barefoot mendicant
tears of gratitude in eyes ~
gifted pair of kicks
Lord, I acknowledge Your grace* with thanksgiving
Along Your favor for my faithful cleaving
Subduing my pride and self-sufficiency’s vain striving...
While instructing me to offer to You my very best with sincere loving.
Always enable me to sacrifice joyously, grateful for the blessings I’m receiving.
Lord, I regard Your grace for my salvation’s honor
Along Your assurance of service-power ardor
Challenging my doubts and shameful valor...
While upholding my faith that’s performing by Your might’s fervor.
Always encourage me to abide in Your Word midst worldliness’ clamor.
Lord, I seek Your grace midst my worshipful praise
Along Your mercy to uphold me in the Christian race
Guarding me from tempters with all the weapons of deceit they raise…
While protecting me around Your peace, devoid of anxiety’s trace.
Always empower me to rejoice in You, enclosed in Your divine embrace.
*Psalm 84:11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
August 22, 2019
A-s
N-ewly
G-iven
E-xtended
L-ife
I-s
C-heerfully
A-ccepted
Topic: Birthday of Angelica V. Echanez (April 3)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Images roll daily trampled by incivility
Far away enough yet close to humanity
Mired by evil, engrossed in misery
Where being born feels like a tragedy.
Longing for mercy, smile tries to emerge
Straining weary mind every grin hurts
Yet, life goes on unfazed by distress
Amid stormy rain wishing for a sunny day.
Untouched by pain world disdain reigns,
Forlorn eyes concede burden of debt
Paying it with pride extracted from dignity
For being a recipient at destiny's doorstep.
March 27, 2018
Typing out this message to my friend
I look it over and then press send
Go about my business waiting for a reply
No response and a couple hours have gone by
I check to see if I sent the text
It was sent so now I'm perplexed
Why haven't I heard back yet
Did they see it and then forget
I find myself getting irritated
I'm getting annoyed and aggravated
So I check my phone one more time
Then I read the recipient line
Oh no I sent it to my mom
Maybe that's why I got no response
She saw it and probably got embarrassed
How could I have been so careless
That text for her was not meant
Would never want her to see that pic I sent
I guess I should be a little more alert
When sending a text trying to flirt
-C.A.Saputo xoxo
It was crazy how you spoke to me
As if you knew that you were close to me
Closed my eyes shut so I can see
Just what that noise is exactly telling me.
It was all new to me
Undressed my mind caught in Nudity
Leud obscenity
Your words came in ways that violated me so Incredibly.
Sensually
It felt as if your vocabulary was committing adultery
Uncensored; unexpectedly
Yet it was absolutely gravitating to me
Verbs that set me free
Architect-ed in senses of sentences effusively.
Which usually I'm more caught up physically
but today you captured me verbally
With a satisfaction guarantee...Thank fully
For granting me, access
To what you have stored confidentially
Having trust in me; Most definitely, am very honored to be...
The recipient of your emotional susceptibility.
So qualified by demeanor
I stand in rank of lore
awaiting my redeemer
the indigent's encore!
The charity of others
Oh, how it does implore
to motivations standards
the reasoning of the poor!
Recipient, Oh my status
ingredients to restore
a corporate apparatus
does fit the Nation's floor!
The wonder of all reason
I'm needed by explore
of all those helpful millions
whose jobs demand a chore!
Recipient, Oh my culture
does classify my more,
a bracket's steady vulture
does garner my rapport!
Created for the rich man
exemplified by store,
so virtue is his dealing
as more is beggar's bore!
Recipient, my country
it's of thee I abhor
the fading in between sea,
that working man's adore!
Do shake me, that my born free
becomes the asking's score
embellished now as slavery
to corporate galore!
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