Long Know by heart Poems

ON MY MOTHER’S PASSING

i wanted to keep my mother physically with me
but it would be like trying to hold the sun
like in life she still shines brighter than any star
is as gentle as the finest...

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Your personality is split right down the middle in the way that is my heart, you should know all about this though, you played your part
You’re the reason I’m here now, living in this pain,...

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  Up until the summer of 1999, I only knew of the words "Jesus."
  I knew what was being taught in church.
  As I sat in the pew, I heard the Bible...

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When I was five, I asked the Lord…
To please protect my mom, my world
He whispered to my soul, “I will”
And went on to protect her from pain
From worry, doubt, fear and depression
From all the things...

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I remember yesterdays
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NOTE: The Natchez Trace is the Nashville bar where I met my future wife Beth. We invented a game called "twister pool" which involved billiards, drinking and a fair bit of physical contortion ...


At the...

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Do you want the best God has?
Do you want His blessing always?
Do you want God's best gifts?
Do you want His kindness, His grace?
Do you want God to give a second chance?

Pour out your heart, your...

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Pound to the rhythm of my heart…my heart…   (oooh…oooh…x3)

We’re lost, but never found – I hope you don’t mind 
That I’m a boy that’s frankly blind
Do you even care to see the sorrow...

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 I don’t know why I cry
I’m drenched in silence…
I don’t know why 
You’re flooding my mind tonight…
I run around wildly, trying to erase the thought of you, but I hesitate
I don’t want to accept...

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When I first entered this world,
Born to a mom who was so full of love,
A tear stung my eyes – a tear,
Proof that I was alive, so very alive!

When I felt the pain that reminds
My...

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“Because I Love You (The Postman Song) by: Steve B.

I got your letter from the postman just the other day,
so I decided to write you this song,
and just to let you know exactly the way...

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In still small voice you spoke to me
And whispered oh, so earnestly
“Be careful, child, this will not do
You wander far for pastures new…

Be careful, child, I know your heart
I know what lies in every part
Your...

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I wonder what will happen now
That your decision has been made.
Your mind's made up; your plans thought out;
Your fate is sealed, all debts are paid.
 
Our time is past; the past is dead.
There is no...

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You meant nothing to me
you were only a game
I saw in you kindness
A heart easy to tame
The devil inside me smiled
And spilt my golden lies
I never thought about the day that
I’d bring sadness to your...

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I had spent recent years in mourning, since I had lost someone very dear;
As when pallid moon is hidden by clouds, and bright stars will not appear.

My job as a professor consumed me, and I...

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"...one can never leave home... one carries the shadows, the dreams, the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes.. " - Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter, 2008

Healing all...

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What, but in this dismal life should appear
My hopes, my dreams, true love
All seem to fade
Into the distance I reach
My eyes begin to tear
My heart pierced through with loves wounding blade!

I sought the shelter of...

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Bold as the lie that says –
Authenticity isn’t blessed by the truth,
Who exists in reasoning, thinking…
Outside the box, beyond the echo of light,
Despite the shadows and silhouettes of night…

Thinking, like the reflection of a heart...

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i still see you  even though its not your fault we see its the devils face every time you want to go home like things used to be that imaige of them faces in...

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Beneath a sanctuary of the tree

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You may cross the valley with its fields so fresh and green
Or go across the mountains that seem as there a dream

You can scale the ridges that run up and down the coast
Cross the seas...

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Homeward Path                                 ...

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-Look into your heart. What is its most ardent desire?
-I don’t know. I haven’t thought lately.
-You have neglected me. You have neglected your desires. You don’t know your heart…
-No, no I do better than any...

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Pound to the rhythm of my heart…my heart…   (oooh…oooh…x3)
You pushed me to drink the love potion (for many years)
You let me go and I was rolling away in the death cart
Now, I’m hearing...

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Without a conscience, You feel no pain. How do you ever expect to gain? Your words hold no meaning, Your future not so bright. I wonder if you'll ever see the light. You don't seem...

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