Tag: Ovi Poetry Challenge

Don’t tolerate that tiny lie.
Deception rules until a cry
demands to know the reason why
we took God’s joy away.

If truth be known, the lies we spread
are moldy, wormy, wretched bread.
They’re traps that no one would be fed
were they not so deceived.

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

Past reds and greens on pond or stream,
dangling from a drifting dream:
Why does that small voice ever seem
a lecture from the Lord?

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

1 Kings 19:11-13
¹¹ And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the Lord. And, behold, the Lord passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the Lord; but the Lord was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the Lord was not in the earthquake:
¹² And after the earthquake a fire; but the Lord was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
¹³ And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entering in of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

If it be good it’s done with love.
Give evil an eternal shove.
Think only what God’s thinking of.
Receive a faithful rest.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “love” to be used as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

I will not trust my heart to fate
the source of which convulses hate.
The serpent says its god is great.
I only trust the Lord.

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

In passing I would have to say
that love is all that counts today.
If other stuff gets in the way,
repent: avoid the fall.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “passing” to be used as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted on Poet’s Corner.

My taste is what I’ve learned to crave,
but all that’s over in the grave.
“So, what about me would you save?”
I asked the preacher man.

He said my spirit most of all
so crippled by the early fall
and then the rest: “Hear Him call?”
It’s now my turn to speak.

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Ronovan Hester offers “taste” as the word of inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Posted also on Poet’s Corner.

“Just do it now,” my conscience said,
“The Word awaits. He will be read.
Bear fruit.” The drying branch is dead.
When pruned it’s cast away.

Injustice is a waste of time.
For some it turns into a crime,
but He will come, remove the grime.
Don’t end up wiped away.

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

They left what’s wrong to darkened night
to rise and follow living light.
The way was narrow, true, but right.
That’s how they made it home.

Forsaking gods of mountains, trees,
of roiling, windy, mindless seas,
they listened through the silent breeze
and served the living LORD.

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Ronovan Hester offers the word “right” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge. Also posted at Poet’s Corner.

Joshua 24:15 (KJV)
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

While fretting over loveless things
instead of what the Spirit brings,
I stifled joy. The church bell rings.
There’s sadness in the wind.

His way is true. His burden light.
He found me through the dark of night.
I once was bound to wrong, not right,
but that was long ago.

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Ronovan Hester offers “choice” as inspiration for this week’s Ovi Poetry Challenge.