Upon branch of greed
Springs leafy fruit, yet worthless
Shoddy soul poisoned
By pride, self-aggrandizement
Pathetic casualty
Consequences due…
Dearth of selflessness
Will work to heart’s detriment
Initial gains lost
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/08/25/three-things-challenge-m66/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/24/branch/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/25/fowc-with-fandango-casualty/
It’s not trivial
Frequent morbid pull of Death
Battle for the soul
But powerful is Spirit
Of God who ne’er abandons
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“Don’t be afraid. Just stand still and watch the LORD rescue you today.” Exodus 14:13, NLT
“We have the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles for us!” 2nd Chronicles 32:8, NLT
“This is what the LORD says to you: ‘Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.” 2nd Chronicles 20:15, New Internat’l Version
*“You have already won a victory…because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.” 1st John 4:4, New Living Translation
*“you are of God and you belong to Him and have [already] overcome them [the agents of the antichrist]; because He who is in you is greater than he (Satan) who is in the world [of sinful mankind].” 1st John 4:4, Amplified Bible
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/19/fowc-with-fandango-rekindle/
Summer’s intense heat
Perhaps it might rekindle
Yesterday’s embers
She languished ‘mid memories
His face in twilight hour…Then
Reminded herself
He was truly her gone-love
Ever debonair…
Strange mystery, growing old
How it contradicts the heart…
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/16/debonair/
To think that they
Were blind and lost
Lame of heart, mind
But all by Holy Spirit
Transformed…
Brethren devote
Their meager lives
To quiet zeal, good
Works of repentance
They would not gore
Another’s soul with harsh
Religious words
For they were once
By sin undone, but have
Tasted mercy, grace…
Now walk by Faith
Reflect the Lord’s
Example… Love is
God’s commandment
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“This [is what] I command you: that you love and unselfishly seek the best for one another.” John 15:17, Amplified Bible
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/07/31/think/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/18/brethren/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/06/27/example/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/repentance/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/12/zeal/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/gore/
It’s fiction, but
Novel idea no less
To cancel World’s
Disasters for all time…
Get to root
Of pervasive greed
Entitlement…
Tendency of zeal
To birth violence…
Hunger, poverty
Children on the streets
Drug ‘highs’ that kill
Broken families
Divisiveness which
Foments crime
Prevents unity…
Powerless and
Worthless idols…
Once these are
Nipped in bud, I’ll
Mandate classes on
Kindness, gratitude
Respect, encouragement
How to appreciate
Simple everyday
Wonders around us
And in each other…
How to use our vast
Imagination for good…
Only a day
To rule the World
Not sure my
Personality suits
The position…
I’m mere praying poet
Some days fair writer…
But if it were just one day
I’d make best effort
To rule with heart
Speckled, imperfect…
It’s a start 💙
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/15/root/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/fiction/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/11/appreciate/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/disaster/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/12/cancel-2/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/17/pervasive/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/12/zeal/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/17/fowc-with-fandango-writer/
https://fivedotoh.com/2022/08/15/fowc-with-fandango-personality/
Peregrination
Thoughts leave deep footprints on mind
Sometimes they’re muddy
Even suggestive of blood
Drifters retracing tired trails
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://lindaghill.com/2022/08/17/one-liner-wednesday-sorry-2/
Ever notice how sometimes advice
comes across as a retort…sorry I asked.😉
©Leyde Ryan
By the end of it
She had no preferences
No choices or tastes
Left to her by he who ruled
Nightmare she’d walked right into…
His chain of linked lies
Had once sounded credulous
When she believed in
Romantic songs, fairy myths
Before years replete with tears…
Now nothing was left
Tears, dried water spots on glass
Time and miles mingling
Blurred, yet sharp-shard memories
Fake-gem fragments…not diamonds
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/10/chain-2/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/07/24/left/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/11/lie/
https://pensitivity101.wordpress.com/2022/07/25/three-things-challenge-m35/ Prompt words: preference, choice, taste
Just because lust, love
Both begin with letter “L”
They’re not equal, same
Heart showed paltry reluctance
Flames rose in devil’s fireplace
♠
Faulty myth, Romance
Like menu entrée’s spiced dish
Tricky enigma
Passion hinders intellect…
Married with no quaint advice
Nor sure approval
Small audience wore blank looks—
We catapulted
Into uncharted letdown
No scintillating evenings
♠
Your rage, my mute fear
Intimacy absent love
Our sole connection—
You did everything you could
To scare me into leaving
♠
Why were you surprised
When you finally succeeded…
I squandered 3 years
On dream without substance, let
You deceive, thieve who I was
♠
Should have read Bible…
I didn’t know my value
Threw pearls before swine
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
“Do not throw your pearls before pigs, for they will trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.” Mathew 7:6, Amplified Bible
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/07/20/dish-2/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/reluctance/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/05/audience-2/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/09/fireplace/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/09/myth/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/06/catapult/
https://wordofthedaychallenge.wordpress.com/2022/08/07/approval/
Humongous monster
Denial, heart’s last escape
Silent smiles conceal
Large teeth, violent tendencies
Dinner party chatters on
♠
Anniversaries
No longer acknowledged now
Pretenses dismissed
♠
Truth’s still enemy
House of cards would jitter down
Mute façade crumble…
Castle walls mere gray ruins
Stately visage veils deceits
©Leyde Ryan, 2022 ~ All rights reserved.
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/08/denial/
https://thedailyspur.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/enemy/
Hourglass Poetry 