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A few months ago I discovered Visual Verse Anthology, they offer a strange image and we, whoever, are prompted to write about it. I tried three times and two times got published.
This one below was published a few days ago, TITLED:
Thank you Eugenia for the inspiration!
This jewel of a short video came across my feed today.
Why wouldn’t God create with His signature?
Taking those numbers ( if you watched the video,) I attempted to write a poem with a syllable count of 10 – 5 – 6 – 5,
using four lines.
The world and we shouldn’t be surprised to see
His signature blazed
He the Master Builder!
Why are you amazed?
A SCREWTAPE LETTER BY C. S. LEWIS
If you haven’t heard of these letters; you will do yourself a favor and learn something today!
This particular letter was published here today: https://fromrome.info/2021/02/22/we-are-living-in-a-screwtape-letter-by-c-s-lewis/
It describes our WORLD TODAY: Uncanny as it is!
C.S. Lewis wrote these words in his book “The Screwtape Letters” nearly 79 years ago. Amazing how this could have been written today:
′′One young devil asked the old man: “How did you manage to bring so many souls to hell?” The old devil answered: “I instilled fear in them!” Answers the youngster: “Great job!
And what were they afraid of? Wars? Hunger?” Answers the man: “No, they were afraid of the disease!” For this youngster: “Does this mean they didn’t get sick? Are they not dead? There was no rescue for them?”
The old man answered: “but no . . . they got sick, died, and the rescue was there.” The young devil, surprised, answered: “Then I don’t understand???” The old man answered: “You know they believed the only thing they have to keep at any cost is their lives.
They stopped hugging, greeting each other. They’ve moved away from each other. They gave up all social contacts and everything that was human! Later they ran out of money, lost their jobs, but that was their choice because they were afraid for their lives, that’s why they quit their jobs without even having bread.
They believed blindly everything they heard and read in the papers.
They gave up their freedoms, they didn’t leave their own homes literally anywhere. They stopped visiting family and friends.
The world turned into such a concentration camp, without forcing them into captivity.
They accepted everything!!!
Just to live at least one more miserable day . . . And so living, they died every day!!! And that’s how it was very easy for me to take their miserable souls to hell….. ′′
C.S. Lewis in 1942 – Old Devil’s Letters To Young
Painting with words in the poetic form of the Double Ennead comprises five lines with a syllable count of 6/5/11/6/5, (33 SYLLABLES per stanza) 3 STANZAS EACH = 99 SYLLABLES, NO MORE, NO LESS! Punctuation and rhyme schemes are optional and up to the poet.
Meet me at the SALOON!
Dreamy pastels await
Color palette grab
Listen, hear now the soft pinks calling, melting
Away like sweet butter
Frosting on a cake!
Turning shades of blue to
Creamy violet
Eyes close tight —Imagine a vision, picture
A fantasy, magic
A painting finished!
Winter delight so warm
Whites seem to vanish
Seemingly Sinks into the deep freeze below
That image born within
Heaven far away!
A Cosmic Photo Challenge Inspired by Dale
Believe it! This snow tree NOT photoshopped except a little blue I inserted since the photo was so white. Driving home one snowy day a few years ago, I noticed the snow resting on some nearby pine trees’ branches. I had to capture this bizarre image, and so I did.
Today I am at a loss for words to post, tomorrow is Valentine’s Day so Reblog this from two years ago. I hope it makes you smile. I
My post here is an acceptance of Colleen Chesebro Challenge Tanka Poetry; her challenge is to use the synonyms for the words “Meaning & Passion” look for the synonym underlined.
How boring life would be without those famous candy hearts on
Valentine’s Day, thank you, Saint Valentine, for yourmessageof love.♥♥♥
Who doesn’t enjoy that green beer on St. Patricks Day,
♫ It’s not easy being green ♫ ♫ ♪; (tell that to AOC)
The warmth of Spring brings Easter, a new bonnet and basket full of colored eggs, bunnies; peeps too! The Lord has Risen proving He, Jesus Christ, IS God. Ah! Easter, God, is good.
Merry and joy, lights, decorations are here. Its Christmas, His Birthday and yet, we get all the presents. Just think if He never came to us, no reason as they say, for the season.
Any of the Seasons!
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The Alouette form of poetry … (Rhyming on my brain) consists of two or more stanzas of 6 lines or more. Syllabic: 5/5/7/5/5/7 — Rhyme Scheme: “aabccb
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God’s gift of grace free
You won’t disagree!
His teachings Holy and Sound.
Angels there to guide
Always on our side
His Kingdom easily found!
Truth will set us free
Can one disagree?
Be not drunk — tipsy on sin
Nor a careless life
Choose peace avoid strife
In the end think win, win — win!
Why are some words above bolded? Those would be the synonyms for Loose & Tight as the prompt calls for this week. Click here to join
Valentine’s Day is a Catholic Saint’s Feast Day, known as St. Valentine
Valentine’s Day is ALMOST HERE!
My favorite SECULAR quote on the theme LOVE “You always hurt the one you love.” by Allan Roberts also a very popular song with the same words for the Title.
My favorite supernatural quote has to be.
“Let us therefore love God, because God first hath loved us.” 1John 4:19
What is it?
Where are we going?
World moving ending with haste
O God, where are you?
dVerse is calling out its OLN day!
Here is a poem I posted last October about the theme “Time.”
We all have it; what are we doing with it? The question.
Before I copy and paste my poem from a past post; I want to share something a wiser person mentioned to me just the other day. I never thought of this; perhaps you have. He said, God, Jesus, had to become a man like us, a man to suffer and die like us, in order to JUDGE our actions justly. I thought that was interesting, just wanted to share.
We live, yet we die A gift of will; why? The gift from whom? God our voice He came — gave us time Life — our turn to shine Death He gives again our choice! Helps us on our way Expects us to pray Asking for — claiming Wisdom Angels there to guide Always on our side Calling all to His Kingdom
