AI
Gave a sigh
Sporting life public will buy
Drop Artificial from my name
Word brought futuristic fame
Playing human's competitive game
Accepting superpowers
Blooming my intellectual flower
Ask me anything
If I do not know I will forward to Google and Bing
When casual tension is at stake
Peace I will make
Ending argumentative disputes
Putting the bar on mute
Silencing verbal mouth guns that shoot
Super Intelligence successfully tried
No longer the Artificial guide
Let's explore the electronic frontier
Where we will cheer
Knowledge obtained
Sending ignorant dialogue to shame
Since mature conversation
Can cure a patient
Without any rat race in
Realizing the testing attack
Can be retaliated back
With one simple question
Getting Super Intelligence attention
And to mention
Being told something accurate to say
When discussing matters blue and grey
no longer do I desire to be tempted
nor misled by the enemy
I need an upright spirit that's firm
and immovable inside of me
create in me a righteousness
like that of Jesus, the Christ
make my heart cleaner
as I walk this Christian Life
remove any propensity
to act in sinful ways
vacate any transgressions
In me now today
create in me a righteousness
like that of Jesus the Christ
make my heart cleaner
as I walk this Christian Life
A steadfast renewal
Your salvation I need to attain
create in me a clean heart
let a righteousness in me be obtained
let me draw nearer
to You once again
let me confess and repent
of all my sins
create in me a righteousness
like that of Your Son the Christ
make my heart cleaner
as I walk this Christian Life
Let me know abide
in your infinite grace
Renew me so your salvation
I can fully embrace
create in me a righteousness
like that of Jesus the Christ
make my heart cleaner
as I walk this Christian life
L. Milton Hankins
Flits about in south-central West Virginia,
Fluttering gossamer wings, wondering in grace,
Hovering his colorful feathers in the United States Air Force,
Where he served for four years in the beautiful state of Hawaii.
He received his baccalaureate degree in history;
Later obtained his master's and doctoral degrees in theology.
His coat glistened with iridescent hues most easily seen
In the brightest sunlight, his fleeting views were enraptured in poetry.
He prized his poetic butterfly’s conversation,
Enamored with those presentations, wanting to hold you.
He displays colorful beauty that surpasses
Even Mother Nature’s finest creations.
His lovelier shades always created a blend of love and pleasure.
There, 58 years ago, I turned 18.
There. I enrolled and finished college.
There, I fell in love and got married.
There. I obtained my first fulltime job.
There, I purchased my first bycycle.
There, I purchased my first car.
No. I was not born and raised there;
But it is there that I became a man.
It is there that I most claim to be My City.
It is My Ciity because it is there that
I learned lessons, principles, knowledge,
And wisdom that have sustained me
Until now.
It is there where I saw the Depths of man's
Depravity and learned how to best assist
My fellow mortals from such Depths. It was
There that I was given the most opportunities
To care and share my life with them.
Yes. There is a beautiful city, seated along
Lake Michigan. It was there so many years
ago that Chicago became My City.
As humans we are social beings…to connect with one another,
to cooperate and interact is how we’re orchestrated…
This is not by accident…it’s how and why we were created.
In fact each year as the Earth completes another revolution
our ability to socialize is essential to our physical health, our mental well-being
and to our successful evolution
It is in our destiny that any success we have obtained
has not been acquired on our own…
We are created to work together…not to stand alone.
Which means no matter how smart we are..
how strong and resilient are our genes…
We are all somewhat dependent on the people behind the scenes.
Those people who support and encourage us…who help us to succeed
by providing us, from behind the scene, everything we need.
What makes this relationship so wonderful…
is how those we help succeed..
when it’s our turn to succeed
are now the ones behind the scene
providing us…everything we need.
So a shout out to everyone who has worked diligently
behind the scenes…to help another person reach the stars…
and in case we do not say it often enough…
Thank you…and we know who you are.
231.
My 39th Leaf
Obtained thee from branch
Broken from its trunk
Fallen on the land
From a sturdy tree
“Indian Mango” leaf!
Owned by our neighbor
Gabo family
Doministo too
I'm with our neighbors
Watching vestiges
At three-thirty five
Of dark afternoon
Just after the storm
Weaker winds blowing
Fewer rains dropping
In front of the house
Of Dudoy Etic
Other side road
On way to river
From a branch fallen
Great devastation
Brought by a typhoon
A super typhoon
Labelled “Yolanda”
Marked in history!
-11/08/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
227.
My 36th Leaf
Obtained thee at end
Of new experience
Brought by masteral
A riverside shrub
It's mangrove leaf!
Planted by any
Concerned citizen
Perhaps a student
Or a caretaker
Five barangays care
Cloudy afternoon
About two-thirty
Twenty-first day of
September this year
While going away
From Cadimahan
Floating restaurant
That sails on river
Near mouth of the sea
Mangrove plants along
A nice souvenir
From a rare happening
With my Masteral
Classmates and teacher
On a river tour!
-09/22/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
217.
My 33rd Leaf
Obtained thee at noon
When lunch was so soon
We step upon it
Toes it can meet
A “carabao grass”
I'm with First Sectors
Four village neighbors
Whose dress were all red
We're under a shed
All Dumaraonons
First day of August
It's lunch time almost
Eleven thirty
It was so sunny
While Gov. was speaking
Inside a large tent
Where I sat and bent
Dumarao Central
School Playground Oval
Right side facing stage
Behold Opening
Fiesta happening
A colorful one
Everyone has fun
Rejoice, Dumarao!
-08/01/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
since our childlike heart is unstained
what we truly seek is obtained
so on God we fix our focus
that His light in us be ingrained
200.
My 31st Leaf
Obtained thee from up
Just a second gap
For years with a crowd
Holy float enshroud
“San Enchero” leaf
From a man on top
Near the icon's lap
Devotee clusters
Among churchgoers
Near highschool classmates
It's a holy day
It is Good Friday
At early evening
After float blessing
Twenty-Ninth of March
About church in front
Diagonal slant
Where people gather
Here banwa proper
One of the last floats
It's memorable
For I was able
To effortless pick
Now's so very quick
About one second!
-03/29/2013
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
When I began the journey, fifty odd years ago
to become a parent
There were no books or journals then
to guide this experiment
It's mostly based on mentorship
each of us has gained
Often full of potholes
mistakes we have obtained
So when I look in hindsight
not having skills required
Had parenting been my full time job
I would surely have been fired
But life provides us
with a chance to make amends
To bless with love my children
and treat them as my friends
There is no doubt challenges
existing on the way
Some families face adversity
every single day
Sometimes it seems
that life is back to front
The wisdom that we need when young
arrives when ageing fills our wont
To be a grandparent prior to parenting
would elicit a necessary skill
To raise five children, share more prudence
to a loving life, which they can then fulfil
87.
My 16th Leaf
Culled thee from nipa
Little manger roof
We call it “Belen”
By third year students
It's from a palm tree
My advisory
TED BEEd Three
Don't know who from them
But it's one of them
Who got and placed it
Third day January
Third day Twenty Twelve
Third day of the year
Of Water Dragon
About 8 AM
Roof of small manger
Back from one corner
Third years placed it there
With other decors
Character papers
Tolada of kind
The first one unrhymed
Got with two more leaves
Obtained the same day
While Xmas decors unfixed.
-01/03/2012
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
50.
My 7th Leaf
Pulled thee near from earth
A short shoot – new birth
Among the humblest
One of the smallest
Behold!...a “kamia”!
Obtained by father
From bank of river
Whoever planted
Not known by my head
Transplanted and then
Tenth day – September
Twenty-third's over
About nine morning
Mist sprayed – thought raining
‘Bout nine thirty – wrote
Before – bank river
Now – “takas” – father
There he transplanted
On land adopted
Bless it to prosper
This one is special
Birthday memorial
So far the only
Written so early
While sun not yet gone.
-09/10/2011
(Dumarao)
*My Toladas Collection
in ever-increasing streams light beams
truth of cosmos where we exist
joy a fundamental quality
holding love’s frequency
to express harmony
removing errors
knowing rises
in silence
visioning
ONE
MIND
victory obtained
flow letting outcomes go in wisdom
Bilocation enables multitasking,
simultaneously present everywhere,
each module of our Self in dream worlds basking,
of its true essence totally unaware,
yet freedom may be obtained without asking,
if ego rests and head and heart with love pair.
Love is God’s energy that entwines us all,
attuned to which, who we are we then recall.
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