Category: Poetry

Ovi Poetry Challenge: Opportunity

Don’t hesitate to do what you
have heard that you’re supposed to do.
Get all that done. The sky’s still blue
and you’re still in His rest.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “opportunity” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

Hebrews 4:9-11 KJV – 9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

Ovi Poetry Challenge: Fleeting Words

So, if you let the devil run
your mouth and think you’ve won,
with fleeting words you’ve not begun
to walk the narrow way.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “fleeting” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted in Poet’s Corner.

James 1:26 KJV –If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Terrible Valentine Sonnet

Occasionally I post nonsense verse as comments on blogs such as on Esther Chilton’s Laughing Along With A Limerick or Chel Owen’s Terrible Poetry contests.

One day I might repost some of those limericks. Today I’m reposting what I submitted to Chel’s Terrible Poetry Contest: Valentine’s 2025.

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A sonnet is too long for me to write.
Besides I can’t remember how one goes.
Though rhythm, rhyme and such might bring delight
I cannot write another one of those.

Be happy, for a change, is all I ask.
Is it too much for smiles to bless your face?
A frown is such an ugly sort of mask,
so smile a teensy bit and show some grace.

We’ll soon be dead and then some say we’re gone,
but others say we’ll have to face a hell.
If heaven’s not the road we’re fighting on
we probably should repent of that as well.

In hell we might be roommates, don’t forget.
So smile, my dear, we haven’t got there yet.

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Ovi Poetry Challenge: Gossip

Beware the words that devils say.
Their whispers haunt the soul by day
with wondrous news put on display –
just tell that darkness, “Leave!“

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “wonder” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

James 1:26 KJV – If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.

Ovi Poetry Challenge: Health

True health is focused on His rest.
With will aligned the body’s blessed
and should the devil come to test,
remind him he’s defeated.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “focus” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. This poem also appears on Poet’s Corner.

Hebrews 2:14-15 KJV – 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Ovi Poetry Challenge: Energy

For revelation I will choose
the Holy Spirit, not some muse.
May He choose me and may He use
what energy I have.

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Ronovan Hester offers the inspiration “energy” for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

1 Corinthians 2:9-10 KJV – 9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God.