Self Examination Poems

The Prismatic Self

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Written May 03, 2025, for contest by  Daniel Henry Rodgers

Word count:397 words, Proposed new word: "aspira-fear" mix of fear and hope

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Book Club I -Screwtape Letters

...researching, watch the trailer, work in progress...

Screwtape Letters
31 Letters

Just notes
Consider this...
If you cannot yield to text and scripture
He cannot bare score
C L takes...

FAITH IN GOD WHO UPHOLDS US OF OUR OATH

...January 25 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 22-24

Key Verse – Exodus 22:11 Then shall an oath of the LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's...

FAILURE HUMBLES

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Failure first
Makes you humble.
The deeper the sting,
The greater the revelation.

Release the need
To assign someone blame.
Accept it as your own
To expunge your searing shame.

Guilty...

Fault Lines of a Life

...We drift, unaware—
years merge into moments,
promises fall by the wayside, collect dust.

If we could backtrack every decision,
each fault line of our days,
would we discover we really lived
o...

Project 2025 Genocide with Cyanide

...“Project 2025 Genocide with Cyanide”

Democracy, what does it really mean
Is it the next act in a movie scene
People open your eyes and mind, get serious
Or are you riding a wave, being deliriou...

Refining Consciousness

...Human life is one of His sublime creations.
Blessed life is entangled in the clutches of relations.
Diametric elements often co-exist.
Dragon bees and sweet honey exist at one hive.
The seven sin...

Nothing

... "There is strength in silence."
Anthony Douglas Williams 

Nothing heard.
Such a deafening hush
can frighten some people.
Quiet has its intrinsic goodness.
Consider careless ...

Sifting Time

...always questions always apprehensions
in the process of getting through this life
begins with stunning realization
there is more to this universe than I
flows through doubt and self-examination
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Advice For the Hypocrite

...It’s so important to practice what you preach
Although you might not realize you are at fault,
Self-examination appears to be beyond your reach.

Hypocrites are notoriously taken for ...

Mirrors

...MIRRORS
face to face
 expressions
of nature
 emboldened
to catch
&  explore

a singular
  intensity
of
self examination
so
stimulating
 looking
&
confront us
  with crucial
selfhood...

When Our Cup Does Not Run Over

...Sin is a revelation. It is God who shows us OUR sin. He also points to the BLOOD OF JESUS as the antidote. Sin is only seen to be SIN -  against God - when He reveals it. Otherwise WE just talk of it...

Never Too Old To Grow

...Effective self-examination can be time-consuming 
and painful, sometimes revealing that challenging 
changes are required of me. These growing pains, even--
or perhaps especially—at my age, are ne...

Spirituality In Solitude

...Speak silently with all sincerity in my soul,
Lifting my lonely life, I leave to you my ever-loving Lord;
Shalom surrounds me as I sing praises to the Sovereign Savior,
Living in lockdown for long...

Contemplation

...I've had many heated conversations with . . . myself
over how a circumstance, or life itself, should be perceived.
My best time for self-probing is late at night.

Even now (in my sixties), I lea...

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