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"deliverance" poems
#*I saw a path and ran ahead I nearly lost my way Your mercy caught me by the arm To Your side You bid me stay I put my hope in my own plans Which soon around me fell You stopped me short upon that road And said, "Rest and all will be well." I'd surrendered all, but to my foe Enticed into the briars You turned his evil schemes instead Into refining fires I couldn't see my helplessness Until my legs were broken Till Shepherd's hands caressed my wounds And healing words were spoken You picked me up and carried me And made me feel Your favorite You held my head against Your chest Until I grew to savor it You tended me with gentlest touch Then soothed all thought of fears You sang forgiveness over me And washed away my tears There is no one like You, Lord On whom I can rely In loss, in danger or attack You hear this poor sheep's cry It's You Who keeps me from real harm Who watches my coming and going You shield me with Your strong right hand From darts the enemy keeps throwing You said to all who trust in You You would give perfect peace Enough for mind and heart to rest To let all worrying cease So, Lord, I trust You with my life Your Shepherd's heart is pure Your purpose for me's guarded well And Your deliverance is sure Please teach this sheep, Lord, how to wait And strengthen me to stand To put my hope in Your desires And to love Your sovereign plan You lead me into fields so green Where streams of life are flowing Where healing winds blow oft' and strong And choicest fruits are growing You set me free to hear Your voice To follow at Your call And even through the dark, cold nights I'll know You've arranged it all Yes, storms will come with battering rains With hail and gusts and thunder But these are meant to beckon me To Your wings to pull me under For it's in the darkness of the storm My grip's most apt to tighten And when my heart beats next to Yours All earthly burdens lighten*#
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Nov 5, 2015
Nov 5, 2015 at 10:14 AM UTC
The Shepherd
#*I saw a path and ran ahead I nearly lost my way Your mercy caught me by the arm To Your side You bid me stay I put my hope in my own plans Which soon around me fell You stopped me short upon that road And said, "Rest and all will be well." I'd surrendered all, but to my foe Enticed into the briars You turned his evil schemes instead Into refining fires I couldn't see my helplessness Until my legs were broken Till Shepherd's hands caressed my wounds And healing words were spoken You picked me up and carried me And made me feel Your favorite You held my head against Your chest Until I grew to savor it You tended me with gentlest touch Then soothed all thought of fears You sang forgiveness over me And washed away my tears There is no one like You, Lord On whom I can rely In loss, in danger or attack You hear this poor sheep's cry It's You Who keeps me from real harm Who watches my coming and going You shield me with Your strong right hand From darts the enemy keeps throwing You said to all who trust in You You would give perfect peace Enough for mind and heart to rest To let all worrying cease So, Lord, I trust You with my life Your Shepherd's heart is pure Your purpose for me's guarded well And Your deliverance is sure Please teach this sheep, Lord, how to wait And strengthen me to stand To put my hope in Your desires And to love Your sovereign plan You lead me into fields so green Where streams of life are flowing Where healing winds blow oft' and strong And choicest fruits are growing You set me free to hear Your voice To follow at Your call And even through the dark, cold nights I'll know You've arranged it all Yes, storms will come with battering rains With hail and gusts and thunder But these are meant to beckon me To Your wings to pull me under For it's in the darkness of the storm My grip's most apt to tighten And when my heart beats next to Yours All earthly burdens lighten*#
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Never relent to reach your dreams never fall at the first fence be brave and fight on think everyone not your enemy Stand fast and never yield be strong for the time of deliverance be a child of the stars so vast with hard work and perseverance Go by the beat of the drum know that enlightenment is within you be as we, stride on freely for I truly believe that you can really do (Poem For Larna Kira Kourtis) By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Aug 4, 2014
Aug 4, 2014 at 11:48 AM UTC
Hard Work And Perseverance
I saw a path and ran ahead I nearly lost my way Your mercy caught me by the arm To Your side You bid me stay I put my hope in my own plans Which soon around me fell You stopped me short upon that road And said, "Rest and all will be well." I'd surrendered all, but to my foe Enticed into the briars You turned his evil schemes instead Into refining fires I couldn't see my helplessness Until my legs were broken Till Shepherd's hands caressed my wounds And healing words were spoken You picked me up and carried me And made me feel Your favorite You held my head against Your chest Until I grew to savor it You tended me with gentlest touch Then soothed all thought of fears You sang forgiveness over me And washed away my tears There is no one like You, Lord On whom I can rely In loss, in danger or attack You hear this poor sheep's cry It's You Who keeps me from real harm Who watches my coming and going You shield me with Your strong right hand From darts the enemy keeps throwing You said to all who trust in You You would give perfect peace Enough for mind and heart to rest To let all worrying cease So, Lord, I trust You with my life Your Shepherd's heart is pure Your purpose for me's guarded well And Your deliverance is sure Please teach this sheep, Lord, how to wait And strengthen me to stand To put my hope in Your desires And to love Your sovereign plan You lead me into fields so green Where streams of life are flowing Where healing winds blow oft' and strong And choicest fruits are growing You set me free to hear Your voice To follow at Your call And even through the dark, cold nights I'll know You've arranged it all Yes, storms will come with battering rains With hail and gusts and thunder But these are meant to beckon me To Your wings to pull me under For it's in the darkness of the storm My grip's most apt to tighten And when my heart beats next to Yours All earthly burdens lighten
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May 27, 2017
May 27, 2017 at 12:57 PM UTC
The Shepherd
I saw a path and ran ahead I nearly lost my way Your mercy caught me by the arm To Your side You bid me stay I put my hope in my own plans Which soon around me fell You stopped me short upon that road And said, "Rest and all will be well." I'd surrendered all, but to my foe Enticed into the briars You turned his evil schemes instead Into refining fires I couldn't see my helplessness Until my legs were broken Till Shepherd's hands caressed my wounds And healing words were spoken You picked me up and carried me And made me feel Your favorite You held my head against Your chest Until I grew to savor it You tended me with gentlest touch Then soothed all thought of fears You sang forgiveness over me And washed away my tears There is no one like You, Lord On whom I can rely In loss, in danger or attack You hear this poor sheep's cry It's You Who keeps me from real harm Who watches my coming and going You shield me with Your strong right hand From darts the enemy keeps throwing You said to all who trust in You You would give perfect peace Enough for mind and heart to rest To let all worrying cease So, Lord, I trust You with my life Your Shepherd's heart is pure Your purpose for me's guarded well And Your deliverance is sure Please teach this sheep, Lord, how to wait And strengthen me to stand To put my hope in Your desires And to love Your sovereign plan You lead me into fields so green Where streams of life are flowing Where healing winds blow oft' and strong And choicest fruits are growing You set me free to hear Your voice To follow at Your call And even through the dark, cold nights I'll know You've arranged it all Yes, storms will come with battering rains With hail and gusts and thunder But these are meant to beckon me To Your wings to pull me under For it's in the darkness of the storm My grip's most apt to tighten And when my heart beats next to Yours All earthly burdens lighten
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Our hearts and souls were so blessed to fast Ramadan sincerely To be enlightened by its super mercy and extreme prosperity purity abiding around my heart, kindling my every part a gift from Allah came along to bless our hearts to spread peace and love, to dig faith in each part A blessed bounty to wipe away our tears to zest our souls and vanish our fears to sparkle with faith with our keenest beliefs and twinkle light in our bright smiles oh dear eid, you can't help it but sowing seeds of joy, Capturing joy and happiness in every single countenance , of a child's enthusiastic joy kindling a thriving inner radiance joining hearts and souls with the deepest crystals of love revealing such a fancy artistic touch of a peaceful dove feeling the gratitude for Allah's super merciful blessings praying to pluck the roses of peace each single moment pounding hearts of affliction and yearning missing your everlasting passion getting sick of poisoning yearning for their peaceful deliverance to catch glimpses of happiness that once has been hunted by a sudden death of a loving part of soul until Allah will send a cheerful hope, just be patience to get over all the mope smile and share the joy of eid and love , work even harder to cherish the heaven above ....
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Jul 28, 2014
Jul 28, 2014 at 8:12 PM UTC
Eid's faithful whispers
We wear this city on our feet Planting our roots with each step Our shadows cast shapes of ancient oak trees stretching out over old squares at daybreak We grow here with the spirit of buildings past, present and rising like a staircase to heaven in the distance, the plumes of white smoke from their rooftops as burnt offerings for incense, spires for steeples, the bundled masses of people moving beneath as the calloused soles of our feet pounding the pavement, Our congregation seated in reverant silence on the R-Line hissing to a stop Their hushed prayers filing out from within to bring the reclaimed sidewalks of Fayetville Street back to life to join this pilgramage They march downtown toward Capitol holding signs for disarmament They bar-hop through Glenwood toasting to deliverance They move in a blur of faces that become us, Rush at all hours through our veins Cross our hearts and keep us breathing, Moving wearing the city on our minds like the greyest pieces of their winter sky and the way it caps the peaks of Mount PNC, BB&T and Wells Fargo like hoodies over our heads We assume monk-like appearances in robes color-coded by season- from blue collar sweaters to cold hard sweat We'll wear their city until we're worn out and wet, We'll wear their dreams at night like streetlamps flickering on beneath wired telephone poles carrying conversations about each one as far south as Florida, fears unspoken, made visible on iron park benches too cold to sit on at this hour We'll keep walking and wear this city like backpacks over our shoulders under the watch of their heavens, the skyline a glowing testament of every step taken toward someplace higher.
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Apr 9, 2018
Apr 9, 2018 at 7:27 PM UTC
Becoming Raleigh
We wear this city on our feet Planting our roots with each step Our shadows cast shapes of ancient oak trees stretching out over old squares at daybreak We grow here with the spirit of buildings past, present and rising like a staircase to heaven in the distance, the plumes of white smoke from their rooftops as burnt offerings for incense, spires for steeples, the bundled masses of people moving beneath as the calloused soles of our feet pounding the pavement, Our congregation seated in reverant silence on the R-Line hissing to a stop Their hushed prayers filing out from within to bring the reclaimed sidewalks of Fayetville Street back to life to join this pilgramage They march downtown toward Capitol holding signs for disarmament They bar-hop through Glenwood toasting to deliverance They move in a blur of faces that become us, Rush at all hours through our veins Cross our hearts and keep us breathing, Moving wearing the city on our minds like the greyest pieces of their winter sky and the way it caps the peaks of Mount PNC, BB&T and Wells Fargo like hoodies over our heads We assume monk-like appearances in robes color-coded by season- from blue collar sweaters to cold hard sweat We'll wear their city until we're worn out and wet, We'll wear their dreams at night like streetlamps flickering on beneath wired telephone poles carrying conversations about each one as far south as Florida, fears unspoken, made visible on iron park benches too cold to sit on at this hour We'll keep walking and wear this city like backpacks over our shoulders under the watch of their heavens, the skyline a glowing testament of every step taken toward someplace higher.
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The seeds of truth and love and light are scattered all around Some among thorns and rocks or on the path, but some will find good ground These are the conditions in which our souls can be found Those among rocky soil are shallow and cannot take hold When the heat is on in life they wither truth be told And at times it seems they act distant mechanical and cold Amidst the thorns and weeds the souls that fall Find their deaths in the earthly siren’s call Thirdly they that fall on hardened soil build up a rugged wall Response to pain or suffering one creates a shield For fear of getting hurt again but needing to be healed Difficult to break through or down to deliver truth revealed Finally the soul that falls on fertile soil and grows deep root Healthy and pure they bear plentiful and beautiful fruit This can be our destiny and our lives can follow suit At different times in our life our souls can be Any one of the soul’s soils you see But we can choose and act any of these So let us strive without end to find good soil not to break but to bend Not to weaken but to heal not to tear but mend and seal Set your seal upon us Lord and help us have the strength and grace Sign your name upon our hearts as we sign ourselves with the father son and holy spirit Deliver us from temptation and sin to your heart Oh Lord and we pray for our soul’s deliverance AMEN
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Feb 7, 2015
Feb 7, 2015 at 12:23 AM UTC
Sowing Souls and their Soils
The beast loving the beast he didnt have sympathy for beauty and the way that beauty should be treated. Beauty she didnt have the hard core nature of reality that means the way a beast should be. Beauty and her Beast The tender love and affection that beauty needed. Was often ignore rejected and neglected. from the beast. The same way, that beauty wasnt able to saddle the hard core meaness and the rocky foundation. That the beast was used to. To accept him being what he is. Unloving uncaring ungiving. because he is better known as this beast. Beauty and her Beast. Beauty would often be torn ravished and taken for granted. While the beast would often feast on the tender meat. Of Beauty! Ravishing and seeking, beastly taking. Barely ever having anything descent to be giving. No kindness no loving ways, no maturity. Because the beast didnt even love himself. This beast he be! Sometimes as beauty would be recovering she'd reach for him in his rocky hard core places and it would leave her torn. In tragedy torn ripped places because Beauty. Needs peace beauty needs sweet relief. That couldnt be provided. By a ravishing Beast. Beasty and her beast. The way he seeks,, the way he treats the way he harms. The way he rings alarms. Beauty would sigh love me! The Beast would say Hate me. Hate me I am Beast! My Features are beast My ways are Beast. My Heart is beasty. For I remember am Beast. Beauty would cry Love me, desire me, want me, Cherish Me, feed me nourish me. comfort me, cradle me. For I am beauty and I seek love and maturity. I am Beauty. Do Not Devour me. But nourish me and treat me kindly   And Know that I am beauty. I seek sweet sleep sweet deliverance For I am Beautiful I need not  a Beast! Don't be beasty let me transform you into my Prince charming my romantic knight and shinning armor. can I kiss the beast and he turn into my romantic beast. By SelinaSharday.. All Rights reseved S.A.M 2018
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Apr 5, 2018
Apr 5, 2018 at 11:13 AM UTC
Beauty and the beast!
The beast loving the beast he didnt have sympathy for beauty and the way that beauty should be treated. Beauty she didnt have the hard core nature of reality that means the way a beast should be. Beauty and her Beast The tender love and affection that beauty needed. Was often ignore rejected and neglected. from the beast. The same way, that beauty wasnt able to saddle the hard core meaness and the rocky foundation. That the beast was used to. To accept him being what he is. Unloving uncaring ungiving. because he is better known as this beast. Beauty and her Beast. Beauty would often be torn ravished and taken for granted. While the beast would often feast on the tender meat. Of Beauty! Ravishing and seeking, beastly taking. Barely ever having anything descent to be giving. No kindness no loving ways, no maturity. Because the beast didnt even love himself. This beast he be! Sometimes as beauty would be recovering she'd reach for him in his rocky hard core places and it would leave her torn. In tragedy torn ripped places because Beauty. Needs peace beauty needs sweet relief. That couldnt be provided. By a ravishing Beast. Beasty and her beast. The way he seeks,, the way he treats the way he harms. The way he rings alarms. Beauty would sigh love me! The Beast would say Hate me. Hate me I am Beast! My Features are beast My ways are Beast. My Heart is beasty. For I remember am Beast. Beauty would cry Love me, desire me, want me, Cherish Me, feed me nourish me. comfort me, cradle me. For I am beauty and I seek love and maturity. I am Beauty. Do Not Devour me. But nourish me and treat me kindly   And Know that I am beauty. I seek sweet sleep sweet deliverance For I am Beautiful I need not  a Beast! Don't be beasty let me transform you into my Prince charming my romantic knight and shinning armor. can I kiss the beast and he turn into my romantic beast. By SelinaSharday.. All Rights reseved S.A.M 2018
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Forgive yourself Perfect was never a word suited for you Love yourself Everything comes back to this Love your sister She has been picked apart, degraded, and has an internal war eating her from the inside out Love your brother He has a time stamp of deliverance to a life of incarceration, bullets released from an absence of sense, lack of educated, blind ambitious followers. Raise your head You are a Goddess created with disarming beauty in mind. Continue to place one foot in front of the other You are meant and strongly designed for forward movement. Take no steps back, do not bow down your head, do not close your mouth In fear that judgment will fall It will, but you must speak anyways. Your voice is imperative to the growth of lost girls who are unsure what real women are made of. Your voice is imperative to the peaking of the minds of men unsure what to look for in a Queen, show him. Your voice is imperative to the readjustment of the image of Black Women with large voices Black Women with high diction Black Women with love language Black Women with literary genius Black Women filled with nothing less than the peace & love God has manifested within us. Black Women Black Women Black Women Who love Black men like double chocolate moist bliss Who love White men like dark roast coffee filled with cream Who love Latino men like Butterscotch candy dipped in chocolate The list goes on Black Women who love like we are bound to implode if we don't give the universe what it is that we need back. Black Women Your Mother Black Women Your Sister Black Women Your Friend Black Women Your Lover Black Woman Love Her.
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Mar 17, 2014
Mar 17, 2014 at 12:29 AM UTC
Black Woman. Love Her.
Forgive yourself Perfect was never a word suited for you Love yourself Everything comes back to this Love your sister She has been picked apart, degraded, and has an internal war eating her from the inside out Love your brother He has a time stamp of deliverance to a life of incarceration, bullets released from an absence of sense, lack of educated, blind ambitious followers. Raise your head You are a Goddess created with disarming beauty in mind. Continue to place one foot in front of the other You are meant and strongly designed for forward movement. Take no steps back, do not bow down your head, do not close your mouth In fear that judgment will fall It will, but you must speak anyways. Your voice is imperative to the growth of lost girls who are unsure what real women are made of. Your voice is imperative to the peaking of the minds of men unsure what to look for in a Queen, show him. Your voice is imperative to the readjustment of the image of Black Women with large voices Black Women with high diction Black Women with love language Black Women with literary genius Black Women filled with nothing less than the peace & love God has manifested within us. Black Women Black Women Black Women Who love Black men like double chocolate moist bliss Who love White men like dark roast coffee filled with cream Who love Latino men like Butterscotch candy dipped in chocolate The list goes on Black Women who love like we are bound to implode if we don't give the universe what it is that we need back. Black Women Your Mother Black Women Your Sister Black Women Your Friend Black Women Your Lover Black Woman Love Her.
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O Thou who at Love’s hour ecstatically Unto my lips dost evermore present The body and blood of Love in sacrament; Whom I have neared and felt thy breath to be The inmost incense of his sanctuary; Who without speech hast owned him, and intent Upon his will, thy life with mine hast blent, And murmured o’er the cup, Remember me!— 0 what from thee the grace, for me the prize, And what to Love the glory,—when the whole Of the deep stair thou tread’st to the dim shoal And weary water of the place of sighs, And there dost work deliverance, as thine eyes Draw up my prisoned spirit to thy soul!
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Redemption
your stars hung in pairs against the accustomed singularity of celestial bodies your stars held the promise of enlightenment and i sought you the way kings did hunting you down in the endeavor of navigation pinned down and ****** until man left the stars for devices of their own and when the stars followed humanity stardust resurrecting in the arrangement of atoms constellations manifesting in wombs nebulae shattering for the genesis the universe destroyed itself for you oh gemini boy the cosmos are not kind to boys who are destined to be halves on an eternal voyage for missing fragments in a lover's touch and a child's laugh the world is not kind to boys who look into your eyes and only see their reflection but you were kind to me oh gemini boy this is an apology to a mortal born from the immortality of twins whose love bore the gods' mercy to rest among the stars not knowing that stars die just as the children born from them do just as you oh gemini boy maybe i should have known better than to love a boy always searching for himself i mistook you for a cosmic collision meant for the dawn of a new heaven and maybe i fell in love with your destruction as i navigated you the way ancients looked to your stars for salvation oh gemini boy my stars hang in the silhouette of the unknown isolated from the promise of deliverance man was once told we are born from different stars our fates moving in parallel precision never meeting again after our stardust once laid prints upon our astral anatomy and because we are not stars but the echoes of seraphic wars meant to traverse desolate lands in search for completion oh gemini boy i forgive you you just wanted to be whole
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Sep 5, 2016
Sep 5, 2016 at 4:19 AM UTC
gemini boy
your stars hung in pairs against the accustomed singularity of celestial bodies your stars held the promise of enlightenment and i sought you the way kings did hunting you down in the endeavor of navigation pinned down and ****** until man left the stars for devices of their own and when the stars followed humanity stardust resurrecting in the arrangement of atoms constellations manifesting in wombs nebulae shattering for the genesis the universe destroyed itself for you oh gemini boy the cosmos are not kind to boys who are destined to be halves on an eternal voyage for missing fragments in a lover's touch and a child's laugh the world is not kind to boys who look into your eyes and only see their reflection but you were kind to me oh gemini boy this is an apology to a mortal born from the immortality of twins whose love bore the gods' mercy to rest among the stars not knowing that stars die just as the children born from them do just as you oh gemini boy maybe i should have known better than to love a boy always searching for himself i mistook you for a cosmic collision meant for the dawn of a new heaven and maybe i fell in love with your destruction as i navigated you the way ancients looked to your stars for salvation oh gemini boy my stars hang in the silhouette of the unknown isolated from the promise of deliverance man was once told we are born from different stars our fates moving in parallel precision never meeting again after our stardust once laid prints upon our astral anatomy and because we are not stars but the echoes of seraphic wars meant to traverse desolate lands in search for completion oh gemini boy i forgive you you just wanted to be whole
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Rolling with the hunches Safety in a tiger's eye Has become a lucid scent, a possible unction To the staring hour, we remember for denial...? Saviors to break for it... Sated pleas of untoward necessity... Themselves, in the grasp of order and wit... Speed of patience, to a wealth we knew should, politely... The thunder we dote, was a marvel...? Sent to merit for the ultimatum baring Brief as loves boredom can be, the smile is actual Where sincerity is from ear to ear, the want of caring Do you remember me? Like calling a kiss a sweet lightning Come from the cloud, we devote to ourselves, see The question of unity become our only hope, realizing... A real tooth of repose and hindrance, that knows, you Ready to chew nothing but the thought, of callous interim Where we are, the tone of a silent voice to see the rue Of compliment, are we that we are, a solution to anarchy's whim? Sweet deliverance Set to wishes only a courage's mind could blow Forces and prowess to assure an imagination with seemly chance Timid as we are, is a truth the only, when in the house to know?
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Jan 6, 2024
Jan 6, 2024 at 4:36 PM UTC
Loving, Has Another Fool's Dance In Mind?
**** on my hands Feet steeped in dirt My back pains to stand My raw **** begins to hurt Excuse my vulgarity as it is not my intent Excuse my anger as it tends to become violent Excuse yourself for your ignorance and malice Excuse my voice, if you want quiet crazy go ask Alice Watch my face as I start to grin It kinda ***** to watch you win My aggression teaches lesson My death is all that is left Watch the water as it turns black Black as my soul Black as coal My sin is your deliverance My goal is your difference Can't you see how blind I am? Cant you feel how hurt I am? Wash the blood of of my hand Wish you luck I don't give a **** Can you people guess my direction? It has become hard to maintain ******** The voices blend into a shout Hard for me to figure it out. If you want sleep Don't be a creep For your soul will weep For your eyes will start to bleed. I can hope you decipher my message If not well **** my guesses Of your thoughts and intentions All apologies of which I speak Can't help when my eyes don't blink
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Aug 3, 2013
Aug 3, 2013 at 12:11 AM UTC
Ambiguous grunge song.
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” i toss in restless sleep and wake with pain in my heart the lifelong fight i have fought    for a love never given is coming to an end i have not won    nor lost but come to accept what is i'm left with a sadness...    but also deliverance from the constant need of approval that would never have come.
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May 11, 2015
May 11, 2015 at 3:57 PM UTC
it's with a heavy heart i say goodbye
*How I wish to float upon your breast Soft and placid as a glass lake, windless Breathless But to delve into valleys Unexplored, keeper of buried treasures I trek throughout, wandering Aimless deliverance, unspoken promises Intricacy of intimate embrace I weave in my fingers, passion Spill me, leave kisses like ghosts Translucent memories Moist with seduction Delicious droplets of enticement Proposing infatuation, falling from your lips Illustrious little allures Swim through me Serpentine twisting contours Wrap me in flesh, consumption Stares, to reiterate a longing Convey this truthfulness Honeyed words of desire Think not to deny yourself this moment Make love to white whispers Embedded in the mouth of temptation Take no responsibility Let movement be freely expressed Body caressed Comforting red embers Of lustful flame Spin tales of time and tryst Inhale the sweeter aromas Entwine with immaculacy Reciprocate sensuality, a pair Two Two with a twist And many other turns*
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Aug 3, 2014
Aug 3, 2014 at 7:38 PM UTC
Entwine
you say i'm mature but i'm not sure is there a cure i wan't to be a child something untamed and wild perfect innocence i require deliverance from my own mind i will no longer be confined by foolish social responsibilities i will be measured on my own abilities and not by peoples twisted perception this is not self deception, i merely am a exception
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Jan 15, 2012
Jan 15, 2012 at 9:18 PM UTC
maturity
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
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Sep 21, 2014
Sep 21, 2014 at 2:08 PM UTC
Excerpt from Essay II of Self-Reliance
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried. Not for nothing one face, one character, one fact, makes much impression on him, and another none. This sculpture in the memory is not without preestablished harmony. The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents. It may be safely trusted as proportionate and of good issues, so it be faithfully imparted, but God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope. Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so, and confided themselves childlike to the genius of their age, betraying their perception that the absolutely trustworthy was seated at their heart, working through their hands, predominating in all their being. And we are now men, and must accept in the highest mind the same transcendent destiny; and not minors and invalids in a protected corner, not cowards fleeing before a revolution, but guides, redeemers, and benefactors, obeying the Almighty effort, and advancing on Chaos and the Dark.
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and the wild man commeth all flee except for free children who gather together awaiting guidance for deliverance writing simple poetry keeping their minds clear which is good and is what the world needs
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Jul 30, 2010
Jul 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM UTC
wilderness
Instant messages from the multiverse Rhyming verses of deliverance A four-line limerick Spoken with just an utterance.    Words I needed to hear Words spoken so casually, when I am so unnaturally, irrationally Unsure of anything Instant messages from the multiverse I need to emphasize Some are heavy, some are light Some come like thieves in the night Some come so unexpectedly I hope they treat me gently Whatever their intent be My emotions are raw Or is it just a slow thaw I really don’t know, but I’m wise to their game I’m not a fool for their pain Not addicted to the synchronicities And don’t take it personally Still How do they know Just what to say How do they know? Just the same I’m wise to their game. I’m a gypsy telling fortunes I’m a seer telling lies, but Nobody, no nobody Knows what I see in your eyes When my need for you is more than I can bear I turn on the radio, just to hear Instant messages from the multiverse Only I was meant to hear Conducting the orchestra with an uncanny flair I tune to your frequency to always keep you near And fast forward when they’re saying something,   I don’t want to hear. I’m wise to their games This love path is not for the meek A game of hide and seek Isn’t there some other way A formula, a technique It is in this way That I get through the day And that medley of love songs Well, they’re just foreplay. Are we on the same frequency? Creating beautiful melodies. A symphony of many notes Half notes, whole notes Blue notes too. Don’t ever lose the love notes sent from me to you
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Sep 13, 2018
Sep 13, 2018 at 12:00 PM UTC
Frequency
Instant messages from the multiverse Rhyming verses of deliverance A four-line limerick Spoken with just an utterance.    Words I needed to hear Words spoken so casually, when I am so unnaturally, irrationally Unsure of anything Instant messages from the multiverse I need to emphasize Some are heavy, some are light Some come like thieves in the night Some come so unexpectedly I hope they treat me gently Whatever their intent be My emotions are raw Or is it just a slow thaw I really don’t know, but I’m wise to their game I’m not a fool for their pain Not addicted to the synchronicities And don’t take it personally Still How do they know Just what to say How do they know? Just the same I’m wise to their game. I’m a gypsy telling fortunes I’m a seer telling lies, but Nobody, no nobody Knows what I see in your eyes When my need for you is more than I can bear I turn on the radio, just to hear Instant messages from the multiverse Only I was meant to hear Conducting the orchestra with an uncanny flair I tune to your frequency to always keep you near And fast forward when they’re saying something,   I don’t want to hear. I’m wise to their games This love path is not for the meek A game of hide and seek Isn’t there some other way A formula, a technique It is in this way That I get through the day And that medley of love songs Well, they’re just foreplay. Are we on the same frequency? Creating beautiful melodies. A symphony of many notes Half notes, whole notes Blue notes too. Don’t ever lose the love notes sent from me to you
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The warmth of your lover holds An infant given no choice Behold, deliverance into a new world Hard work, destined just for the ordinary Raised in great love and care Left fear in his eyes, to decide how he would live his life Greatness sprouts in the deepest of dreams Boundaries kept around, without a sign of being free Swelling inside, was a concealed beast The coal furred animal, he holds Cold deep black eyes, with a mouth made to roar Once free from entrapment This Jaguar will pounce from the soul Out into the real world and soar
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May 17, 2013
May 17, 2013 at 8:46 AM UTC
The Jaguar
Is this everything now, the quick delusions of flowers, And the down colors of the bright summer meadow, The soft blue spread of heaven, the bees' song, Is this everything only a god's Groaning dream, The cry of unconscious powers for deliverance? The distant line of the mountain, That beautifully and courageously rests in the blue, Is this too only a convulsion, Only the wild strain of fermenting nature, Only grief, only agony, only meaningless fumbling, Never resting, never a blessed movement? No! Leave me alone, you impure dream Of the world in suffering! The dance of tiny insects cradles you in an evening radiance, The bird's cry cradles you, A breath of wind cools my forehead With consolation. Leave me alone, you unendurably old human grief! Let it all be pain. Let it all be suffering, let it be wretched- But not this one sweet hour in the summer, And not the fragrance of the red clover, And not the deep tender pleasure In my soul.
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Lying In Grass
Passover Moon's ****** hue eclipses the ordinary in veils of miraculousness obscure rouge halos illume elliptical arcs guiding footsteps in a righteous exodus across troubling waters forsaking hovels with painted doorjambs dripping lambs blood Mezuzahs bleat memories holy murmurs bespeaking lamentations of ancient hosannas our desperate supplications flesh out a distressed humanity seeking deliverance from the vengeance is mine Elohim may it be nigh we wait watching for an always faithful Good Deliverer to honor the covenant to lift despair with a liberating yoke lugging leaden burdens Oh Holy of Holies banished in the wisp of a bitter herb our distended bellies fill with unleavened grace sweet droplets of manna consumed with extreme gratitude arriving at journeys end to promised lands fully satiated and free to rest in sanctuaries of radical hospitality luxuriating in an infinite abundance for all sojourners Selah Music Selection: Big Mama Thornton Go Down Moses Oakland 4/15/14 jbm
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Apr 15, 2014
Apr 15, 2014 at 5:15 PM UTC
Blood Moon
Gunboats ahoy there’s pirates about Speeding from Somali’s shore, A fast flimsy boat and some black skinny men With grenade launchers, cannon and more. They’re coming to capture the tankers They’re coming to capture the crew They’re coming to take you hostage Because fat cats will pay cash for you. It’s happening more every day now Ships are held to ransom for gold, This contagion is out of hand now The Somalian pirates are becoming so bold. Hard men in the west prepare crackdowns Gunboats sail for the Gulf as we speak, With instructions to shoot to **** now And make eradication of pirates complete! But you ask, why is this happening? Why does a man, a pirate become? What instigates this crazy morphosis From fisherman to pirate with gun? Somalia has no Government to speak of, It collapsed and went long ago. No law or army in place here, Life is dangerous, chaotic and low. Some fat cats made use of the vacuum They ditched toxic waste in the sea They irradiated the coastline region Making this a poisoned place to be. The coast folk were dying in thousands Sick mothers lost babies and kids Black illness spread madly in villages Then blind panic and pain hit the skids. Some fat cats made use of the vacuum They trawled the coastline clean Somalia’s fishermen were destitute The catch went from vast to lean. The villagers were starving and hopeless And what was pain became death. The leaders appealed for salvation But those with the means, had turned deaf. Who would take this problem on now? Who would make these ******** pay? Most turned around and shunned them, The world had turned and looked away. So hit transgressors where they’re vulnerable. Strike in sea lanes where it’s free. Hit them near the Horn of Africa. Attack with blades of piracy. Hooray for the small man’s justice. Hooray for his skinny, black shanks, Please God help their quest for deliverance For the West has arrived with their tanks. Now I ask you, in all fairness To stand back and view the scene, Where the richest and most powerful are doing something that's obscene For not only are they poisoning The most vulnerable race on earth But compounding it with genocide, And I add, for what it's worth, The West, in righteous arrogance, are crushing poorest fellow man In his struggle for survival Against their mammoth, global hand. Marshalg @theGate Mangere Bridge 25 April 2009
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Jan 19, 2010
Jan 19, 2010 at 7:33 PM UTC
Gunboat Pirates
Gunboats ahoy there’s pirates about Speeding from Somali’s shore, A fast flimsy boat and some black skinny men With grenade launchers, cannon and more. They’re coming to capture the tankers They’re coming to capture the crew They’re coming to take you hostage Because fat cats will pay cash for you. It’s happening more every day now Ships are held to ransom for gold, This contagion is out of hand now The Somalian pirates are becoming so bold. Hard men in the west prepare crackdowns Gunboats sail for the Gulf as we speak, With instructions to shoot to **** now And make eradication of pirates complete! But you ask, why is this happening? Why does a man, a pirate become? What instigates this crazy morphosis From fisherman to pirate with gun? Somalia has no Government to speak of, It collapsed and went long ago. No law or army in place here, Life is dangerous, chaotic and low. Some fat cats made use of the vacuum They ditched toxic waste in the sea They irradiated the coastline region Making this a poisoned place to be. The coast folk were dying in thousands Sick mothers lost babies and kids Black illness spread madly in villages Then blind panic and pain hit the skids. Some fat cats made use of the vacuum They trawled the coastline clean Somalia’s fishermen were destitute The catch went from vast to lean. The villagers were starving and hopeless And what was pain became death. The leaders appealed for salvation But those with the means, had turned deaf. Who would take this problem on now? Who would make these ******** pay? Most turned around and shunned them, The world had turned and looked away. So hit transgressors where they’re vulnerable. Strike in sea lanes where it’s free. Hit them near the Horn of Africa. Attack with blades of piracy. Hooray for the small man’s justice. Hooray for his skinny, black shanks, Please God help their quest for deliverance For the West has arrived with their tanks. Now I ask you, in all fairness To stand back and view the scene, Where the richest and most powerful are doing something that's obscene For not only are they poisoning The most vulnerable race on earth But compounding it with genocide, And I add, for what it's worth, The West, in righteous arrogance, are crushing poorest fellow man In his struggle for survival Against their mammoth, global hand. Marshalg @theGate Mangere Bridge 25 April 2009
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the LORD & I have been arguing for days over four small words: [thy will be done.] let this be known: never is there a bigger sacrifice than compromising the cloth that has woven your soul, choosing to burn its textile rather than cling to its strong stitchings & worn-in, familiar pattern, leaving you in nothing but incinerated rags. I plea for maintained remains of this combusted fallacy of joy, whilst He responds with simply [I am making all things new.] please hear this: there is truly nothing that can mend you here, nothing that can weave you together & save your heart from being torn as a love letter ripped into shreds of its possibilities, leaving you with nothing but disintegrated dreams. my past is aching to become my present, & my perceived future has begun to rewind. my place in this world has become null&void; without the hope I once held close. for what happens to a princess when her earthly prince continues to commit slow suicide? [peace, My child.] I can hear my bones screaming to be heard, as songs on a broken record, stuck on repeating the same old refrain: *please please please please please… [on earth as it is in Heaven.]* night sweats-- when your mind cannot stop running even whilst you sleep. shaking limbs— when your heart trembles & begs to stay alive. *[plans to prosper you, not harm you; plans for hope & a future.]* I’m strung out on all these things that keep me sane while my mind feels like its going through withdrawals of the Holy Spirit— WHERE ARE YOU, GOD & WHY IS THIS YOUR PLAN? YOU DO NOT LOVE ME AS YOU ONCE DID. [those who hope in the LORD renew their strength.] laying on my bedroom floor with hymns pouring from my mouth like tongues of fire & bile I feel farther from glory than I ever have. [He restores my soul.] LORD as Christ once begged of you Take This Cup, LORD I plea for deliverance for reconciliation for an exodus from this body that is full of intoxication & self-loathing. [until the very end of the age.] LET MY SPIRIT RISE FROM THE ASHES & BE HEALED OF THIS HORROR.
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Feb 5, 2014
Feb 5, 2014 at 3:18 PM UTC
reconciliation [in tongues].
the LORD & I have been arguing for days over four small words: [thy will be done.] let this be known: never is there a bigger sacrifice than compromising the cloth that has woven your soul, choosing to burn its textile rather than cling to its strong stitchings & worn-in, familiar pattern, leaving you in nothing but incinerated rags. I plea for maintained remains of this combusted fallacy of joy, whilst He responds with simply [I am making all things new.] please hear this: there is truly nothing that can mend you here, nothing that can weave you together & save your heart from being torn as a love letter ripped into shreds of its possibilities, leaving you with nothing but disintegrated dreams. my past is aching to become my present, & my perceived future has begun to rewind. my place in this world has become null&void; without the hope I once held close. for what happens to a princess when her earthly prince continues to commit slow suicide? [peace, My child.] I can hear my bones screaming to be heard, as songs on a broken record, stuck on repeating the same old refrain: *please please please please please… [on earth as it is in Heaven.]* night sweats-- when your mind cannot stop running even whilst you sleep. shaking limbs— when your heart trembles & begs to stay alive. *[plans to prosper you, not harm you; plans for hope & a future.]* I’m strung out on all these things that keep me sane while my mind feels like its going through withdrawals of the Holy Spirit— WHERE ARE YOU, GOD & WHY IS THIS YOUR PLAN? YOU DO NOT LOVE ME AS YOU ONCE DID. [those who hope in the LORD renew their strength.] laying on my bedroom floor with hymns pouring from my mouth like tongues of fire & bile I feel farther from glory than I ever have. [He restores my soul.] LORD as Christ once begged of you Take This Cup, LORD I plea for deliverance for reconciliation for an exodus from this body that is full of intoxication & self-loathing. [until the very end of the age.] LET MY SPIRIT RISE FROM THE ASHES & BE HEALED OF THIS HORROR.
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Heaven . . .  Have Mercy . . . Rest, rest, rest, for ye be none, pitiful Fallen One. Quivering bows flow over grave strings bassoons and basset horns ring pounding timpani’s announce: Master of the Holy Choir - -  Renounced - - Vain, fluttering heart sublimely denounced, scorned; fouled, ousted: Horned. Wailing strings, bassoons, basset horns, thundering kettle drums lift angelic voices to glorious requiem. Pleas for Eternal Light’s remain in wings refrain. Heavenly Chorus' cradle to sustain, mercy to soften disdain. The Holy Oracle contests -- to no avail. Siblings’ choir protests. Beauty beyond measure, Angel of pure, Divine tessitura, Absolution for Thee? Foretellers of dark illusion open Holy Scriptures to reveal the drone of Eternal Damnation: trumpets of ill drag Thee to Hell. Deep, ephemeral rhythms exalt dancing strings, seal destinies -- Kiss The Almighty King. Glory be unto His Majestic Reign, Will Supreme, Tremendous, Powerful, Holy Being. Scribes record, recite this dreadful day, condemn Thee: Fallen One. trumpets lament, strings mock this unholy, forbidden way. Bows flutter -- a memoir of redemption. Cries of confusion dissipate   into muffled choirs, murmurings of deliverance. Delicate chants beg for forgiveness; a Soul’s salvation, fusion. To no avail! Turbulent strings strike the Holy Duel in wrath, writhing hatred, majestic wings tumble -- twist to wrenched ****** Death devours, Birth becomes the Fallen One. Angelic dissolution -- distraught, agonized Ethereal, Eternally beautify these ghostly, trembling winds, strings, harpsichord, drums. Voices of brotherhood remembered, cushion Angel’s earthly descent. Breathe into infantile genius heavenly symphonies to sweeten a life trapped, scorned, condemned, mourned Love of God: Amadé
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Jul 17, 2012
Jul 17, 2012 at 11:02 AM UTC
Love Of God
Heaven . . .  Have Mercy . . . Rest, rest, rest, for ye be none, pitiful Fallen One. Quivering bows flow over grave strings bassoons and basset horns ring pounding timpani’s announce: Master of the Holy Choir - -  Renounced - - Vain, fluttering heart sublimely denounced, scorned; fouled, ousted: Horned. Wailing strings, bassoons, basset horns, thundering kettle drums lift angelic voices to glorious requiem. Pleas for Eternal Light’s remain in wings refrain. Heavenly Chorus' cradle to sustain, mercy to soften disdain. The Holy Oracle contests -- to no avail. Siblings’ choir protests. Beauty beyond measure, Angel of pure, Divine tessitura, Absolution for Thee? Foretellers of dark illusion open Holy Scriptures to reveal the drone of Eternal Damnation: trumpets of ill drag Thee to Hell. Deep, ephemeral rhythms exalt dancing strings, seal destinies -- Kiss The Almighty King. Glory be unto His Majestic Reign, Will Supreme, Tremendous, Powerful, Holy Being. Scribes record, recite this dreadful day, condemn Thee: Fallen One. trumpets lament, strings mock this unholy, forbidden way. Bows flutter -- a memoir of redemption. Cries of confusion dissipate   into muffled choirs, murmurings of deliverance. Delicate chants beg for forgiveness; a Soul’s salvation, fusion. To no avail! Turbulent strings strike the Holy Duel in wrath, writhing hatred, majestic wings tumble -- twist to wrenched ****** Death devours, Birth becomes the Fallen One. Angelic dissolution -- distraught, agonized Ethereal, Eternally beautify these ghostly, trembling winds, strings, harpsichord, drums. Voices of brotherhood remembered, cushion Angel’s earthly descent. Breathe into infantile genius heavenly symphonies to sweeten a life trapped, scorned, condemned, mourned Love of God: Amadé
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