Courage Ottava Rima Poems

Your life is so rich--uniquely consequential--
It's no accident, YOU were born with potential,
No goal is so lofty you cannot achieve it
You're a special one-of-a-kind, that's...

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Spring in all it's glory is now coming,                
with flowers...

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With God’s great hand* of uplifting power

Hoisting stewardship’s grand effectiveness

I yield to Him, my reaching-out Tower

Midst gracious call for service-faithfulness

Being a Bible-hearer and doer

For Gospel...

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It’s over and the drugs are wearing off
As suffering returns, we cease to scoff 
At those post-ops who bitterly complain
Of “agony” or “unbearable pain”
And for...

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You are the one I have long waited for
The one who filled with love this empty heart
Who gave me meaning and courage once more
To follow...

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To ride the sea is a pleasure and a curse
as huddle of gulls, starfish dart from nowhere
enchanting frolic on breakers, they traverse
into buoyant laps with...

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Born in that historical and eventful year
when changes were sweeping this country,
peace songs were heard in the scary, tumultuous air...
not realizing the dear cost for...

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I lifted you up in your hardest times,
and made your challenge mine...
by letting you take comfort in my inspiring words!
I exchanged my smile for yours,
so...

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