How you fly is beyond me
Buzz-a-wuzza, buzz-a-bee
That whizzy buzz is music to me.
© 08 September 2016
10 February 2018
Bumble Bee
How you fly is beyond me
Buzz-a-wuzza, buzz-a-bee
That whizzy buzz is music to me.
© 08 September 2016
07 February 2018
Midnight in the Oasis
When Moon rises high among the stars…
A torrid swelling under velvet midnight skies.
Heat surging, mounting with our sighs…
Our bodies writhing twixt and twain…
Where oft and oft our love hath lain.
When life too frigid grasps and holds…
These secret moments our hunger enfolds
A midnight oasis… for us alone…
A space in which the world may atone…
For all the darkness and abandonment.
From the rush of heated cohabitants…
Again, again, our hearts full… pledging…
To the warm glow of intimacy after coupling…
The wellspring of urgency spent in symbiosis…
…Of our languid midnight in the oasis.
D. Denise Dianaty
©August 25, 2014
Forgiveness
By the blood of His covenant
For many, for all… He was poured out
For the forgiveness of sins
When we are ever unworthy
By His blood we are redeemed
When we only believe…
By the grace of God… By the mercy of the Lord…
We unworthy receive forgiveness
Eyes are opened to the darkness
We see the darkness of life without Him
We are turned from darkness to the Light
From the Satan’s power to the glory of the Lord
Not by our own will – not by our deeds
We are forgiven… We are cleansed… We are sanctified
Our place by His side is assured
In our faith we shall testify of His Grace
With all our soul we shall praise and adore
In our hearts shall we magnify His Holy Name
Upon our heads the Holy Spirit rests
God encompasses… God among us… God within
(FROM THE NIV) – FORGIVE AND BE FORGIVEN
Mark 3:28 "I tell you the truth, all the sins and blasphemies of men will be forgiven them.”
Luke 5:20 “When Jesus saw their faith, he said, 'Friend, your sins are forgiven.'"
Romans 4:7 “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered."
2 Corinthians 2:10 "If you forgive anyone, I also forgive him. And what I have forgiven--if there was anything to forgive--I have forgiven in the sight of Christ for your sake,”
Hebrews 10:18 "And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.”
James 5:15 "And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.”
1 John 2:12 “ write to you, dear children, because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name.”
©D. Denise Dianaty
08 January 2015
04 February 2018
Acrostic poem: My Forever Valentine
My Forever Valentine
My forever Valentine
You will always be in my heart
Fidelity and loyalty are my pledge
One heart of love laid bare for you
Reverently made an altar to Love
Endowed with sanctity by your devotion
Veracity writ in your every glance
Enduring loyalty and sustaining love
Reverently offered in your gentle touch
Valentine’s Day and every day
Are ours ever and forevermore
Love plucked down from the stars
Entwining our two hearts in one
Nestling here in our embrace
Testifying God’s great gift to us
In gentle, softly whispered kisses
Nature blessed our noble hearts to
Encircle our souls united across all time
by D. Denise Dianaty
© 04 February 2015
02 February 2018
An experimental form: Dogma
NIV Luke 6:37 "Do not judge and you will not be judged. Do not condemn and you will not be condemned. Forgive and you will be forgiven."
What ever belief system you embrace, the words above should be the words by which we all live. Dogma grinds us down as it is imposed upon us.
The dogma of the agenda of politicalism
What ever belief system you embrace, the words above should be the words by which we all live. Dogma grinds us down as it is imposed upon us.
The dogma of the agenda of politicalism
The dogma of religion-ism
The dogma of condescending intellectualism
The dogma of ecologicalism
The dogma of capitalism
The dogma of socialism
The dogma of communism
The dogma of democratizationism
The dogma of conservatism
The dogma of liberalism
The dogma of anarchism
The dogma of corporationism
The dogma of radicalism
The dogma of fundamentalism
The dogma of imperialism
The dogma of sectarianism
The dogma of tribalism
The dogma of judgmental-ism
Dogma is always right…
to exclusion of all the other -isms.
Only one dogma can ever be right…
making all the rest wrong.
Those -isms men lay down your lives for…
dying and killing and hating…
Dogma is the big stick at the gate where
the guard dogma always excludes.
Dogma… dogma… dogma… dogma… dogma
Dogma… dogma… dogma… dogma
Dogma… dogma… dogma
Dogma… dogma
Dogma…
Dog with a bone!
D. Denise Dianaty
Broken Dreams
Broken Dreams
Before There Was Love - written in 1989
I dreamed a dream…
A life where I was happy.
I loved and was loved.
A gentle lover held my hand
And showed me the way to joy.
Our love gave us precious treasure,
The gift of sweet laughter,
The patter of tiny feet…
Myself, a mother looking on…
My lover, a father smiling gently…
Our children dancing joyfully about him.
I dreamed a dream…
A broken dream I couldn’t make true.
In waking truth I am alone.
The lover who held my hand
Led me only to pain.
My love returned no treasure…
Only pain and regret,
Bewilderment and betrayal…
Only the sound of retreating steps…
Myself, a woman alone, looking on…
My lover, a fading shadow, deeping pain…
Our children a broken dream,
Cutting deep as a knife in the night.
by D. Denise Dianaty
©20 August 2014
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01 February 2018
Backyard Sunsets
Silhouettes cast in backyard sunsets
Of angel painted skies in fairy light.
Everywhere softened edges glow
In the backyard sunset’s blaze.
Ordinary, hard, chore-laden land
Now transformed by light and color…
Immersed in hues of fiery warmth
Across the sky and here below…
Just a step outside my own door,
Walk into a world fired by magic.
Hear the chirping insect music,
Be bathed in pure tranquility…
With every never mundane…
Always magical backyard sunset…
There we’ll always be found…
Where home waits for me.
by D. Denise Dianaty
©18 September 2014
31 January 2018
It's Not An Emotion
It’s not an emotion…
just a feeling of the hour…
Is it our privilege?
Is this why our souls cower
in the dark all alone
in absence of its light?
We are all lost without
this word’s four letter might.
Life seems dim and lonely.
Lost, it feels most like a curse.
Crushed by low betrayal…
Sentiment born in a hearse…
But… what might we be
when we turn from the cold?
What might be our new fate
if our path may be so bold?
Between two lonely hearts…
a bond forged in loyalty…
a gift to birth our hope…
we find strength in honesty.
In it’s throes we revel…
an assured companion ours.
The heart of warmth and light
On our future dream flowers
This pledge is an embrace
all the gift that is True Love
Love’s not an emotion
It’s much more than we dreamed of
Love is more than passion…
always more than honest…
Love’s not an emotion.
My heart, Love is a promise.
D. Denise Dianaty
19 January 2018
Whisper Me A Kiss
Original artwork by D. Denise Dianaty
Colored pencil drawing entitled "Whisper Me A Kiss"
Whisper me a kiss…
Softly… softly brushing my cheek
As an - Oh! - so delicate caress…
A gentle kiss upon my fingertips,
So healing in its tenderness…
Breathing your kiss upon my mouth,
You softly whisper me a kiss…
Oh! Whisper me a kiss…
In your sweet breath is the promise
Wafting me gently to a healing space
This oft tossed ship carried ‘pon your breath
Oh! Let me harbor in your embrace!
Oh love… again… whisper me a kiss…
Set us free to sail ‘cross time and space.
Oh! Again… Whisper me a kiss…
In your arms, the promise of forever…
Shining as stars in your ebony eyes
Come my love, tomorrow’s our dawn…
Floating free as the star flies
Our love, the vessel… you, my tether…
On whispered kisses, together we’ll rise.
Softly… Softly… Whisper me a kiss…
"Whisper Me A Kiss"
by D. Denise Dianaty
© 30 August 2014
08 January 2018
Prayer for Peace of Mind and Calm In Our Struggle
In this time, there is fear in our hearts, Lord
Fear for the future and for the hope of our children.
Fear and worry bear us down and lay weighted
Heavy upon our hearts and our minds.
We hear hatred shouted from mouths claiming Your name, Father.
It tears at our hearts, and it disquiets our minds,
And, it wars against our peace in Your grace.
We feel the world becoming dark and frightening,
We see a world overwhelmed by hatred and violence.
We see that hatred manifested against the least of Your children
But we still hear Your commands and read in Your Word,
In Christ, to treat humanity with kindness and love.
Please surround us with Your hedge of protection, Omnipotent Lord.
Holy Lord, we seek Your solace and the Holy Spirit’s guidance
Teach us to turn our words to Your purpose.
Father in Heaven, we seek Your healing grace
We plead for intercession in hearts and minds.
Lay Your loving outreach upon all human hearts.
All Mighty Father, we raise up our cause to be perfected
In Your love, to fulfill Your mission for all our neighbors.
"May the meditations of our hearts
be acceptable in Thy sight,
Oh Lord, our strength and our redeemer.”
~In Jesus’ Holy name
We pray all believing,
Amen
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