Miracle Man Tidbits
1/27/2024
At twenty-eight years I was told I had cancer,
and at this time it was like a death sentence.
I had accepted that death would be my answer,
but that was before Jesus saw my repentance.
Being born again was akin to winning,
the lottery when I hadn’t a visible receipt.
Yoke was gone, God forgave past sinning,
at that moment I felt my life was complete.
My thoughts were on Jesus each waking hour,
and at each day’s start I made time to pray.
Not fully understanding why I felt this power,
but my faith was increasing each passing day.
Now I’m eighty-five and quite storm weathered,
More than once I’ve been told I shouldn’t be here.
But to Jesus my craft will always be tethered,
my life is my witness and I live without fear.
After surviving the Widow Maker and three days later Sudden Cardiac Arrest, Doctors told my wife there was little hope, that it was in God’s hands. Then a sudden turn around and they couldn’t explain it telling her that a higher power had intervened. The Hospital started calling me The Protected One, Superman, Miracle Man, and once my Cardiologist referred to me as Lazarus. God is good
Categories:
tidbits, body, cancer, god, heart,
Form: Quatrain
* I'm trying out Halloween 'Harley Quinn' looks *
If light is the fastest thing in the universe,
why is darkness already there when light arrives?
After watching Harry and Megan Sussex grub for ever more cash and attention, I’ve decided that they should start a OnlyFans site.
We’re going to a booze-free dance party.
“You don’t have to drink to have fun.” I assure myself, in the bathroom mirror, but somehow the event sounds like a high school dance.
I’ve been reading the Internet - was it really a giant squid that sank the Titanic?
...
Panpsychism Is a scientific theory postulating that consciousness is part of the fabric of the Universe.
On the theological level, why would God (or nature) create the bitter taste of espresso and vivid, azure skies slashed with rainbow sunsets if stimulating consciousness weren’t important?
“Colors, tastes and smells are no more than names,” Galileo declared 400 years ago. “(as perceptions) they reside only in consciousness.”
Does life exist, as sensors, to experience stimuli for the galactic consciousness?
Categories:
tidbits, confusion, humor, internet, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Lying dormant on the desk
objects inanimate
Each with a story it could tell
some quite intimate...
The key that opens the front door
ten thousand times or more
Trusted tool of man and wife
witness to domestic strife
A pen that writes without a hitch
of affairs and fantasies
Should it resort to crude blackmail
O, Lord, the casualties
A paperweight that holds down bills
due some time ago
Pick it up and hear the groans
down in the stack below...
These objects with their poker faces
conceal lean times, dark places
Pick one up, lend an ear
juicy tales and tidbits you may hear
Categories:
tidbits, cry, desire, mystery, relationship,
Form: Narrative
Miscellaneous Tidbits
By Tom
Stupidity
A trait for which medical science has found no cure.
Full of Dregs
Ever look at a drop of water under a microscope?
I imagine our lives appear much the same in God’s eye.
A Pancake’s Two Sides
One thing worse than never having enough,
is never having any.
Call It Individuality
Just as there are opposite sides to each coin,
There also are opposing views to your every idea.
Intelligence Bests Speed
Leading the pack isn’t necessarily being faster than the other dogs,
Sometimes it’s knowing where the shortcuts are!
There are two ways of doing every task,
The way you prefer it, and the way you get it.
More people are fleeced through inattention,
than by their lack of knowledge.
You may criticize the results,
But you have to praise my effort.
The source that has grub staked me to life,
will one day declare my note is due.
Then our debt will either be marked “paid in full”
or “weighed in the balance and found wanting”
I fail in getting the desired answer,
because most times I’m asking the wrong question.
Categories:
tidbits, word play, words,
Form: Free verse
Love it Andrea Crazy eight may win the day.
I think we tap into common source.
the great unconcious, unwashed horse,
who blurts about with no recourse,
provides the words to tickles force! :) xox Don
as Johnson says, I say!
Robert Haig, yes ,
you have the thing,
great poets try to use,
to flow n flow while talking though,
do not it abuse:)
Bob D was an influence like Elvis,
upon my poor flow line,
connection do we often get,
within the winds of time?
the red red wine,
enflames of the passion,
love without love,
is shortened is,
the shortened ration,:)
xo Don...
L-M
Yes indeed we are tittilated,
in passions sweetest way,
and hubbys happy that your hot,
he must enjoy the play.
life is just a boring bit,
no cuddles for my manly wit,
catch a mount i now admit,
you could be just exhausting it:)
if you come out to play:)
thanks from
Aussie Don
Categories:
tidbits, adventure
Form: Rhyme
When I think of dessert, you come to my mind
How delicate__ flaky crust__ crumbles with a touch
Then on the inside those apples slightly tart spring
Forth bursting out of the crust that held them there
Ummmm...those fried apples pies of yore
When mother fried them in no less than side meat
You know those drippings of it fried earlier
Do you remember also those pies, my dear?
Have not eaten one in years but what does doctor
Know about health__daddy lived to be ninety-seven
Mother lived those years too and what about Aunt
Euvela she lived to be ninety-eight ate
Bacon everyday of her life and eggs
I think that I will cook some of those Fried Pies
Enough to share with everyone on soup
Can you catch a whiff of those apples cooking?
Categories:
tidbits, family, food, love
Form: Free verse
Cinqo De Mayo...When a Brooklyn thug target shoots at a floating jar of Hellman's.
Dutch- Where do they come from? I've looked at atlases dozens of times, and
can't find a country called Dutch, or Dutchland.
Dusty Springfield- why doesn't someone get her a dust-buster, or dust rag, or
something?
Refried Beans- What's that about? Didn't they fry them right the first time?
Chigger- defamatory label for a person half Chinese, and half Black.
Endomorph- Quitting a serious drug habit.
Hoe-Down- 1)Dropping your garden tool. 2)A prostitute rendered unconscious.
Ignoramus- A hippo who failed in high-school.
Knee-Jerk-A person whose brains are in his shins.
Primate- A burglar's cohort with the crowbar.
More may be added later, and all are welcome to contribute, either in comments,
or e-mail me and I'll add them.
Categories:
tidbits, confusion, funny, imagination, on
Form: Burlesque
46)Gangsta' Rap- When a wanted felon knocks on your door.
47)Nostalgia- A towel specifically for one's nose.
48)Breakfast Schnook- An idiot who will eat carpet tacks when asked.
49)Scorpion- A bullseye when urinating on a schmuck.
50)Eye-Shot- A dummy so drunk he tries to take a measure of whisky through his
eyeball.
51)Postulate- When the damn mailman finally shows up.
52)Short-Ton- A 4 foot, 3 inch woman who weighs in at 2125 pounds.
Categories:
tidbits, imagination, on writing and
Form: Burlesque
1)I've visited Pool Halls at least 100 times, and I ain't yet found a pool there. I got
so disgusted, I stopped carrying my bathingsuit around.
2)My girlfriend sent me an Afghan, but I don't speak his language. Her note said
he was supposed to keep me warm, but I couldn't use him for that- he smelled
kind'a funky.
3)Affidavit- When David pissed me off and I was out to get him.
4)Commercial Bank- A bank primarily concerned with safely storing TV
commercials.
5)Congo- What happens when a prison inmate escapes.
6)Commodore- An entranceway covered with a grammatical symbol.
7)Kinetic- A blood sucking insect attached to the skin of a relative.
8)Kinship- My uncle's yacht that I'm not allowed on.
9)New Delhi- A start-up delicatessen.
10)Wimp Van Wrinkle- A dry-cleaner who is abused by his wife.
11)Tally Ho- A pimp takes inventory.
Categories:
tidbits, funny, on writing and
Form: Burlesque
What Caesar really said; "I came, I saw, I ran like hell..."
(Speaking of Caesar, I think he's famous for going to Las Vegas and making
salad.)
If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a pigeon.
A bird in the hand is worth a roll of paper towels. what a mess!
When the going gets tough, I leave.
The only thing to fear is, well, pretty much everyone.
If at first you don't succeed, try something else.
If money is the root of all evil, you should be rich.
Never count your eggs after they're scrambled.
You get what you put into it. Yeah, like my lemon flavored meatloaf!
Two and two makes group sex.
"I think I'll never see, a poem as lovely as your knee."
If you think you got it tough, try my steak!
Sixteen tons, and what do you get? Squashed.
It's better to have loved and lost, than pay for a divorce.
If music be the food of love, My ex-wife was tone deaf.
Into the Valley of Deaf rode the 600 defective hearing aid batteries.
The Hallmark Hall Of Flame- a card store is burned down.
Have a good day!
Categories:
tidbits, confusion, education, inspirational, on
Form: Burlesque
Christmas- to me kind of scary- I mean who wants a guy named Santa Claws
breaking into their house in the middle of the night??
And some of these bizarre new T.V. shows??- what kind of low-life would want
to "Pimp My Bride"???
And the stickers that say "Support Our Troops"?- Of course we do. It's the
politicians who bring death to our brave youth.
My last boss, a Jewish fellow, once said to me, and he believed this; "Everyone
Knows That Money Is God!!!" How pathetic, I guess I'm an atheist, cause I sure
aint got none.
I spend a lot of time in hospitals (sort'a terminally ill..) They always ask me if I
am allergic to anything, and I always say; "Yeah, mushrooms and morons..."
And these fools put a red warning bracelet. on me to that effect. I also always
sign in as "Randall P. MacMurphy" (see One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest)-
you'd be surprised how perplexed they get- such name is not on their list!! I love
it!!
I wrote a new soul song; "I Heard It Thru the Grapejuice"!!
well, enough for now.......tom
Categories:
tidbits, allegory, confusion, funny, life,
Form: Burlesque
I'm still trying to figure this one out. I noticed that Dunkin' Donuts had a dot.com
site- I tried it, but they refused to delived me a cup of coffee.
The TV show-"Everyone Loves Raymond"- does his wife know?
Ever buy the canned beef stew? On inspection, it should rightfully be
labeled "Potato Stew"
If PoetrySoup gets too intense, will they change the name to "PoetryStew"?
You might be too young to know this, but not so long ago, in a men's room, the
urinal was one long trough on the floor, with ice in it. Ice in it? Don't order beer in
such a place!
coming soon...tom's very very strange doctor....
Categories:
tidbits, education, food, funny, mystery,
Form: List
"Anything i can do, you could do better!"
I'm different. I like my sushi well done.
"Sure you're right!...Who cares?"
I'm as wise as a potato chip.
Is it illegal to leave a night-light on in the day?
"If music be the food of love...I'm tone deaf."
So what? I guess my self-confidence made me inferior.
I hired an interior decorator for my refrigerator.
I spend my time figuring out how to spend my time!!
good day , Carol....
Categories:
tidbits, funny, life, people,
Form: Burlesque
I used to be bisexual....but then I ran out of money and couldn't buy it anymore.
I just bought a 12 pack of cold pills- they should last forever!! I can't open the
da_m things!!
When all else fails, you're up sh_t's creek!
I "souped up" my van- I wrote poetry all over it. Caused 6 accidents in 2 days-
seems others have lost concentration trying to read them at 60MPH.
Thanx to all the soup-freaks I've come to know and love- keep up the good
work...or, if ya can aford it, hire a ghost-writer. Just make sure he's not merely
ectoplasm...
Cheers.
Categories:
tidbits, funny, on writing and
Form: List
I can only assume by assumptions are assumeable.
God is not dead, he just seems to be on an extended vacation.
I brought a tombstone pizza to the graveyard- hope they enjoyed.
I only get a runny nose when I'm in the middle of an important job interview, and I
have no tissues! Ugh!
Is it PoetrySoup yet?
The best thing about being stupid is you're too stupid to know you're stupid.
Wild, wicked, weird, wonderful. wow!!
Something tells me I shouldn't look down.
The dead don't pay bills. Guess I'm dead.
I wanna kipse your luby rips.
If I had a brain, I might be dangerous.
Look hard into my heart, and tell me if it's still beating.
Just why do dryers exist on a diet of socks?
When all else fails, we can just quit trying.
Whisper sweet nothings into my ear. That seems to be all I can understand;
nothing!
If I had a hammer, I'd probably have a swollen thumb.
If I had a swollen thumb, I probably had a hammer.
If music be the food of love, lets get right on to the dessert.
Goodbue, my friends, I'll be back soon!!
Categories:
tidbits, confusion, funny, imagination, me,
Form: Burlesque
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