Stephen J. Vattimo, 3 may 2014
Stand strong
In the dark don't allow your knees to grow weak
Stand strong
Be fore your adversary your strength will peak
If you seek the Spirit of the Humble and the meek
People with cold stone heart seek to devour people
Using weapons they have fashioned from their mean streak
while they stumble around weak and lost in the dark
People with warm hearts of clay
will find there way through the dark following the light of faith
Using the shield of peace and the sword of Truth to ward of the attack of the adversary
Stand strong
Don't fret when some days you are met with the elements of weariness and dreariness
The Holy Spirit heals a weather beaten soul that is open to Him
Stand strong
Don't allow adversity to erode your God given hopes and dreams
Through faith in Christ all will overcome our adversary in this world
Stand strong
In the dark don't allow your knees to grow weak
Written by Stephen J. Vattimo
April 12, 2014
Gert Strydom, 2 may 2014
All of my words and thoughts
that I have got to share with You
do today sound so meaningless
as if I cannot find the right words to speak
and all that I can ask
is that You have got to help me.
Gert Strydom, 2 may 2014
Love is much more
than being together in bed,
much more than the solace
which two bodies, two souls find
in a accomplished intimate act
and I could have told you
how deep its intensity, its principles go
but when you are sleeping on my chest
the whole wide world is at rest
and maybe then love is at its best
while I am truly blessed.
Joe Breunig, 1 may 2014
What is the full depth of my inner soul?
How far does it fall short of infinity,
given the known limits of my being human?
Can all of the crevices, cracks, fissures,
scissures and abyss of the empty places
in my soul be filled when I desire Your Presence
to consume every void of my existence?
While complaining, gossiping, and rage
can grieve Your Holy Spirit, I’m only posing
these questions… to expand my understanding.
I’m thankful that You will never run out
of forgiveness, patience, love and grace.
Walking blind in the carnality of the flesh
will keep me as a pathetic, miserable Christian.
As one of Your sons, I’ve embraced Your principles
while striving towards my spiritual maturity.
On many occasions, I’ve tasted small portions
of Your eternal Peace, Joy and Righteousness.
Continue to gently lead me by Your Holy Spirit,
so that the empty places… have no sway over me.
Author Notes
Loosely based on:
Eph 3:16-19, 4:30-31; 1 Thes 5:19; John 14:23;
Rom 8:8-14; Deu 10:13
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By Joseph J. Breunig 3rd, © 2014, All rights reserved.
Gert Strydom, 1 may 2014
(in answer to Dorothy Parker)
If you take any love / lover that you may,
with whom to kiss and play
some will be insincere
even if for a time they hold you dear,
but if a poet / poetess
do you at a time impress
then run and flee if you can
as these people are different from the rest,
they view things in life in another kind of light
and that’s the way that it is
while sometimes at night
you may find bliss and a kiss may be just a kiss
your love / lover may be impressed by his /her or its awesomeness
or have feelings about little things
as if a phenomenon they do possess
as if even the wind at a times sings.
[Reference: “From a letter from Lesbia” by Dorothy Parker.]
Gert Strydom, 1 may 2014
My Lord, You do know my circumstances
and know about all of my problems
and I do not even have to name them to you.
Do You not want to walk on the road ahead
and find the best way for me
so that I can catch up with You
where You are waiting in the unknown future.
Satish Verma, 1 may 2014
At the end of the thought
was sadness.
When temple lies broken
a little white lotus comes up
on the tranquil lake.
A cute word enters the lone voice,
stands down, collapses, retreats into silence.
A chaste tree becomes a sage
and tenderness of the ash turns into an elegy.
The moon-face has frost on the eyes.
Tears blaze the lips.
Unbounded grief holds the space between
sobs, a bodiless spark.
Moons ago when sleep was a fragrant
gift, the song never touched the earth.
That dream sways like a Chinese lantern
without enthusiasm.
Satish Verma
Gert Strydom, 30 april 2014
I am not the person
that You have destined me to be
and eagerly I want to walk on the right way,
do and say the right things
but before I can find myself
I do fail You my God
and then I wonder where to start again?
Gert Strydom, 30 april 2014
When the morning peeps shyly through the window
driving away the twilight with the first rays
then the hot fingers draw lines over your body
but still you are swept away to dreamland
and when you turn and move suddenly
then you lie right against me
and I see you open your eyes with new messages
where for moments we are joined.
oluwatosin olabode, 29 april 2014
I worry alot about you
As though a part of me could be hurt
If I haven't affirmed that you're fine.
I care alot about you
If it's all I have to do
I will be content in knowing you are ok .
You mean more than the world to me
And so with every breath I take
I really am Concerned about you.
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