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Plea for Renewal
Beneath the weight, I seek Your grace,
Reaching for a sign in this quiet place.
Exhausted from the trials I face,
All I ask is a moment of Your embrace.
Keep my hope from fading away,
Through the shadows, guide my way.
Hear my plea in the dark of night,
Restore my will, renew my light.
Open doors that seem closed tight,
Uplift my heart, make things right.
Give me strength to carry on...
Wednesday 28th August 2024 1:03 pm
Not There Before
You saved them but then fell again,
the circle’s in the sky.
Divided fence and happenstance
don’t care if it’s a lie.
Tomorrow’s way fades into grey
and blue melts into black,
as silent sounds in crushing rounds
creep in for the attack.
An empty stage and crumpled page
bleed deep into your brain.
Don’t ever sleep. Don’t ever weep.
Don’t ever feel the pain...
Saturday 16th March 2024 10:42 am
שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּֽעֲל֑וֹת מִמַּֽעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהֹוָֽה
https://youtu.be/88kJd9PwVwY?list=RD88kJd9PwVwY
Here’s candle light
for our darkness;
here’s calming prayer
for our grief and pain;
here’s atonement,
healing separation;
their hands are joined in prayer,
I wait in dread, for them I fear;
de profundis clamavi ad te Domine.
שִׁ֥יר הַֽמַּֽעֲל֑וֹת מִמַּֽעֲמַקִּ֖ים קְרָאתִ֣יךָ יְהֹוָֽה
Sunday 17th December 2023 12:45 pm
For The Many-Not The Few
He was not crucified for me,
And not for him, nor her, nor thee,
That gentle Jesus meek and mild,
Once graced our world, unknowing child,
In manhood, he in wisdom grew,
Spoke for the many, not the few,
He chose to face injustice’s sword,
And hypocrites with his spoken word,
They, who place burdens on the poor,
Which they can not themselves endure,
Those misery-made cr...
Friday 6th January 2023 12:16 pm
OUR NEW NORMAL
OUR NEW NORMAL Life during a pandemic. Already change is challenging for most. If we had a choice or I should rather say, control things would remain the same, people's thinking would never evolve, but we don't have control over anything. Change is inevitable; it is an integral part of being human. Going about our lives blissfully oblivious believing that we are the captains of our destinies, then...
Monday 30th August 2021 12:30 pm
Desperate Prayer
These bloodless wounds will never heal.
Pray,
"Father Time, save me."
I grow so weak as the not-blood spills.
Pray,
"Mother Nature, cure me."
Brother wind,
Sister rain,
Rock me. Wash me. Make me clean again.
Saturday 8th May 2021 10:23 am
The Grand Experiment
without the hand of God to guide our way
we fall into despair and misery
and even though we may have lost our way
we'll see that God will hear us when we pray
if we think we haven't anything to say
and you feel there must be a safer way
if now is the chance for a sweeter day
then why not ask in secret anyway?
© Brian Hodgkinson Jr. (aka) Limericist 2021
Saturday 3rd April 2021 7:12 pm
TIMES TWO
This boy this man this Angel of mine
I say mine
This you are not
To me you are
A possession
I mean it not in that way
I dont own you
I am part of you and you me too
Two
Two soles alight
Us two in flight
Or on sea..
We fly side by side
You sail with me
The water gets choppy
Weigh up the boat..trust the waves
They carry us float
In air
bypassing clouds
We share
Our faith soft gro...
Sunday 21st March 2021 10:52 pm
Take a loss as a lesson learned
[ ] Never take a loss in your life, but a lesson learned.
[ ] Respect, like money is usually not given, but earned.
[ ] Don't always stand on what you believe, but what you know hard & firm.
[ ] To believe is not facts, but opinions that can be gaslighted, twisted, & turned.
[ ] Freeze the negative and let the positive burn.
[ ] Pray for guidance, understanding, & the sp...
Sunday 22nd November 2020 12:34 am
The Unknown Soldier's Prayer
The Unknown Soldier’s Prayer
I could be your husband, father, son.
The lost bones of another pointless war.
A flag to drape across my resting place,
transported from a distant, hostile shore.
I could have been a tinker, tailor, thief ,
lying here for a century and more,
those passing trades mean little to me - now
the angry guns have relinquished their roar.
...
Wednesday 11th November 2020 3:49 pm
Holy Orders
In churches Gothic or
Norman the pious had them blessed by
Light from stained-glass as the perfume of
Incense attended their angular
Descent, while brave Lancelot's were
Housed in chain-mail and in
Modern times Marilyn took two to her
Grave, as, just the other day, did
George Floyd, his neck the latest
Pew for genuflection by a serving
Police officer who though no dou...
Saturday 30th May 2020 11:46 am
Tuesday's Prayer
Lord mold me into
the loving person
you created me to be.
Help me praise,
instead of complain.
Smile,
instead of frown.
Look up,
instead of down.
Reach out to the lost,
so they can be found.
Amen.
https://youtu.be/YNqo4Un2uZI
Tuesday 26th May 2020 12:15 pm
My Secret Life
He fools everyone
and I fool myself
in my secret life.
Makeup hides the bruises
in my secret life.
Distractions abound
in my secret life.
I smile, laugh, cry, drink
the pain away
in my secret life.
Food fills the gaps of despair
in my secret life.
I pray for salvation
in my secret life.
Hope for a better tommorow remains
in my secret life.
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Wednesday 6th November 2019 2:20 pm
suffering, creation, nirvana, prayer
TinCap’s log. Stardate: nowish.
Knowledge:
pen dinging
Theory:
Energy from a big bang churned in a sun for billions of years & several seconds ago launched earthward at the speed of light & deflected off stuff & hit my optic nerve which sent chemical-electrical signals into my neural network generating my experience of seeing an apple hanging on a tree.
Other energy - x-rays, infare...
Sunday 7th July 2019 9:08 pm
Father
You ask if I believe in God...
How can I not?
To deny my Father
means I leave my existence
to some 30 year old predator
who impregnated a girl half his age
and left her to raise their child
in the wilderness, among wolves
that feed on loneliness and despair.
Without my Father, I would never know
that after suffering comes deliverance,
pain leads to compassion,
forgiveness breaks b...
Sunday 19th May 2019 7:16 pm
Texas Tornadoes and the Power of Prayer
Oh, Good Lord, y’all, I thank we better git in the house. That sky is darker than Brother Jimmy’s sermon last Sunday, and it’s flashing like a God-damned disco. It’s gonna be a gully washer, all right, but Ronnie’s got the big truck if we git in any trouble, and we can surely trust Jesus will be with us. The last time we had a toad strangler like this, a big ol’ twister turned Alma’s roof inta too...
Thursday 11th April 2019 12:43 pm
Close to the Ground
I choke on the word spirituality.
Not so much on the reality
but the sometimes solitary focus
on the ethereal, mystical, and utterly
invisible. I lose my way in the mist.
My spirit hums closer
to the ground, often emerges
with mud on its face. It scrounges
truth among the mushrooms and
lichen. Peels off labels from
discarded tin cans, and there among
the roaches an...
Friday 5th April 2019 2:29 am
Against Wind
Make it easy. Do it simple.
Just pray for God, to bless.
Love colleagues, & friends.
Surely, you gain a higher success,
Do it now, don't delay it.
Do it again, day by day.
Get that job, reach the top.
Not impossible, just try.
Do advise, every friend.
Shiny future, comes at end.
Do your best. Now, get rid.
Of any weakness, at any wind.
Monday 4th February 2019 4:20 pm
LET's PRAY
I DON'T THINK, OF YESTERDAY.
LET'S TO THINK, WHAT IS TODAY?
SUN COMES, ALWAYS, BRAND-NEW.
WHY TO SEE SUN, AS GREY.
I LOVED YOU, SAME AS YOU ARE.
I BEG YOU KEEP YOUR PAST, AWAY.
I DON'T ASK, I DON'T CARE.
NOBODY IS BLAMELESS, EVERYDAY.
HEART IS OPEN, COME AND SHARE.
I NEED TO HEAR YOU, JUST SAY.
TOMORROW IS COMING, AS A SHINY DAY.
I LOVED YOU TOO, LE...
Sunday 3rd February 2019 8:02 pm
A Prayer for the Living
A Prayer for the Living
Pray that your living be thus:
A journey fulfilled, not forgotten,
a place for the touching of souls, not Mammon,
to freely forgive, and bear no malice,
a mind at peace, never roiling in anger -
and room to grow, not retreat or wander,
with no pangs of envy for the birds as they fly,
but to drink in the indigo boom of the waves
as they c...
Monday 17th September 2018 10:44 am
Grand betrayal
You're reaching out.
You're pleading.
Hands to the sky,
Heavy heart beating.
Knees to the ground,
And the rain falls.
Peace couldn't be found,
So you put up these walls.
In an empty broken place,
Never a smile on your pained face...
And you let the darkness sink in,
When all you needed was ONE friend,
But time and time, over again,
No one was there for you in...
Friday 15th June 2018 8:02 pm
Vespers
As I pass beyond my summer wall
Once more the land embraces my spirit
And its silence becomes my prayer
While I and heaven hear
The wind whispered psalm
As dusk caresses the tree tops
That surround my field fane -
I walk slowly through its grassy nave
Lost in my old memories
And pause at the far gate:
The sun sinks low behind me
And my long shadow stretches out in ...
Wednesday 18th April 2018 9:52 am
Morning Call
Bend all ears oh My worshipers!
Your heyday has come.
The time when thee are invited by Me.
Each one solely.
Bestir to commemorate Me.
Rise to advance towards Me.
Stir up to acknowledge Me.
Wake up to bow before Me in supplication.
I am at hand to thee,
At this point of time.
Considerably closer than any other hour.
Take a single stride towards Me,
And I shall sprint in thy route.
Put...
Thursday 16th March 2017 7:19 pm
You break anew to make
A boy asked God
"Could you please
give me patience? "
God to the boy
"I will send to you challenge! "
The boy to God
"I think we are not
On the same page
When I asked
You for patience
It is not for a change! "
God to the boy
"Patience presupposes hassle,
In the remoulding
Process to render you
Tolerant and gentle!"
Boy to God
"Yes hassle
To change
The pee...
Wednesday 21st December 2016 2:40 pm
a peaceful warrior
a peaceful warrior
next week
I’ll make a mark
to show my choice
and there will be
no hate
no fear
no injustice
In that decision
it will be
for the future
for the greater good
it will not be
for brutal killers
bigots
racists
terrorists
from over there
or right here
it will be everything
but that
it will be
fo...
Friday 17th June 2016 12:27 am
Answer to a Prayer
I was kind of hoping,
That you would come along,
Like the answer to a prayer,
And the music to a song.
Like the kind of thing that happens,
At a special place and time,
That will change our lives forever,
Like a fantasy of mine.
The fantasy was there before,
I ever knew your name,
And now that I have found you,
We will never be the same.
So, pardon, if I look at you,
Forgive me ...
Tuesday 17th November 2015 12:43 pm
The Crooked Beast At The End Of A Crooked Path
The Crooked Beast At The End Of A Crooked Path
I saw him rise like a dark spectre
in the clouds
at the end of a crooked path
his horned head cocked
spreading his cloven claws
astride the graves that nestled
safe beneath the trees
his wings unfurling
across the sky
and gathering in
the long dead souls
beneath the ground
and I thought
I heard the demon say
“I told you I would not fo...
Monday 18th August 2014 7:33 pm
God Save You!
God save you from uninvited sadness
that knock at the windows at blind nights,
from sweet cheats that seem to be happiness
but then …. as an enemy smites.
God save you from unneeded advices,
from insulting libels, from vain expectations,
from those who pretend to be friends
and then …. go with denunciations.
God save you on the non shallow ro...
Sunday 15th April 2012 1:52 pm
A PRAYER
I pray for all my friends,
I pray for the one who love defends.
I pray for those who warmed my heart,
I pray for that one who keeps apart.
I ask our Lord to send them all health,
I ask my God to bring them all wealth,
I ask my Angel to protect them from a fall,
To listen to: for whom the bells toll.
I would love your cup to be always full.
I...
Tuesday 18th October 2011 9:54 pm
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