Short Querying Poems

My son
God’s gracious gift
Crying, wondering, querying
His birth filled me with tears of joy
My desire...

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You boast, saying:
All good happened
Happened
Because of you...
I test you, querying:
Have
All good happened
Gladdened you?
...

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querying the night
high in towering pine tree …
small creatures shudder

March 14, 2022
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Prancing purple polliwogs playing prissily
Querying querulous quail quite quietly
Reviving romantic roosters respectfully
Sassy swooning swans sighted saucily
Tempting tenuous trickster trout tastefully...

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I was riding happily as a kid,
Looking noone not comparing or worrying,
As i grew up, i started looking around
comparing and thinking a lot,
Still  i rode but with no trace of happiness.
My ride would be amazing
without those querying glance,
checking out others
So I wish sometimes,
I should not have looked....

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He lies sprawled on the trench
Drenched by the night dew
Overcome by over indulging
Cheap liquor has taken its toll 

Back at home his wife tosses in bed
The night is cold and its too chilly
The kids had to go to bed half fed
Querying when dad will be home

He mumbles incoherent stuff
At least he tried to get home
Its first cock crow he surrenders
Tortured by faceless spectres...

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Occasionally I look at time departed,
And nearly always with a rueful eye.
Calling back days of steps uncharted,
Traipsing through days, querying why?

Times that found my heart hardened,
Ahead of God setting my domain afire.
Prior to my psyche becoming burdened,
I was merely a sinner reposed in mire.

But something happened in my life,
On the far side of minds forgetting.
Cancer and the Master Surgeon's knife,
Tutored me about another blood letting....

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