You've given me a life
full and complete
You are so good
none can compete
and for each day that goes by
my hands to You I raise
to give You Lord
my total praise
You've given me
a sense of peace
my soul to You
I do release
and for each day that goes by
my hands to You I raise
to give You Lord
my total praise
Your righteousness is great
beyond measure
Your mercy is precious
my heaven sent treasure
Your grace is sufficient
satisfies all my needs
I thank You God
for sowing in me
virtuous seeds
and for each day that goes by
my hands to You I raise
to give you Lord
my total praise
I kneel to You
In reverent supplication
total devotion
true dedication
and for each day that goes by
my hands to You I raise
to give You Lord
my total praise
my faith in You
continues to increase
my love for You
will never cease
and for each day that goes by
my hands to You I raise
to give you Lord
my total praise
and for each day that goes by
my hands to You are raised
To give You my Lord God
my complete and total praise
Which Over-Reaction
Should I Choose!
So Exhausting
Measuring Time...
Valuable Time...
Wasting The Way.
Curds N' Way.
Weigh The Way.
-Gray Squirrel
05-05-2026
Unkind thoughts and deeds tallied
Demerit points implicitly accrued throughout a lifetime
Belated guilt at heaven’s gate
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Every facet examined and evaluated
The mystery would soon be inextricably solved
~ Enigmatic clues reveal jigsaw puzzle.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: 2nd place 2025
Total passivity
Seems to me a relevant strategy
To confront the humiliation that is offered to the large
But some would say small world of askers
All kinds of believers in their right to demand something
Who can’t stop asking and expect hoping
Don't ask, don’t beg and don't ingratiate
This is what they expect from you
To bring you down forever
At best case scenario
Applicants are put in line
For a bowl of mushroom soup with crackers
Do what they don't expect
Don't do anything, don't ask
And I promise you the time will come
When it will be their turn to ask
Let them ask and they’ll answer themselves
Gradually there’ll be more questions
But the answers will be fewer and simpler
The sunrises and sunsets will come and go
Silence will produce the most pleasant of problems
You can share it on facebook
How to make the neat little bin
For the used tea bags.
rainbow smiles abound
honey sun erased my frowns
olive green trees sing
in welcome warmth of noonday
laughing gold lilies crowd June
I'm no longer blue
as butterflies spread scent news
they're maroon in hue
In Total Darkness - Naked Doesn't Matter Anymore
AI Can Never Be Enlightened.
-Gray Squirrel
06-03-2025
May we be blessed to be surrounded by those
who show us love in all they do…
in their smile, their touch, their caress
who just by being a part of our life…
add to our total happiness.
helmet streamers white
illuminated earthshine~
show sun's c
o r o
n a
Tread not on me, brother!
To live is to expand.
Deterrence! Slay the Other!
Cold core countermand!
Boots a-click-clack, cobblestone.
Midnight raid and how!
Help the boy to hold his own!
Sacred, O my cow!
Written in the ancient s blood?
Time to cause a flood!
Rill and river, ricin, rud!
Break, fade, flash, firewood!
Bats before the bayonets?
Batons too can kill.
Settle in before she sets?
Providence, thy will.
Wild as any modern force?
Stranger than the sea?
Shift, O river, from thy course?
Not the likes of me!
Covert action! Civilize!
Cut them down to size!
Aim for whites of foemen eyes!
Dare to criticize?
Thunder, roll o'er city street!
Alarums to ring!
Riot team, best ye complete!
Jerk them on the string!
Silent aftermath, thy path.
Kingdom, how ye grew.
Pour out poison on the math!
Hope, need talking to...
Oh my people..We did sleep.'
Through our golden epochs; it makes me weep'
The spirit of Australia..You must call it back.!
From the now be-knighted (w e f 's) barren track'
We took their worst' (yet we play for keeps') we must'
Now let us stand united; and bury them deep.'
Was your jaw ever hit at some watering place
Yes, I have on occasion hit a fist with my face
His incorrect answer,
Scar tissue, not cancer.
That Doctor was too quick to cut to the chase.
with loving vision, focused on you
you are the center of my attention,
the essence of my life!
yes, my dear,
you mean all that!
and much more to
me... you are the illusion I idealized,
the ideal dream I dreamed...
My goal since time immemorial,
since the earliest ages is you!
Per omnia seculorum,
only you!
Poems request that I be authentic.
I am unsure my pen can take it.
I live life as an emotional sayer,
but should I now reveal each layer
my blood will spill upon this paper.
I have sought to give life tender smiles
while enduring heart wrenching trials.
I have glued events found fragile
into some matter I can handle.
I have not once run or pretended,
or taken pain and tried to bend it,
for one truth grew – my Father sent it.
To have peace, I must befriend it
or, God forgive, I must end it.
One small second is all powerful
and all it took to destroy all I knew.
It did not eclipse past tears lived thru,
but forever altered pain’s known hue.
Here I am, at the mid-century mark
searching out a new life for my heart.
Such desires are not easily caught.
The universe bruised, we constantly fought.
Life injures, it will hurt and blister.
Then there is joy, the sweetest kisser,
and for that I am still prompted on,
longing for fear-notes to leave my song.
Sadness revealed my spiritual soul,
took it thru hell to achieve its goal.
Each hurt is a small grain of my total pain,
so raw and brave behind my human name.
Eclipse of the disco ball,
a full floor drank that rhythm on ice;
Total Blackout;
Will they get out, CAN they get out?
88 Keys to dance on,
awash with a psychedelic trance;
Unable to shout;
Will they, can they, ever get out?
Each pair of feet moving
faster than the sound of the DJ;
Oh that soft pout;
Now there’s positively no way out;
Backlit Solar sight,
a beat you feel but can’t react to;
Total Blackout.
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