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Pan
You are so bright almost bright as the sun
Soothing my heart with your truths sweetly spun
Filling my soul with expansive belief
Science and mystery both overdone
Help me pursue a relief from the grind
And with your touch our one spirit will find
Meaning apart from the fading parade
Marching too straight for my nomadic mind
Teach me to find an escape from the light
That shines much too pure for human delight
Bathe me instead with a seminal glow
That emanates from an ungirdled night
Let it be time for our bodies to meet
Yet as we stand on the unenclosed street
Amidst our embrace comes a baleful whiff
The eternal stench of smoldering feet
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I've seen the goodness of the Lord
and the lamb slaughtered by the sword.
And wonder what Man's future holds
when God's commandments are ignored.
As Man's chosen pathway unfolds,
science establishes strongholds.
And Almighty God's a fable
that only the Bible upholds.
Jesus was born in a stable,
but Man hordes all that He's able.
And He has no desire to share
He's both greedy and unstable.
Many argue God isn't there,
and if He is, He's just not fair.
For they believe we're all alone,
there's no God, or He doesn't care.
You won't find God on any throne
your heart's where He'll make Himself known.
For God is love; you must feel Him,
it's through your actions that He's shown.
(Interlocking Rubáiyát)
Mar.2, 2018
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Reading to me is so fascinating
With learning gains, surely liberating
Meeting mind’s search for wonders, never quenched
Enriching heart through counsel, delighting.
Complex process of thinking fortitude
Reading brings me nigh to God’s quietude
As I encamp in His Scriptures, musing
Bracing up my spiritual gratitude.
Mystery to my finite perspective
Though science makes it simply instructive
Reading midst its awesome complexities
Illumines me by its truth’s directive.
Comprehending still remains mysterious
For my seeking intellect, still curious
Since its blessedness I cannot fathom
In Bible study for faith victorious.
*Nehemiah 8:8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly, and gave the sense, and caused them to understand the reading.
“Mystery Words Found” from the King James Bible: quenched, counsel, quietude, encamp, blessedness
October 17, 2020
2nd place, "Mystery Word Find" Poetry Writing Contest
Sponsored by Caren Krutsinger; judged on 10/27/2020.
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Transcendence
My cat’s content, she cannot see the end
No road ahead, no thoughts to comprehend
Or search for something that she will not find
No disappointments, just around the bend
She has no dread of death, no sense of loss
No spectre’s hand to try to reach across
For pure in heart, though finite in her mind
Her spirit freed will e’re bypass the cross
Devoid of sky she plainly marks each day
Unfettered from a knowledge of decay
Forgetting good and bad she leaves behind
She has no need to innovate or pray
Of her I am at times most envious
Yet glad that she remains oblivious
To hope we Homo Sapiens must bind
With yearning hearts opaque to luminous
The less obscure, though they are safer still
To long for seas, songbirds and daffodils
For fields of victory we all have pined
Let science satisfy, and man’s goodwill
And take the risk, and walk the narrow lane
Transcending cat and ape and human brain
Remembering that a quest for God may blind
Those seeking from a world immersed in pain
The more aspired the hope, the more the strife
Too many in God’s name unsheathe the knife
Let’s be with loving kindnesses aligned
Dream high! Dream low! and join in afterlife
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Separation…
If I am what I am, tell me, who are you?
I am thinking of you; maybe I am you.
There is oneness among us that covers all.
I am him, and he is me, and we are you.
I’m me, and you’re you, and you are me,
I am you, and he is me; how could it be?
I can see with my eyes, although it is dark.
I am hoping to see all, as he might see.
I am falling, and I don’t see the way out.
You told me that there was an end to my route.
I am falling into this bottomless pit,
The truth is lost; there is room for little doubt.
You told me to listen; I heard otherwise.
You taught me to look at; I had blinded eyes.
I wish that I could see that what the message is,
I stumbled again, wondering with surprise.
I wish to see the things all here and all there.
A thousand mysteries I found everywhere.
How can I trust my eyes, they betrayed my heart.
But if my heart wants it, they see it as fair.
I do not see myself as once that I was.
I knew all the science and all of its laws.
I wish I knew one more secrete in my life,
How come I came to existence without cause?
There was a time when I thought I knew it all.
All of that I’ve learned made me stand tall.
When I reached at the peak, I found out that I was,
a kind of wonderer, however small.
6/10/18 Haloo
The format of this poem is Rubaiyat, it is the plural of Rubai. Rubai is a quatrain with the rhyming of AABA. Each Rubai is a book by itself, it starts and ends within the quatrain, but when is in the form of Rubaiyat, it follows the same theme. Poetrysoup has a great explanation and examples.
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