UNDUE BEMOAN

By Solomon Belete Haile

(A sequel to ‘My Flower’)

A wrong perception of the world,

Arising from an upended mind,

Produced an elegy derided;

A clay spoke up to the potter,

Deducing from the actions of its master, 

Sound off a lengthy lecture,

Screeds polemic insincere; 

The molded slandered the molder,

Unbeknownst to its fare,

Harangued balderdash of despair;

A worm confronts a farmer,

Insisting for an answer,

what a fool it was to utter,

Hasty words of despair,

laying blame on the Gardner,

Said: ‘what have you done to my flower?’

‘Leave her alone, come on gardener,’

I am the clay, the miserable worm,

A doleful creature in a conundrum;

Has the potter no right over the clay,

To do what he pleases nay my cry? 

Who am I to utter those words,

Seemingly true but nescience,

Against the author of life and death,

Who am I to exclaim,

A nonsensical voice in humdrum; 

As if all along that flower was mine,

Misplacing ownership which was thine;

Thank God for my second thought,

I goggled at the apparent fault, 

Spared from Nebuchadnezzar’s fate,

Here I am to repent,

for an utterance of undue dissent,

I’m not stricken with boanthropy,

For poetry marked with blasphemy;

The gaffe in my own locution,

Overridden with blind intuition,

Directed towards the sovereign,

Is nothing other than a sin;

What was wrong and lopsided, 

Was not your rule and command;

As the faculty of my belief erred,

For lack of knowledge in your word,

This poor soul bemoaned,

An elegy misguided,

Towards my benevolent Lord,

Despite your grace and good deed;

As the Spirit pervaded conviction,

A soul engulfed in contrition;

Driven with divine volition,

Surrendered to discern your doctrine,

Behold the truth, here is a lesson,

‘For from him and through him 

And to him are all things,

To him be glory forever; Amen’.

I came to terms with life’s gain,

With losses sustained due to sin,

I trust you for now and forever,

Sovereign Lord, lone conquerer!

Aid in vocabularies pertaining ‘UNDUE BEMOAN’, 

with some examples. Unless specified, all dictionary entries are from the Oxford English Dictionary:

 

balderdash

noun, senseless talk or writing; nonsense. "She dismissed talk of plots as “bunkum and balderdash.”

 

bemoan

verb, express discontent or sorrow over (something). "It was no use bemoaning her lot."

 

boanthropy

is a psychological disorder in which a human believes themself to be a bovine. -wikipedia

It should be fairly easy to spot a patient suffering from boanthropy. He or she may well be down on all fours chewing grass. Boanthropy is a psychological disorder in which the sufferer believes he or she is a cow or ox. The most famous sufferer of this condition was King Nebuchadnezzar, who in the Book of Daniel “was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen”. (Citation: The Pharmaceutical Journal, July 2013;Online:DOI:10.1211/PJ.2021.1.69308)

 

contrition

noun, the state of feeling remorseful and penitent. "to show contrition for his crime he offered to do community service"

 

conundrum

noun, a confusing and difficult problem or question. "one of the most difficult conundrums for the experts"

 

convict

The following explanation is extracted from the GotQuestions.org web article under the title, ‘What is the conviction of sin?’:

 

“the men in John 8:9, who accused the women of adultery were "convicted by their own conscience."

The Bible in John 16:8 tells us that “The Holy Spirit will convict the world of sin.” When the Holy Spirit convicts people of their sin, He represents the righteous judgment of God (Hebrews 4:12). There is no appeal of this verdict. The Holy Spirit not only convicts people of sin, but He also brings them to repentance (Acts 17:30; Luke 13:5). The Holy Spirit brings to light our relationship to God. The convicting power of the Holy Spirit opens our eyes to our sin and opens our hearts to receive His grace (Ephesians 2:8).

We praise the Lord for the conviction of sin. Without it, there could be no salvation. No one is saved apart from the Spirit’s convicting and regenerating work in the heart. The Bible teaches that all people are by nature rebels against God and hostile to Jesus Christ. They are “dead in trespasses and sins” (Ephesians 2:1). Jesus said, “No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him” (John 6:44). Part of that “draw” to Jesus is the convictionof sin.

 

 

deride

verb, past tense: derided; past participle: derided, express contempt for; ridicule. "critics derided the proposals as clumsy attempts to find a solution"

 

doleful

adjective, expressing sorrow; mournful. "a doleful look"

 

elegy

noun, a poem of serious reflection, typically a lament for the dead.

 

 

gaffe

noun, an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder. "an unforgivable social gaffe"

 

goggle

verb, look with wide open eyes, typically in amazement. "I goggled at them in total disbelief"

 

harangue

noun, a lengthy and aggressive speech. "they were subjected to a ten-minute harangue by two border guards"

verb, lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner. "the kind of guy who harangued total strangers about PCB levels in whitefish"

 

humdrum

adjective, lacking excitement or variety; dull; monotonous. "humdrum routine work"

noun, dullness; monotony. "an escape from the humdrum of his life"

 

locution

noun: locution; plural noun: locutions

1. 
a word or phrase, especially with regard to style or idiom.

• a person's style of speech. "his impeccable locution." “If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty, he sinks into oblivion. Society, on the other hand, has no obligation toward the poet. A majority by definition, society thinks of itself as having other options than reading verses, no matter how well written. Its failure to do so results in its sinking to that level of locution at which society falls easy prey to a demagogue or a tyrant. This is society's own equivalent of oblivion.” -Joseph Brodsky

2. 
an utterance regarded in terms of its intrinsic meaning or reference, as distinct from its function or purpose in context.

• language regarded in terms of locutionary rather than illocutionary or perlocutionary acts.

 

lopsided

adjective

with one side lower or smaller than the other. "a lopsided grin"

disproportionately weighted in favor of one side over another. "a lopsidedcompetition"

 

Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar was the king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire from 605BC to 562BC. According to the Bible, he conquered Judah and Jerusalem and sent the Jews into exile. He was also credited with building the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar was humbled by God for boasting about his achievements, lost his sanity and lived like an animal for seven years, according to Daniel, chapter 4. When his sanity was later restored he praised and honoured God. (Citation: The Pharmaceutical Journal, July 2013;Online:DOI:10.1211/PJ.2021.1.69308)

 

pervade

verb, (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of. "a smell of stale cabbage pervaded the air"

(of an influence, feeling, or quality) be present and apparent throughout.

"the sense of crisis that pervaded Europe in the 1930s"

 

polemic

noun

a strong verbal or written attack on someone or something. "his polemic against the cultural relativism of the Sixties"

 

screed

noun, plural noun: screeds

1. 
a long speech or piece of writing, typically one regarded as tedious. "her criticism appeared in the form of screeds in a local film magazine"

 

Sovereign

The following explanation is extracted from Chip Ingram’s

web article entitled, ‘What Does the Phrase “God Is Sovereign” Really Mean?’ Christianity.com:

There is absolutely nothing that happens in the universe that is outside of God’s influence and authority. As King of kings and Lord of lords, God has no limitations. Consider just a few of the claims the Bible makes about God:

• God is above all things and before all things. He is the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end. He is immortal, and He is present everywhere so that everyone can know Him (Revelation 21:6).

• God created all things and holds all things together, both in heaven and on earth, both visible and invisible (Colossians 1:16).

• God knows all things past, present, and future. There is no limit to His knowledge, for God knows everything completely before it even happens (Romans 11:33).

• God can do all things and accomplish all things. Nothing is too difficult for Him, and He orchestrates and determines everything that is going to happen in your life, in my life, in America, and throughout the world. Whatever He wants to do in the universe, He does, for nothing is impossible with Him (Jeremiah 32:17).

• God is in control of all things and rules over all things. He has power and authority over nature, earthly kings, history, angels, and demons. Even Satan himself has to ask God’s permission before he can act (Psalm 103:19).

That’s what being sovereign means. It means being the ultimate source of all power, authority, and everything that exists. Only God can make those claims; therefore, it’s God’s sovereignty that makes Him superior to all other gods and makes Him, and Him alone, worthy of worship.

 

 

undue

adjective, unwarranted or inappropriate because excessive or disproportionate. "this figure did not give rise to undue concern"

 

upended

adjective, set or turned on its end or upside down."an upended box",

 

volition

noun, the faculty or power of using one's will."without conscious volition she backed into her office"