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Sustains Poems - Poems about Sustains


So Good To Me
Oh Lord You are so good to me Something for me every day If not for You I wouldn't see If not for You I couldn't pray Your life-giving bread sustains me You give hope to carry me through Graciously You come when I call With You each day is new You catch me when I fall ...

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Categories: sustains, encouraging, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Love Still Sustains
That gorgeous girl I spy each day, At the station where trains dance and sway. A thousand glances, met her eyes, A thousand words, none a disguise. Her shoulders bear meaning, profound, Tears of longing, softly unbound. I’ve seen it all, a witness true, Even before our first debut. Destruction woven in destiny’s thread, Unseen forces that firmly spread. A grin’s corner pulled by fate’s...

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Categories: sustains, break up, crush, cry,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member In the August Heat
(Even Poetry can recall the warm days of summer.) ** In the August Heat ** ——————————————————————— August roasts the red pears Sitting crowded on the sill…Spoiling With no protection from The open, lime-tinted curtains Speckled with tiny violets. Shimmering sunbeams stream diagonally Through the room’s air, while outside, A...

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Categories: sustains, imagery, imagination, nature, night,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Love Sustains
Lovers cling. “Departure” hovers. Apart, they will pray and take heart. They know absence won’t dim love’s glow. Written April 17, 2021 for Joseph May's Finding Your Musette 2 Contest Photo 1 placed 1st...

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Categories: sustains, love, strength,
Form: Verse
Prayer Sustains
• Prayer Sustains • She sits in a straight-back chair, unmoving, Slumped slightly to the left. They have seated her with others All sitting in a straight line in the rec room, Attending a Trivia Q and A session. But she is alone. She is alone, trapped ...

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Categories: sustains, age, courage, endurance,
Form: Free verse



That Which Sustains
The visionary dies, but the image remains To that we are faithful, to that which sustains The Poet is gone, but his words are reborn In the hearts of the needy —those once left forlorn (Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2018 )...

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Categories: sustains, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Water Sustains Life
Every civilization has depended on water, our Earth without it would be another moon; blue oceans secure this nation from invasions, but also cause destructive storms and death. There's no other planet like ours, its waters invigorate plant life, seasons renew themselves; who would live in an arid desert exposed to wind with no precipitation, only sun? Who would survive? Permeable roads allow...

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Categories: sustains, africa, america, children, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Pain Sustains Eternally
Once, I entered insanity with nothing and walked away with something can only be explained as knowing everything is perception nothing is real just the really fake and the only power is in that which you create something from nothing a simple knowing no one ever knew me except for what they accepted from everything but the source for I am eternal a nothing existence in an invisible sun everything dead that...

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Categories: sustains, adventure, art, confusion, death,
Form: Free verse
~ Love Sustains ~
..... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ........ .......... ......... ........ .......... ............... ................... Entwined together, time and freedom enlighten. Peace fills the space between- upholds the soul gently uplifts. Grace, delighted applauds the union. Brooks they babble all their days about them, mercy leaps, hope it dances joy remains... love, forever, sustains. ...... ......

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Categories: sustains, inspirational
Form: Prose Poetry

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