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Short St Augustine Poems

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Premium Member ST AUGISTINE
Today a blessing from St Augustine regarding life
and one suggestion of a way to we see it through…

Pray as though everything depended on God…
and 
Work as though everything depended upon you.

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Categories: st augustine, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Brain-Heart Test
In what good has it all come to
In my imaginary mind?
We roll through the wake of the water,
Goddammitting our way through.
Rising with our victories.
Cursing in our swift descents.
Buddhists are laughing on the shoreline.
I’m selling popcorn on the boat.
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Categories: st augustine, life,
Form: Free verse
October Weeds
The kids that sing silently
And the kids that grow like dandelions
Out from St.Augustine lawns
The ones with October-sheltered downcast pupils
That tuck pride into calf-high stockings

They don’t see trouble,
Their heads lifted up towards angelic heavens
Bodies stranded on those cracked-sidewalks....

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Categories: st augustine, 12th grade, beautiful, child, childhood, culture, drug,
Form: Free verse
The Choice
Every man hath the choice,
To do whate'er he will,
Let my choice be to follow Thee,
And be what You would have me be.

For You give to us only the best,
And only in You do we find our rest.**

(copyright 10/30/15)

**You have made us for Yourself, O Lord, and our hearts are restless until they rest in You. - St. Augustine...

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Categories: st augustine, faith, hope, jesus, love,
Form: Lyric

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