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

Despondent eyes sought not beauty, though, bright, azure daily skies, land and seas rose/rise upon horizons magnificent. Yes, weariness caused admiration’s demise; for heavens lives darkened; thunder drummed out sorrow’s cries until, the foretold time recognized from within humble hearts a light bright seen. Mercy and undeserved kindness careened like a rushing river to thousands … More

D espondent eyes sought not beauty, though, bright, azure daily skies, land and seas rose/rise upon horizons magnificent. Yes, weariness caused admiration’s demise; for heavens lives darkened; thunder drummed out sorrow’s cries until, the foretold time recognized from within humble hearts a light bright seen. Mercy and undeserved kindness careened like a rushing river to … More

Cities of Refuge . . . For Mercy Plus Security 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 … More Cities of Refuge . . . For Mercy Plus Security

Ode to Cat Whiskers Sonnet (example) Off with our hats to true domestic cats! Nocturnal prowlers curious beheld. As even rats scatter to felines’ track. Whiskers, fine tuned, in darkness to assail. Tactile hairs sensitive to changing air slight to mighty intensifying near. Nerve endings twitching to detect with flare. Mice quiver. Flee found homes … More Ode to Cat Whiskers Sonnet (example)

How can it be that life exists longer in turtles or trees which only give acknowledged pleasure to an appreciative humanity? How can it be the discovery of ‘immortal cells’ belong to cancer, yet scientists cannot unlock the key as to why they “proliferate indefinitely in the laboratory, but normal cell cultures grow old and … More How Can It Be?

Blow Baby Blow (contest A smile can brighten the darkest days – Dashley64) Baby sea lion instinctively knows how to bubbles bubbliciously blow. Underwater generously shows diver who companionably smoothly flows around and about their fabulous friend in a sea holding them this wonderful day in its gentle comforting magnificent throes. contest A smile can … More Blow Baby Blow (contest A smile can brighten the darkest days – Dashley64)