Diffuse Arguments (Haiku)
Diffuse arguments
With grace, love and forgiveness
Melting hearts and minds
Diffuse arguments
With grace, love and forgiveness
Melting hearts and minds
When dark clouds gather, ghouls and ghosts
Liars and haters claw
Remember this, look to the light
To keep each heart so pure
For there let peace reside within
Resting each weary mind
Holding onto kindness and truth
With gratitude unwind
And seek a path of hope forward
Be intent on love’s own way
Forbearing, goodness, patience, faith
And joy day on each day
Then tether to benignity
Where fruits of sanctity
Will liberate from oppression
As grace thus sets each free
Have a heart this Christmas
And share it with the rest
With kindness, empathy and care
Enduring to give your best
And spare a thought, a moment
For others unlike you
Who are struggling with this season and
Who feel a little blue
And in line with festive spirit
Reach out the hand to them
Of love, compassion, hope and grace
The star of Bethlehem
Let peace transcend
Let love be true
Your heart be blessed
And grace imbue
Pure joy in life
Let hope endure
From your first breath
Forever more
Give me love over riches
Give me compassion too
Give me kindness and empathy
For the happier view
Give me laughter and sunshine
The smile from a child
Give me honesty, openness
Make me meek, make me mild
And the day will be mine
Cross the months and the years
Where with courage and grace
Blessings cross all frontiers.
Grace
The edification of morality
In serene beauty
Embellishing propriety
In consonance with decorum
Elegance and finesse
That blesses the world
With a disposition of generosity
From a charmed sanctuary within
Don’t let the buggers get you down
Don’t fret and wear a sad sad frown
But just determine every day
To wear a smile as if to say
Sod off I’m happy as can be
I don’t need you – you don’t need me!
And then resolved be sure to do
All things that blast away the blues
And live a life that so imparts
Pure kindness, grace with loving heart!
When marriage goes a little wrong
A cup might take a crash
But when it fails and falls to bits
The heart takes the backlash
And like the cup that smashes up
It bleeds and is shattered
But not in ways as physical
Yet still destroyed; battered
For at the seat of who we are
The core of every one
Emotionally we’re vulnerable
To things that have been done
Translated by the head a top
Steered by neurology
The heart then takes the knocks; the strains
And weeps eternally
Lest that it is what it does unless
A plaster is affixed
When happiness helps heal the wounds
With kindness in the mix
And then the heart will jump for joy
Be blessed and smile anew
The past no longer there to hurt
Saved by love’s great sinew
To live a life of wholesomeness
That gives without a glance
The beat of grace; the stroke of hope
Best known as second chance
The feeling of accomplishment
Is something rather great
The state of acquisition or
A deed done quite first rate
An act fulfilled so admirably
With credibility
Or instances just carried out
In grace effectively
There is no greater thing than love
No more than devine hope
No sweeter life than one that’s gives
Great succour extends scope
Nor one that is compassionate
Extends a hand so kind
That walks the earth with grace and peace
Contentment of the mind
There is no greater gift than faith
In self and purity
The cherishing of all that’s good
And of integrity
So may I pray that you will find
All these as you move through
This journey that we call the walk
Of life with blessings true