Through the gentle stirrings of the night
Your laughter flows
And I smile
I remember the love
Through the morning’s mirrored silhouette
Your eyes emerge
And I see
I remember the love
Through the muted billows in the sky
Your song arises
And I hear
I remember the love
Through the soothing breath of God upon my face
Your heart remains
And I feel
I remember the love
You fill my heart with song Lord
And My heart is filled with love
The desire for peace is strong now
My feelings for You are never enough
I've chased a dream of a perfect life
Full of laughter and with joy
But I must confess I lack these things
I do lack the drive for joy
I need Your help dear Lord
No words are ever enough
Keeping on track is tough
I picked up a smile off the floor,
The smile someone had discarded as they walked out of the door.
The smile didn't fit me, it gave me a lopsided grin,
So I just let it slip and I looked miserable again.
Time just stands still,
I feel shaky and I feel ill.
Of all of the sounds I have heard,
The worst was the songs of the songbirds, because they sang all of the wrong words.
The world may continue to spin,
But for me time had stood still within.
For that moment when you said goodbye,
My heart shattered and I died!
God surely fashioned the blushing rose,
exquisite velvet petals of red.
I'm sure it was God who deftly chose
happy colors of wildflower beds.
God is the single raindrop that falls,
the snowflake individually proud.
Thunder and lightning are God's call,
lovely rainbow midst changeable cloud.
God is the mountains and meadows below,
the oceans and tiny, wayward creeks.
I believe God would like us to know
in birds' lovely songs, God often speaks.
God knows the heart of the wildest beast,
and the heart of a peaceful dove.
God's power comforts those having least
In my heart, I believe God is love.
January 21, 2022
Show Me God Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
7th Place
The fluttering of wings,
The chirping from above,
What music do they bring,
Those birds that I love?
With weeds in their mouth,
Tangled with hay,
They fly back south
For a temporary stay.
They bring beautiful songs,
The ones I adore.
Here it belongs,
My heart longs for more.
Douobting Thomas, the tom-est of tomfoolery,
Tomcat screeching at another moon.
What other metaphors can I make
For this most foul of fools?
Foolishness is one of my better attributes.
I'll take my heart over my head any day.
Intuition is, ex-officio, superior to intellect
And my heart is ahead of my head.
But catching up slowly my mental machinery
Sputters and spews and groans and moans
In fits and starts it wakes
Grudgingly grinding out impudent ideas.
And tries to rhyme with the times
And sync it's rhythm with the spheres
The orbs in their orbits proclaim their omnipotence
And my heart beats with their harmonies.
What is it about your enchanting gaze
That has sent my heart to fire?
I am engulfed completely within the blaze
And burning up in this eternal desire.
What is it about your harmonic tone
That commissions my soul to hear?
As my heart pleas: “let us not be alone,
For with this love there is nothing to fear.”
How is it that one caressing stroke
As upon my hand you place your own,
Could enter within me to so deeply evoke
Emotions I have never before shown?
How is it that I should feel such bliss
With open eyes as I dream through the day?
The touch of your lips from one tender kiss
Oh how it steals my breath away…
There is no song that sings the words I feel.
No poem with words that describe the butterflies you awakened
That keep my heavy heart lifted above my lungs.
No song makes me breathe like your voice.
I search, believe you me,
But the thousands of words that reverberate through my cranium
Can never define the recreation of my soul you began
Before you held my hand and showed me how to make me...me.
No chord hits the note of your angelic sigh
Or the sleepy snort of laughter through your (perfectly constructed) nose.
Bach, Beethoven, nor Mozart could quite pin the grace
That was used when creating everything that escapes from you.
No chisel tinking tirelessly against flawless marble
Was ever successful in piecing together your perfect imperfections.
No Christian in a pew ever knew of the praise and worship spent
Over your sun-kissed skin and eyes full of wisdom surpassing your youth.
Yet here I am, a girl with a heart made of lead and rusted nails
In love with an angel with x-ray vision disguised as earth-brown eyes.
He never minds that his wings may get tired, or his halo may be dulled
While we make those songs we yearn for ourselves.
This instrument called my heart
That used to play love songs just for you
Is now old,worn and tattered
Barely even able to carry a tune
Beautiful love songs it used to play
Have now been turned to blues
From a woman I used to love
That has torn my heart in two
Melodies that would always flow
From a heart that was always so true
Now broken it hurts to even play
From a heart that's been so abused
Through loneliness a heart gets worn
Without all the love it was so used to
Leaving beautiful memories that are now forlorn
Almost unable to even play the blues
A sad song will still play on
Through these words that I call the blues
From a heart that used to play love songs
With all my heart,that were just for you
DannyBoy:2-10-13
To My Wife, Wanda:
The road was lonely.
Your existence gently speaks to me
though miles apart, tonight, are we.
Your subtle presence, which I feel,
speaks of love, both true and real.
The lonely silence of this night
with morning sunrise will unite.
And, with the light tomorrow brings,
you'll hear the song that my heart sings --
A song of love two lovers share --
A song of faith when you're not there.
A ballad born inside my heart
this lonely night when we're apart
will tell you what you ought to know --
When we're apart, I miss you so!
Sometimes I'm calm, and sometimes I tremble
whenever I see someone you resemble.
Though it was over some time ago,
I still spend some time with you on my mind --
But, it doesn't show.
Each day it seems that my heart remembers
the warmth of a love that's now just an ember.
What once was a flame is now just a glow--
but each night, it seems, you're still in my dreams
But, it doesn't show.
You left a scar where it wouldn't show --
and just you and I are all who will know --
Although I may smile wherever I go,
whenever we meet, my heart skips a beat --
But, it doesn't show.
My heart will try to keep on pretending
the love that was ours did not have an ending.
But, someday, I'm sure, the truth it will know --
It just won't believe that you'd ever leave --
So, it doesn't show.
You left a scar where it wouldn't show --
and just you and I are all who will know --
What once was a flame is now just a glow --
but each night, it seems, you're still in my dreams
But, it doesn't show.
You may think I’ve found another
When you see her here with me.
But nothing’s farther from the truth –
My heart is still not free.
You know you’ll always have a place
Inside this heart of mine –
And if you wonder why she’s here –
She keeps you off my mind.
When feelings that you left behind
Slip back into this heart of mine
She’s just someone I reach and find –
She only keeps you off my mind.
When you see her here beside me
You may think I’m over you.
But sometimes in the still of night
I don’t know what to do.
There are so many memories
I thought I’d left behind –
And when I need a special friend –
She keeps you off my mind.
When feelings that you left behind
Slip back into this heart of mine
She’s just someone I reach and find –
She only keeps you off my mind.
I'm over losing you.
It doesn't matter now.
I've lived with all the tears and pain
And got over you somehow.
But, my heart has not been told
That you ever said good-bye.
So, when it asks about you,
I tell my heart another lie.
I tell my heart a lie.
I'm good at that, you see.
At least, I never hurt my heart
The way that you hurt me.
Though I sometimes think it wonders,
I'll never let it cry.
So when it asks about you,
I tell my heart another lie.
I just can't tell my heart
That you no longer care.
When you were mine, it was content
Just knowing you were there.
And, when you left I asked you
Not to tell my heart good-bye.
So, to keep my heart from finding out,
I tell my heart another lie.
I tell my heart a lie.
I'm good at that, you see.
At least, I never hurt my heart
The way that you hurt me.
Though I sometimes think it wonders,
I'll never let it cry.
So when it asks about you,
I tell my heart another lie.
Just when I thought you 'd gone away for good,
On sleepless nights the bitter truth I find --
When love we knew still fills my heart
And won't leave me alone
And your memory keeps walking through my mind.
There are times my heart can't seem to bear the pain --
And time without you now is so unkind.
I see your face and wonder
Will my arms hold you again --
And your memory keeps walking through my mind.
I spend endless days remembering you,
Sleepless nights still wanting you --
The love we shared still haunts me
Every night and every day.
When the morning sunlight fills my lonely room
And I've left another sleepless night behind,
I let my heart prepare itself
To face another day
While your memory keeps walking through my mind.
Yes, your memory keeps walking through my mind.
Day and night drop tenderness in my heart,
Day and night my head goes around,
Day and night your words as fairy tale
Break my heart and lovely sound.
Only once your heart filled with desire,
Only once your destiny breaks down.
Only once when evening is so gloomy
I need love and want to love.
Purple ray is melting on the sunset
Lovely flowers are shrouded in blue.
Where are you desired once and tender?
Where are you my fell a sleeping dreams?
Only once your heart filled with desire,
Only once your destiny breaks down,
Only once when evening is so gloomy
I need love and want to love.
© Larisa Rzhepishevska (Odessa, Ukraine)
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