Short Edifies Poems

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Pondering about
Heavenly Father’s wishes
Edifies a man.
 
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
March 14, 2010
Poetic form: Senryu...

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L  ets anothers needs come first
O  ffering gifts of yourself
V  alidate another's worth
E  dify,enfold, esteem  


Definition:
Edify: instruct and encourage in moral, intellectual and spiritual improvement
Sponsor: ~Skat~
Contest: Define Love
Contest has already filled but will let it stay.......

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the existential
            evolved
in
original language
of
  parallel
           ideas

radically eclectic

edifies

exploiting concepts
                           of
                             completeness

dialectical
     self dissolving
states
                of mind
&matter

in the iconic
                   elite...

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Genuine love adds value to lives that cherish, welcome, water, nurture, nourish it and furnish a conducive environment for its germination, growth and its development into a nugget that both lives require for its fuller realization and deployment in two hearts on fire, imbued with the right chemistry at the right time and in the right place. 

Sublime love caresses
kisses, blesses, elevates
edifies, magnifies....

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When I read the learned poet
Whose poem has words so magical,
I hear the sound of music
As melodious as a seagull.
Nothing compares to its grand power -
Every word edifies a castle's tower;
I sense the smell of the crimson rose
That bends a lady's gracious pose.
The poem in tempest creates a lull
With power to heal, the words dare speak.
Silently evoking illusions so quintessential
When finally I learned, I came to understand....

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B-onds of marriage 
U-se the words of the Almighty; 
K-eeping the promise alive, 
L-ove works in matrimony.
O-ne organized couples' group edifies the husband and wife; 
D-ecember fifteenth nineteen sixty-two, Buklod began to exist in life.

F-or better or worse, 
I-n health or in sickness; 
F-or happiness or sorrow, 
T-ill death they say
Y-es.

F-or richer or poorer, 
I-n spite of the old age; 
V-ow will not be broken, 
E-ven the bonds of marriage....

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