Precipitate so white!
What shivering delights!
Cool blankets ‘pon the brim,
Though much more be quite grim,
God moderates good gifts,
Too much makes fools of them
Who enjoy cold ice drifts.
Will penetrates, grace permeates
Mind moderates, heart resonates
Love alone opens heaven’s gates
Grace permeates, will penetrates
Boundaries blur, nodes within stir
Love scented myrrh makes bliss beats purr
All’s enabled if we concur
Nodes within stir, boundaries blur
Soul’s wingless flight, toward the light
Soft white yet bright, seen in plain sight
Our destiny thus we re-write
Toward the light, soul’s wingless flight
14-September-2022
(Swap Quatrain)
the ocean is understanding today
she listens to me
her answers can be harsh, yet gentle
the ocean is understanding today
she lets me embrace the shoulders of the quietude
she can be defiant at times, but at the same time she abides
the ocean is understanding today
she nurses me back the the purity of sane
her hands may be a bit on the frigidly expansive side, but her warmth is easy reaching
the ocean is understanding today
her mind expresses in brash crashes
she experiments getting high at times, but she moderates the tides to an easy feeling normalcy
the ocean always understands me.....
E-dging ever closer to a
u-niversal link between the
p-eople who oppose all
h-ateful despots who encroach
o-n precious freedoms be they
r-ight or left wing motivated spectres
i-n a world that watches daily with abhorrence
a-t the "moderates" who look the other way
E-dging ever closer to a
u-niversal link between the
p-eople who oppose all
h-ateful despots who encroach
o-n precious freedoms be they
r-ight or left wing motivated spectres
i-n a world that watches daily with abhorrence
a-t the "moderates" who look the other way!
© Ben Burton 2-2-2015
The left contends that terrorists are really not Islamic
They're merely masquerading, maybe Christians in disguise
A peaceful man wrote the koran, the prophet named mohammad
While Christians idolize that vicious killer, Jesus Christ
Political correctness was the means by which they cowed us
They made us feel like bullies anytime we used our brawn
Our natural inclination to placate the ones who doubt us
Has led us to this place where we embrace what once was wrong
All muslims stand for peace and they police their members sternly
They make sure all their womenfolk are yoked, except their eyes
And once sharia law has been invoked in every country
The ones who watched it happen can't say squat, no hows or whys
obama must be muzzled or our troubles will continue
Too many so-called moderates won't keep his butt in line
If Carson/ West can somehow get to be on our next menu
We'll have a plan to catch and tan some Muslim terrorist hide
liberal are liars
conservatives are connivers
moderates are misguided
I'm so undecided
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