Perplexingly puzzling world,
Finds fault with things truly good;
Exalts evident evils,
Where sadness of madness turns gladness…!
Individualism wins,
While humanism stands in Queue;
Altruism alters always,
Feminism in female feticide...!
War seems ethics of the day,
Fight for rights; Fight for mere fights;
Lazy weapons needs testing,
Ukraine today; Russia tomorrow...!
No time for us to star-gaze,
Dreams turn frightening nightmares;
Nights turn days and vice versa,
Sleeplessness and somnambulism rule...!
05 March 2022
LIND30NR Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Chantelle Anne Cooke
Categories:
perplexingly, confusion,
Form: Verse
To Phrygia, to Galatia,
And then up further north:
Thus, Paul and Silas hatched a plan,
And so they ventured forth.
But then, a bit perplexingly,
Christ would not let them through.
The Asia route was blocked to them;
The explanations, few.
When they arrived in Mysia,
Again they tried the north.
Bithynia was blocked as well;
They traveled west henceforth.
And in the middle of the night,
A man came in a dream,
“Please come to Macedonia!”
’Twas from the Lord, they deemed.
So they proceeded with all haste
To those who had beseeched,
For God had given audience
To hear the gospel preached.
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(from Acts 16 - an unusual part of Paul's second missionary journey)
Categories:
perplexingly, bible, travel,
Form: Rhyme
My feelings often
Change mercurially,
From happily smiling
To superficial self-pitying.
My beliefs once
Perplexingly flipped-around,
Deconstructing from certain faith
Into reluctant doubt.
My thoughts always
Lack boundaries,
Ranging from average simplicity
To dramatic philosophy.
My ways of thinking are
Essences of my personality,
Developing from birth
Into metamorphosis of my identity.
Categories:
perplexingly, emotions, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
he contemplates
those Indian names that tell who,
or what, they are as a being,
tell something important regarding
the actual person being named
like:
Ron his horse is thunder
Bodaway the fire maker
Wakiza the desperate warrior
and
Kajika walks without sound
other cultures have meaning
implied in names they assign
to their children,
though most refer to religious matters
seldom, if ever do they speak its meaning
even when known
Aasim, person who keeps away from sins
Abdul the servant
Yaman, good tidings
Jafar, a rivulet or stream
and
David, beloved one
Albert, noble and bright
Michael, who is like God
and
William, desire a helmet
(which seems perplexingly honest)
will today's peoples ever call
themselves for what they prize or
what the person actually is,
like:
Geithner too big to fail
Wallstare, wanna see big screen
Carb Manna, he who always eats
or
Runnin' Behind, perpetually late
Maybe my name would be
Thinks too much,
or similar variant
perhaps something farther out
like:
Dreams wandering
or
It's an interesting view from here
© Goode Guy 2011-11-30
Categories:
perplexingly, introspection, people,
Form: Narrative