Short Surmounting Poems

Snow
Sweeping
Surmounting 
Swallowing whole
Storm


Stuck
Stranded
Silently
Suffering till
Spring...

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The words of God conquer the devil. 
The good defeats the wicked one. 
Temptation comes not from God. 
God's children win by faith, 
surmounting the waves 
of hindrances 
to receive 
endless 
life...

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Surmounting imprisoning boundaries

my special child freely wheels himself …

ascending midst God’s boundless grace*

for faith-flight, wondrously liberating…

*2Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

November 8, 2021...

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A storm rages within the sea
A storm rages within you and me
Crest after trough we persevere
In the face of surmounting fear

Through the tempest
Against the rage of the waters
Our rowboat struggles
Yet never falters

In the midst of this horror,
All our hopes are made clear
With these five simple words:
“I’ll row and you steer…”


For Jasmine......

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hoisted hanker trips
cranky cause clipped
soapy sauce seeped'n
in taunted tease
smoldered spiritualism scribbled
on dark dwindles

gaunt gifts sieved
sumptuous seal retrieved
haughty hoists spilled

bounty beards blushed
surmounting syllabic touch
gullible phrases gulped

porous pen puked
drenching vying view.
     '20:03:03:14:21

Note: Dedicated to George Herbert....

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Blitheness bears itself boldly by day, 
Surmounting the summit of separative sufferance. 
Ridges and ranges below bow in adoring array,
Where homage is payed to the uprising utterance. 

Blitheness bears itself blandly by night,
Mollifying the wounds of the worried and the wronged.     
Rills and rivulets ripple rosy in sight,
Where brutality is isolated and humanity thronged....

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Embrace me     my lover,
Let eager fingers identify your physical boundary,

Innocently caressing every curve leaving a surmounting temptation like no other,

Satisfying even those hidden pages tucked away in your precious diary,

Lovingly kissing such divine lips,
Every hand stroke encountering a quivering body,
While lustful hands clasp onto swinging hips,

Fair warning     it will be considerably rowdy....

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Pray for:

The journey of your life is challenging.
The difficulties you would face being many. 
The mountains you climb are precipitous. 
The turbulent seas you cross are plenty! 


Pray for:

Your life's trip an eventful one to be. 
You would live long to relate your story.
You succeed in surmounting obstacles. 
You have the privilege to claim glory! 






© Demetrios Trifiatis
    06 February 2021...

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Start your anchor boat steersman
Sun declines in the west
The new wife awaiting
on the near bank
Hope to return to own land
That free air
unbound movements
The rice cake and
Cares of blood.
Go, boatman!
She is lonely
Maybe she is crying
To back home;
To forget old memories
Maybe the husband left her
She is surmounting a difficulty
Cross the river safely helmsman
She has to reach her lap
She needs love again...

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Prevailing midst revival triumph*

our grateful hearts, gripped with grace

exalt the Lord Who upholds our faith 

toward blessed reaching-out pursuits

marked by His love and mercy

while we surmount life-building trials.

Psalm 106:47 Save us, O LORD our God, and gather us from among the heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to triumph in thy praise.

September 6, 2021
edited on November 1, 2021...

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The fallen snow procured 
Itself with the earth all winter
As spring enters its warm winds,
The snow-transformed-from its frozen home
Begins its path of deviance carving the weak soil
Conveying the grieving trusting earth down river
Where the surmounting horror ends;
Only after a twisted ride does the soil find refuge
In the bottom of a lake;
Where momentarily is thought of as unimportant
By its self and others; 
But, a change is at hand; a change is at hand....

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Why should I
by and by
Give in to a little 'White Lie?'

400 years and counting
Now deception, destruction, and death surmounting 

From whips and chains
to covert stress and strain

Make believe or pretend
this macabre never seems to end

Like water flowing  from a chute
precious black blood in city streets but no one
gives a hoot

Why should I 
by and by
Give in to a little 'White Lie?'

Why? I say! Should I?
by and by
Give in to a little 'White lie?'...

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Perilous assumption, the faith I've read
my mind, my mind, the tone of led
is not contingent on my tread
but hope in virtue's seaming knead!

The evermore, I vacate head
and pray, accomplish what God's said,
no idling force, depicts instead
there must be action, leadings fed!

Oh, path's dissentious rise from bed
creating logic, fear not dread
by peace's hodge-podge, stealth unwed
some oneness, trust's lodge, copious, shed!

Is prayer, surmounting, higher . . . . . said!...

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