#holiness
Given and giver known but a gift unacceptable
Offensive, repulsive, and stumbling, but good
Unknown and perhaps unknowable, how can it be?
Not for delightful display of pleasure and gain
But ignored, hidden, forgotten, most shameful
And only bewilderment, pain, anger, and questions
But in flesh, the Voice understands, and speaks
Saying, "You are beloved," but alas only anguish!
How can it be? How can it be!? How can love be!
So strange unlike any believed in the world
As thorns stripped of the roses more desired
Or robbed and exiled a kindness most exalted
Who prays for an incomprehensible gift returned
Who rather a soulmate's help than hear the Voice
And mortal comforts than seeing fearsome eternity
But as breathe compelled so too acceptance
Of an irrevocable gift most uncommonly good
Inescapably tearful, trembling, and bowed, walk
Thus acknowledged by a freedom most feared
And to sacrifice as Abraham ascended Moriah
A thanksgiving most honoured and accepted
Nov 25, 2025
Nov 25, 2025 at 10:03 AM UTC
She smiles, she wants me
to take the tastiest fruit --
The holy martyr!
Oct 28, 2025
Oct 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM UTC
The gilded Buddha
has a gargantuan chest --
and a heart of stone.
Aug 29, 2025
Aug 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM UTC
The synagogue was a horse stable
of the army, now the white is white
and gold again, a romantic house
of prayer in Catholic colours
Money and keys go in
separately from us
The control gates bleep, but
everyone is allowed to go through
though the men have to go aside
past the guest table
to take a kippah
The women are free
reverent by nature
even with wild red hair
and shining pins -
a symphony of life
on the edge of the holy
behind the black curtain
Aug 14, 2025
Aug 14, 2025 at 3:48 AM UTC
What are the keys to holiness and perfection? Practice, patience, time, and integrity. Like any good thing, it takes work and lots of it. You don't become Van Gogh, or Mozart, Michael Jordan or Mother Theresa overnight. Granted, some of these people have certain gifts and talents that make it easier, but it still took practice and consistent work. Patience is also necessary. There may be setbacks or failures, mistakes and sleepless nights, but one must be patient and endure, because if you keep going, things are going to look up and trials will strengthen and give us the tools we need for the future. Time is something we all have and never seem to have enough of. Make good use of your time and fill it with good and wholesome things. Do not hurry or rush perfection or holiness or any good thing. Nothing good comes to those who hurry and rush and do not wait. Finally, and perhaps most importantly is integrity. To be holy and strive for perfection, one must have true integrity. As Shakespeare said once "... above all else: To thine own self be true". Be true to who you are and who you were made to be. Do not try to live someone else's life or be someone else. You aren't. You are you and that is that. Be the best you that you can be. For, as Mother Theresa is quoted as saying: "in the final analysis it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway".
God bless us all on our path to holiness and perfection. Amen
Dec 19, 2024
Dec 19, 2024 at 8:29 PM UTC
Today, an excursion to a temple
somewhere further along the river
and we don't take anything with us
although no one seems to be there
so there will be no daily rites
This must be a lesson
We walk single file
through the forest, we walk
over the edge
of a basin, we are there
in the middle of the temple
a row of orange flags
in the open cave
of the waterfalls
of time
which overwhelm me
and carry me away, for a week
I can't be found
Only the forest sees me
while my body meditates
and does not know that I exist
Mar 7, 2024
Mar 7, 2024 at 2:29 AM UTC
Just, how cold?
Odd, the thought of passion
Should a sky have one to hold
Forever is now to fold, a prayer lasting...
Life in a walls shadow
Circumstance, with a youth's vow
Seek, and you shall find, all and know
A heart with happiness, only before how...
The sound of love...
Harried by a salt, a cursory share
Of decency, a proud covenant
With moments to quietly care...
Curious prayer's indeed
Means with a psyche, rounder eyes
Have the sense to see it, heed
A role in heaven, where one more life...
Is our's forever, fate in the first place
Sweet about, and a whole day to dream
Came as we went, from here to infinite praise
The truth of a world, taken to seem...
May 19, 2023
May 19, 2023 at 11:02 PM UTC
The prelate opens
the ancient reliquary:
holy is the dust.
Apr 16, 2023
Apr 16, 2023 at 3:27 AM UTC
The living shall worship 🛐 thy Lord as the Angels adore Him on the throne. Off their faces with their golden crowns 👑+ bowing down. Their songs is hallelujah, 🙌 glory, giving holiness, admiring the everlasting living being. Who made heaven is holy place of abode. Make audible roaring, let the pillars of heaven tremble, and the waters surrounding the universe from the peak of heaven shallow down the depth of sea bowing🙇 before His presence Every powers and knees worship, 🛐 before his presence, glory, salvation, healing, blessing, devine favor, love, peace, life hove in His presence, sing melodiously shout excellently even with poetry, sing palm unto thy Lord who is worthy, on whose hands lies everythang. Holy, holy spirit, holy is thy Lord Almighty God. Blessing be the name of thy Lord God. Amen! 🙏
Apr 2, 2023
Apr 2, 2023 at 3:27 PM UTC
Who of the great saints
has lived up to all of them:
the Ten Commandments?
Jan 6, 2023
Jan 6, 2023 at 2:00 AM UTC
He is so holy!
Wine on his lips instantly --
turns into water!
Nov 19, 2022
Nov 19, 2022 at 4:21 AM UTC
In the gold corner
of our room it is, the black --
in-depth Holiness.
Apr 3, 2022
Apr 3, 2022 at 3:22 AM UTC
If at the end of all things
It is revealed that the existence God and the death of Christ is a fallacy
I will have no regrets having subscribed to holiness
For holiness is of a decent and fulfilling gain
But more fulfilling is the fact that our God lives and Christ indeed died on the cross for our sins
Sep 25, 2021
Sep 25, 2021 at 7:06 PM UTC
Bit by bit
I begin
To understand it
And piece by piece
I put the puzzle together,
Ya see?
For each and every
One of us are blessed
With life
With love
With blood
With breath
And each and every
One of us are stressed
With strife
With hate
With disease
With death
But, nevertheless
We all have our individual
calling
Yet some are blind
Some are deaf
Some are deceived
And some are just stalling
All in all -
I find this spiritual plague
Quite appalling
For each man
And each woman
Is quite aware
Of God's longing
His plea
His cry
His desire
His yearning
For His heart for you
Is quite passionately burning
Therefore, each and every
One needs to let down their
Guards and open their hearts
Open their ears
Their mind
Their soul
And Their eyes
And submit themselves to the LORD
His plea
His desire
His longing
His cries
And that's how ALL of us
Should live our lives
Before we fall
Before we fail
Before we're deceived
And before we die
This Is the plea
Of a lonely old man -
This is his cry
At the end of the day
I just had to try
Now I bid you farewell,
My good friends
Now it's time for goodbye
Signed,
A lonely old man
Dec 11, 2020
Dec 11, 2020 at 6:35 PM UTC
Are there any saints?
Possibly, they always hide –
like the unicorns.
Oct 10, 2020
Oct 10, 2020 at 6:06 AM UTC
If I had created
God
I would have
Created One
Formless
Like Air
Like Fire
Like Water
Like Clouds
As above
So below
Vital
Sep 12, 2020
Sep 12, 2020 at 6:34 AM UTC
Mirage hope
Tears of sincerity
Kiss of death
Jan 14, 2020
Jan 14, 2020 at 9:22 PM UTC
Survive the time
You will witness
Everything
She sets fire to the rain
Crafts hope, out of scraps
Makes dead, alive
Awakens
The mind
The body
And the soul
If referred
Her deeds
It will be larger than life
And the story
Goes on
Aug 18, 2019
Aug 18, 2019 at 11:27 AM UTC
The measure of suffering is how distant you are from your own happiness.
There is no distance farther than that.
It’s a gap people carry around with them, sometimes oddly, with pride:
‘Look how long-suffering, look how hard working,
Look how good doing I am.’
Small wonder we’re exhausted all of the time.
Because there’s the whole of our lives to account for, to ourselves,
To the you who is listening to this.
Sure, it’s your hole and you’ll sink in it if you want to
But to me, it’s just another drain pipe, a wound for life to drip out of
Everyone can see right through you
Until you find a way to plug that hole yourself.
Feb 27, 2019
Feb 27, 2019 at 3:22 PM UTC
//yoo-ni-verss//
Noun:
I. You are a wonder wrapped in a miracle. Every ebony gasp breeds holiness. Every tincture of time that you hold bursts into purple midnights. Every bright escape another release of your cosmic breath.
II. You rule with satin clouds and shining rain. Your every movement shakes time.
III. You know your greatest magic and will forever prove it to those who rest beneath your raven sky. You are power and grace entwined, you hold on your hands an eternity, and you fully know it's wretched destiny.
Feb 15, 2019
Feb 15, 2019 at 5:59 PM UTC
In my dreams,
I see a Prince,
His eyes gently glint.
Has his Holiness come?
I cry to him not all is well.
In my loneliness,
passion for life has languish.
Spirit tainted by sinful spell,
I’ve drank the cup of anguish?
Will the heart heal?
His calm silhouette-
caress me with warm zeal.
Heaven and Earth embrace as one.
In pain, I can survive.
Like the radiance of the Sun,
I feel my spirit revive.
With the wind,
the Prince disappears
like pollinated petals.
I implore him to reappear.
I’m a vulnerable child;
afraid to be back in the wild.
His voice whispers
that it is time to awake.
He will not forsake me.
One day when I’ve blossom,
I’m destine to meet him again.
With his holy army,
slanderous shadows will flee.
With the Prince of Peace,
Life’s lamenting will one day cease!
(c) Jo Swan
Nov 17, 2018
Nov 17, 2018 at 5:36 AM UTC
I am not poor because I believe that money is not power but goodness and holiness.
I try to be a human first and money comes to me automatically.
Money does not make a man it is always man who makes the money.
Do not belittle me if I have no money.
Because powers of the mind are infinite and mind can make billions of money if it wishes.
But that is not the thing.
I remain honest,intelligent and wise.
I have full faith on Lord.
He will give me enough money to fulfill my hopes and dreams.
With complete surrender and faith on Him I move on the path of peace,progress and prosperity and pray for global harmony and peace.
Sep 5, 2018
Sep 5, 2018 at 5:42 AM UTC