Friday, November 22

Browsing: Poetry

Sometimes words won’t do. My thoughts are all so jumbled, And in my mind so tumbled, About with disarray. Oh what could I say? So I chose instead to purchase, A card with this one purpose, To let you know its true, I think the world of you. (for Mrs. Spilger)

Take a deep breath And smile a winsome smile For the moon whose silver light Lets fall upon the sylvan world Will watch with patient guard With angels whose charge Is given thee to keep The winsome smile Fresh upon your face

Wanting to move, I find myself seized with indecision Having a desire to respond, yet holding back I know not what my Lord wills in this situation And time marches on, heedless Deep wants, the secret dreams, held close and dear Grasping the insistent hope, while waiting For the fog between now and the future to clear As time marches on, heedless The silence is His answer, and I am contented All things in time, the patient virtue tells With hope and faith my dreams in Him invested While time marches on, with purpose

Sweet dreams and faerie roses Bedeck thy bedroom window Spreading sweet the fragrances You smell upon your pillow While you dream of fondest wishes Beneath the night scape willow

Fireflies and whippoorwills On summer nights of yesteryear Bring to mind the thoughts so dear Stored away in precious nooks And kept in secret far from sight Till in the evening late at night With giggles and smiles and furtive looks You share with those who mean the most And by your sharing bind them close To the secret places of your heart

I felt the cold autumn breeze kiss my face last night While pausing to consider the enormity of the evening sky A great joy rose up then inside my beating heart And in the midst of my joy I cried out in gratitude I took a deep breath and I determined with fortitude To seek out the joy of His presence and never depart And to return to that place beneath the evening sky Where once I was reminded of the wonder of His might

The song like breath it dances It dances in the evening Cross golden grain its waving Deft fingers they are strumming Strumming the harvest grain The golden grain is waving In the breeze it’s waiving And workers lift their voices Lift voices while they harvest The golden harvest grain Their harvest tools are flashing Flashing in the brilliance And while their tools are flashing You can hear the rhythm Rhythm and verse ascending Ascending with emotion Heart felt emotion pouring As you hear them singing With joy you hear them singing Amidst the harvest grain With song they are rejoicing…

Before the light strikes the rocky shore And myst rolls up from the shadowy moor My heart beats, a pounding beneath my chest I pause as I look out on the foamy crest And I listen to the sea and its deafening roar As I watch the snow white sea gull soar And wait for aurora’s light

My heart lies wounded, ever broken, wanting to be free Yet not greatly, do I seek it, trying fearfully Not so! Cried He, with fervor strong, to you soundness of mind Tis yours to claim, beloved child, adopted son of mine. He came to earth, to live and die, and hang upon a tree And no sweeter thought had He, than His love for thee So do you think, that He would have, you wounded and not free When faithful and just, to forgive is He, a child such as thee Someday this Earth will hold no more, my feet…

I walked along the rolling streams And drank in deep of all my dreams Life then felt rich, as rich as gold Richer than the kings of old Now it seems life’s frantic pace Has robbed me of the gentle grace That once I loved about those streams That walked I by within my dreams

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