Afraid?
What is “the thing”?
What is the “that” in you
Which is so big it causes such
Great Fear?
Wonder if someday it suddenly
Becomes real and comes?
What will you do?
Panic?
Or Pray?
What will you do?
Will you fight or just freeze?
Will you crumble in trepidation?
I know
What i would do because it’s come.
And I am trusting God
To remove it
From me.
Double Butterfly Cinquain
Job 3:25–“For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.”
Alliteration’s
Proper stressed syllables
Join with Assonance
In Prosody to proclaim
Freedom from fear, Speech to each
Tanka
Click to read more about: “The Four Freedoms”
Let not your melancoly heart hold to drear
The daffodils speak of Spring coming soon
Should your nostalgic mind be given to fear
Take a stroll through the Daffodils this mid-noon
No matter the gloomy forecasts you hear
Yellow Daffodils sing Springtime’s tune
So come, shed Winter’s heavy cloak of grey,
Take a walk among the Daffodils today
Ottava Rima
Venturing
Out into the cold,
Adventure
Awaits as
Frozen twigs snap beneath my
Heavy booted feet.
In the night
A weak little lamb
Strayed away
From the flock
Searching for greener pastures
Led by the enemy
My heart aches
But not from the cold
Rod in hand
I walk in
My Father’s Authority
Clinging to His Word
Fear tries to
Silently creep in
Doubt tries to
Overwhelm
But my feet are as hinds feet
And my mind is sure
Determined
To save the lost
I move on
To overcome
My face set like flint
Lord God is my help
Wintery
Brisk air fills my lungs
As I cry out
At the sight
Rejoicefully I carry
My long lost sheep home!
Six Shadorma Story
Based on Luke 15: 4-7, Isaiah 50:7, Habakkuk 3:19
Foggy Christmas Eve.
Needing a Daystar and Guide
To help find the Way.
Who will be my guiding Light?
Who’ll my Helper be,
In this world of dark and fright?
Lost in the darkness,
Crying out to the King on high!
He sends to earth His Prince of Peace.
Choka
I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness. –Jesus. John 12:46
Candle burning bright
A symbol of hope
Extinqishes night
Candle burning bright
Overcomes fright
Reveals ways to cope
Candle burning bright
A symbol of hope
5 Syllable Triolet
Worry masks peace
Anger masks calmness
Lies mask truth
Doubt masks trust
Fear masks opportunity
Bitterness masks love
Shadorma
To win
Don’t dwell with doubts
Doubts are just traitors
They promote fear, cause loss
In life
They keep attempts from happening
Quench good and create losers
Do not listen
To them
Butterfly Cinquain
(Inspired by Shakespeare)
“Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.”
-William Shakespeare
Leonas Lines--Poetry Plus 