Violet’s blue spruce, which we bought this year
the same time we cut down our Christmas tree
has been planted in the yard and is doing beautifully.
The planting came with its share of celebration and festivity…
as all ten members of our family who were here
had a hand in transplanting Violet’s tree.
All ten people took a turn on the shovel…
which was our ultimate goal…
and answers that pressing question:
How many family members does it take just to dig one hole!
With every family member participating…
I can say with certainty…
we planted more than just a blue spruce
we planted a family tree.
We have given Violet and her tree the best start…
as all families try to do
and we pledge to do our best to raise that tree…
and little violet too.
To provide them both with sunlight, air and water..
nurture them through the summer heat and winter snow…
to give them both the care they need…
and enough space in which to grow.
We are happy to have planted in both of them
roots that will extend and solidify…
which will give them the strength and determination they need
to reach up to the sky
6am. The world is frozen.
I wonder what my dog sees in it.
Breathe in. Shiver.
Barely rising,
the mellow sun -soft fingered-
scratches the clouds golden and pink.
Breathe out,
watch my words solidify,
brief on the rose sky.
Browning leaves underfoot,
pampered with frost, too loud
for dawn’s half-lit silence.
He pants alongside me,
electric sparks;
think I'll stay inside tomorrow.
Of Melting And Solidifying
Solid ice
is very cold,
but easily
melts away,
even in cool
temperatures:-
Oh, if only
we could
ice bigotry’s
cold oppression,
in these heated days
of radical inequalities:-
In doing so,
we need
only
to deep freeze
injustice:-
In doing so,
we may
just melt
away fear,
and solidify hope.
\
pierced heart \ €/ secretes~……~
“
nectar “ to solidify
“
^
forming pearl of pain
Immobulus,
ocular fixation;
Like a piece of the cumulonimbus
feathers in the palm of your hand;
Go on make a fuss,
just don’t let it lock you in place;
Remember to indulge the superfluous,
solidify it in all of your alliteration;
Ignore where you can go? Treasonous.
Weariness can settle into our lives
But praise be to God the Father who
Can show up right in the middle of dreariness
The Awaker is the Maker of Heaven and Earth
With Him all things are possible
He is the ‘Now’ God
We Bow to His Name right in the middle of dreariness
God shows up
To help, enlighten, solidify and support His people
Weariness can settle into our lives
But praise be to God the Father who
Can show up right in the middle of dreariness
Mark Frank
Copyright 2024
I seek peace within the silence & find joy
inside the noise
Both are deafening in a way but the vision is
sharpened as they're on par
Some scars will drift toward the surface once
true immersion has been employed
The distance between opposing poles is close
but oh so far
The inner world is liquid in a sense with various
waves of liquid thoughts
Your malleable dreams solidify based on strength &
the intent
Some nightmares can slip between the cracks
& manifest if not caught
The law cares not which side you sit but there's
no riding on the fence
I'm convinced we're thoughts in God's mind
with the world being his brain
He manifests in different ways as various versions
of himself
We were made in his holy image & we create more
of the same
Everything is a thought coming from you or someone
else's inner self
Peace comes when you accept aspects of the self
that innately have been ingrained
Go with the flow & ride the wave until you've reached
a higher you
Don't swim against the current & waste your time
for opposing self is against the grain
Seek peace in the noise that silence brings & by
listening you'll hear the truth
Python Constrictor of communications, S.O.S., daemon of funding, resources. Causing alternative views to go blurry, in your face blues. Tourniquet the throats, the pumping of life-blood of the resistance. Cowardly snake in the grass . Do the bidding of your Masters who oppose humanity.
Diabolical Deathsnake, squeeze the lemons in to your Gazpacho of compliance, bon appetite courtesy of online chef de Communist Cuisine, Gestapo.
Then solidify as petrified constellation. Join the ranks of Algol and Yutu, Youtube.
You hold my hand
aware of capacity
for bonding
hands can do that
fingers fond conduits
palms firm suctions
of secure presence
hands yielding
while they also solidify
the mystery of divine
grasp – adhesive nature
of caring touch, giving
while receiving
taking possession with
tender balance of freedom
Love need never hurry
ageless and timeless
the Royal Flush of Hearts
The mind is all things, the architect of our waking dreams. To dream is to experience real things, they aren't as fake as they seem. It only seems the world is full of things composed of things that don't matter. I argue that everything is relevant in this realm of endless matter. Etherical thoughts solidify constructing the world we see. What's outside is really within, internal thoughts come to be. I'm expressing what's inside of me, so you partake in yourself. We all eat from the same tree; this world is fruit of the self.
Boldly I exhume exclusion, a badge of sacrifice
Milestones shunned, money’s usual manoeuvre
Cultural flimsy stronghold, servant’s fiscal price
Top tier requires slaves toil all day for approval
Nonetheless, pleasingly, I hail our lucky country
Offers safety, anonymity, hovel unacknowledged
No need to solidify alliances, desperately hungry
Primed pilferers for immediate advantage pillage
Supplementing streetscapes bolster unsold soles
Trove tumbledryer drums cook my new costume
Accesses babyboomer tower, to fire escape stole
Secure deep sleep from moonless cement room
Adverse to version of
us who refuse to assimilate
A new season - Winter
Begins today
I thought I saw my childhood image,
alas it is only a ghost lost in a phantom past.
The ghost-child seemed so abandoned
by the adult it had become.
Still, I wanted to get to know this entity,
ask it, ‘if it would have done what I did
with this life of ours, and would it have felt
shame or celebration?’
The image for an instant seemed to solidify,
a small voice spoke up:
“Do it just as you have done; your regrets
slowly kill me and they silence our future.”
Weariness can settle into our lives
But praise be to God the Father who
Can show up right in the middle of dreariness
The Awaker is the Maker of Heaven and Earth
With Him all things are possible
He is the ‘Now’ God
We Bow to His Name right in the middle of dreariness
God shows up
To help, enlighten, solidify and support His people
Weariness can settle into our lives
But praise be to God the Father who
Can show up right in the middle of dreariness
Mark Frank
Copyright 2022
Given that i have started now
I may as well now finish what I began
Surely shouldn't I
As wouldn't it be pointless stopping
now I have come thus far
And pondering and wondering the
how's and why
I started down this path at all is
derelict and reticent and frivelent
at best
As once this my very own box of
Pandora's trick's is opened
The tap begins to drip and this individual
certain leak can never afterwards be
turned off or repaired
Word's and thoughts keep streaming
into your conciousness thereafter
Matter's not whether it is am or pm
night nor day
As everything you now wish to say
have an opinion on or think
You are and feel duty bound to
illiterate and solidify in ink
If only for no other prying eye's but
your own to covert and revisit at a
later date
In order to remind you that at very
least for once in your life
You finished what you started
And meant every single word
Why solidify one's heart?
Don't be followers of harden hearts.
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