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Poets:Those Enlightened by God

              7/27/2025


Daddy, I wish you’d return from your heavenly home.
And, I’d  be your little girl, in brown braids, once again!
I thought by now, I knew it all, but such is not the case!
It seems with the world, I am trying to keep a fast pace.

You did teach me to love God first, and for His love, I never do thist.
Nor to chase empty prizes from my fellow man!
For all wins come from His softest hands.
Never from cold, intellectual, mental , sands

Thank you, God, for all genuine, poetic, loving friends
Keep us, kind, true, with honesty , that forgives, that mends.
To help us create a world of humane understandings,
Not a cruel world, dismissve of theolological bindings!

Peace In Pain

God reveals that he has secrets;
And that such secrets are his alone.

His revelations otherwise, belong 
To us and to our children.

The griefs that often sting our hearts
And tares our inward parts apart,
Often hold the secrets that beong to God.

Although from the deep, I might not cease
My search for reasons and understandings,
God gives a peace that gives ease to the pain.

Presences as such

Roses that are naturally growing in the breeze 
As such, their dancing presenting pride of silence 
Needing not for any comments on their success 
Nor for scoring much of the contrived bliss 

Presences are irrelevant to any third parties 
All them are arranged such as thee and mine
Irrelevance to conditions such as poor or rich 
As such, presented natural, fair as much we can 

Your heartbeats matched mine, as such, we feel 
Deeper than that, understandings are from the innermost 
For synthesized breathing made by heartbeats thrill 
As such, virtues presented as much as we can

Depression

Is that ok to live with all the same conclusions
Or is it like worn clothes when you do not
Care what to wear in your goddamn seclusion 
And like the old familiar recipies you’ve got
You see no change, its all the same old stories
Most likely, you can’t notice any changes
For otherwise it goes to different category
You leave no chance for any sudden rearrangements
But there's a vague unease brewing inside
You’re getting out of use, like old device
This might be called depression in most trite
Of understandings, but you never think it twice.

As we live, the utility of life becomes like a shadow

As we live, the utility of life becomes like a shadow,
The universe unfolds like a canvas of hidden perfection,
Everything we call useful finds its essence in the eye of the beholder,
Uselessness reveals its value like a pearl in the depths.
To live is to open like a flower to new horizons,
Which expand the soul, enriching it with shades of light,
The longing to give becomes a search for an unseen meaning,
We embrace uselessness as a treasure of truths.
Within the duality of our desires lies a balance,
Fragile as a silk thread connecting the stars at night,
In the seemingly useless silence, we feel the hidden pulse of the world,
And we understand that each moment becomes an eternity.
Life transforms into a mosaic of experiences and contrasts,
Where the useful and the useless dance in cosmic harmony,
Creating a universe of deep and mysterious meanings,
That carries our soul towards higher and purer understandings.

Pondering Parables

Among tales told long ago were those
of finding hidden buried treasures,
of growing seeds in diverse soils,
of building homes on sand or rock,
of sorting worthy sheep from wicked goats,
of inviting multitudes to a banquet,
of celebrating a prodigal returning home,
of saving a life by a scorned Samaritan.

Jesus loved earthly stories
with heavenly implications.
His parables were spiritual seeds
sown in hearers’ hearts and minds,
analogies thrown alongside
puzzling narrative plots,
poignant truths with shocking twists
and unexpected outcomes.

Deceptively simple, sly stories
with multiple potential meanings,
his parables perplexed expectations,
and upended usual understandings.
Even his bewildered disciples
pleaded for private interpretations.

During careful contemplation,
parables interrogate our lives.
Providing few easy answers,
parables compel us to ponder.


(First published in Earth & Altar, 14 Nov. 2024. See also my poems “God Around the Corner” and “Consider the Dreaming Birds.”)

Enough

Hold my breath, gaze the space, thinking louder, this thoughts are enormous, fighting like two wounded elephants, my emotions suffering the devastating effects. Traumatized, lil and fragile mind and heart, inside me, hiding behind these heavy shadows of dread

blurry understandings, slittered senses, concogtion of confusions. I'm centered in junctions of complex decisions, with none serving as solutions, empty shells of questions, deserted lands of answers

Look high, in hope of asylum, grounds I'm standing on, failing me. Inch by inch, my feet lose their soles, marrows in my skeletons, dries up. Strength in me,  grow nails, this body of mine, turns sore, I wanna jump out of it but I'm shackled to this pain, wish wings were compittable to men, I could use one now
#Poetic_Ink

Unveiling Our Myths

Muffled voices in clouded corridors,
where legends mold the unseen,
drifting through thoughts like specters 
bestowing authority upon the mysterious.

In politics, a performance: 
marionettes on a dream-filled platform, 
ballots cast for favor 
lies woven with words 
strands of optimism and dread 
woven in imperceptible restraints.

Religion, with its narratives,
deities and monsters depicted in faith 
comfort sought in fables 
significance discovered in customs,
fleeting peace in their presence 
prayers ascending, vapors in thin air.

Daily rituals of superstition 
a black cat crosses the path, a broken mirror 
navigating through symbols 
interpreting with outdated understandings,
guided by obscure beliefs
apprehensive of uncertainties.

What if we dared to look behind the curtain 
to view the myths we hold; 
What secrets lie beyond?

No Payment Due

Through what alleged transgression stand I now accused?   
  
Is there guilt to be found in a drowning man who by exchanging all he has ever held gains the salvation of but one more breath? If guilt doth indeed exist in such act I stand willingly before those who proclaim themselves worthy of judging me under such charge.  
  
 
 Though I be accused and brought before the arrogant I openly proclaim the righteousness of my soul far greater weighted than their simple understandings  as all scales of justice lean in favor of no payment due !

I prefer the myths to the dry histories, where truths come and then crumble away

I prefer the myths to the dry histories, where truths come and then crumble away,
For history is written with a quill of feathers, but the myth, eternal, beats with wings of iron.
Mythology dresses lies in dazzling robes that over time are clothed in truth,
And it gives birth to a wisdom that time can shape as the river shapes the stone.
Intelligence, deaf and blind, listens only to defy or to nod in assent,
Thus the message, like a drifting ship, is lost on misunderstood seas.
Instead of welcoming the word as a guest to the tables of meditation, it would tear down the messenger,
And we, mortals learned, have lost the art of sitting with the message, of cherishing the story.
The fault, it is said, lies in the arms of that education which molds us into valiant soldiers of certainty,
Not into wise seekers of questions, of meanings hidden in the folds of the everlasting myth.
Our world stubbornly struggles to tear the thick paper of deep understandings,
Poisoning us with dogmas, forgetting in the procession of days that all which was once a lie may bloom as the apple of new knowledge.

Wise Women

Women with good 
         understandings
                    and choices - 
                      pure waters 
coming from pure hearts.

August 13/2023

Homosexuality Offer To Africa

China offers infrastructures, 
India offers agricultural projects,
 and Russia offers security to Africa 
and you, in Europe, offer homosexuality.
Quote by Jean-Luc Melenchon.

On this planet earth
many people hate
to hear the truth 
because they can not bear 
it into their hearts. 
Speaking the truth 
Does not mean gossip.
a person who loves you 
tell you the truth daily. 
 
If you mean to 
love some people 
and offer them 
homosexuality. 
They refuse your 
offer as it is against 
their culture and
 laws of Yahweh. 
You then force them 
to give you mineral 
resources in retain. 
They raise objections to that. 
You later sanction them 
for refusing the so called offer 
which is mix  poison in their 
understandings. 

Do you really love them? 
Some African countries are under sanctions 
Of USA and European Union
Because of refusing homosexuality 
in their countries 

Can Africans keep silent? 
Someone who offers nothing 
Forces to collect huge thing
In business of win win. 
Injustice has no clean
 doors in the world.

August 9/2023

Timelines Intersecting

There is 

An apparent

Lifestory 

Which seems to

Fill a timeline..

Life stories

Intersecting 

With conflict and

Peace and claiming

Understandings..

Apparently...

A Poet In Tourism

As poet who was visiting some places
To cook a piece of poetry, 
suddenly you met some  psychologists 
who were  worshipping some animal statues. 
You continued  with your tour, 
you came across some very educated people 
at a graveyard who were  speaking to the dead folks. 
You are told to mention about their 
( IQ) intelligence quotients. 
Will you afraid to speak the truth
because you will be called arrogant 
by some very educated people? 
As the dead people and statues 
don't hear or speak,
will you tell them to go to some hospitals 
for checking up their brains? 
Do you think they will feel guilty 
and change their minds and thoughts 
Or they will hunt to stone your head? 

Some other things are above humans
understandings 
It sounds prophetic
But it is poetic. 

July 10th 2023

Uhhh

Umbilical underlings undulate under unified,
universal undercurrent understandings, utilizing
unequivocally ugly, unwise, unwanted, unaware,
utilitarian usurpers.

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