To winners it’s a miracle,
To losers a sad debacle,
The winners win somehow
And losers know not how,
Both wish they were warned by an oracle.
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Tongue-in-cheek |09.10.2024| political, humour
Poet’s note: Recent elections have shown that all exit polls and predictions have gone wrong. Winners know not how they won, nor the losers know why they lost. Miracle to some, to some debacle, all wish there was an oracle.
Categories:
oracles, humor, political,
Form: Limerick
Absent any arrogant disdain and curses
O where are the oracles of oblivion?
Were they transformed into scattering electrons,
Doomed to roam a panoply of multiverses?
Will black holes pull such souls into witless demise,
In a penumbral, mindless quantum destiny?
If they placed their life bets for an eternal prize,
What a paltry payout to win for eternity!
Among all those who faithfully opt to believe,
Rejecting lifeless prophecies as do deceive,
They fare far better, oblivion or multiverse -
True faith knows oblivion is a devil’s curse.
Mephistopheles' paradise is wormy blaze;
Spurning devil’s delights, offers heavenly days.
Categories:
oracles, destiny, faith, life, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Oracle please tell
me, (free of charge) about the
future that will be.
Show me the bright secrets
of love - be a mystic guide
for my bored heart’s relief.
What kisses may be played
on sweet, future nights with no
tentative whispers please.
Help me conquer the
confusing compresence of
desire and unease.
Categories:
oracles, 11th grade, angst, future,
Form: Senryu
A secret is granted
any curb captain
listening.
To speak rarely and
with roots.
Blake wears a hardhat,
drives a forklift for
Metal Products.
Whitman collects
unemployment in the mail.
New words
are mined coal.
They are the drink
from bags,
the suicide in jail,
and
the housekeeper
called only by her first name.
Keeping pace
with a secret at
the speed of light
is the wisdom felt on crowded subways.
Categories:
oracles, jobs, metaphor, poetry, poets,
Form: Personification
From the eyes of every soldier
Reflection of blood and death
From the eyes of a rich man
Seeker of power and wealth
From the eyes of every sailor
Sailing all waves of life
From the eyes of a widower
Mourning his dear precious wife
From the eyes of old age
Sorcerer of all secrets hidden
From the eyes of every parent
Who find glory in their children
From the eyes of every lover
Blooming like buds of spring
From the eyes of every believer
One devotion to his worshiping.
From the eyes of every human
In laughter, happiness and pain
From the eyes of splendid Nature
Where rainbows grace from sun and rain.
Deep into all eyes
Lies the Universe’s core
The oracles of the soul.
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Categories:
oracles, life,
Form: Free verse
Tell me if you can,
who has the holy oracles?
What house does the divine words dwell in?
Step forward if you are in possession
of the sacred, living words of God
Reveal unto us the oracles,
what the holy pronouncements of God have to say
Speak now, as one who has the counsel of God,
to instruct, to teach ... to show the hidden way
He who dwells in the thick darkness,
where none can approach unto Him
His will, He makes known through His oracles;
but if you do not possess them,
how in the world will you ever know
what God says to be so?
Give veneration to the holy oracles,
offer reverence to the living words of God
He who holds the reins to the soul,
has spoken yet again
Pray that you are given possession
of the holy oracles,
to have the sacred words of God now dwell within
We know that the Word of God comes in a book,
but a book is still just a book, nevertheless
The lively oracles of God dwells in the living,
in those to whom He has given breath
Pray that you are given possession,
to have the holy oracles dwell in you
Seeing all things through the Spirit of God,
you rejoice for the next soul,
whom the holy oracles will be given to
Categories:
oracles, christian, god, spiritual, truth,
Form: Free verse
Beware Bush and Blair
With false promises they swear
Weapons they declare
Bringing us all to a scare
They’re as a pair a nightmare
Categories:
oracles, war
Form: Haiku