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Below are the all-time best John Squires poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Time In Hawaii

A month in Hawaii, ah, what a luxury to share
Revel in the warming sun and walk a sandy beach
Fresh warm breeze and coconut in the salty air
Every day is marvelous, comfort never out of reach
Hiking through lush green forest with fruit hung all around
Or on the mountain top you see way out upon the sea
The fish an artist’s pallet with colors they abound
To spend a month in Hawaii, ah, that’s the treat for me

1/29/15

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Creating Gems For Others - 'A Poet's Worth'

The workings of the hidden world
By the poet are revealed
The heart’s untangled in a verse
The secrets are unsealed
The poet paints a picture 
In timeless light it glows
The beauty of the language
Is captured yet it flows
He’s expressing hidden feelings
And the value in all things
Can you hear the melody
The song the poet sings
Elegance and timelessness
For others to be blessed
He’s capturing for all to see
What cannot be possessed

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When I Think of You

When I think of you surely I could fly
When you’re away I feel like I could cry
My heart beats fast whenever you are near
I think of your sweet voice I love to hear
Bright memories of you they fill my day
I dream of you whenever I’m away 
My love, sweet fragrance come again to me
I know when we’re together we are free

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Electronics

The electronics clambered, numbered incessantly the pixels
Evermore they quoted as they looked sheepishly beyond the waving kelp 
But how many fonts hold fast to the batholiths where benthic crawlers lurk?
All sounds resonate truly never resting they attest to organisms organized 
Materialized from matter without flatter, all is jargon even tarragon
So have you planned usurping what is beyond the seamless light?
Fishing for extinct species yet landing luggage makes one uneasy
But oh so few have caught the ride switched on by myriad microchips
Looking into the lightened halogen afforded space upon the brazen hillside strata
It is all an electric race for peace with resistors, electrons racing past hazards
Imagination pictured impossibilities precisely placed to soothe the softened goals
Remotely fusiform he held in his own untrained hand although he dipped at times
Mechanisms, anachronisms and microcosms of life go on to divide or multiply
They form a landing, certain coiled spinning prisms an animate defense of green
Can a pixel bring a timely recompense or electrons reap a harvest?

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Fire and Sand

Fuming fires fell four feet
Before they found the flax to flame.
Then off they roared burning 
Bush, brier and bramble.
But suddenly they came to sand
A clearing stopped their stand.
Down they died deflated, gone
Defeated by some silicon.

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Sailing On Home

While the water’s whitened waves
Flew forth fast in foamy sprays
All amidst an airy act
Blowing, blasting, beating back
Seeing swarthy, seaward sailing ships
Onward o’er the ocean dips
Upward, downward, driving days
Seeking harbors, havens haste their ways
The ships sail sure in stormy seas
Calmly coursing comes a breeze
Now softly sailing, slides the ship
Muffled, mellow, made my trip

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Storm On the Spanish Main

Out upon the Spanish Main it roared
The storm reached out its cold hands to catch
Crashing waves they beat against the board
Quickly now they battened every hatch

Spray and wind groaned, lashing at the sails
The creaking and bending of the mast
Will God hear our muffled shouts and wails?
Hear us Lord; let not this be our last

Time had given them another flight
Henry yelled and hailed his storm soaked crew
Through the pitch black darkness of the night
Churning, boiling, blackened tempest grew

Should they expect gallantry and good?
Henry’s ships strained against the gale
This time they did what good men should
Through trials and storm they would not fail

Portobello plucked from evil hands
On the ships of former pirates sailed
Who joined hands to win from other lands
In great shouts of victory they hailed

In his new life he employed good men
Henry’s lasting monument they cast
By good works of men we live again
Not stopped or ruined by what had past

His legacy lives on true today
Remembered for good he did to tame
Rather than mistakes he made one day
Though he had to brave the Spanish Main

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Remember Me This Christmas

Remember Me this Christmas
When you are sitting warm and free
Remember Me this Christmas
And how I made the world to be
I called your name and gave you gifts
And how I walked the shores of Galilee
Many days I thought of you 
And the day I‘d bring you home
But first I had a job to do
And I had to do it all alone
A plan was made before the world 
To save you from the enemy	
Who had you in his hand
Remember now the virgin birth
Impossible to man 
A baby in a manger bed
Protected by the Father and a mighty angel band
It was Me, I was coming, following God’s plan
All for you I came on down
To bring you up on high
Remember Me at Christmas time
And the blood that I have shed
And ask the question why
“I’m not important, am I Lord?”
“I died for you”, He said
My love goes out to find you
To help you every day 
Remember how I died at Calvary
On a cross for doing right
Remember Me this Christmas time
Not just about My birth
How I healed the sick and lame
And gave the blind their sight
Eternal life My greatest gift 
It’s the package in My hand
You must believe I rose on high
After three days in the grave
And call on Me for life so that I can save
I save you from the enemy
The works have all been done
All the blessings ever dreamed
You’ll find them in the Son
Remember Me this Christmas
And all My work on Earth 
Reach out and take My gift of life
And I will be your Bridegroom 
And you can be My wife

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Fisher Mcbride

On the beach sat the fisher McBride
With his pole in a stand by his side
Then suddenly he had a big bite
And his pole took off into flight
Up he sprang, his mouth open wide

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Sam, Sam the Seashell Man

Sam, Sam the seashell man
Picks up shells in the soft white sand
Every day he walks the shore
Finding always more and more
Purple shells and pink and blue
Shells of nearly every hue
He walks the beach in morning light
And he walks again when nearly night
Little shells and pointed ones
Ruby shells like pearly suns
Every one a special gem
Made by the Master for His friend
His treasures all are kept in store
To give away to get some more
When little children come his way
He gives them shells to bless their stay
Hear the ocean in the shells
It’s captured waves and ocean swells
You hold a treasure in your hand
Sweet memories of the beach and sand
They are blessings from the seashell man