Short Testaments Poems

As an old saying put it
The New Testament lies hidden in the Old
The Old Testament is unveiled in the New...

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Man does not live by bread alone
   The Old and New Testaments maintain**
Yet three days after leaving Mt. Sinai
   For lack of water, Israel complained




**Deuteronomy 8:3; Matthew 4:4...

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dilection

progress accepts
          the loss as record
to attempt the morrows
         starting points.
single faceted beginnings
            do not persist,
threats are testaments
           of defeat
resembling weakness...

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Testifying to such
truths that prove the story
to be of some substance.
Telling others about 
testaments to God’s love,
touching you with favor,
transforming your lifetime.

4/26/2021

Pleiades T Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Kim Merryman...

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Love is a movement,
the way, motivation, an obligation,
exercise, an event, distance, a journey,
test, ardor, a starter, challenge,
blessing, a stressing,
a message,testaments, motion,
an emotion,
joy, pain, no game,
life, stryfe,
immeasurable value,
a commitment,
passion, enthusiasm,
a method, system,
flow, everything positively a word....

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It's roots are a foothold
To a mainstay stem
That shoots arms so strong
To hold person and string

Rope and note in his bag
Dire fully, he scrutinizes it
Till he locates a stronger hand
Fit to send him to dead-land

Throngs are amassed, astounded
Officers seek for testaments
His loved ones are richly wailing
Now he's like a drooping ceiling...

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                                 whut
                             cauze she
                            cut my hair

                       she still kissed me
                            'fore down
                    went them thar pillarz
                         mine remember
                                  yes
                                    i...

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To the treasury note i lost with
I was without exotic notes
Taught in hardened testaments for quote
And speak of troubles i would have
Save the bested efforts tilled by young
Haddingstone and young it was
Countered verse lustra’s bugs
From grand ire back long to nepal
She granted means
Leaving no measures
Destroyer of rain
Remover of wash
Sleeping sees
Ossian’s loss...

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Ancient ruins stand alone, 
tired sentries over ancient lands; 
 they watch and remember their glory days.  
Testaments to their builders; 
do they ever wish a glorious revivification?

History tells their stories when 
they need them heard but, 
the, “horses mouth” can tell them better.  
Visit them and share their lives; 
they do love company.
...

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The train headed for the moon.
Despair was a station
where love stood in attention.

I need to be lectured
more on the need for vitamins
than on testaments.

Where did they go?
Here is the moon.
A moon a day keeps despair away.
Don’t moan on a hartal day.

Note: Hartal is a general closure usually imposed in India by political parties as a mark of protest against the government....

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Wine, bread, bitter herbs
Blood, body, sin, suffering
This is Passover
in old and new Testaments
Love means Sacrifice
(c)Anil Deo, 11 April 2017


Shalom shalom, Happy Passover to all Jews and Christians. During Passover Jesus instituted the Holy Communion summed up in "unleavened bread & wine."
PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM: "Sha'alu Shalom Yerushalayim." Ps 122:6...

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Awareness,articulated,emphasises inherent intimacy,communicated eye to eye.
everchanging yet underlying the movement here and there.Engraved forever,catalogued in human memory,available on recall.Translucent interplays of light,figuration in transition,precise palpitations of pure delight sound in the beholders ear.Testaments of th transparent,and the temporal,all too soon
evaporates before the eye....

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A pair of brown grey 
cormorants sit bobbing on 
perky swells
Then ploink they disappear to 
probe
The Hudson's murky hell.  

Down in Dante's numbered 
rings
They swim blinded by pollution
In the shadow of towering 
testaments
To technological evolution. 

I could not imagine there being 
life
In a river so deathly still
Til up they popped with puffed 
up throats
To swallow a tasty kill....

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              there'z no doubt
                  it's known
                mine faithful 
                    directly
                    Yahweh

                    i wish'd
thuh wee bit closer the indulgerz uv
                  mine faith

                      az in

                rahab'z reach
                      'side
                 mine pupils 
                    directly
                 mine thinks...

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Distant seagulls range
and fly
soar into the
morning sky

drift beyond
the cold
grim clouds
those testaments
those silent shrouds

calamities of
lovely ways
of retrospect
outside the haze

effortless they
seem to me
clutching wind
in revelry

and the sun
that silent sage
views afar
from on
his stage

this audience
of mellow flight
so we share
in this delight.

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A clump of dried leaves from frail
limbs I failed to nurture,
settling on a page under
my sinking face 
with a scent to lift up
the low spirits in me,
such rotten source
blessing me with remedy

The comfort we receive
from the things we couldn't save, 
the purpose we gain regardless
an unfulfilled goal,
and the Love I'll always keep
even after the passing
are these propitious testaments 
I can't trade for resentments


-Nicola An...

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Granitic testaments
sprout unstoppable
over the hill.

I know by heart
the graveyard.

Next to the wall
first maple on the left
past the bell tower,.
our stone stands,
room for one more.

Will my final twinkling
come quick, unexpectedly,
or slowly dressed in gray breaths
as mourning doves nest
in the eaves?

In any case, don’t feel obligated to
visit my engraved memory
under which I’m really not.
If you do, when you go
leave the gate firmly latched....

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I yield to the earth
in supplication to nature
with worship in each breath


listening to a sermon
of kookaburras
as a kangaroo bounds out
a plate for tithe


I see goannas parade
the ancient rites
and koalas swoon
with the new age gospel
waving their faces,
and hanging from their mouths


and the platypus
monks of cold,
carry the testaments 
to the deepest hovels


living with just one heart
I can breathe a tide,
and find home...

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BEGGAR LADY ON A CHURCH STEP
   (APROPOS IN GOD WE TRUST)

Her lips quivered with despair 
as the frail hand struggled with its self
to position outstretched.

Tormented eyes bulged
from cryptic sockets:
testaments of hunger’s victory.

Then loudly can the chilling voice
piercing the solemn silence screaming:

“Go away!  Can’t you see
this is a church step!”

Then the saved ones
went in to pray.

I gave her my tithes
and walked away....

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The aging, moss covered markers exist as tributes
testaments of life past
living lives in a different moment
 
 All that I feel was felt before 
love, pain, joy ,fear
drifting through time, passion that is life

Too soon must I relinquish this precious gift
given but for a while
Beauty so rare it cannot be contained

 Although I must bow before time ,life is eternal
My stone shall be a testament,
"Weep not, for I was given the gift most precious"...

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 V arious points not
 O ld testaments talking points rot
 T rouble thinkings Ha!
 E electoral promises forgotten, thoughts

 F ew points League of Women voters host
 O wn contemplations, where in rhythms nations
 R ights thinking, clouded minds eyes blinking

 Muffled yells patriots say you know GO TO ???
 Empirical results as both sides fuss and cuss


10/8/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020...

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Just below its surface
the body is furiously writing,
we would translate
but the language is obscure.

Upon a night
when clouds blanket eyes
the great works of the flesh
emerge.

Legend and myths appear
in plain text.
The body, as if dead
gives up its inner voice,
blind eyes read a tactile Brail
words imprinted
on the clay tablet of being.

When daylight peeps
we emerge from these myths
embodied
as the ghosts
of our self-authored
testaments....

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                             i killed
                        two hundred
                       evil warriorz for
                   michal'z sought after
                               hern

                          she loved it

                              i killed 
                                one
                    for bathsheba'z naked
                                taut
                       she fear'd for her
                                 life
...

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