Midweek Recitation
GIFTS OF GOD
Chrestotes chara praotes
inwardly kind,full of joy
Oiktirmos egratia spoude;
anechomai;
gentle meek;compassionate;
yet in control
Arete, pistis,hupomone
diligent
enduring with patience
gnosis,zezoo phusioo
perpereuomai;
moral ,persuaded
to trust
Hagnotes elpis agape
Tapeinophrosune
persevering,understanding;
not boastful or arrogant;
eusebeia Agathosune aeltheia
blamelessly pure, hope filled
filled with agape love
anupokritos philadelphia;
humble in godliness;charitably good
integral sincere
Dokime zezoo makpothumia
diakaiosune eirene
brotherly kind;
proven of character;
not jealous, but forbearing
set right with God
and
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Categories:
midweek, christian, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Midweek Recitation
nothing moves,
silence!
echos of voices,past
awake!
faces appear,then
depart!
a tear trickles,
slowly!
the music plays,
faintly!
emotion erupts,
again!
regret whispers,
in pain!
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Categories:
midweek, poetry, voice,
Form: Free verse
Midweek Memory Cartmel To Keswick
Buttemere to Ulla pike,
our walk more ramble than hike.
Up and down,rain or snow,
two teenage daughters in tow.
Haystacks,Loweswater overlooking the lake,
now locked in memory's keepsake.
Up Skiddaw and Wythrop beck,
much much longer than our usual trek.
Through the wood onto Dodds crag,
both the girls now starting to flag.
Down the slope to Underseer
stopping to buy a small souvenir.
Out
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Categories:
midweek, family, vacation,
Form: Rhyme
Midweek Memory
BETWEEN INNINGS
Tomato and cucumber
Teatime sandwiches,
Salted Smith's potato crisps
And hot steaming tea-
With fresh home baked bread
Chocolate
Spread !
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Categories:
midweek, memory, sports,
Form: Epulaeryu
Midweek Recitation
the class
of summer fifty five
left to ply
their business lives
the office partners just two
pens pencils nearly-new
clerking the lowest
of the low
daily drudgery
reality soon shone thru'
down the cellar
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Categories:
midweek, nostalgia, youth,
Form: Bio
Midweek Recitation
Simple symbols of self expression
imagery in intuitive motifs,
a harmony of colour ..inspiration
of moods fused into metaphor
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Categories:
midweek, imagery,
Form: Quatrain
Midweek Memory Childhood
AN ORGANIC CHILDHHOD (1940'S STYLE)
School was out,
vacation touched our gate,
long days,bedtimes late;
time,routine we relegate
Bird nesting,climbing trees,
building dens,adults unseen,
picnics and make-believe;
imagination-filtered dreams
Unsupervised,wandering free,
adventures sans boundary,
no cares,no chores;
natural boyhood to the core
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Categories:
midweek, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Two Midweek Limericks, November 06 2019
~ SPEAKING RUSSIAN'S A PAIN ~
Shmendrick's a lazy student from Ukraine
He thinks that speaking Russian is a pain --
He'll speak Ukrainian
Even Romanian --
Russian grammar takes a disciplined brain
PTSD
They say
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Categories:
midweek, money, student, war,
Form: Limerick
Midweek Medley - Three Holiday Limericks
~ Trick or Treat on the Moon ~
The man in the moon's really kind of neat
Every Halloween he plays trick-or-treat
When astronauts come
He acts kind of dumb
"Green cheese is all I can give you to eat."
~ The Turkeys in Tennessee ~
The turkeys in Tennessee are so
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Categories:
midweek, christmas, halloween, humor, thanksgiving
Form: Limerick
Midweek
Call you and you don't answer, as usual,
I know you hate the phone.
I really needed you today.
The doctor's office said they will let me know about my test today.
I am wondering...and scared.
Could have used a distraction,
Still haven't called, still wondering...
Will it be o.k. or not?
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Categories:
midweek, life
Form: Free verse
Songs of Midweek
A moment between heaven
and earth
wrapped in angel hair
twinkly starlight
muted
wondering . . .
gifted so with uncommon perception
from above
heart left there
on poetic earth without care
oh master of
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Categories:
midweek, faith, happiness, imagination, life,
Form: Blank verse