Prayers of Power of Protection
...Our Lord has given
Joy
The Heavens deploy
Blessed his holy bread
The Lord's rained upon our heads
Out came the sun
Dried everyone
Wild apple tree growing
Lord's blessings are showing
God and...
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Categories:
wild apple, blessing, father, growth, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Minnows Nip At Bare Toes
...Summer is tethered to the scent of a rose,
and bubbling brooks, where minnows nip at bare toes.
Spring spurs Summertime on, and indeed, it shows;
freeing the rivers and lakes that Winter f...
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Categories:
wild apple, 12th grade, beauty, fun,
Form: Verse
Dear Guest
...At the sound of the gong you appear
to seek some welcome refreshment,
dear guests to be greeted right here
with a cuppa is our sincere intent.
There's a flask of filter coffee
and a pot of t...
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Categories:
wild apple, chocolate, drink, humorous,
Form: Quatrain
Dreaming of Babylon
...Kicking empty beer cans,
Down desolation roads.
Dreaming of Babylon ,
Of jasmine breezes
And mystic scents.
Of wild apple blossoms ,
In lilac orchards.
Trying to cleanse.
The wren...
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Categories:
wild apple, beauty, creation,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Improvements
...The wilderness has been improved of late,
Or so they say.
The maple trees where sticky syrup oozed
Between the cracks of scarred and broken bark,
The wild apple trees whose crooked branches
Cradled c...
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Categories:
wild apple, creation, environment, mountains, nature,
Form: Free verse
Summer Comes With Snow
...Affection's eyes beseech one glimpse of thee,
To dream upon at midnight's slumbering
Forbid, O' God, as woeful absence grows
Whereon thy summer's sleep comes plagued of snow
Doth thou hear thy ...
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Categories:
wild apple, devotion, love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Perspectives Miscellaneous
...Good new,good news He said to me
'I have the power to set you free'
'Come ,along this path we'll walk',
I listened closely as He talked;
Eternal life and 'new life' within
upon Him I place my si...
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Categories:
wild apple, life, nature, philosophy,
Form: Fibonacci
Bright-Green Leaves
...Inside the forest's sea-of-green,
Sits a hungry, bright-scarlet tanager.
Eating one caterpillar after another,
In minutes he gulps down thirty-five.
Doing its part to help the forest,
Ridding the...
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Categories:
wild apple, animals, children, nature, science,
Form: Free verse
Tumbleweed
...Tumbleweed
I'm so tired of tumbling down that highway
Like a tumbleweed in the wind
I'm so tired of drifting away
Without the blessings of the canyon sun
A ship upon that desert sea
S...
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Categories:
wild apple, home, home,
Form: Ballad