“MARIE” – an acrostic profile poem
MERCIFUL.
She finds it easy to be merciful, as she experiences daily the mercy of her God.
APPROACHABLE.
Welcoming eyes and ready smile … not peculiar enough to frighten, nor so lovely as to intimidate.
REDEEMED.
Sinner-deemed-sinless, a debt she can’t pay.
INDEBTED.
Humbly and deeply thankful for parents who taught much, and loved regardless; an abundance of encouraging, uplifting, loyal friends and extended family; and mostly her Creator, whose unyielding love, grace, and mercy breathe her very existence.
ENTHUSIASTIC.
Taught by her father that “Nothing great was ever accomplished without enthusiasm.”
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~I bring to the garden my birth-month flower: the Marigold. This simple, understated flower means “winning grace.”
Walt Wojtanik and I also shared a once-upon-a-blog: Across the Lake, Eerily.
One of my favorite “duties” (a great privilege) for our site is interviewing other poets and special guests. Links to each interview may be found in the upper menu, or at this link: https://poeticbloomings2.wordpress.com/web-wednesday-interviews/.
Walt made me change chairs, and HE interviewed ME. Walt’s Interview with me 9/14/2011
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POETIC BLOOMINGS 
Code 300.29 Coulrophobia
Bozo caused me massive panic –
Used to think he was satanic.
Thought perhaps I was a chicken
When I’d feel my heart rate quicken.
Science knows this fear of mine:
Code three hundred point two nine.
Coulrophobia is real
DSM-IV seals the deal.
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PROMPT #125 – LAUGH CLOWN, LAUGH
Sophie
Cute cuddle bug
Closed-eyed smile, hugging Grandpop
Perfectly framed by the doorway
Picture-perfect moment
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Jesus
Warm beating heart
Showing us how to use it
Tangibly, right here where we live
I can’t help but love Him
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IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – PENSEE
“Jesus wept.” ~John 11:35
The Word became flesh
Revealing the heart of God
We can relate to.
(a senryu)
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(Note from Marie: ”Jesus wept” is the shortest verse in the Bible. This tiny two-word sentence, for me, displays the warm human heart of Jesus Christ and magnificently voices the love and heart of my God. Wow.)
PROMPT #126 – LITTLE THINGS
INDIGENT
I find my heart is easily deceived,
And vain attempts to emulate my Lord
Just seem to leave my spirit in discord.
I try in spite of what I have believed –
No good apart from God can be achieved.
So why do I attempt this my own way,
While knowing I’ll most likely go astray?
How could I be so foolish and naïve?
Lord, sculpt my heart as putty in your hand;
Affix my soul, and do not let it roam.
Reveal Yourself, that I may understand
How fully You’re my heart, my hearth, my home.
Without You, I can keep not one command –
I need you so much more than I can poem.
© copyright 2013, Marie Elena Good
IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – BYRON’S SONNET
The Fax of the Matter
A stay-at-home mom, now single,
I needed to enter the workforce.
It had been more than a decade
Since I’d graduated from high school.
No college for me.
We were not of the privileged few
With home computers.
In fact, I had no computer experience
Whatsoever,
And was not tech-savvy
In the least.
So I entered a local college on a –
Ready for this? –
“Displaced housewife” grant.
I chose a secretarial course.
After just a few months in,
I was offered a decent job
At The University of Toledo.
I quit college and snatched it up.
That, after all, was why I was in school
At age thirty.
My first week on the job,
I received a call from the U.T. librarian.
“Miss, will you please tell Dr. Burnham
He has a facts.”
I thought for a moment.
Did I hear her correctly?
I responded.
“Pardon me. Did you say Dr. Burnham has
A facts?”
“Yes ma’am. He can pick it up at the front desk.”
Completely baffled, I repeated again…
“I’m sorry. Are you saying Dr. Burnham has
A facts? As in singular ‘a,’ and ‘facts’?”
Now she seemed a bit impatient.
“Yes. A facts. He has a facts. We’ll hold it for him.”
Well, I wasn’t going to question her any further, so
I wrote down the message for Dr. Burnham.
But seriously, I don’t know how some folks land a job,
Much less at a university.
Sheesh!
(Embarrassingly, a true story. 😉 )
© copyright 2013, Marie Elena Good
PROMPT #127 – LOL
Online Dating Service
You got a call from God-knows-who
Who may be playing tricks on you.
He said he’d meet you here at three.
Three came and went without a he.
There may be cause for pause. Beware.
Beware! There are some creeps out there.
© copyright 2013, Marie Elena Good
IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – MIRROR SESTET
Interesting to note
A true hero’s response is
“just doing my job.”
(a senryu)
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PROMPT #128 – HEROES PROVED
Pipe Down. I’m Trying to be Thoughtful.
Hush now. Hush … I’m trying to write,
Which takes a lot of thought, you know.
I’ve got to keep my goal in sight.
Hush now. Hush … I’m trying to write.
I’m trying hard to be polite,
But need to focus brain cells, so
Hush now. Hush … I’m trying to write.
This takes a lot of thought, you know.
Don’t want a brawl; don’t want to fight.
HUSH now. HUSH … I’m TRYING to WRITE!
I’m NOT annoyed. I’m NOT uptight.
My stack is NOT about to blow!
But you MUST HUSH … I’m trying to write,
And that takes THOUGHT, I’ll have you know!
© copyright 2013, Marie Elena Good
IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – TRIOLET SONNET
She’s a Great Grandfather
Perplexed by the words he is choosing –
His mixing of gender’s amusing.
He says, “She’s a beauty,”
While doing the duty
Of winding our clock. It’s confusing!
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PROMPT 129 – PERSONIFICATION
MARIE ELENA’S lAmE FRESLIGHE
Arresting Arrhythmia
I’m against this principle
Of leaving rhythm unfenced.
Rhyme three, then two syllables?
What have I come up against?
Iamb, I love completely
And in her defense I scram
-ble to save her discreetly.
Un-victorious, I am.
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MARIE ELENA’S ANTI-AE FRESLIGHE
Dear Ms. Clarken:
I do not like Ae freslighe, Ma’am.
I do not like her sans iamb.
She messes with my rhythmic ear.
I wish that she would disappear.
I do not like Ae freslighe, Ma’am.
I’d rather eat green eggs and spam.
😉
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IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – AE FRESLIGHE
One
One heart was freed
One soul was saved
One life unchained
One sentence waived
One died for me
One took my place
One sacrifice
One act of grace
One Holy God
One Trinity
One Perfect Lamb
One thankful me
© copyright 2009, Marie Elena Good
PROMPT #130 – THANKFULNESS
Oulipoo
Sue’s flue’s Lou’s new loo.
Pew.
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IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – OULIPO (HOLORHYME)
HUH?
This word’s vast dispersal
(ahead or reversal)
is quite universal –
it needs no rehearsal.
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PROMPT #131 – SODA? POP? SOFTDRINK? WHAT?
A Tattle Tale
“Twitchy” Mitch is tattle-rich.
I’d take the twitch and ditch the snitch.
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On Nasher!
Revealed: Ogden’s former career?
’Twas Nasher, the Rhymin’ Reindeer!
But this abecedarian authoritarian’s verses
Were aeronautically challenging. Curses.
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IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – NASHER
“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” ~ Ecclesiastes 1:9
Light
follows
darkness
follows
light
in time and perception
and so it goes
and so it will
Until the god I am
makes way
for the God I Am.
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PROMPT 132 – IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK
Politically Unbecoming
We tend to see things differently,
But I would never stoop so low
As to treat you viciously.
I’d never thought of you as “foe,”
But that’s how you have treated me
Since partisan rifts began to grow.
I’d love to let ideas flow,
But you would just get mean so, no.
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IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – TERZA RIMA
Consider the Garden
What rose
Glances with scorn
At the aster,
Thinking
“I don’t understand,
Therefore I fear.”
Let every gardener
And every passerby
Discover the beauty of color,
Texture and fragrance
As they mingle
And adorn.
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PROMPT #133 – THE GARDEN
Keeping Watch
Joseph leads with somber grace
A weary donkey slows the pace
A restless Babe in Mary’s womb
An empty trough will hold Him soon
Anticipation grips the earth
A star will mark the foretold birth
There’s something in the air tonight
Compelling truth will come to light
The angels watch with trembling wing
Awaiting birth of infant King
© Marie Elena Good, 2013
IN-FORM POET WEDNESDAY – SONNETINA TRE
Light and Life
Abandoned glory for virgin’s womb.
For his birth, there was no room.
Embraced His fate, though death did loom,
Crucified; then laid in tomb.
Conquered sin and death outright,
My Redeemer won the fight.
Sacrificed for sin’s dark blight;
Light and Life of Silent Night.
© 2009, Marie Elena Good
PROMPT #134 – SEASON OF LIGHT
“For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.” ~Luke 2:11
What God is This?
Following the angel’s appearance months ago,
A young woman – mystified, yet willing –
Subjected herself to ridicule
While readying for the baby whose presence
Began making itself evident.
Then came the night
On the heels of a long and arduous journey
In humbleness of setting and witness.
How prepared was the young woman’s weary body
And emotion-laden heart
For the miracle of birth, much less this Miracle of Birth –
This holy night that culminates in pulling her newborn son
To her breast,
Offering life-giving milk
To the very One who created life,
And came to offer it eternal.
What God is this who would choose this humble,
Implausible means
Out of love for a sinner?
My God.
My God…
© 2013, Marie Elena Good
A CHRISTMAS DAY POEM
HOLY BOOK (a sonnet)
A book of books; a letter to mankind
God-breathed to men of many walks of life –
And yet this faultless work is undermined.
Some say its very Author causes strife.
Translated into fourteen hundred tongues,
No other book approaches such renown
As this, which is as breath to failing lungs.
Throughout, God’s living hallowed voice resounds.
Amazing in enduring relevance
Astonishing consistency of thought
Unparalleled in unbound eminence –
Deny its holiness? No, I cannot.
Though there are those who disregard His word,
My God will not be silenced, nor unheard.
© 2013, Marie Elena Good
PROMPT #135 – NO FRIGATE LIKE A BOOK
THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
The garden gate parts,
releasing sweet aroma
of former florae.
She softly steps in,
breathing the beauty that binds
virtuous voices.
The presence of peace
silences the restlessness
grinding at the gate.
Now bejeweled with joy,
renewing friends and florae,
she picks up her pen.
© Marie Elena Good, 2018
PROMPT #209: LET THERE BE PEACE, AND LOVE, AND JOY. Today is the grand reopening of Poetic Bloomings!