So long ago you left my perfect world.
You were fifty-five- I was thirty-two.
My broken heart that day became unfurled!
How could this ever happen, losing you?
Dear Mom, I've missed you by my side each day.
It's been so many years since you've been gone.
You never saw your grandkids grow to say
that they have grandkids too to love and fawn.
Yet, through these years, you often came to me-
I felt you by my side so many times.
Your spirit up above, so hopefully,
enfolds me in your arms, to see the signs.
In time, I will find you beyond the stars!
Reborn togetherness will then be ours.
It baffles me...
When you lose your warships
And life puts you in situationships
The mind gets disabled
Leaving you in disorder
Uttering your ability
Turning you into liability
Even when you're without disability
You start depending on others to survive.
It baffles me...
If you choose the matter over mind
Your thoughts and emotions begin to fail you
You'll start questioning or doubting yourself
Forgetting your potentials
You start loosing everything
Your confidence and people
Until you pick your spirit up, which is the mind.
It baffles me...
When you stumble, crumble or fumble
It becomes a trouble
Steadily disrupting your peace of mind
Causing mental bondages
When things don't workout for you
Because you know you're doing your best
Even when you try to find rest
Life steadily throwing you test
Never relent or regret, for it's part of the journey.
When the test of life hits you
Keep your spirit up and intact
Live in with full sincerity
Not everyone can be strong like you
Show you can overcome storm and pass you
Keep your faith strong and never weary
For in the face of adversity remain strong
In this life, only the brave survive.
All night
Bless my pains oh God
And let my memories be
That of laughter
Let my grieves be turn to testimonies
I have been living a free life
Yes I have been struggling through
My times and seasons
Am not better than my shadows
Cos my spirit echo’s to my ancestors
For my better days
The system is tearing away my body
Yet the circumstances around me is pulling my spirit up to inspiration
Why won’t I hold on
Why will I say never to my calling
Cos all day am out there
Dealing with the world
And now I can’t sleep
But keep writing
All night.
Give me your troubled heart.
Give me your weary mind.
Give me your heavy load,
I’ll make it mine.
I know you don’t remember now
the time we used to spend.
Trust me child, you were here
and you’ll be back again.
Show me just a little faith,
let me take your hand.
Give me an open heart.
Give me your hand.
I am here guide you through
this dreary land.
Won’t you let me guide you through
this dreary land?
I know you don’t remember now
the time we used to spend.
Trust me child, you were here
and you’ll be back again.
Show me just a little faith,
let me take your hand.
Give me a little time,
I know it’s hard to find.
Just let it go, and let me know,
I’ll ease your mind.
I’ll lift you up. I’ll bring you home.
I’ll make you mine.
Yes, I’ll lift your spirit up.
I’ll make you mine.
I know you don’t remember now
the life we had before.
I paid the price.
I laid it down.
I opened up the door.
So take my hand,
I’ll lead you home,
where we lived before.
Just take my hand,
I’ll lead you here…
where we lived before.
Thoughts of you occur walking hills
In nodding heads of daffodils
In fields of green and waterfall
In trees standing stately and tall.
You are there in the rising sun
In darkness when the day is done
The bright sunshine that follows rain
Raising my spirit up again.
I hear you in string symphony
In choirs singing in harmony
In sound of birds in trees tweeting
In spring’s newly born lambs bleating.
I wish us both back together
Each moment being a treasure
Life has no purpose since you passed
If only life was meant to last.
I sense the softness of your lips
One reason why my heart does flips
The memoirs never fade away
You’re in my thoughts each night each day.
What Are We To Do In This Earthly Life
Dare we see justice is oft overdue
Wherein earth's cold brings its sadder chill dews
Up higher where mountain gives its hard frost
Wander lost souls about completely lost.
Mankind, savage beast crying all alone
Wondering just where the hell love has gone
Has it gone wayward, far out lost at sea
Or does the hidden spirit up and flee.
Why does man's Fate dare to such darkness hold
As a punishment to mankind be sold
Is true we should Heaven then ourselves turn
Or face unholy hell to always burn.
What are we to do in this earthly life?
To avoid its deep darkness and great strife?
Robert J. Lindley, Sonnet
Dec. 6th, 1971, age 17
All persons have sinful hearts
ever since this world one day
fallen mankind had no answer to this
no matter the miles they have ran
But God has provided a remedy
for only a perfect sacrifice will do
to remove sin and produce righteousness
His only son Jesus Christ will be true
This sacrifice God accepts for sinners
when they are accompanied by three traits
they must be broken with no hope
in themselves so desperately in wait
They realise only the eternal one is sufficient
to piece them together in God's shape
but being humble is also really key
bringing a repentant spirit up your spiritual tree
So God brings through Jesus His son
His way of salvation open to all
just needs to be broken, humble, and repent
for God to speak and you hear His call
("The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,
but the prayer of the upright is acceptable to him."
Proverbs 15: 8 (ESV)
Quote:
" A person who's been sinful during the week can be accepted through the sacrifice when it's accompanied by a broken, humble, repentant heart."
- John Piper)
It is sad,
Has the Human race gone mad?
Including you and me.
We must be blind if we cannot see,
The anxiety and consternation,
That's felt in every nation.
Aid is needed everywhere,
Is it too much for folk to bear?
Putting others troubles on the shelf,
And concentrate only on themselves.
Nature too has shown its rage,
Devastation on every page,
Of the news,
Is it any wonder humans have the blues?
Why did Covid 19 appear?
Was it from the stratosphere?
Or some spirit up above,
Trying to teach us how to love,
Each other evermore.
Which would help to stop,
THIS ENDLESS WAR.
The soul leaves the body as the school boy jumps from a school door, suddenly and with joy. You take your last breath and depart from your fleshy death. The angels sing a peaceful song that takes your spirit up all day long. As people mourn and mourn, your new body will have a glorious form. Their is tears on earth but in heaven their is rivers that overflow it’s turf. The school boy’s eyes gets wide and sees his loved ones that no longer hide. With joy he shouts and screams i have made it out loud. When you hear a heavenly whisper, that is your angel’s calling take off drifter. They are ministering spirits that take you to paradise that unites you with gathering spirits who are nice. God Bless!
The truth. Me and you were both created. We are in this world which is now filled with hatred. This world was peaceful and pure. All the diseases in this world was already cured. Man turned away from God’s command. He left and joined his own clan. We need something more than a cleaner. Our hope and life was depended on our redeemer. His light will pierce all the people’s soul. When you look for the truth their is only one way to go. If you really examine yourself you know who you are. We are not of this world but in spirit up far. Don’t be deceived by the Devil. His followers and evil spirits are not on God’s level. When you look in God’s eyes you can see how much he loves you even when you don’t try. Can you imagine all of the things that God can bless us with, if only we can obey his word and not drift. Their is only one way to see and that is in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who will set you free.
God of Love how righteous you are, you show your glory from Heaven up far. You’re the reason why we are here. You’re the reason why I don’t have any fear. I trust you oh Lord, you gave me my first car which was a Ford. You lift up my spirit up High. You lift me up towards the stars as I fly. We don’t need this World for our own observation; we need this world for our own next generation. You show so much fashion, my love for you is much more than passion. You’re everything to me. If only all of the un-believers can wake up and see. Your son is amazing; you give off a beautiful bright light which is blazing. Jesus Christ died for our sins. He did that out of Love so we can have an eternal life and be cleansed. You are never forsaken so people should believe in you so they can be free and be taken.
The mind and body dualist,
his prison for a throne
Confusion reigns where consciousness walks,
where can it find a home
The soul the prize that matters,
the spirit up for grabs
Proximity defining its own lie,
positioning unclad
But somewhere in the distance,
and somewhere heretofore
A laughter lives beyond itself,
escaping its own core
The zero-sum dilemma,
what Sages claim to own
Lay far beyond what’s deep within
—where truth is free to roam
(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2020)
Elusive being sought by far and wide
Seen by many unresponsive to our call
As veiled, elusive vacillating bride
Apparently intending to forestall
Don’t look for Holy Spirit up above
Nor in the dark of night in call of prayer
That being portrayed as a Snow White dove
Comes not with feather born on breath of air
Could it be our signal error in this quest
Is our focus on external source of blessing
Wishing ever hopeful answers to request
For unwanted situation - a redressing
While The Holy Spirit hidden by our sin
So close to be unseen is deep within
3 December 2019
Poetry for me is all consuming, encompassing pain from tears I have shed
Only Poetry Soup lifts my spirit up high; I write poems from inside my head
Early each morn or late in the night, a time of hope as I pray I can write
Though if my muse doth take a snooze, I call her name gently and to my delight
Rose returns from an afternoon doze, full of rhymes, acrostics, clerihews and prose
Yells of delight if one of my writes is placed up high with words I’ve transposed
As each day new friends write inspiring posts, for poems I have lovingly penned
Now I live all alone in the place I call home, where tranquillity begins to descend
Dreamlike images from my soul, come and go like the sea’s ebb and flow
My life feels meaningful once again, with sunshine not rain, I’m loving life so
Enwrapping my soul in a cashmere stole that transports me to places I yearn to go
21st February 2019
Contest: Poetry and Me
Sponsor: Silent One
1st place
Contest Strand Select V
Sponsor Brian Strand
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