It’s a long walk, we’ve walked through the crest.
Tears in our eyes and smile on our face,
With scars in our hearts, we tamed our love,
refined-
To heal the wounds of love with love.
The path was never smooth we tread
Nights slipped past while years quietly glide,
When we opened our eyes and read,
Five years since we walked hand in hand.
Our heart still weaves in symphony
Though distance keep us apart.
Yet in that distance we taste what love is!
Yes, There is pain, and yes, there's beauty
But our hearts are true, we abide in love.
For no love is real if love can’t stand the distance,
Gentle love, sweetest love
let me be your crown-
And we'll grow together in golden hair.
Our love - sublime pure and true,
No one shall trade it nor time shall undo.
Appearance
reality
their differences
hide
Within the
perception
that judgment
abides
If once
crossing over
there’s no
going back
The tradeoff
complete
their identity
— hacked
(Dreamsleep: March, 2025)
O for where ever there is lasting hope, true love
also abides in Jesus Christ,
for without lasting hope and Jesus Christ's true love,
where would all of His
created people be? We could not even cope, or have
any lasting hope.
We could not love if Jesus Christ first failed to grant
us all of His never ending
Love. Towards all of us while we were yet sinners
perishing in our own sins and
endless inequities! How we would lost through out
all of the rest of eternity!
We are able to love Jesus Christ
Only because he first loved us and
He gave himself, what more could he
Give? O How he loved both you and
O he also loved me!
L is for the wonderful love he
shows us,
O is for he loves every one of us.
V is for the victory that he won for use
E is for the never ending graced he
freely bestows upon all of us!
12/26/23
So strong I stand
So full of pride
I now demand
You now decide
So bow your head
There's no free rides
So now it's said
The Dude abides
The snow lay on the land ln soft folds
some deep, others were a sprinkling.
Sound was hushed by its blanket
Leaving a quiet stillness in its wake'
Layers of pristine snow muffled foot steps
all the creatures were drawn with curiosity
To a clearing deep in the very dense forest
where a wonderous sight was to be seen.
For there lying in a cradle was a babe
one by one the creatures knelt down
worshiping the babe and the promise
that its birth brought of a new road.
A new form of peace embraced all
each and every form of life came
together in new understanding
and the heaven's lit up in splendour.
Once again we are reminded
of the Lord's "peace be with you"
It’s true some people follow Judaism
and some are followers of Buddhism.
Well I’m no Buddhist
but a devout Dudeist
which makes me a dude of Dudeism!
Written: January 2005
Faith hides ~
All is lost
in the scheme
of things
Faith abides ~
My every breath
a pair of wings
For there abides a grain of truth in lies
a whimper at the core of shouted hate
a distant light that masquerades as hope
a rusted key removed from long locked gate
hushed whisper of a time before the fall
when wisdom would succumb to fevered greed
lies become the currency of power
and truth a stricken soldier left to bleed
Thus fear becomes the tyrant's singing blade
echoing across a shivering land
demanding that its subjects all must kneel
erase the grain of truth of those who stand
If honor be the grain of truth in lies
when will we come to know what truth abides
John G. Lawless
7/18/2020
In Faraway Land, Where Sweetest Rhapsody Abides
In faraway land, where sweetest rhapsody abides
there is hope and smoke in tight little curls;
with life's mysteries and all that it hides,
deep romance and those tasty little hidden swirls.
In distant land, sweet dreams arrive by truckloads
with fire that sets one's soul alight;
one has but to walk barefoot on such dusty roads
to find joy overcoming dark world's blight.
In dear heartland, eager sings love's magic touch
where just one kiss can bring eternal bliss;
all the days of joy almost seem too much,
with dreams fruiting love, one dare not miss.
In homeland, rests blessings of family and friends
every dawn brings light and promised new start;
youth with hope and ambitions that never ends,
dance with maidens with purest love in each tender heart.
Robert J. Lindley
July 19th, 1995
The world pauses in expectation, a waxing moon
The timepiece whose silent ticking is heard by
The worm within as it gnaws with urgent force.
Momentum of thinking is fuelled by hope,
Ordaining the path towards joy or despair;
An uncertain end pricking inner turmoil.
The world watches, but sees only an outward calm,
Not the worm’s insistent bite within. Yet;
The world smiles, the moment passes and the
Worm is stilled when hope is not yet lost.
Earth abides, and this small radish dissolves
Into introspection, becoming lost in fairy castles of hope,
Ignoring the realities of life and the ruthless
(im)probabilities of success.
Where beauty abides
The heart is at home
And love is enthroned
Ruling inside
The beauty’s unseen
Sparkling and clean
In light and repose
It doesn’t suppose
Where beauty abides
To friendship it’s bound
Living in light
It never takes sides
Always innocent new
Desired by all observed by few
Some think it’s not there
They see only dimly
And don’t seem to care
In beauty is strength
Order and power
It’s love that has made it
And perfected its hour
There is a place where love abides;
Where hearts know not fears.
Come and join by my side;
Let me wipe away your tears.
Trust and take my hand;
Have faith in humankind.
Be you here or in a foreign land;
We shall leave no one behind.
Unite, Warriors of the Rainbow;
To create a world that is fair.
Let our numbers rise and grow;
Please form a circle prayer.
With one common quest;
We are not so different, you and I.
Let all lands from east to west;
Be a place where love abides.
Darlene Doll Smith
Watching mundane seconds tick away
Linked together they form passing years
This flimsy chain around my neck does not betray
Nor can my stinging eyes squeeze back the tears
Dreams begin to float out of my reach
Tormented by what makes me so distressed
Losing many of my hopes I feel besieged
Yet still reflecting on the way my life is blessed
The silence puzzles me and pierces with its thunder
The foundation bucks the shaking of its core
What God has joined together no man puts asunder
The waves are beating hard upon our shores
Weary eyes look towards damp clouds and search for light
Desperate to feel some warmth deep within my bones
Will its brilliant glow supplant the bluish night
Giving a sneak peek into the great unknown
Chasing those rainbows now seems like wasted time
The pot of gold was a seductive ruse of lead
Perhaps we were just lonely partners in crime
Caught up in reveries we thought surely lied ahead
Waiting for the stars to fall into my hands
To turn this to profound from the surreal
Nobody but the stars can understand
That I’ll fall victim to my poor Achilles heel
Who abides
Would abide
Though you go for a ride
Now and then
Here and there
Or never
To nowhere
Who abides
Would abide
Sincere or snide
However you speak
Love and eat
Advance
Or retreat
Who abides
Would abide
Whether you follow or guide
Stand up
Weak or strong
Perish now
Or live long
Who abides
Would abide
And take it all in stride
Saintliness and sin
Day and night
And also the
Twilight
Still Abides
One must realize.
The “He who created life”
Still above abides.
Why does He put up with us?
Thank you God for love divine.
Poetic form: Tanka
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
11-14-09
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