Going about our lives with giving hearts
Inspired forever by His unfailing love
Very eager to follow His perfect example
Incomplete and so forlorn without Him
Naturally desirous to spread good news
Giving and accepting the gift of prayer
Generous always with love and devotion
Obedience to the dear Lord in all things
Doubtlessly directing all our footsteps
Letting forgiveness prevail in our hearts
Yielding to peaceableness at all times
Gladly sharing with many His holy word
Revelling in eternal joy of knowing Him
All abuzz about His everlasting goodness
Communing with other people in His house
Exuberantly praising Him and worshipping
Written on May 12, 2021
For: Giving Godly Grace Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Regina McIntosh
The orbit.
You drew a circle, the cute
geometry, around you ,
an orbit permitted /forbidden
for a foregone specificity.
Made it large enough that
you weren’t out of it, pulled
or not, by the old gravity
that seizes the ever raw soul .
You went about fooling with
the geodesies of here
and its forms of acceptance in
another there , encountering
nothing that you would
ever make a compact with.
A random peaceableness
perhaps on a loose day
just before it breaks into a spell
of footloose this and that ,
heart punching buttons
calling moral police to march
into a mere mail box
and you in the witness box
inside the circle you drew
a square peg in a round orbit.
By S.Jagathsimhan Nair
For SKAT A's contest.