Long Look into your heart Poems

-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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I wonder if we think about the ramifications when by so much hate we’re blinded…
Perhaps on a day we celebrate love…it’s good to be reminded:

When the old teacher ran across  a weathered copy of...

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The teacher, long retired, ran across a copy of the only poem she ever saved
which immediately caused her to reminisce….
For in all her years of teaching she’d never read a poem…as beautiful as this.

“Class,” she...

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WHAT DADDY WOULD HAVE WANTED

A teacher found a weathered copy of her poem…
And immediately reminisced…
for never had he read a poem…as sad or beautiful as this:


“I want you all to write a love poem,” He...

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When the sun drops out of sight
On a full moon night
When the moon shines so bright
All across the night
With God creating this amazing sight
When we are able to just walk all through the night
Without any...

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She paid her respects to the maven as she worshiped in a manner most graven.
Her prayers were sublime, while she looked for a sign with an offering placed in a basin.
Hands held to her chest...

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You never really knew the beauty of your soul.
Of how it is possible to be both old and young
within the same body that tells about the years past,
but can put to shame so many of...

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(The instructions of this contest were to write lyrics to fit the music of this song)


VERSE A

Oh I know I promised I'd never leave
I'd always stay by your side
Tho' Heaven has taken me, Love, please...

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(6/7/11)

My daughter asked me : daddy where is heaven?
I thought about this very carefully
asking myself the same question.
Then the answer came into my mind
Like a bolt of lightning.

Heaven is god, and god is heaven.
When we...

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Whom do you truly love?
look into your heart to see
what our affections truly are
what seeds growing on our tree

The Lord God himself is our desire
well this statement should be true
if He’s more important than anything
for...

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To speak a truthful opinion correctly dressed
attacked by false faces clearly visible hate
trying to shut down facts crying victim's
Judgemental liars falsely claiming right's
let's look into your heart and see who pulls the strings
Firstly you support...

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Why can’t this world just find the  peace and learn to live as one
Why do we have to hurt and hurt for things that only evils done
Look in to the eyes of a child...

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Isn’t birth precious?

As a child,
You followed your heart
Without much thought
And let your life live:
Without confusion and fear,
With curiousness and alertness,
Not knowing that you don’t know much.

There was joy
And enormous spirit
In you.

As an adult,
You are following...

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I hung my verses in the wind,
time and tide their faults may find . . . 

 . . . . . Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poet

________________

As my eyes drop,
I look into my weeping heart,...

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The media paints the heart bright red
but in reality, that's not always true
life comes along to knock us down
even falling in love isn't just I do

Take a look inside that heart
look deep way right down
your...

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I would like to show you something
That your eyes can not see
It will give you a sense of feeling
Allowing your thoughts to run free
I want you to look within yourself
Only as a simple earthly being
Look...

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We have never met
Never shared a glance
Never spoke a single word
I never got a chance to see your smile
All I know of you is your words
Written on a glowing screen
Late at night
Alone you sit staring...

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A Kind of Winter

Never to see you turn and smile
or smell your rain-wet hair
or feel your hand or hear your voice
or look into your heart-full eyes

or hold you when you cry
'til Sun and laughter come...

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You stand now on the threshold;
It shouldn't be too long.
Till you're a man, my Grandson;
Valiant, tall and strong.

But there are many choices;
In our country brave and free.
We wait and watch and wonder
Who you will decide...

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These last two poems are in honor of Mrs. Annie L. Darden who I only got to 
know briefly but shared her love and life with me as if I was her own.


When I look...

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Like a howl in the night
My stomache is tellin' me something
And im tired of hurtin'.

Everytime i wake up i feel faint,
My breath smells like death.

And im going crazy 
Because its something i don't wanna face.
Because...

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Don't look for me in the shadows for I am not there 
Look into your heart for my spirit dwells there 
I am not a myth nor fantasy 
I am what your heart sees as...

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If they could look into your heart
 and see what I see when I read 
 your awesome poetry, 
 they would never stop 
 telling you, what an amazing 
 person you are. 

...

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Weep no more for me my lady 
For I have never left you all this time 
It is true you can not see me 
But I am always by your side 
You gave me more...

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“LISTEN”

Listen to your heart
and hear my voices of love,
think of the most important thing 
to you and if I come
to your mind first that simply 
means you are in love.
Look into your heart
and if it’s...

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