Why not follow these wise instructions from the “owner’s manual”?
I AM the Lord your God who set you free
Why then make idols of created things?
My name is holy, give honor to me
Enjoy a day of rest, my praises sing
Respect your parents, it will long life bring
You should not hate or take a person’s life
Bed only one who wears your wedding ring
To take someone’s possessions is not right
Speak truth so all can trust your honesty
And be content, your blessings come from me.
The decasyllabic decastitch (10 lines of 10 syllables each) poetry form has been ascribed to Sheeley A. Cephas and named ‘the Decuain’ (pronounced duck•won). It is written in iambic pentameter with rhyme scheme (ababbcbcaa). Just follow the rules 🙂 Linking with Laura and dVerse Poets.
a poem in my pocket 
Mar 15, 2022 @ 07:27:10
Ooh, I love this interpretation! Very effective and cool
Mar 15, 2022 @ 09:02:51
I appreciate your comment, JYP!
Mar 13, 2022 @ 11:15:03
Indeed… and I would like to add… never take the name of God to your killing… It’s amazing to me that the Russian Orthodox Church is blessing the war…
Mar 14, 2022 @ 16:50:14
That’s awful! We humans tend to think God is on our side just by saying so.
Mar 13, 2022 @ 04:38:58
a perfect topic for the decuain and I love not only how you rewrote the commandments in your own words but found perfect rhymes too – bravo Lynn
Mar 13, 2022 @ 08:16:14
Thanks, Laura 🙂 and Bravo, God!
Mar 12, 2022 @ 11:35:16
Lynn, Lynn, Here At the Very End
Again Just Like Old Times Hehe As
You Celebrate A Form of Poetry Based on ‘Ten’
SMiLes Dear FRiEnD
Not Much Into Form
i AM
True if Only We All
See God As Essence
We Don’t Get Lost in Idols
Of Covering God With Clothes
of Idols Like Assigning One Form to
All in All
Of Essence of
All That Is i Am
As ‘They’ Used to
So Eloquently Relate
Not Enclosing The Great i Am in A Name
Vain Where Essence i AM May Be Imprisoned
Now in only 3 Letters Bought and Sold This
Way As If We Tiny Humans Get to Buy And
Sell Essence
of i am
in Clothes
Of Idol Letters
As Small as Three
And Even Tell ‘God’ What to Do
And Oh my Goodness Who to Be
What is Often Lost in Translation
Is Letters And Words Will Be Made
into Golden Calves of a 3 Letter Word
‘God’ and Bought And Sold the Same Way
As Gold
Becomes
Form So Much
Smaller Than Essence
Of All that is Yes Alpha Thru
Omega Beginning Always New Now
True Just Another Metaphor For the Largest
Venn Diagram Without Human Measure Now
The Spirit
Wind of
The Great
i Am mY FRiEnD…
Anyway Just Meandering
Around Online Your Poem
Seemed A Little Bit Lonely
So i Am Visiting You Again…
i Love to Call God L O V E
Letters Better Yet i Love to Do Love…
Yet Alas We aRe only Humans And This is Part
of Why THere Are 45,000 Denominations of Christianity Still Growing
Now Globally With Different Views in All Those Denominations too Hehe
As True God Will Never Get Bored of Us ALL Seeing Reality All So Differently..:)
Mar 12, 2022 @ 18:15:05
God is totally Other and Beyond us…yet I know he loves us! THANKS for stopping by, Fred, to keep my poem company…at the end 🙂
Mar 12, 2022 @ 19:03:19
All my Pleasure
Dear Lynn
Thank You☺️🏝
Mar 12, 2022 @ 11:35:00
Good ideals to live by (if possible) even if one doesn’t believe in “the owner’s manual.” 😏
Mar 12, 2022 @ 18:17:04
Yes, they make sense and society would benefit…thanks, Merril.
Mar 13, 2022 @ 05:45:18
You’re welcome, Lynn.