Sphery moon o'er northern bog;
sphagnum working overtime.
Sphinx Moth moves within a grand
sphere of influence,
spherule eyes gazing. Keeps his
sphygmic pulse on time -- poised with
sphenic wings arched overhead.
The sphere of influence is as big as the globe
"To stand by things decided"
We're obligated to follow precedents
What happened before the cold war,
Influences the decisions made in today's courts
Questions and arguments rise for this principle
Yet echoes of the dead say "let justice be served"
"Stare decisis"
Is it up to scratch?
It ensures uniform application of the law
Not like any random inconsistent policy,
The law is as consistent as waves kissing the shore
To let the decision stand is to be class
And class is permanent
It does not consider the environment
Though there is a little space for improvement
Law deals with precedents
Just a different time of incidence
Our lives are guided by how our ancestors were judged
Case law, went through criticism and survived
No one is above the law!
We shall live by it
Stare decisis!!
I am a spiritual, rather than religious, person and embrace all positive belief systems. Which pretty much translates to treating people with dignity and respect, having compassion and kindness, and trying to make a positive difference in the world.
Inspired by Matthew 13:13
New International Version
13 This is why I speak to them in parables:
“Though seeing, they do not see;
though hearing, they do not hear or
understand..."
Special sphere
By Michelle Morris
26/10/2020
There are none so blind than those who refuse to see,
The truth about what's happening in our society;
There are none so deaf than those who refuse to hear,
The echoes of freedoms being thrown down
a chasm of despair...
For every person has the right to be free,
To pursue an understanding of truth and be healed;
For society has many closed hearts and closed minds,
People choose to ignore the plight of others who are dying...
Until we enlighten ourselves and make more of an effort to make a positive difference,
Compassion will remain a rare experience for those who aren't in our special sphere of influence...
© Michelle Morris, 2020
DONT WORRY MUCH
BY TAPIWA N. MASEKO
Don’t worry much
About his or her love evaporation
On it don’t make a suicide suggestion
It is part of your life exploration
Perchance
There comes a good chance
That your heart will catch
Don’t worry much
When love breach
Comes before death ends the love match
Maybe you started to date but your hearts do not match
Don’t worry much when love is so brief
Maybe it is giving a chance to date with your to be wife
Don’t worry much when love so soon does end
Maybe it is paving a way for your to be husband
Don’t worry much when your lover is gone
To you it has to be known
That she is not your heart’s queen
Hence not fit for the crown
Don’t worry much when love from your lover’s heart stops to spring
That is not your heat’s king
Hence not fit to monopolize the sphere of influence
In your heart’s province
Don’t worry much when your lover his or her love to you stops to deliver
Maybe that will be the reference
From where you will draw every difference
On the qualities of good or bad lover
Based on your experience
She is so ugly she needs a reincarnation
far too fat for a one time zone nation
chuck her an apple it goes into orbit
around her waist where she’s so morbid
Stop complaining I’m having a laugh
I’m not fat shaming I haven’t got wrath
look at her stuck when she’s having a bath
tub’s to small should have done the math
It’s not actually her weight that I do hate
but her personality and fact she’s fake
she’s a teachers pet and the bosses mate
sucking up to more than what’s on a plate
When you help her she forgets it,
Mrs The Point the celestial object
she has poor health and lacks real logic
an enemy an ally and a brown nose profit
Selfishness and circle sides
sphere of influence sprouting lies
doesn’t move with gout on thighs
look at her eating all the pies!!
3, 2, 1, ON AIR.
History for $100, Alex.
“A mutual defense pact led by
The city-state of Athens,
Whose expanding sphere of influence
Provoked the Peloponnesian War,
Leading to the downfall of prideful Athens.”
What is the Delian League?
That is correct.
History for $200, Alex.
“A mutual defense pact led by
Imperial Germany,
Whose expanding martial belligerence,
Resulted in The Great War,
Leading to the downfall of prideful Germany.”
What is the Triple Alliance?
That is correct.
History for $500, Alex.
“A mutual defense pact led by
The United States of America,
Whose expanding role in eastern Europe
Threatens a third world war,
And the possible downfall of everything prideful.”
What is NATO?
[Dead air.]
EMERGENCY BROADCASTING SYSTEM ALERT…
Victory neared but I had all but given up
Memory had slowly begun to abandon me,
Ivory towers no longer satisfied my needs
Trajectory found me kneeling on bended knee.
History had not been particularly kind to me
Contradictory rumors cast blots on my life,
Sophistry invaded my one sphere of influence
Inquiry uncovered even more lethal strife.
Valedictory seemed my only acceptable release
Predatory enemies jealously sought my fame,
Mystery surrounded my plethora of concerns
Maledictory insults eventually destroyed my name.
written January 31, 2022
Commitment is a permanent show
where love is its harmonic sound.
I'm not really down with that show
although I will feature the crowd
But somewhere across the stands
I am sitting in wait and in hold.
The chances are within my hands
Let me sell you this gold!
I can be that glass of water to quench your thirst
I can feel for you a love that intensifies
I can be the one you turn to when the lights go out
I can be for you,
I can be,
Whatever you desire
I don't want commitment
I don't need proposals
All i need is you time
Get drunk in the incense of time
I will be lying in wait
Waiting to snatch up my prey
Why bother with love, why bother with pain
Feed the beast through lust
I can be your sphere of influence in your life
I can feel for you a tender side you want to deny
I can be the voice you silence in the dark
I can be,
I WILL be,
Whatever you require
Derived simple comfort, throughout childhood, even now,
From the one syllable sound, called out by my mother.
Cynebeald in the most formal tongue of old. A lifetime of
Meaning, paved as my feet undulate toward the unknown.
Kin, I surely hold, so close and dear – an abundance of God’s blessing.
Bold vitality ensures I walk in symphonic shoes, embracing
Brave attitudes, whether or not I become an able-bodied leader.
King of my adventure, Queen in my sphere of influence, thus named.
Kim Rodrigues (c) 2017
3rd Place
Multiple Placements
What's In A Name contest
Sponsor: Silent One
1/17/2017
The sphere of influence influenced me spherically
With no core
Left brained hemisphere confused
Like right handed athlete
Co-ordination on my medulla-oblongata
Peripheral nervous system shuttered down
As cranial nerves refused to send impulses
Failure to interpretation on my cerebrum
Lead to my confusion.
Response
Millions and millions with one stone gone.
Killed by their own wrongs
From negating a path strong.
But oh, a picture perfect life shown
With three children in the form.
Altered destiny to hinder success seen.
Today, their fate is perceived. to be a ruminated future confound from all their deceits.
One stone with millions and millions of lives wrought into a mental mirage.
A figurative arrangement disarranged for other’s illegal espionage.
Fabrications documented as a true act found life attacked.
Victimization attracted by hate fashioned the image repudiated.
But oh, a path strong formed.
The life negated held on.
Today, a just soul.
Augmentation of knowledge and wisdom transformed the home front.
A sphere of influence henceforth.
An entity of a government provided the acumen.
But oh, a picture perfect life was empowered by the mendacities told.
A sage is in transition to manifest reform.
These days’ spuriousness is ameliorated by yesterday’s social injustices.
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Written December 24, 2015!
Nature Strives to be beautiful
Morphing myriad, earthly hues
from macrocosmic frippery.
Her perfumed zephyrean breaths
Intoxicate the atmosphere
Stirring those that breathe to wildness
That only her tempestuous
Violence ultimately tames;
Yet her yin can be most tranquil
As not to ruffle a fledglings
Feathers or ripple mountain tarns.
She favors none of her children
within her sphere of influence
sustaining only the strongest.
childhood i encourage
various principles was taught
studious and hard-working
while maintaining great sphere of influence
few times we argue
who is greater?
higher position demanded
a position of priority and leadership
the master responded in
principle of leadership
he never condemn desire to be great
but to be servant-hood
Nothing wrong in desiring greatness or
A position of leadership
However, the ONLY true test of genuine greatness
is SELFLESS SERVICE.
the need for true humility
(not eye-service) in leadership,
but willingness to SERVE not to be SERVED.
You may not be the President of a nation
BUT we are all 'leaders' in one capacity
Can you check those within your sphere of influence?
Can they see the 'servant' heart in you?
Are you in a position because of the wealth and riches
OR because you're interested in building lives?
Together, we can re-define leadership
Let it begin with YOU!
A curse upon the gods to break
How to become an enlightened player 101
something to study and pick apart
A royal Joke of political actors
surrounding one fool
teaching spies
and politicians
how to make global friends
and preachers how to preach
(ever been to the insane asylum?)
The protest against innocence
sold short to drugs and insanity
guns and wars of **** psychology
New age Nuns
Psychobabble witchcraft chant
Haunting the drug lords
as he leads the sphere of influence
to salvation
Diffing to the devil
musical conspiracy solved
Dreams of Jesus
and a masterpiece of the gods
(come on HollyWood!!!
Do It!
Show me!
Tell me!
what's the perfect life?)
The mental patient who isn't crazy
but a metaphor
with a political king's court nightmare
philosophizing psychology
like an originator of thought
keeping no diary
as everyone around him does it for him
do the pieces fit?
protesting drugs and guns?
did anyone get it?
did anyone notice me?
did anyone hear the message?
have i been received?
am i the perfect life?
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