She Writes Them Now
...She's never loved broken love poems,
but now she writes them.
She's always feared swollen heads and broken tones,
yet now she finds she fights them.
Despite her mother's devotion,
she's forgotte...
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Categories:
theologian, depression, emotions, loneliness, lonely,
Form: Lyric
Why this life?
...Why this life?
Life is so incomprehensible often and often. Why this life? Why is this mine?
Many people live on our planet, with different and different fates, endless life
Different people, d...
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Categories:
theologian, fate, god, life, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Why suffering?
...Why suffering?
God just gave us life, and we start that in an unsafe world,
Danger, suffering, hopelessness, pain, crime, death, and more
But why? Why? Is God evil? No, no. I don’t think so. He...
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Categories:
theologian, god, life, pain,
Form: Free verse
Dreamer's Serenade
...The story of my life
It started the day you came….
One
On an eastern-painted sky where clouds adrift play
My poet’s eye wanders through realms astray.
Beneath a twilight sky that sp...
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Categories:
theologian, love, music, romance, song,
Form: Lyric
Expanded
...
Thank you, Lemmy, I am just listening now
Listening now to your fantastic album
“Expanded”, it’s amazing. It’s give me blood and life
Life and Blood in my brain are expanded
"Just 'Cos You Got...
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Categories:
theologian, life,
Form: Free verse
Saved By His Creator, Part III
...“But we realized, decades on back,
how consciousness burns out machines,
we are not gods when we create,
there are hard limits to our dreams.
“And the same questions you have asked,
why create...
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Categories:
theologian, death, future, humanity, life,
Form: Narrative
I Shall Be Your Scribe--- Speak To Your Beloved a Dedicated Verse Cr
...~ Beloved Woman of God I am your journalist Scribe;
A professional copyist I shall;
My duties theologian, a jurist,
May I verse hardcopy speaks life?
What you say, you speak life too...
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Categories:
theologian, analogy, appreciation, spoken word,
Form: Rhyme
If Only Time Didnot Hurt
...I’ve been told
“things work out for the best”
in that way each of us
Divinely blessed
God in control they say –
if only Time didn’t hurt…
I believe in life hereafter
I believe no wrong G...
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Categories:
theologian, confusion, divorce, forgiveness, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
My God Returns- One Man's Philosophy
...Years ago I wrote this poem to help me understand my god…
To get it straight inside my head…
as I watch what’s happening in God’s name today
I think it’s time for me to remind myself what I said....
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Categories:
theologian, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ
...It is no small feat to attempt to speak
of the dying of our Lord
who sacrificed Himself for us
by a fate far worse than fire or by sword.
For one as whom not qualified
to write of this grea...
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Categories:
theologian, christian, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Paul of Tarsus Words
...When we were
boys and girls
we reasoned as children.
Now that we are grown up,
let's act as adults... !...
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Categories:
theologian, allusion, appreciation, tribute, wisdom,
Form: Light Verse
The Sign
...It was raining when I met her.
A sure sign.
I ignored it.
Many a love story started in the rain.
We headed into the restaurant.
She throttled her brolly, drenching me in the process.
I ignored ...
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Categories:
theologian, humor, humorous, religious,
Form: Free verse
The Revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
...The revered Reverend Martin Luther King Junior
Born January fifteenth nineteen twenty nine
if still alive seven years shy
attaining age of centenarian
father of civil rights movement,
the rev...
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Categories:
theologian, abuse, age, america, angel,
Form: Free verse
Lewis Milton Hankins
...Three thousand three hundred and thirty-five poetic blooms,
Lewis Milton Hankins has in his bouquet, like bright plumes;
Each is rich in theme, form, rhyme, rhythm, and figures of speech,
In sound...
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Categories:
theologian, tribute,
Form: Rhyme
Dr L Milton Hankins
...Milton was a person you couldn't help but like.
Almost every time I wrote a Triolet
He'd stop by and visit and once said,
"You know how I love the triolets!"
A gentle soul, shared gentle words...
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Categories:
theologian, tribute,
Form: Triolet
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