Just two ways to go
...Pray, what use vouching witless words so vain?
For men to trail, only two trails seem sane:
Youthful beauty’s well-bestowed a bosom,
Retire or else to woods, make ho nor hum.
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Categories:
vouching, beauty, men, romance, women,
Form: Quatrain
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INSPIRES US
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June 9 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Job 32-34
Key Verse – Job 32:8 But there is a spirit in man: and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding.
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Categories:
vouching, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
The Captive Quill
...Written: September 09, 2023
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In the abyss of night, I'm held captive tight.
Addiction to idioms fuels my Phoebus fight.
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Categories:
vouching, addiction, analogy, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Lord God, You Are My Hope Upholder
...June 6 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 78-82
Key Verse – Psalm 78:7 That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments.
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Categories:
vouching, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Soldiers Never Tire of Yes Sir
...Soldiers never tire of “Yes Sir”!
Forgetful lips a long storm stir,
Disciplinary frog jumps for an hour
Or a free fall from a waiting tower.
Soldiers love Ear-Dividing “Yes Sir!”
You lower yo...
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Categories:
vouching, career, violence, voice, war,
Form: Rhyme
My Invocation As Your Dear Heart
...Extricated from chains of religious fanaticism
Here am I, your dear heart*, blissfully exultant
Freely exalting the gracious Redeemer
Whose compassion reached out to your soul
Pardoning y...
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Categories:
vouching, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Personification
I Am a Capitalist
...I am a capitalist, I hate to share
I am opulent, this is worth my flair
I am the one percent that is worth your fifty
This must be the artistry of the ingenious and thrifty
I am just a bull wh...
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Categories:
vouching, america, anger, business, corruption,
Form: Ballad
Lord's Voice
...Voice of the Lord*
Verily victorious in my life
Verifying my personal vows
Vanquishing my worldly vanities
Vexing my violent vengeance-vice
Vindicating my heart from hatred...
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Categories:
vouching, bible, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Queen Bee In Dog Form Lives Here
...A dog in the couch
Sighs deeply
Knowing she is cherished
Not so long ago,
She was being kicked and beaten
In a house, not a home…
She welcome death
Once upon a time, long ago.
She is th...
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Categories:
vouching, angel, dog, heaven,
Form: Free verse
The Death of Love
...I’m the donkey tied with ropes and
being sodomised in front of the
church tree,
While the choir chants praise to the
god who bled, cried and died for all
innocent creatures like me.
I’m t...
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Categories:
vouching, lost love
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Joy Is Believing In Us
...Jealousy consumes and destroys the insecure
Over-riding love with pain in the fantasy of the brain
Yelling wolf, while the wolf waits till everyone feels secure
I am not sure the world can...
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Categories:
vouching, friendship, love,
Form: Acrostic
Categories:
vouching, love
Form: List
Bedtime Stories
...It was an old crow medicine show
At the border of Louisiana
I was looking east toward savannah
Caught a train out of Jackson
Now I’m stranded somewhere near Atlanta
Sing me asleep, in a midn...
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Categories:
vouching, adventure, caregiving, life, music,
Form: Free verse