[ Crushed ] Crushed as emmer wheat, producing grains not easily separated from its chaff. Pounding in a mortar or grinding in a hand mill necessary aft for mouth-watering bread tasty and sweet. First, wheat’s moistened, then pounded, before dried in the sun. Then, sifted to separate the grain before milling is begun; grain or … More

Leashed to fleeting wealth; hooked to its rigid collar; distancing from Master Wisdom sitting solid on his lofty fence. * Hollering mightily for the fickle dollar while dispensing with common sense. A Godly Quality More Precious Than Diamonds https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2016448#h=14:0-23:440 © a day ago, Lucretia Mccloud nature • pain • sad • society • teen

2019 began in an escalation of global red mist descending as rain dismal, thick as a smoke-filled burning forest, burnt–one’s eyes, choked–one’s throat smothered–one’s future. Ashes thrown over normal dreams, stamped out forgotten as relics: familial bliss, true friendship, real love as networks project life’s seconds lived before all fashioned as nonfiction when every starred … More A Shame

‘Hard Work’ . . . Say We? ‘Hard Work’… Say We? Must be my daily philosophy? For contentment eternally? * Jesus “answered them: “My Father has kept working until now, and I keep working.” John 5:17… Resurrected, he, immortal to be a ‘master worker’ in continuity from his prehuman existence as the ‘beginning of God’s … More ‘Hard Work’ . . . Say We?

contest Abandon – Chromatic prayer Rain taps a pattern constant on my heart in harmony with their beats in stops and starts on the side of the air conditioner extended outside my window. I stare at the shimmering reflections on the pavement on our street made by lamplights glistening repeated my tears; my fears before … More contest Abandon – Chromatic prayer

A Perfect Bond, Love, Freeing Hearts In Hatred Bound As sun’s rays, or cool refreshing rains rinsing us from above, constancy is needed in brotherly kindness and sincere love. Divinely inspired: “Continue putting up with one another and forgiving one another freely even if anyone has a cause for complaint against another. Just as Jehovah … More A Perfect Bond, Love, Freeing Hearts In Hatred Bound

Why Choose Life (contest Choose Life – Michaels Ink) 1st draft I chose life. But why bother to choose at all… when, in my best efforts, I trip to fail again and again falling into sins temporarily enjoyable momentarily to lusciously voyage or physically dip slipping on masks or face-timing on land or sea virtually … More Why Choose Life

Commemorate… “Not at the festival, so that there may not be an uproar among the people.” “The chief priests and the elders of the people” contrived “gathered in the courtyard of the high priest, who was named Caʹia·phas,” to think of a plausible excuse, before the people, to end Jesus’ perfect life, since multitudes became … More Commemorate…

Murder. Willful. No cause to plead back in days of antiquity a family member’s nearest kin called “the avenger of blood” would slay a willful murderer immediately downed in his own guilty skin. (Num. 35:19) Atoned for–innocent blood, by this act of deliberate rend. Swift execution protected A Promised Land from being defiled by a … More https://allpoetry.com/story/14453732-Cities-of-Refuge-.-.-.-For-Mercy-Plus-Security-by-Lucretia-Mccloud