The Depth of My Love:
I just hope my words can tell you
The depth of love I feel for your love
I know now this love is true
Your love is my treasure.
Your body sets me on fire like no other you see
When you lay next to me I feel at peace
When you wrap your arms around me
I thank God for your grace.
For you give this old soldier a sence of space
Nightmares I have had many
You have been my ace
Just knowing you honey, is not one too many.
Steven Lee Siegel
July 13, 2021
Our Trails
You never know where a trail will lead you
You never know what lays around the bend,
If even it has a stream to view
For you might have been an Godsend.
The Lord never said out trials would be easy
He did say, that He would be with us in our troubles
So when our worries get a bit breezy,
Remember God when you stumble.
Our new trails can led to new things
When we let the Father led the way
Then we can have new wings
A Christian now is fearless to play.
Steve L. Siegel
July 12, 2021
Compare and Share When There
Am reading Peace, Love and Healing
by Bernie S. Siegel, M.D.
After all of my patients will compare;
What I must learn is how to share,
Hope and pain,
Not in vein;
Touched and held hands while there.
Jim Horn
The Great Spirit and Woman
-:-
The Great Spirit says that men should
look at all women in a Sacred way.
That men should never put women
down or shame them in any way.
When men have problems,
they should seek their counsel.
They should share with them openly;
most women have an intuitive
thought process. She somehow has access
to an entire system of knowledge that few men
can develop. She can help us to understand,
to work out a problem in what men cannot.
That why I the Great Spirit made this woman
for you so that to make you a strong good warrior.
You must always treat in good a way,
so that two of you be even stronger, as one!
Steve L. Siegel
July 4, 2017
Faces
-:-
The thing about faces is they can say
a lot more than just words
some like the guy on left his must
be full of happy memories, he seems
at peace with himself, with some happy
thoughts maybe something or one of the past.
The man in the middle seems to be mad
at the entire world and all that is around it;
heck he might even be mad at himself also
but the anger is eating him up both inside and out,
yelling at people to get the hell out of his way!
The last guy, seems to have seen it all,
by that I mean he most likely is a homeless Veteran;
he has seen things that no man should have ever seen,
that is why he has that faraway look in his eyes,
just trying to find a place to be able to call home.
Yes, you can tell you a lot about faces,
if just you take the time to look.
-:-
Steve L Siegel
July 2, 2017
No Words Will Do
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No Words Will Do
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No, Words Will Do
-:-
There’s no words I can say that will take
away all the pain that she feeling right now,
nor does she want hear them. The pain of
losing your mate is so great you yourself that
want there be in the ground with him.
-:-
We as nation should feel just bad as she feels
right now, we have at war for too darn long, but
this country is built on war. It is what feeds this
nation don’t let tell you difference, because it is.
But life must go on and so shell you today go
ahead cry your eyes out you desure that much.
-:-
All that we can do now is feel some of that pain
and not let his death be in vain, I just hope somehow
she will get too see that here others who do care for
her and her childern and wish God's Blessings on them
that someday that she might find peace and love again.
-:-
Steve L. Siegel
June 3, 2016
I am an American
-:-
My Americans, what America is going through right now
Is not about politics; or Democrats versus Republicans.
It is an assault on the American way of life; because of
What it stands for, freedom. This is not the time to
Look away and not make waves. No this is the time
To be informed, some Muslims like ISIA has said it is
Their goal to get rid of our way of life. It is time to pray
For God help and give us the wisdom to know what is needed
To be done, not leave it to our children. This is what I
Believe in: I am an American. I believe in God, family
And country. I don’t have much to give, but I’ll share
What I do have. I have been beaten down by politicians
And liars. They have tried erase my identity and my pride.
However, I’m an American, I was a soldier, I will salute my flag
(The red white and blue.) honor and respect my
Constitution for the right to be free; I will bow only
To God and I will stand in for the truth. So no man can
Ever take that away from me; the right to choose
My region, my God and all men and women to be free
And I will never turn my back to my country or God;
I do swear.
Steve L. Siegel
February 10, 2016
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My Journey in Christ
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I wasn’t forced to follow Christ, I Decided it,
I don’t worship to hear my voice,
I worship because He deserves it.
I don’t read his word because it is
A story I read it because it is true.
I love my God, and I won’t ever
deny it to anyone, for any reason.
I read in Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my
Righteous right hand.
Did you know never once in the Bible
Does is say,” You buddy go figure it out.”
However, the phrase
“Do not be afraid”
Is written in Bible 365 times.
That a daily reminder from God of His
Love, to live every day being fearless.
Sometimes God’s blessings are not
In what He gives; but in what he takes away.
Like our sins though Jesus His Son!
He must have really loved us to done that;
To give His Son for our wicked ways
Man that is real love!
Steve L. Siegel
February 9,2016
DISCRETE YET BELOVED-an Ekphrasis
Separate, apart yet together,
two side of one coin.
Two opposites of self,one
inner, within
one outer, without.
A common humanity,yet
unique,individual discrete.
A child in God's eyes,
set apart.. yet beloved
An ekphrasis tribute to and inspired by the poet Eli Siegel (author in 1925 of what can be only described as a my footle form entitled 'ONE QUESTION)
You may hear me recite this and most of my PS poetry on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro.
Read over 250 of my short forms @strand poet on twitter
Cry Little Sister’s Cry
Steve L. Siegel
Sept. 2015
A Sister, a daughter it does not matter which
She has lost the person she loved
She’s trying her best to be brave as one is now being put to rest
But the tears will fall anyway that’s just the way of things
~ + ~
We send our young men easily off to war
Somehow we just cannot find a way to end a conflict
As easy as we went into a war, why is that?
Now we are talking about a new war?
~ + ~
Now I tell all. Cry Sisters cry loud
Don’t let them send your Dads and brothers away
And now mothers to fight on another mountain top
That will be forgotten, in some war that will soon be forgotten.
~ + ~
How many more no names of mountain tops
Must we bury our dead and walk away from
Before we say we’ve had enough of it
So little sister or daughter you'll be able to stop your crying?
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To those who gave us their all
And the little sisters everywhere
God Bless them all…
Old Man Sitting Alone
Steve L, Siegel
Sept. 2015
-:-
I sit here with my dog as cars go whizzing by past
Time even seem to go by slower yet
Most of my friends are now put to rest
Soon that be my fate, as well as my pet.
-:-
I sit here as an old man looking up at my flag
Seeing all the trouble around me
I know my time here is starting to slag
When I’m looking at my flag I want you to see what I see.
-:-
A country that is strong and full of fight
A spirit that will never die
All working together can sit in the light
Neat and tight as a well tied tie.
-:-
I ask you not to forget your brothers and sisters
They are what holds this great nation together
Their sacrifices were great, do not shed tears
They fought for you even in the worst of the weather
-:-
It’s our spirit and dreams that gives this nation breath
Giving it, its life and freedoms that we get too enjoy
Helping a neighbor is not a sin, let that be our wealth
For everyone in their lives is needing a little joy.
-:-
GB. This Country of Ours.
A Single Tree
Steve L. Siegel
August, 2015
-:-
Up on the upper Hoh River there is a trail
Only two and haft miles long, at end of trail is a tree
Were it has turned into a cross all by Gods own hands
People have been coming up there for years to see.
-:-
There is no pastor up here
Only a log beam made into a bench
Where people come pray or meditate
Some getting closer to God within the tree’s reach.
Myself it was time for self-reflections
I knew that for me it was time to grow
Where I learned that a little rain must fall
Some-times for Jesus, so that I can learn to be the show.
-:-
I sure don’t know why this tree grew this way
By the laws nature it should not have
Nothing has ever hurt this tree
No fire or lighting has ever have.
-:-
I do truly believe that this tree
Has seen more people turn their lives around
Then any church or pastor on any Sunday
Maybe, that’s why God put this tree in this piece of ground.
-:-
Author’s Notes
This tree is for real it is a big spruce somehow instead going straight up
It has two branches that forms a cross.
It at Olympic Nat, Park, Hol campgrounds
I’m Staying!
Steve L. Siegel
August, 2015
-:-
What if we did have an authority of our own?
All across America and our native lands,
Were we choose to place our hats and call home,
Nine-eleven brought us tears to my and your lands.
We all cried as smoke rose up from the towers,
This nation watched as the ash and smoke rose up,
Taking dreams away in a wink of a few hours,
It was time for our own country to wake-up.
On this sad day, we felt we stood all alone.
In one day we stood arm too arm as brothers,
Ready to fight for our nation's own birthstone.
Now we'll get to see if this be our own luster.
Because, I'm staying till the fight has been won!
When a Road Seems Too Long
Steve L. Siegel
August, 2015
-:-
When the road seems a bit too long
Bringing sorrow around each bend
You can count on Jesus, being close by
It’s His love of you, you can depend.
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We must go through trials to grow
Don’t let darkness take you into despair
For your Savior is not far behind
You’ll never have too heavy of a cross to bear.
*
We must learn to look to the new light
With hope, love and a deep new heart.
The road ahead will get much smoother
When our hearts can be open for a new start.
*
We don’t have any reason to be downhearted
Our troubles will last but a little while
Jesus is the guiding light of our pathways
He’ll walk beside us the whole long mile.
Until I Met You
Steve L. Siegel
August, 2015
~:~
I remember the day when you walked into my life
Then knocked on my broken hearts door
I never dreamed that you held a key
To unlocking the world of love and more.
:
Then once you stepped into it
I'd be writing you a poem
Of the love that we'll share
It seems like forever for a real love to come home.
:
My heart melts when I see your warm smiles
You're what I dream of when I go to bed sleepily
I give to you, all my hopes and dreams
My love, your love fills me so very deeply.
;
Through the years we shared our heart and souls
In a near world of perfect harmony's
Laughs and the tears we have known
But, that's have been the sweetest of melody's.
:
Now the years have brought us here to Odessa
Across to this desert and the sands of time
So hand in hand we'll walk till the very end
Together you’ll always be a dear wife of mine...
~:~
To my wife Sally who at times I still
Cannot believe she actually married me.
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