truly which way to go,
Keeping my eye on the prize, so to speak,
Remain a gentle man, one of the meek.

Continue down my path till my demise,
Hoping one day I shall call myself wise.

(Ten syllables per line)
© White Wolf  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Sonnet


Crowning



           In the kingdom's sanctuary, 
atop the regal frame,
lies the emblem of sacrifice, 
the crown's hallowed blame.
Nor adorned- with precious jewels-
reflecting royal might,
even more a symbol of august-authority, 
a captivating seep of darkness piercing light.

O, the crown, a stately jest, replacing HIS due crest, 
a weight upon the brow, and a blow upon HIS chest.
A burden and a blessing, it graces all all allows.
But behind the sparkling thorns, a story avowed 
by Veronica's Veil 
and a mysterious shroud that spreads wings 
over the land like a tapestry of identity 
and title deed over Death and Hell.

Of sacrifice and hardship, 
manifolded for Man in a bleed.
The journey, ever burdened, by both heart and hand 
and blood of gland to seed.
The guardian of Man and the seas 
to land squarely at HIS lap.
He doth drink up the seas.

For a crown oft conceals the trials of a king,
the battles fought within, 
the tears that cause the mushroom ripple 
of restoring, need.
Each gemstone in a crown 
holds a memory, etched- 
in our individual and collective soul,
of joys and sorrows, of kingdom’s role, 
what then more of a crown of thorns?
It holds souls in it's symboligy and irony.

And as a crown bestows grandeur 
on a chosen head,
it whispers tales of triumphs, and whispers 
of the once hopeless dead.
For love, is a double-edged sword that can rend mountainous rock into a river for a worthy land.
It can build splendid kingdoms or leave ruins 
of heart in unsown empty hand. 

So, behold ye the one who wore the crown 
of might and love.
For beneath it lay the weight of the World, 
to bear our plights of sin and bond.

Thus, let us not envy the crown HE bore.
Instead, let us remember-
        the heavy share of load and lighten HIS, 
evermore. 
If we but listen to his WORD.
art
Form: Ode

The Loneliest Road Not Traveled

The loneliest road, a path unknown,
Where footprints fade, the seeds unsown.
Amidst the woods, in silent grace,
A solitary journey we all must face.

Beneath the moon's pale, silver light,
The stars above, a quiet night.
In solitude, we find our way,
A road less traveled, come what may.

Through winding lanes and darkened woods,
The loneliest road, where silence broods.
But in this solitude, we will find,
A deeper self, an awakened mind.

The loneliest road, it's not in vain,
For in its silence, we attain,
A strength to tread where others fear,
The road less traveled, crystal clear.

So let us walk with hearts held high,
The loneliest road, beneath the sky.
Embrace the journey, bold and true,
For in its solitude, we are renewed.

Song for the Stars

Sing to the stars a sonorous song,
Bring them out of their hiding,
Let them adorn the night sheet,
Summon the stars to dispel melancholy forlorn hearts meet.

Where are the embellishments of the sky?
Why is the sky left bare with no beauty to stare?
The night sorrows for its lamps,
Plain darkness holds sway and clamps.

The watchers are without a guide,
The sages are without a door,
The sky bleeds for unsown seeds,
The meadows are troubled by recalcitrant weeds.

Seduce the stars without a script,
Let your song echo in the night,
Then the stars will emerge with full light,
And the night will spill out its mysteries.



August 8, 2026.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Fading Drumbeats

Long past war’s fading drumbeats 
And beyond the miasmic mists of time
Run undercurrents that displace peace 
And fancied futures hoped sublime.
Once staccato beats of war drums abate  
Far from war graves and their dead,
We find loved ones’ dismal fates 
And lonely lives now filled with dread.

Soldier’s sojourn in the dash dividing 
Dates on their eroding tombstones
Remind us that their lives, though exciting,
Ended not with hope but love unsown.
Once draftee’s dreams become forgotten 
And their past romances are long since lost,
All that remains is what God left them  
And scars they earned at frightful costs.

We too, wonder what will become of us 
And we hope to pass our test divine
Once life’s abating hoofbeats leave us 
And we’re enveloped by the fog of time.
Who will remember who we were? 
Who will proclaim, “I KNEW THEM WELL?”
Who will stop and silently ponder 
What our tombstone epitaphs fail to tell.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Beyond

Note once upon
The way beyond


The pulse of feel
That lingers still


Gaze on the stars
With eyes ajar


Distant the dream
In subtle scheme


Aware of now
As tears endow


Awake to wit
In fits and bits


Look upon cheer
Yet be now here


Know the unknown
In void unsown


The seeker seeks
To take a peek


Ignorant proof
Ignores the truth


Love is the key
To mystery


Seize fond fancy
To simply be


Feel more than know
Then watch life show


Go beyond things
Let joy now fling


Ooze of fine booze
Can ease fond snooze




Leon Enriquez
18 February 2016
Singapore
Form: Couplet

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