Short Enticements Poems

Elfin grandson, Gram's delight!
In dark-eyed gaze my brown boy brings
enticements to make merry.  Tonight
in yellow gown he spins and sings
on key--twirling small canary wings....

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"Black Friday"; promises great prices ~ enticements in a false game









   - Happy Black Friday :)

   - 25.11.2016
   - Sun :) - A-L Andresen :)
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You try to entice me

With the smell of coffee and pancakes.

I bury my head deeper under the covers

And ignore your ploy.


Naked, I walk into the kitchen,

My turn to entice.

I run back to the bed and dive beneath the covers,

Giggling.


The pancakes are cold,

I win....

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Never say never

It could happen
It could not

Committed to
Non-commitment 

Vocalizations stuck on
Silence

It's enticing?
It's inciting
Riots
Put your President
Behind bars
Unlocked my cage
Set me free

Free to roam
In the predator's enclosure

Your enticements are incitements...

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I’m captivated by a verse from Paul:
take captive every thought that enters in
so that you might obey.
A cry is raised above the din;
hard pressed, I am assaulted, under siege.
To me! To me! I hear my lord and liege
and cast my eyes on him,
for when he’s standing tall, this world’s enticements pall.


—————

for the Captivation Poetry Contest
sponsored by Julia Ward
written on 10/13/22...

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Beguiled in the Garden of Eden.
Eve brought mortality to herself and then, to man.
Deceived by Satan’s clever enticements.
Earth became a testing ground; separation from God began.
Vanquished by sin, then expelled from the beautiful Garden. 
Idyllic life replaced by: toil, thistles and struggles; enduring faith tested.
Living with hope for salvation, bedeviled by sin, sacrifice began.

© October 14, 2010
 Dane Smith-Johnsen...

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Arabesque


Dressing up the evenings’ shoulders
shawls of white silk bloom
enticements,
evenings on silk shoulders
making up stories behind the shadows,
through pomegranates of word the step is the story’s shadow,
the magi has stars to bewitch the deeps
into word.

Time, a wizard bewitched by stars,
spawns white shoulders of stars,
lured
by trails, the steps bloom on shawls,
the white agate evening
grazes grains of sand....

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The things that come from within a man
Defile a man
Not the positive
The negative
What happens is permitted by God
What's all the worry about?
Coming events as hey flow
Meant affairs
Without enticements blow
How to handle no one knows
Spirit to spirit
Makes the show
Light and dark
Balancing pole
The mind is a wicked thing 
In God remain
Justifications game
Activity of a seared mind
One can not be 
Without the other
Completion Eternal summonsed...

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...               Spicy Gumdrops (Epulaeryu)

                      Chewy sugary gumdrops 
                           Spicy enticements 
                        Full-calorie confections
                         Zesty, sugar-snacks
                           Sweet, tantalizing 
                                  Delightful
                                      Stop!



                     © Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
                             January 28, 2010...

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The tang of the vital body
scents an inner sky
the fleshy funk
as it surfaces to be perceived.

Aromas; the perfumed stench
of the incarnate
so like a flowering orchid
its thick leafed presence 
overwhelming, its delicate enticements
an allure chained to an image
that blooms into sex.

The pervading smell of memory
the attar of the rose,
the delicate fragrance of enticement
all a waft toward corruption
where death plants its roots
deep into the blossom....

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GRACE.

Grace is in what God does for you.
Giving this day’s moment in time.

Walking into the light of grace.
Knowing he is within you.

Is greater than our being.
For our belonging is in him.

His heavenly gates of love
Exceeding worldly enticements.

His deeds of love and kindness.
Bring fulfillment entwined 

Beyond all imagination,
Is his peace and understanding    

His omnipotence power surpasses 
All In his abundant Love.  

Grace, the Fathers Love...

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Charities in search of cash 
Send envelopes with pleas
And sometimes little gifts in hopes
My giving gene they’ll squeeze.

Most often it’s a sheet or two 
Of labels with my name 
And street address, but in addition,
Bookmarks sometimes came.

I use the labels less and less
As bills are paid online
And bookmarks to the pile
Of things passé I must consign.

Enticements might encourage 
A donation, that is true,
But what once worked no longer is
Appealing to accrue....

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