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Seek Knowledge the Best Way: A Poem
I went to Knowledge I went to Knowledge and said, ‘teach, lest you remain beyond my reach.’ She bid I follow her a while, Then seeing shade, said with a smile, ‘Come child, sit by that tree and rest, And I will teach you it the best: That everything there is to know Comes down…
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Parable of the Grapes: A Poem
Grapes I’d a cluster of purple grapes, ‘what sweet succulent taste awaits,’ I thought, taking one for delight, spitting it out, ‘this nothing sates,’ I said, repulsed, ‘such a sour blight, these must be wild grapes alright.’ The grapes are from the Vineyard parable of Isaiah, and seeming good and delicious but in reality sour…
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The Jar: A Poem about Israel
The Jar There was a jar that had a crack, much content for this did it lack; it wished to love it could be back to unmarred state before a whack; but when the potter went to mend it, it balked, for his love did offend it. The jar is representative of Israel as I…
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There is a Grave called Death: A Poem
There is a Grave called Death Some may think it a barren hope, and call the Christian a fool who at the sheer fantastic does grope, and say, ‘calm, you thing of lunatic; but so long is a length of rope.’ And, it’s true it’s a kind of kindness to inform of reality to the…
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How should I write: a Poem
How should I write? ‘How should I write?’ I said to my fair Muse, ‘Disarm yourself, even the winter woos when cold is accompanied by the sun, and sunshine never tries to get light done; the blazing orb simply raises its mass and kingdoms gaze as its glory does pass; and though your fire might…
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Her Prayer: A Poem by the Sea
Her Prayer She stood on the beach in the balmy remedy of cheering sunlight and enchanting sea; she understood the language of the wind discoursing with the lunging waves, and with the breeze a prayer comes to her mind, then like with this moment assigned, as toward the water she braves, the sea thrusts a…
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To the Stargazer: A Poem
To the Stargazer Stars breathe light like fire shed in oblivion, like warmth breeding hope in nowhere, like the universe showing care, majesty, love, to an Earth’s eight billion. Far distant those dots of gold outsum space, their country of infinite black; no vast super-distance in lack for those beautiful bright lanterns to grace. What…
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Meditation on a leaf: A Poem
Isolated Leaf On a tree a lone leaf that perhaps wishes to entrust a grief to some soul magnanimous enough to consider the dignity of nature’s lowly twig furnisher: its fellows are shrivelling below and it won’t live to see the new green grow. ‘I half wonder,’ it said ‘if my sin was refusing to…
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A short poem with exposition: Do not hope for the world to make you happy
An Ocean There was a sad ocean that saw a distant happy seeming shore, and thought to rinse the sunny land with its deep blue sorrow’s demand, hoping it’d give happy succour; so the tide washed in with a wave: a returned tide was all the land gave, it had not the joy the sea…
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Argument for the Existence of God from Love
Justin: I have been thinking from the atheist point of viewone cannot ascribe to love infinite value,as the atheist, as a materialist, will have to saylove will cease to be when the universe meets its last day;whatever ceases to be can’t hold infinite valueas infinite value depends on eternal accrueof days; without eternity naught is…
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