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Sarah Russell Poem
Let Me Share the Winds Flight Today
Let me share the winds flight today
Moving to and fro knowing no boundaries
Lifting the fall leaves in a beautiful twirling song
Scattering seeds here and there to rest all winter long
Let me share the winds flight today
Moving without being visible yet being seen
Brushing faces gently like butterfly kisses
Flowing past the stars filled with a thousand wishes
Let me share the winds flight today
Soaring into places nothing else can enter
Giving flight to the wings of eagles and hawks descent
Driving the snow in pillars of white glistening winter events.
Let me share the winds flight today
Reaching speeds powerful enough to move the mountains
Scattering raindrops to fall gently on flowering rose petals
Wisping chimes in a beautiful chorus produced by useless metals
Let me share the winds flight today
Unknown and unafraid able to reach even the lowest places
Touching every person along the way with love
Spreading the Good News of God like the purity of a white dove.
Sadi
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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Covid, I Hate You
Covid I hate you!
You ravish and take whom you please
Leaving only destruction and fear
Picking and choosing at random
Covid, I hate you!
Isolating generations in need of company
Seizing the very organs within your victims
Young, old, in between, you care not
Covid, I hate you!
Preying on the very air one breaths
Scattering your vicious deadly self as a ghost
Killing the very ones fighting to save others
Covid, I hate you
Sneaky and leaving each to only shadow box
Waiting for any minute break to invade
Strangling the life out like weeds and vines
Covid, I hate you
Soon we will rise and defeat you
We will drive you where you cannot hide
God will not let you win, your time is near.
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2021
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Sarah Russell Poem
Coffee Love
Alarm shatters the dreams of hunks in my head
As the sunlight streams through like a Broadway show
Self- talk just is not working
As I again pretend to pretend to be a bear in my den
What is that? What is that I smell?
Mr. Coffee maker has again sensually called my name
With the perfume of that dark roast ticking my nose
Ok, ok I will go betraying my dreams for you
Stumbling over Lego block, dogs, and furniture
For you I will once again do the Zombie Walk
I will hold you in my hands, so warm, so delicious
Touch you to my lips and feel the sensation of bliss
My eyes will open and my senses will arouse
Again I can face the day
You have given me energy to conquer
Bring it on I say all I need is just one more cup of coffee
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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Never Alone
Lost and alone my heart cries
Into a million pieces it seems broken
My mouth utters, Lord Why?
From this nightmare, may I please awaken.
All the stars in the nighttime skies
Appear dulled like a tarnished token.
Love should never have “goodbyes”.
Hear the silence and pain beyond what is spoken.
Protected in the shelter of the Father’s arms
Tears are dried and hearts are mended.
Lift your head my weary child
For from bended knee you can see the heavens.
Rejoice! rejoice! and know although the body dies
Songs of triumph ring out as the gates of pearl open wide
The soul is transformed and rises
To soar with the angels up to the Father’s throne.
Where all in one accord bow and proclaim him King
Kneeling on the streets of gold, harps softly play
Emerald, rubies, diamonds, unending do not compare
With the presence of the Lord.
Do not weep my child
Just take my hand the Father gently calls
Reaching his hand down to each of us
Lifting us out of the darkness
One foot in front of the other
One day and then another
Soon memories fill what was once just a hole
Left by death, filled by faith in the promises of God.
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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Take Me Home
Time is void of meaning
As my struggle rages inward
Hopes and dreams shatter
As my soul cries out, “Lord Take Me Home”.
Why should I stay in this non-existence
And salvage the remains where the lion has roared
I wander daily in a desolate place
Where my devoured heart and blood was poured
The wind pleads my case
Please take me where eagles soar
Let me cling to your robe and hold my child
Take me home dear Lord!
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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Nothing Let But A Shell
Tomorrow does not matter
For yesterday never did
My existence was only a dance
Orchestrated by two left feet
Never did anyone notice
When my heart cried out for death
For I never truly was
Not then and not now
May someday the warmth of my touch
The light of my smile
Be at least a distant figment
Of my life which never was
May my spirit catch the wind
And sail up high above
To watch over Forever
Those of whom I loved
In the distance I hear you Kim my baby girl
Saying, Momma please come on home
I love you Mommy, hold me
God wants you here at home.
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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LIFES MYSTERIES
Laced blades of grass mingled with flowers so sweet
Infinite array of insect busily working on each one
Foggy morning dew so enticing and cool
Ever present predators do wait in shadows to lunge
Sunrise exposing such succulent prey everywhere
Moonlight is fading summoning the retreat
Yawning and worn night creatures return to holes to sleep
Shut your eyes and nighty night to all
Till once again the moon does rise and call you forth once more
Easy does it, do not act in haste patience is best
Resting high in those trees’ hawks await one careless move
Intently watching all things down below from their perch so hid
Eyeing the big and small with talons draw and wings bursting with flight
Something so mighty downed in a second by a slithering creature with fangs
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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Sarah Russell Poem
Breastfeeding Perils
I watched you take your first breath
And open your sleepy eyes
Your trembling lip and clinched little fist
Never a mother could resist
From head to toes with your thick white coating
Soon rubbed clean and a warm blanket did cover
Placed on my breast to feast on the milk
But silly you turn away like its buttermilk
You spit and you sputter
And wrinkle your nose and cry
So what must I do to make you happy my child
What have I done to get you so riled?
The lights are dimmed
As you snuggle so close
Soon this first time mom with learn what to eat
To make my milk not sour but sweet.
A year has passed since that glorious day
When you played finicky
Now you grab with your two little choppers
Seems you have developed a taste for jalepeno poppers
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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Christmas Time
Twenty five years and the pain still rages
I was told it would get better with time
But every Christmas it come like clockwork
Making me angry, sad, and even hard to go to work
Most other times of the year you stand in the background
Always present, but in December tinsel chokes my heart
Reopening scars and cutting off my breath
As I fight back tears, begging for death
Memories of happy times, times that I will never have again
Are covered by the ashes left by the flames of your death
Blood oozes from my heart with the sounds of the season
All I can think of is to retreat within my myself, my mind says, “Run child, run”
Angels stand at the top of every Christmas tree to haunt me
Whirling the memories in my head with each one I see
Lights twinkle in endless torment, increasing the longing in my heart
Every season greeting tears away a piece of me, the biggest part
The part that remembers your smile, your laughter, and your loving ways
The part that knows I will never have you to hold again
The part that knows I cannot reach and hug you or talk to you
The part that knows I did not say all I meant to say or do all I wanted to do
Please some way in your mercy Lord grant me peace
Grant me a warm breeze, a soft touch from an unseen hand
Come to me in a dream and let me know those I lost are still near
Let me know they know how much I love them and miss them this time of year.
Copyright © Sarah Russell | Year Posted 2020
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