Short Temperance Poems

Fasten unto Truth
Temperance in your eating
Oh sweet liberty...

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Dust motes spiral round,
Filling attic sunlight's rays
Try not to disturb...

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Cool person has said
Angry people don't talk well
Their hot temper breed....

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H  O
             2
Unity              Temperance
       receptive

*Written out like the formula...

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What perfume is to a flower, temperance is to Man's soul!










© Demetrios Trifiatis
      08 July 2020...

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A lost of temperance
Must be a waste of time
Fore neither of the same
Shall their ever be two
Separate they may seem

GF...

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Oh, Temperance, 

How many evils, would we have avoided, 

Had 

Earlier, your wise counseling 

Heard! 




© Demetrios Trifiatis
   02 MARCH 2015...

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Sobriety
Lucid self-possession.
Clear-headed, composed, steadied
Abstention, temperance; Carouser, lush
Staggering, tottering, gibbering.
Intoxicated high.
Drunkenness...

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light and lively
ethereal and enthusiastic
valuable variables
intricate indicator of idealism
tantalizing tale of temperance and truth
youth utilizes levity gladly...

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A lost of temperance
         -Must be
A waste of time
   -Fore neither of
The same shall their
           Ever be two
Separate they may
              --Seem

             GF...

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The strength of a lone oak,
her outstretch
lures me.

The whisper of her simple seed,
her forbearance
bids me.

Her stillness is temperance
sheltering colonies of
ants within her....

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Howbeit, precise, stable, route engaged.
Laden fatigued those poor wretched enslaved.
        
          Relish the wonderment of endurance,
Changed heart upbeat, determined temperance.


Date: 08/16/2019...

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Oh, anger,

You mindless voracious beast
 
That are able to devour at an instance
 
What one's temperance took a lifetime

To build,

I abhor you!





©  Demetrios Trifiatis 
     10 December 2019...

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1. lOVE
2. jOY
3. pEACE
4. LONGSUFFERING
5. GENTLENESS
6. GOODNESS
7. FAITH   (also a Gift)
8. MEEKNESS
9. TEMPERANCE


   AGAINST SUCH
       THEIR IS NO
           LAW.

graydye   THE GOD POET   4-8-15...

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Words -
incite
good, evil
peace and rage. Words -
spoken in hateful
tones divide, destroy
encouraging ignorance.
Words- spoken with temperance grow
understanding, foster tolerance. 
Rhetoric that cannot be revoked - words......

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Live the sadness
                 with humor,
                and the joy
                with temperance
               it's healthy shape
                of living...
               fulcrum insight
                of life... !...

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Carrie Nation loathed saloons and whiskey,

And took some actions that were quite risky!

She chastised dudes who reeked of intoxication,

And used her hatchet to smash kegs of booze across the nation!

Entry for Andrea Dietrich's "Educate Me With Humor" Clerihew Contest...

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I've danced forever;
temperance bound 
under this vestal spell,

a captive in these conventions of virtue,
in these endless circles 
of same guiding same, 
someone else's expectations 
deciding my every step.

All the while I entertain
the restless riots building within....

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An effusive reflection of prose from the poet’s pen
Strokes of grace and luxuriant sentiments fly free
Embracing temperance like sapphire blooms of brilliance
Caressing the canvas most liberating, and significantly
Like clouds drifting in delicately hued cascades
Metaphorically silent within its ethereal afterglow....

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Tentativeness has become pure permanence.
Overindulgence turn true to life temperance... 
Boulders resemble icebergs of sturdy snow rocks,
Bonfire looks like lively long burning lava blocks...
Something seen; something hidden; everything subtle,
Living and dead, betwixt heaven and hell shuttle...


24 December 2021...

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My translation of calligraphy by Ven. Master Chin Kung:

Face difficulty with liberality,  
Face hostility with patience, 
Steer through scrambles 
With leisurely grace and pace, 
For peace is found in temperance 
And the love of excess speech
Is the root of every calamity!

All rights released into Public Domain...

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Two kinds of sin are Original
Actual
Original sin is from our first parent disobedience
Actual sin has two types Mortal sin
Venial, daily or 7 Capital/Deadly Sins
Chief Sources of Actual Sin
Pride, Covetousness, lust, anger
Gluttony, Envy and Sloth or Laziness
Vices are Humility, Liberty, Chastity
Meekness, Temperance and Brotherly love

4302014...

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Maybe some of the Fruits
   were mean't to be 
         Taught!
I am teaching
   Temperance.
In this time of Healing.

Peace is where you find it.
Anyone can see me any time they like
     Like Jesus Christ -I'm not that hard to find.

It's nice to
   not know


the future
   temperance
DON'T Look Back...

graydye 2nd day summer june222015...

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Perfectly loud the carriage of silence, 
Corrupted and engaged in violence, 
Battles of humanity suffused, 
Animals sounds and battle, confused
Displaced Africans disappear,
 Marching in line holding spears
Battle fields in so solid form, 
Temperance heated mad angry and warm



4/12/22
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2022©...

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The motion of Soul
Direct in a see of unknown
Folding pounding
Molding grounding
Working out the if and ors
The discipline of seven more…
Evolution casting sand
Grace in pressures at hand
Reason is a calling to be
Temper your way to sea…
Eight folds on a path
Virtual virtues of math
Breaking myths of wrath
In the motion of a Soul
.... tHere is room to breathe....

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