Behold, God is my salvation
in His perfect love rescued me
dying for my sin on Calvary's cross
Jesus paid the price to set me free
I will trust and not be afraid
by faith in God's wondrous grace
inspired by the living word
line by line His love to trace
For the Lord Jehovah is my strength and song
walking step by step redemption's way
lead by His Spirit, sing His praise
walking towards heaven day by day
Through many trials and temptations
The Lord gives His strength and peace
standing fast against satan's schemes
The Lord assures these wars will cease
God, in His great mercy, is redeemer
for He has become my salvation
such a precious gift for His own
a price can't be put on any valuation
('Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.')
Isaiah 12: 2 (KJV)
"I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities" ~ from The Mysterious Stranger by Mark Twain
What causes war?
Why does it perpetuate?
Power? Greed? Money?
Man's obsession with lining his pockets,
his valuation of money
above humanity,
above the earth that ultimately supports us?
The separation of the leaders,
those who profit,
and the complicit followers,
from those wielding the physical murder weapons?
Rationalizations?
Does money, which has no heart,
rule leaders and marketers,
who, in turn,
leverage and manipulate
emotions, tribalism, us vs. them?
Click.
I don't understand it,
but I wonder
if we all share part of
the guilt.
A prose poem based on Copotronic love (Scifie)
by Tamanna Ferdous
One day, I was all prepared to test him about his IQ.
After testing him with different questions in general knowledge,
I read him from an antique Bengali poet, Jibanananda Das.
"The resting place placed the restful here
Never certain if the restful is resting here, though.”
Then I asked his opinion about these two lines.
He informed me," A humane quotation with an outlier in deeper introspection."
When he was showed an art piece of Paul Gaugin,
of a polynatian girl,
he tried to perceive the art from different angles and then said,
“A deformed body had a strange reason to occupy the usage of all the colors
used otherwise irregularly.”
The valuation of paul gauguin and the remark,
it was too difficult to control a wild laughter.
After a while I stopped my loud amusement and asked him.
What was I doing?”
“You were laughing.”
“What is laughing?”
“A physical procedure devoid of meaningfulness.”
“Please try to laugh!”
He followed up with a mechanical noisy aptitude, sensible.
Prometheus, he was a machine!
What is fear; something outward or within?
Strangely serene; how darkness holds all still.
Fight or flight? On either, truth will transcend.
Of life, love, and lust; risks rewarded thrill.
A feeling? A thought? Or just a notion?
A primevally hardwired cautiousness?
All and naught. A truly raw emotion.
Too fear, is at the root of consciousness.
Null fear; would there be any joy in love?
The valuation in that lost and gained
makes no difference in the light thereof.
Through fear; life and it’s meaning are sustained.
Fear is rooted alongside the being;
cinched, behold all that’s worthy of seeing.
8-20-2021
Here's how much-sponsored brands get a boot—
Get public's sharp brow, and absolute,
There’s a point here to moot,
A point not in past put,
Nor passed a fair test ere:
Should ads talk in thin air?
For a change, shoes sold bite seller's foot!
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Happenings|20.06.2021|
Poet’s note: This limerick follows what happened a few days back. Cristiano Ronaldo, a well-known footballer, removed a Coke bottle at a press conference and replaced it with one of water, and soon the company lost four billion dollars in its market capitalization. This does raise a few fundamental questions. India’s home brands, Amul and Fevicol, took a jibe each at these brands. Amul (the milkman of the nation) taunted: ‘Not bottling one’s feelings’; Fevicol (makers of various adhesives): ‘These bottles cannot be removed, nor will its valuation dip’. I loved it. Yes, markets do need some earthy humour in these hard times, a food for thought for them to mull.
THE WINNOWING
Wake of harvest, came time for winnowing
Separation loosing chaff from the grain
Bake of bread that gave them a bestowing
Creation: body nurture that they’d fain
Make in life, a time for spirit growing
Valuation of virtues not to strain
Then we might cherish food for soul above
When we winnow, retain the grain of love
Come, understand yourself,
and make a realization
on thinking
Knowledge is the food of a soul, eat
this for the sake of god,
leave all robotic thought
There is no darkness when
I entered into the true room
of my soul
There is light in soul, light
of God, which wants
to illuminate me
But subconsciously I cover
it by following other
blindly
Oh! I'm sane! Still not a
Saint! Insane I'm in the true
love of GOD
O' beloved Soul! God is only
my goal You're not foul,
Valid in world's bowl
Be in divine contemplation
Pray in ONE God's passion
Time is your valuation
Be with the reality and God's
memory in nanosecond's
motion
- October 16, 2018 Chattogram
My product's diurnal, nocturnal,
Forever and aye, Eternal.
Rarer than a diamond coin,
Yet impossible to purloin.
Bendable, but won't break,
Though stretched till it ache.
Beloved of gods, high and mighty:
By the Lord of Hosts; and by Aphrodite.
Possessed by so very, very few;
Per Shakespeare--only by King Lear's Fool.
Priceless is its valuation,
Utterly immune to deflation.
**********
You know, I'd sell the world the TRUTH;
Yet were I to claim there's a buyer,
I'd be a true liar.
The oath is false ,
The promises are false now.
Now someone who is playing
with heart is a liar.
No valuation of things
Stole the heart of the
Spoken words.
4 ablution 4 acclimatization 4 adulation
4 benediction 4 biotransformation 4 blastulation
4 concatenation 4 conception 4 configuration
4 declaration 4 dictation 4 differentiation
4 ejaculation 4 emancipation 4 ********
4 fascination 4 flagellation 4 flocculation
4 gastrulation 4 glamorization 4 glorification
4 habituation 4 harmonization 4 homogenization
4 implantation 4 impregnation 4 incubation
4 jubilation 4 junction 4 juxtaposition 4 kation
4 keratinization 4 k-ration
4 labialization 4 libation 4 liquidation
4 manifestation 4 menstruation 4 micro-encapsulation
4 negotiation 4 notification 4 notion
4 ovation 4 oviposition 4 ovulation
4 parturition 4 penetration 4 perpetuation
4 quadruplication 4 qualification 4 question
4 reaction 4 repopulation4 reproduction
4 sanctification 4 schematization 4 scintillation
4 thermojunction 4 titillation
4 underestimation 4 unification 4 union
4 validation 4 valuation 4 vasocongestion
4 weatherization 4 workstation
4 zombification 4 zonation
That time is here again
you can hear them praise and plead
they are everywhere.
Knocking on doors, running in the streets
their face all over the place
their voice, echoes
promises
sweet
Behold my friend!
Be wary for those who speaks boldly,
for some dime handed, you can't be sure
true intentions
for you, for us
or for themselves,
their own desire
greed
Hear them shout loud
watch them parade day and night,
those philanthropist, can be a show
let's enjoy it..as it last.
In the end it's our verdict
our valuation
our choice
wise.
Explosive and intimidating, only the well to do can bargain
Xenon’s imitator-rare in the mixture of its like
Peacocks so classy in comparison to Turkeys
Evaluation of worth raises the wings of pride, but
New necessarily does not translate to costly
Selects its attraction but never to be selected
Invites without a microphone, advert, plea or agency
Very strict in maintaining an already established level, which is
Enclosed in packages made of precious rares.
My parents would be horrified if I described them antique
With their laughter lines and wrinkles they really are unique
They are getting old now but are invaluable and precious to me
I dread to think when the day arrives - my parents I will never see
I watch the Antiques Roadshow and they give out a valuation
How can you put a value on parents – they are my one salvation
I am so lucky to still have them, they have had many years on this earth
Without the two of them there would never have been my birth
So cherish what is precious to you, it may not be worth a lot
But look after aged parents they are the only ones you’ve got
21st April 2014
Submitted to Black Eyed Susan’s
Antiques Free Poetry Contest
Everybody has heard the old cliché.
It stubbornly persists right up to today.
It is said all that glitters is gold.
This is a lovely little piece to hold.
A girl with braided hair is what I have found.
There are some very tall mountains in the background.
A value of twenty francs has been placed on this.
I have in my hand a lovely “Swiss Miss“.
Since the recent market price of gold’s escalation,
you are worthy of a much higher valuation.
In accounting, there are inventory methods one must know any day.
It does not matter whether or not you are a CPA.
One of the accepted methods is commonly known as “FIFO”
Another inventory accounting procedure is called “LIFO”
Those are both acronyms in case you didn’t know.
Everything depends on the current economic situation.
Each method may render a different inventory valuation.
This is especially true in significant periods of inflation.
“FIFO” stands for “first in, first out”
“LIFO” means “last in, first out”
In the former, the earliest prices are used to determine inventory value.
With “LIFO”, the most recent costs are used in income review.
Become familiar with both procedures and others like this.
Get to know these two valuations if you are involved in business.
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