Listen now for I am Paul who was Saul
I serve the living and true Almighty God
transformed when met the living Jesus
on road to Damascus blinded by God's sword
Having met Christ elected as His apostle
for the purpose of encouraging faith in God's elect
spreading abroad the value of His truth
to produce godliness so others see and detect
God has promised for all HIs own people
the hope of eternal life to be assured
for the Lord Jesus never ever would lie
so His elect will trust Him as ensured
The Lord God gave at its proper time
for me to preach His blessed word
so I was entrusted by God's command
this saviour be known to forever rhyme
(" Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began and at the proper time manifested in his word through the preaching with which I have been entrusted by the command of God our Savior;")
Titus 1: 1-3 (ESV)
Categories:
titus, bible, encouraging, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Sixty-nine and you are nothing but fine.
Your happy smile radiates a country mile.
Calm and cool you are in no way affected
By others who are not as seasoned or collected
Tony, Tony, Tito, Titus, Tell the truth.
Were you ever in love with a girl named Sue or Ruth?
Do you remember things like being the bomb?
Do you recall a swamp called Viet Nam?
Sixty-nine and you are simply on fire!
If I stated anything else I would be a liar.
A poet in heart, and mind and grace.
Happy birthday I say! You have barely run your race.
Many more decades to you will come.
Relax, play, take a load off, be a seasoned beach bum.
Do whatever you have always wanted to do.
No one else is having a birthday but you!
Categories:
titus, age,
Form: Rhyme
Ressano Garcia was the place
Where first I saw, young Titus’ face.
And unexpect’, brought light within.
A feeling good. No questioning.
Your messengers.
My role? Your plan?
Forgive me God, I’m born of man.
Titus came and went – All yes confers.
So blessed with many faces that I’ve seen.
So blessed with tales of man and kin.
Categories:
titus, blessing, people, places,
Form: Sonnet
I too gazed and never saw or knew
But what I knew before
Perspectives of my own point of view
That made me excited and sure
Then leaving it all, I more foolish still
Beacame, and bore the jeers
That could not outweigh the joy of will
Consuming tasks that others fear
ii
And he, turned inside out for the laugh
Say look again, his private mind piles
Explorers and blunderers with thin raft
Down the rapids, where proof defiles
Not his craft that sturdily surge the flow
But theirs who with self lense pine to see
What they have taught by fears to know.
Yet none question the strange consistency
With so many pieces of that expectation
That forms the norm that achieve ill goals
I offer no other sublime, no more refutation
But hold to my intents though tempest howls.
Laugh then, I shall not stutter this to repeat
But gladly engage my choice that well brings
The adventurer, self-certain, every heat.
My ash shall only show my sleep, but no stings.
Categories:
titus, faith, friendship, perspective,
Form: Verse
Tormented! I have words but no way out
In spite of the encouraging conveys
Towards me, that this darkest hour plays
Unusual, how much emptiness is about,
Should read no more, by ending all this praise.
This quite direct proposal finds myself,
In retrospect, a fool with not a worth
Transcending thought and should I say, what wealth?
Unrest, with all this literature at girth
So I may ascertain my mental health.
Tremendous time and patience do you all
In time, deceive yourselves a crying shame
To think compared with effort you are small
Unsure, as well, for greeting all 'this' fame,
Surrounds us with a promise to enthral.
Categories:
titus, angst, sad, proposal, ,
Form: Acrostic