1 Minute with The Bald-Headed Poet

The Magi Visit the Messiah Matthew 2:1-12 1 After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem 2 and asked, “Where is the one who has been born King of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship Him.” 3 When King Herod heard this he was disturbed, and all Jerusalem with him. 4 When he had called together all the peop...

Luke 2 - The Birth of Jesus Christ, The Shepherds and the Angels 1 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be registered. 2 This was the first registration when Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And all went to be registered, each to his own town. 4 And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is call...

The Paradoxical Commandments, By Kent M. Keith People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.     Love them anyway.  If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.     Do good anyway.  If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.     Succeed anyway.  The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.     Do good anyway.  Honesty and frankness make...

The day following Thanksgiving— commonly referred to as Black Friday— has become one of the busiest shopping days of the year in the United States. National chain stores traditionally offer limited money-saving specials on a wide variety of goods in an effort to lure shoppers into stores while offering similar deals online.  (www.britannica.com) Support the show Poems are green and Poetry is mean....

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, By: Christopher Marlowe Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. And we will sit upon the rocks,  Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers to whose falls  Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses And a thousand fragr...

Good Timber, By Douglas Malloch   The tree that never had to fight For sun and sky and air and light, But stood out in the open plain And always got its share of rain, Never became a forest king But lived and died a scrubby thing. The man who never had to toil To gain and farm his patch of soil, Who never had to win his share Of sun and sky and light and air, Never became a manly man But lived and...

Thanksgiving Day, By Thomas Frederick Young God of the harvest, once again Our joyful tones we raise, For all Thy goodness, day by day, We give Thee thankful praise. With blessings rich, from fertile field, And gifts from fruitful tree, We wish, this day, our thanks to yield With earnest hearts, to Thee. We plough'd the ground, we sow'd the seed, But Thou didst send the rain In grateful...

 For years, people have debated whether punishing children works, whether it corrects their behaviors without having any negative long-term consequences. Spanking is one such form of discipline. Does spanking children work?  (www.psychologytoday.com) Support the show Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast   Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pink, You're a gift! T...

Thanksgiving, By, Ella Wheeler Wilcox We walk on starry fields of white And do not see the daisies; For blessings common in our sight We rarely offer praises. We sigh for some supreme delight To crown our lives with splendor, And quite ignore our daily store Of pleasures sweet and tender.   Our cares are bold and push their way Upon our thought and feeling. They hang about us all the day, Our time...

The Serenity Prayer, By Reinhold Niebuhr God,  give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed,  Courage to change the things which should be changed, and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.  Living one day at a time, Enjoying one moment at a time, Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace, Taking, as Jesus did, This sinful world as it is, Not as I would have i...

To Be In Love, By Gwendolyn Brooks To be in love   Is to touch with a lighter hand.   In yourself you stretch, you are well.   You look at things   Through his eyes.   A cardinal is red.   A sky is blue.   Suddenly you know he knows too.   He is not there but   You know you are tasting together   The winter, or a light spring weather.   His hand to take your hand is overmuch.   Too much to bear. ...

Surviving, By Amanda Gorman These words need not be red for our blood to run  through them. When tragedy threatens to end us, we are flooded  by what is felt; Our faces fluctuating, warped like an acre passing  Seasons. Perhaps the years are plotted & planned Just like seeds in a fresh-plowed field. When we dream, we act only with instinct. We might not be fully sure of all that we are.  &...

Isaiah 6:10  Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.” Support the show Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast   Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pink, You're a gift! Thank you for your time and attention. It&a...

Domestic violence takes place in our nation every minute of every day, occurring just about every 15 seconds. Most Americans don’t realize just how real domestic violence is and how many lives are affected by it. Most of these cases are left behind closed doors. That’s why the Domestic Violence Awareness Month was introduced to not only educate and raise that awareness but bring the support and st...

Revised Version of Do not go gentle into that good night. By: Dylan Thomas Please go gentle into that good night, Old age shouldn’t burn and rave at close of day; Don’t rage, why rage against the dying of the light?    Wise men at their end look forward to that heavenly light, Their lives will no longer be filled with pain and strife, They will go gentle into that good night.   Good men, the last...

When the Year Grows Old, By Edna St. Vincent Millay I cannot but remember When the year grows old— October—November— How she disliked the cold! She used to watch the swallows Go down across the sky, And turn from the window With a little sharp sigh. And often when the brown leaves Were brittle on the ground, And the wind in the chimney Made a melancholy sound, She had a look about her That I wish...

I walked down Melbourne Street to hear the bands play ghoulish melodies. Someone yelled, "I've witnessed a murder." I saw him lurking around the corner, and instantly noticed his sideburns. His cape was black and wrinkled and  blood was on his T-Shirt. People ran to see the crime scene, but the man disappeared. They found body parts in a brazier. It smelled liked beans and barbecue...

Trees, By Joyce Kilmer I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the earth's sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day, And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may in summer wear  A nest of robins in her hair; Upon whose bosom snow has lain; Who intimately lives with rain. Poems are made by fools like me, But only God...

Prose and Cons Talk: A Plea to Steve Harvey Emmy® Award-winning entertainer, radio personality, motivational speaker, New York Times best-selling author, businessman, and philanthropist.  From a young age Steve Harvey knew that he wanted to be on TV. He held fast to his dream, against all odds for a stuttering African American boy in the 1960s. His unrelenting pursuit formed one of Harvey’s life p...

A Red, Red Rose, By Robert Burns  O my Luve is like a red, red rose  That’s newly sprung in June;  O my Luve is like the melody   That’s sweetly played in tune.  So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,  So deep in luve am I;  And I will luve thee still, my dear,  Till a’ the seas gang dry.  Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,   And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;  I will love thee still, my dear,  While the...

The Original Scrub Daddy is made from a unique material called FlexTexture® made of a polymer which changes texture – firm in cold water and soft in warm water.  Support the show Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast   Please accept my endless gratitude, I'm tickled pink, You're a gift! Thank you for your time and attention. It's a blessing you've stopped to observe...

See It Through, By Edgar Albert Guest When you’re up against a trouble,  Meet it squarely, face to face;  Lift your chin and set your shoulders,  Plant your feet and take a brace.  When it’s vain to try to dodge it,  Do the best that you can do;  You may fail, but you may conquer,  See it through!  Black may be the clouds about you  And your future may seem grim,  But don’t let your nerve desert y...

A prayer cloth is just a piece of linen, Anointing oil won't heal you if you're not a Christian, A word from heaven could be from a demon,  Those ministries don't deserve your tithes and offerings, Stop giving away your hard earned money! They're thieves and you're their ATM machines, Making a lucrative business off of False Prophecies. You gamble and play the lottery, Win...

 The Road Not Taken, By Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the s...

Very little is said about the subjects; it's under wraps like covid, yet the data isn't bogus. A reason why people live off the grid, or away from the community. What if there were a vaccine  that defended us from energy? Since technology is determining our mortality. God will be the light in the heavenly city. Support the show Poems are green and Poetry is mean. -Poetry Beast   Please a...