Submissions by Joseph-Zenieh
POEMS AND SHORT STORIES
THE MOST PRECIOUS JEWEL
THE MOST PRECIOUS JEWEL
When one gets older, he becomes quite skilled,
but life inclines to be about to end.
This is the precious while of all one's life.
He should distil each drop of this dense sap.
I wonder how some men pass all their time
in games to shun the boredom life may bring.
Where is the flatness if time flies like bats;
the shrewdest men don't know where they will be.
A lot of guests have passed along this life,
but few can know how bats of life are trapped.
Those have got famous in the books we read.
The...
When one gets older, he becomes quite skilled,
but life inclines to be about to end.
This is the precious while of all one's life.
He should distil each drop of this dense sap.
I wonder how some men pass all their time
in games to shun the boredom life may bring.
Where is the flatness if time flies like bats;
the shrewdest men don't know where they will be.
A lot of guests have passed along this life,
but few can know how bats of life are trapped.
Those have got famous in the books we read.
The...
#LifeAsAWriter
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THE OFFENDED WEASEL
THE OFFENDED WEASEL
A farmer used to have a lot of hens.
They were so fat and white and gave him eggs.
A weasel saw the coop and was so glad;
he started having all his meals from there.
The farmer lost a lot and got quite mad,
but he could not discover a good way
to keep the weasel far or change his mode;
he bought a gun and lurked behind the coop.
The weasel saw the farmer with a gun.
He got offended by the farmer's mien.
"Is this the way" he thought," a host behaves?
I will desert this most disgusting man." ...
A farmer used to have a lot of hens.
They were so fat and white and gave him eggs.
A weasel saw the coop and was so glad;
he started having all his meals from there.
The farmer lost a lot and got quite mad,
but he could not discover a good way
to keep the weasel far or change his mode;
he bought a gun and lurked behind the coop.
The weasel saw the farmer with a gun.
He got offended by the farmer's mien.
"Is this the way" he thought," a host behaves?
I will desert this most disgusting man." ...
#manipulation
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TELL ME WHERE SHE GOES.
TELL ME WHERE SHE GOES.
She's distracted and goes far
from my nearby seat.
Who can tell me where she strays
will be my great dear.
She's the love that shows me where
my most vivid hope
dwells and gives me cheerful life,
filling me with joy.
Shepherd of the grazing flock,
come and visit me.
You have roamed through prairies wild
where my valued girl
perhaps wonders through as she's
tired of my care.
Please inform me if you see
my beloved strolls there.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ...
She's distracted and goes far
from my nearby seat.
Who can tell me where she strays
will be my great dear.
She's the love that shows me where
my most vivid hope
dwells and gives me cheerful life,
filling me with joy.
Shepherd of the grazing flock,
come and visit me.
You have roamed through prairies wild
where my valued girl
perhaps wonders through as she's
tired of my care.
Please inform me if you see
my beloved strolls there.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ...
#love
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THE LOVE THAT NONE REFUSES
THE LOVE THAT NONE REFUSES
There is only one sort of great love,
that will live without requiting it.
It is an outstanding kind that lives
in all persons wherever they are.
It is felt by all the creatures all,
by the beasts whatever they can be,
by the plants that need fresh air and streams,
whether they are old, or they are young.
Love like that is stuck to by all those
God created on His crowded land.
No one would refuse to quaff from it
if his skull's a full or empty store.
This essential love's possessed by...
There is only one sort of great love,
that will live without requiting it.
It is an outstanding kind that lives
in all persons wherever they are.
It is felt by all the creatures all,
by the beasts whatever they can be,
by the plants that need fresh air and streams,
whether they are old, or they are young.
Love like that is stuck to by all those
God created on His crowded land.
No one would refuse to quaff from it
if his skull's a full or empty store.
This essential love's possessed by...
#love
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THE STABLE LIFE
THE STABLE LIFE
I am surprised that people do not see
the world is like a man who hides behind
his back a card that asks you soon to leave
your job and stay with nothing in your hand.
You accept that as it is better than
when your phone rings and tells you that a kin
will go abroad and stay so far from you
while this dear person brightens your dull view.
You sit and think what kind of life this is.
The other day a good friend passed away.
Is this the life from which you expect joy?
You fear what you do not expect to...
I am surprised that people do not see
the world is like a man who hides behind
his back a card that asks you soon to leave
your job and stay with nothing in your hand.
You accept that as it is better than
when your phone rings and tells you that a kin
will go abroad and stay so far from you
while this dear person brightens your dull view.
You sit and think what kind of life this is.
The other day a good friend passed away.
Is this the life from which you expect joy?
You fear what you do not expect to...
#uplifting
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THEY WEEP INSIDE THE CHEERS.
THEY WEEP INSIDE THE CHEERS.
My heart is with the poor and crying eyes
that shed their tears as they are lonely thrown
inside their pit of woe while all around,
the rich are dancing in their pubs and homes.
I bring them to my mind with their deep pit
of hunger that keeps them awake all night.
They writhe from side to side after midnight
while others dance and sing with lots to drink.
Fast time is passing by with these and those
as time is one for all who live on earth.
The rich are puzzled how to spend their time
while...
My heart is with the poor and crying eyes
that shed their tears as they are lonely thrown
inside their pit of woe while all around,
the rich are dancing in their pubs and homes.
I bring them to my mind with their deep pit
of hunger that keeps them awake all night.
They writhe from side to side after midnight
while others dance and sing with lots to drink.
Fast time is passing by with these and those
as time is one for all who live on earth.
The rich are puzzled how to spend their time
while...
#poverty
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HONOUR OR PEACE OF MIND
HONOUR OR PEACE OF MIND
Don't ask me to take my rights by force.
He may stab me with a tear he drops.
Then l can't forget that tear for years.
It destroys my life and what l write.
Let me lose that round and go back home.
I will find what consoles me in books.
Then my pen and sheet will take me up
to inhabit where the angels dwell.
What's the use of gain; it brings me hell.
Soft defeat, l relish what you yield,
little bruises that can heal in days
are much milder than torture for years.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL...
Don't ask me to take my rights by force.
He may stab me with a tear he drops.
Then l can't forget that tear for years.
It destroys my life and what l write.
Let me lose that round and go back home.
I will find what consoles me in books.
Then my pen and sheet will take me up
to inhabit where the angels dwell.
What's the use of gain; it brings me hell.
Soft defeat, l relish what you yield,
little bruises that can heal in days
are much milder than torture for years.
BY JOSEPH ZENIEH
ALL...
#peace
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A MOTHER TO HER NEW-BORN BABE
A MOTHER TO HER NEW-BORN BABE
The smile that veils your lips with such a lovely sight
delights my heart and eyes and gives me trust in life.
I ask the world one boon, to keep it constant there
as when you smile at me, l ascertain your joy.
When your eyes twinkle with the rays of that sweet touch,
I feel l have attained all what the world can grant.
I've brought you to this house, too humble to please you.
I can't discern if l have done what you will like.
I'm sure just of one thing which is l love you much,
and ready to...
The smile that veils your lips with such a lovely sight
delights my heart and eyes and gives me trust in life.
I ask the world one boon, to keep it constant there
as when you smile at me, l ascertain your joy.
When your eyes twinkle with the rays of that sweet touch,
I feel l have attained all what the world can grant.
I've brought you to this house, too humble to please you.
I can't discern if l have done what you will like.
I'm sure just of one thing which is l love you much,
and ready to...
#TruthOfLife
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FROM HANDS TO HANDS
FROM HANDS TO HANDS
The sweetest time of life is that of early years
when parents' hands display how kind is our land.
Then it begins to prove the land is not so grand,
but what makes it superb are those two, full of grace.
The Father in the sky supplies the parents' arms
to smooth the early way, to elate young mankind.
When man grows up, he knows how great is parents' help;
then God extends His hands to replace the old pair.
His Son, the Christ, shows us the way, the truth, the life,
His Spirit clears the minds, and...
The sweetest time of life is that of early years
when parents' hands display how kind is our land.
Then it begins to prove the land is not so grand,
but what makes it superb are those two, full of grace.
The Father in the sky supplies the parents' arms
to smooth the early way, to elate young mankind.
When man grows up, he knows how great is parents' help;
then God extends His hands to replace the old pair.
His Son, the Christ, shows us the way, the truth, the life,
His Spirit clears the minds, and...
#TruthOfLife
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THE EARTH CONTAINS BOTH.
THE EARTH CONTAINS BOTH.
The earth is where the two are found at large,
the soul of goodness and the one of vice.
We are completely with the source of love,
but you and l, l think, hate what is bad.
A man in his right mind loves what is chaste,
and tries to get immersed in what is pure.
No one will go to sewage to swim there,
but all would love to rub themselves with balm.
I seek for perfume that l love to smell.
It takes me up to such a higher state.
This perfume and this balm are in the world,
but with them is the dirt...
The earth is where the two are found at large,
the soul of goodness and the one of vice.
We are completely with the source of love,
but you and l, l think, hate what is bad.
A man in his right mind loves what is chaste,
and tries to get immersed in what is pure.
No one will go to sewage to swim there,
but all would love to rub themselves with balm.
I seek for perfume that l love to smell.
It takes me up to such a higher state.
This perfume and this balm are in the world,
but with them is the dirt...
#TruthOfLife
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I BELIEVE WHAT JESUS SAYS.
I BELIEVE WHAT JESUS SAYS.
I wonder how a man who's read some books,
and started to feel proud of little ken,
which has been ruminated and reviewed
by some who deem they are the science men,
can't see that Jesus has revived the dead.
Who has done that till now when people can
arrange to reach the planets and live there?
How could a Man Who lived at that old time
awake Lazarus or just think and dare
to ask him out of his dim grave to climb?
A Person Who exhorts to endless love,
to peace, sublime and great, to fill the...
I wonder how a man who's read some books,
and started to feel proud of little ken,
which has been ruminated and reviewed
by some who deem they are the science men,
can't see that Jesus has revived the dead.
Who has done that till now when people can
arrange to reach the planets and live there?
How could a Man Who lived at that old time
awake Lazarus or just think and dare
to ask him out of his dim grave to climb?
A Person Who exhorts to endless love,
to peace, sublime and great, to fill the...
#faith
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ISN'T THAT A PROOF?
ISN'T THAT A PROOF?
My Lord, You taught Your men for just three years,
but could establish what no man can do.
They ate the bread and drank the wine, You changed
Into Yourself to be a complete You.
A person eats Your Sacrament and gets
a Christ through Whom You can instruct and speak.
Those people can achieve Your will on earth,
and each can fulfil Your way to the peak.
These deeds have proved You are the Lord, my God,
Who can perform His work from His great height.
Through miracles You live in lots of men,
and from Your...
My Lord, You taught Your men for just three years,
but could establish what no man can do.
They ate the bread and drank the wine, You changed
Into Yourself to be a complete You.
A person eats Your Sacrament and gets
a Christ through Whom You can instruct and speak.
Those people can achieve Your will on earth,
and each can fulfil Your way to the peak.
These deeds have proved You are the Lord, my God,
Who can perform His work from His great height.
Through miracles You live in lots of men,
and from Your...
#power
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