Intertwining our words. Our thoughts lay between sheets.
Conscience climaxes ; your wisdom erupts within me.
Absorbing your awareness, I conceive your insight.
Impregnating my understanding with your brilliant mind.
Growing inside my thoughts are the visions we share.
I bare the lovechild of our poetic love affair.
What a terrible life
The woman sits down and breaks down
She cries
Tears drop
The sun shines
She wakes up
She goes to work
She goes out with men
One after another
All she wants is another child
One after another
Her miscarriage was too much to bear
She thinks to herself I never had a child of my own
Why couldn’t I have a child of my own
Blank stares
The child
She goes out
Puts her lipstick on
A brave face
She goes out looking for a mate
A silent tear
Goes as she enters the room
The man with her
All she wants is another child
A loving child has touched my heart
with her cute smile right from the start;
I was stunned. A father - who me?
until this precious little life I did see.
She's turned my world inside out,
and has taught me what life's really all about.
How can a child carry such a force?
In her mind, she never had to coerce.
I find myself letting go more and more,
and I do not ever want to know a cure;
I see my life is now not only about me
but about this loving child - laughing with glee.
I grew up in this world not long ago
because of my daughter I do love so;
she's changed my life forever - that much I know,
and I thank God for letting me watch her grow.
For "My Children" contest sponsored by Walayee Whitlock.
Unconditional is the Nature of Love
Love means unconditionally to me
It never means conditionality
Never down your neighbor’s leg should you pee
Never use its rain as excuse, you see
Contentious relationships will decay
Don’t just love your neighbor, love him today
Keep heart and home open consistently
To benefit most from love’s harmony
Though one’s own Agape may be sloppy
No cause to pee on another’s copy
Just stay with self alone if love seems gone
Unconditionally await love’s dawn
Love never dies, or a child counts the cost
When love is gone, it’s your child who is lost
Unconditionally, expeditiously
Agape returns conspicuously
Prerequisites stifle heartfelt offers
Leaving you lonely with empty coffers
To know true love is our Lord’s greatest gift
Refuse to let squabbles cast hearts adrift
For Lay's What Love Means collaboration challenge
Co-written by John Freeman and Carolyn Devonshire
Love means unconditionally to me
It never means conditionality
Never down your neighbor’s leg should you pee
Never use its rain as excuse, you see
.........
Contentious relationships will decay
Don’t just love your neighbor, love him today
Keep heart and home open consistently
To benefit most from love’s harmony
.........
Though one’s own Agape may be sloppy
No cause to pee on another’s copy
Just stay with self alone if love seems gone
Unconditionally await love’s dawn
.........
Love never dies, or a child counts the cost
When love is gone, it’s your child who is lost
Unconditionally, expeditiously
Agape returns conspicuously
.........
Prerequisites stifle heartfelt offers
Leaving you lonely with empty coffers
To know true love is our Lord’s greatest gift
Refuse to let squabbles cast hearts adrift
For Lay's What Love Means collaboration challenge
Co-written by Carolyn Devonshire and John Freeman
A lasting love, learned and kept.
by Cate Rock
Love?
What is love?
How does love work?
Why would love ever hurt?
As a child love is your mom.
As a child nothing is wrong.
An older love...to a younger love,
One to fall in love with a number isn't right.
When u find that love you should hold on tight.
Love is wrong love is never right...
No one wants u to have love,
You need to learn to fight!
Fight for your love...
Fight for your rights...
Fight for that one warm moment at night...
Love him hold him tell him its OK...
Keep him rid him of his pain...
Love is fragile as a flower...
You shall learn that it welts through the hours...
Hold it love it make it yours...
But when your done make sure you run for love is doomed to be powerful forevermore...
Submission date : 2009-02-17
In a far off place, a little child cries itself to sleep again as the night before,
He doesn’t understand why his little bloated body is weak and covered with sores.
This was the life he was born into and no one here seems to really care,
While we stuff ourselves, a child is near death because we don’t take the time to open our
hearts and share.
I think there ought to be an Army that goes into these countries armed only with food,
medicine, and a whole truckload of love,
To give hope, to the hopeless! What a blessing and testimony to our Savior up above.
Our pets get fed better than these poor people do,
And it is not necessarily their fault the tribulations they are going through.
I thank God that I have never had a child of mine cry itself to sleep because there was no
food for it to eat,
It may not have always been what they wanted, but they never went hungry or had to beg
upon the streets.
I am poor, but I am blessed in more ways than I will ever know,
And everyday I thank the Lord as I watch my love for Him grow.
I dreamed one night not long ago Jesus knelt beside my bed - I could tell He had been
crying - His eyes were very red - He said "My child I know sometimes you really don't feel
loved - But I'm here to remind you why I left My throne above - I did it all for you My child -
I didn't hesitate - Even though I bore much pain My love for you was great - If you had been
the only one living on the earth - I still would have died for you - That's how much you're
worth - Can I tell you something - I didn't want to die - I even asked the Father to let the cup
pass by - But I submitted to God's will because I love you so - I hold you firmly in My hand -
I'll never let you go.
Such a sc-ar-ab,
This pro-ver-ub,
Made to be seen,
A child not heard,
Watch a child at play,
Listen to what they say,
T’s the good book’s discern,
By which we learn,
The faith we say,
If mind doth sway,
In flesh we pay,
For what we say,
As time doth align,
Against the mind,
And it surely will,
As time fulfilled,
Better to leave mouth shut,
Even if burst a gut,
Better to be thought dumb,
As the lamb,
Than to open mouth,
Removing all doubt,
Out of the mouth of babes,
Grows perfect praise,
In wisdom’s ways,
Love’s power okays,
As wisdom pays,
In simple ways,
As simple child,
Grows out of wild,
Complexity of wilderness mind,
By simple child defined,
Doth not align,
Simple love’s kind,
For how can a machine, so complicated,
By power so simple, be operated,
God is simple power,
The complication in what he made,
Doth not swayed,
Simple power that made,
At the hub of every wheel,
Lain the power of will,
Love doth not spoil, nor spill,
A simple child at the wheel,
May we all clutch,
As such!!
8-9-09 [email protected]
Dedicated to "Leanne Christian", a worthy young
fellow Poet, of our Poetry Soup family!!!
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