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Anthem For the Heart

Music often speaks for us when we have no words.
Let's start the year off with a song! Enjoy!

Anthem for the heart
By Michelle Morris
01/01/2023

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for the heart
All those crazy emotions
That tear it all apart

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for your soul
Try to choose true love
'Cos it's the love that makes you whole

Whenever you get down
Remember that you've got you
You need to be your best friend
The love of your life too

Not in a vain fashion
But self-love and acceptance true
You need to love yourself first
Before you can ask others to do it too

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for the heart
All those crazy emotions
That tear it all apart

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for your soul
Try to choose true love
'Cos it's the love that makes you whole

Learn to know yourself best
Understand your soul
Learn to work through things
Before they get out of control

We all need healing
Everyone's a mess
No one has it all together
So be gentle with your quest

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for the heart
All those crazy emotions
That tear it all apart

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for your soul
Try to choose true love
'Cos it's the love that makes you whole

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for the heart
Embrace the deepest truth
That love is all we are

This is not a love song
It's an anthem for your soul
We are all in this together
Feel the love that brings you home

© Michelle Morris, 2023
Form: Lyric


Sense of Loss

For all those who have experienced the loss of a loved one, I hope you find your way through it... Blessings and best wishes...

Sense of loss 
By Michelle Morris
07/03/2021 

The loved one you lost may no longer be here but they will always live on in your memories... 

And that devastating pain that is screaming in your soul reminds you of how much they meant to you... 

There is no escaping that sense of loss...
And in reality you may go on living as best you can but you will never be the same... 

On a molecular level, something shifts in us when we deal with a loss of that magnitude... 

It is important to remember that our loved ones would want us to thrive, not just survive, this trauma... 

Your loved one will always be with you in spirit and memories, and you will hopefully find comfort in that, always...

Embrace your pain, face your loss, work through your feelings...
For you cannot go around it...
You have to go through it...

And your pain will soften and surrender to love in its deepest essence within your soul...

In time...
In truth...
In hope...

With faith...
With love...
With light... 

© Michelle Morris, 2021

You are entering a new chapter

If you have experienced a tough break-up like a divorce, please take care and be gentle with yourself. You need time to process your emotions and you definitely need time to grieve.

Even if the end of a relationship is good for us in the long run, we still have feelings to work through. Don't let anyone rush your process. Blessings and hugs.

You are entering a new chapter
By Michelle Morris 
31/05/2024

You can put the burden down 
You can rest your weary heart
You can take time to walk through memories 
To process your emotions and your grief's part

It is over now (and you need space)
That timeline is complete
You are entering a new chapter 
Your life path is revealing its secrets 

For we can't hold on to the Darkness 
Those demons that try to tear us down 
Whether loved ones or situations 
We have to move on and straighten our crowns

It is not for others to push you
It is no one's journey but your own 
Go within and find your own peace
Embrace your strength alone

For the memories that we carry 
Are best kept sweet and pure
Releasing the hurt and pain
Is better for our ascension tour 

No more baggage or grim cages
We can be Light and Love and Freedom 
For every single Soul deserves
A blessed Life filled with Meaning 

© Michelle Morris, 2024
Form: Rhyme

Timeless Currents

"Mirrored Refrain": The poem is formed by three or more quatrains where two lines within the quatrain are the "mirrored refrain" or alternating refrain. The rhyme scheme is as follows-- xaBA, xbAB, xaBA, xbAB etc.. x represents the only lines that do not rhyme within the poem. A and B represent the refrain.


Spirits in line with continuity
Shining bright through contrast
Insatiable you, everyday starts anew
A love that is meant to last

Growing together, learning more and more
There is nothing we can't work through
A love that is meant to last
Insatiable you, everyday starts anew

Swimming through the timeless currents of bliss
Our souls unite, no impasse
Insatiable you, everyday starts anew
A love that is meant to last

Time shared for eternity, we are meant to be
Even in anger nothing is ever taboo
A love that is meant to last
Insatiable you, everyday starts anew

Conversations stimulte a mental vacation
A lasting impression sending me into climax
Insatiable you, everyday starts anew
A love that is meant to last 

Thirty years from now old and grey, we remain
and never bid adieu
A love that is meant to last
Insatiable you, everyday starts anew

Jared Pickett
11/30/2011
Form:

Premium Member HEART THAT FEARS THE LORD REVERENTIALLY AND WISELY

July 13 Heart for God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 1-3

Key Verse – Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

HEART THAT FEARS THE LORD REVERENTIALLY AND WISELY

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His presence
With His salvation’s assurance along His forgiveness’ license
From condemnation’s fatal incense against wickedness’ destructive sense
Toward rejuvenating revival to serve through His divine iridescence.

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His compassion
With His love’s direction along His Word’s instruction and vision
From hatred’s bitter reaction against apathy’s cold intrusion
Toward persevering devotion to prioritize His great commission.

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His kindness
With His care’s cheerfulness along His comfort’s gentleness
From rudeness’ conceited indifference against unconcern’s critical madness
Toward transforming goodness to show His marvelous graciousness.

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His commitment
With His call’s appointment along His charges’ reinforcement
From idleness’ empty achievement against slothfulness’ vain accomplishment
Toward strengthening diligence to work through His empowerment.

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His mercy
With His help’s restoration along His pardon’s clemency
From failure's perilous result against offenses’ grievous deficiency
Toward assisting dependence to trust His sufficiency.

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His light
With His Scriptures’ guidance along His truth’s might
From darkness’ fearful night against hell’s torturous sight
Toward illumining wisdom to shine with His delight.

Our heart fears the Lord reverentially and wisely by His zeal
With His truth’s steadfastness along His doctrines’ seal
From unbelief’s skeptical sense against doubtfulness’ deal
Toward teaching mentorship to discipleship and servanthood, Biblically real.

July 13, 2026


The white roses were there

This poem is in memory of a sweet, elderly lady who passed away recently. As I was there when she died, I've needed time to work through the emotions. As much as death is part of life, it's still an adjustment for those of us left behind. 

Rest in peace, P. May we honour your life through acts of goodness and grace. You are missed by all who knew you. 

The white roses were there 
By Michelle Morris 
10/10/2025

The white roses were there
When you closed your blue eyes 
For the very last time 

The white roses were there 
When your soul took flight 
And you went home to heaven 

The white roses were there 
When we said goodbye 
To your body lying still and peaceful

The white roses were there 
When we cried and shared our grief
The shock still lingering despite reality 

The white roses were there 
When they came to take you away 
With quiet dignity and reverence

The white roses were there 
When we drew the curtains 
And turned off the lights 

The white roses were there 
When we closed the door 
And tried to go about our lives

The white roses were there 
When we couldn't sleep at night 
And held memories close in the moonlight 

The white roses were there 
When we drew back the curtains 
And let the sunlight in 

The white roses were there 
When we opened the windows 
And let fresh air breathe life into the house again 

The white roses were there 
Every day, every hour, every minute 
And now they are gone 

They're with you up in heaven 
There in the peace and magic
Of hope and faith and love

© Michelle Morris, 2025

Premium Member Perseverance

Competing against windy air
Doing its best to stay in flight
Wondered why it would even dare
As it wrestled with all its might

Pretty bird that was very small
A newborn of very few days
Yet the small, feathered one gave all
To make it through the turbulent maze

It perched on the lamp by my door
Worn from fighting with gravity
Thought, would my guest stay or just soar
To prove profound tenacity

My weathered friend with spirits high
Left the haven by my back door
Found its way back into the sky
Braver and stronger than before

Mother Nature’s lesson is true
The moment we become alive
Until life ends and our work through
One must persevere to survive
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member The Fourth Floor of Nowhere

An estranged couple teetering on the precipice
of splitsville  are holed up on the fourth floor
of nowhere, their apartment. They're seeking refuge 
from the covid-19 pandemic. Both decided to 
quarantine together in hopes of salvaging 
the crumbling state of their union. It was a bad idea,
a colossal mistake. Their attempt at reconciliation,
a total failure. Their toxic relationship almost as 
as insidious as the deadly virus itself! Trapped 
 on the fourth floor of nowhere; sometimes they
seem like prison inmates tethered to each other.
All they wanted was to work through their issues,
but they've made matters infinitely worse.
Incessant fighting ensues. Murphy's law unravel
before their eyes. It's a glorious mess!

              an estranged couple
              covid-19 quarantine...
                colossal mistake


The Fourth Floor of Nowhere Poetry Contest
Sponsored by craig cornish
Date written: 09/09/2020
Form: Haibun

Premium Member PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO FILLS US WITH HIS SPIRIT

January 28 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 31-32

Key Verse – Exodus 31:3 And I have filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship.

PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO FILLS US WITH HIS SPIRIT	

Praise be to God for filling us with His Spirit so we can:
Acknowledge His ways according to His precepts
Abide by His wisdom along His purpose
Accomplish His will by His plan
Assert His Word amidst prayer
Achieve in His work through His power
Apply His winning principles
Appreciate His worth so precious
 
Exodus 31:13 Praise be to the Lord for sanctifying us 
while granting us: 
Heavenly wisdom
Holy understanding
Helpful knowledge 
Healthy workmanship

Exodus 32:11 Praise be to the Saviour Whom we beseech with:
Humility in confessing our sins 
   as stiff-necked stubborn children 
Honour in exalting His name 
   of greatness and omnipotence
Honesty in devoting ourselves
   for His service.  Amen!

January 28, 2024

Perhaps

If you look out into space, 
pictures on the internet 
taken from the Hubble telescope
you can see a nebula

a great big cloud of gas and dust
the birthplace of new baby suns
most of the gas is hydrogen
the gas that makes the ozone layer

hydrogen links together to build ozone,
so hydrogen is attracted to hydrogen,
yet I wonder is there a small attraction left over
after the atom's link, is there a small slight attraction

Is this slight attraction, the force that we call gravity
atoms are attracted to atoms,
oxygen links with hydrogen to form water 
perhaps, matter attracted to matter

When suns that are born 
they start out composed of mainly Hydrogen gas and dust
then having exploded into an atomic reaction
because of the growing force of gravity

they start changing overtime 
condensing slowly changing from hydrogen 
they turn into helium the next atom 
in the periodic table

as time goes by they slowly work through 
the periodic table until if they are big enough 
they turn into a lead, then they explode 
going supernova, creating dust that goes on 

to make planets, meteorites and the earth
our moon came from a collision with the earth
our moon was once apart of the earth
and broke away after the collision to become a satellite

The core of the earth is hot, perhaps because gravity, 
matter attracted to matter
the force of compounding atoms, creates an atomic reaction 
the outside shell is created because

The coldness of space cools the atoms down
creating a shell a crust around the out side of the earth
the perfect nest for nurturing life
Hydrogen appears to be the foundation of existence

I'm not sure where hydrogen comes from
perhaps the big bang theory is true
but with that much gravity 
the matter would be pure energy so no boulders

just an explosion of pure energy 
that cools down and starts forming atoms 
on becoming the smallest atom hydrogen 
would go on to form nebula clouds, suns and planets
Form: Narrative

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