Short Smote Poems

A popular Biblical quote
Researchers now claim no one wrote
It may be a fable
That Cain convinced Abel
The past tense of smite is just "smote!"...

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There were plenty of fish in the sea, 
but I knew you were the one for me!
When you sent me the scented love note,
I sensed you might also be love smote,
And since life has gone quite blissfully....

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A species of fish can actually jump into your boat
Asian Carp they're called, six feet in the air they can float
Up to 100 pounds
Can bust your crown
No need for a fishing line, but you sure can be smote...

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I was smote by words
As a soldier with bullets
‘Til I harnessed their power
And they slight retreated lest
   I would fire back

Then they came for my freedom
But they did not prevail;
No rights were forsaken
Because time outran evil
   And faded to black....

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Smote-a-Mote Wayne can't see the beam
Stuck in his eye blocking his scheme
He thinks throwing mud
Will make him a stud
But its just another wet dream..

* * * * 

Why beholdest thou the mote 
that is in thy brother's eye, 
but considerest not the beam
 that is in thine own eye? ...

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We were strangers when you took us in
To be a part of this family, 
When left orphaned at thy hallowed gates
And had smote with a fervent plea; 

Welcomed to stay and given a home
At this tranquil yard where we roam free, 
Lifelong we may have in places lived
But none like this cemetery. 
           ***********...

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bleeding blushes ooze
damping dessicated drool
punctured passion puke
nauseating nocturnal nude
felon feelings fostered
gaunt gazes murdered

fiery smirk smote
undaunted gift grown
on fervent flow

salient soil pulsed
leering lanky lust
foaming feelings gulped

on vying Valentine
gaunt gazes dine.
      '20:02:14:14:52...

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Once upon a happenstance
I gazed, a look, and paused in trance

To dream upon a crystal palace
Her heart aglee and form to chalice

With towers true and field in view
I set a course to give tongue to

I crossed the field - anxiety smote
And walked upon this palace mote

Yet, as I firmed, my heart to pour
She drew the bridge and bolted door...

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bruised zeal bled
crumbling callous crest
hoisted hanker smote
cranky curves clothe
hanky panky puked
vying voluptuous views

porous pen peered
pulpy paranormal reared
felon feasting fear

sassy syllables etched
in punctured pest
whooshing pasts wet

haggard future feigned
dark drips craved.
     '20:03:10:16:22

Note: William Wadsworth...

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Christ’s triumph* at Calvary saved my soul

Smote Golgotha’s sting, shouting victory

Vanquished grave and hell, gracious divine goal

Granting me everlasting life’s glory...

Now, exemplifies faithful servant-role.

*2Corinthians 2:14 Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ…

August 7, 2019...

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I feel her love and know its there,
often I've recognised the care,
no words, no kiss, no touching hand
nor shadow cast where she might stand.
.
Was once the infant in her arms
protected from a war of harm,
yet fate for us a drama wrote
when death, impatient, young life smote.

Her memory abated storms,
guiding through reefs of life’s alarm,
so in old ages eve of night
I sense her courage dull the fright....

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Some flames can never be extinguished.
The sparks you saw behind my eyes,
They leapt up from my heart,
From a consuming inferno burning forever.
But once the fire sears the nerves the pain will cease.
Would that I could catch any sparks that fly your way,
Let them smolder in my heart, saving you the pain.
The fire has burned me and smote my nerves,
Pain has left, though the flames still roar.
I can no longer feel....

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The park was immense, its lilac-bush-lined fences remote
   To blast a home run took a superhuman smote
All alone a-tremble at home plate, so helpless and small
   Dared I hope to swing, and not miss the ball...  

Decades later, the lilac bushes are grown thicker
   The once-cavernous park now shrunken, and quicker
Than my shock at the passing of so many years
   The unraveling of stitches from my baseball-sized tears...

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When the sun becomes a frosty sno-cone.
    And all mountains sink as giant souffles.
    The desert is now mudpuddles to play.
The seas fall out with the tide calling home.
    Oceans say goodbye with one final wave.

The clock doesn't tick, and it doesn't tock.
    Dreams become nightmares for our final day.
    Chemicals and molecules turn to spray.
Souls uncertain future smote by the shock.
    No passing of time left, no more dismay....

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Drop to your knees and clasp your hands in prayer
Dig down deep (but not your pockets) to show you care
The power of pure suggestion and thought is all they need
Not actual help, housing, medication, and money to feed
Because, after all, God has spoken and smote the land
Surely this disaster for Japan is what the Almighty had planned
If, dear wandering reader, this far you have read
Unclasp your hands, dig deep into those pockets and donate instead...

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"I could a tale unfold 
Whose lightest word would harrow up thy soul" 
When these words Shakespeare wrote 
Little did he think how hard they smote 
The hearts of men drowning in toil 
Amid gross carnage innocence to despoil 
The drumbeat of bombs to bring Mosul down 
The speeding bullet of a car in Westminster's town 
Heartache and agony in this world abound 
With life's thorns so many are crowned 
It is no wonder that so many weep depressed 
And pray to their God for eternal rest...

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