For This Our Love

For this our love is not displaced when reaching for the stars
The gratitude that we misplaced by killing one of ours
The greater good is living well when providence is near
The keeper of our destiny is holding up the rear

The hope of all humanity is not a bigger fight
But how we lose our vanity by doing what is right
The miracle of peace on earth is not a vain pursuit
The promise of our victory is finally taking root

The world is lost to what is bossed and what is left to gain
But freedom’s flag is still unfurled along the fruited plain
The children of a noble birth are not inclined to war
For greatness is the common good of those who died before

The future is our joyfulness when we are free from hate
For enmity is not the spring that passes for a gate
The way to love our fellow man is not to die in war
But how we live in happiness to make our blessings sure

The poor and meek are with us still to occupy our fight
And justice is the way we live to bless our dreams at night
Oh dearly, dearly, He has loved to prove a Savior’s birth
The visage of a single star for every soul on earth.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2023

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Situation Avatar
October 5, 2023 at 7:39 PM
YAAAA HOOO !!! A poet that care like me!
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August 26, 2023 at 1:19 AM
I'm trying to put my finger on what makes your poems so pleasing to the ear for me Bryan. It's not just your unforced rhyming..it's more than that..Here it's your masterly use of the fourteener (iambic heptameter?) that appeals. Nothing seems 'shoehorned' to fit the message. Cheers - Gary
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August 26, 2023 at 7:29 AM
Thank you Gary. I hope you've been doing well. Without you, I wouldn't get any comments. Hope to read more of your poems soon. You are very talented. Take care, my friend. Bryan
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