"The Span Of Evil Is Infinite"
The Span Of Evil Is Infinite
One Life May Die, and it
makes a difference
in the world.  We may die trying, but
at least we Will Have Tried.
There are forces bigger than us
this world is more important than you or me or
any single one of us.  people die for it.
it's God.  It's Goodness.  People die for it.
I am willing to die for it.  I want to give my life
dedicated to fighting it
it
the evil in the world
One Life
Makes
A
Difference.
We may fail, but there are so
many others coming behind us. this is
a cosmic war.  light fighting darkness.  if you
know which side you're on, then you're a source
of light
or darkness.  our lives every moment makes up
the molecules
of eternity.  and determines our character and soul.
our deeds matter.  our thoughts matter.  prayers matter
love matters.  you can sit all alone in a room and take on
all the evil in the universe.
One life.
One.
I know what side i am on, and i pray my poetry
poems
that my poems, that they
Help You.  That they help others
to Shine A Light.  Even if noone reads them,
They Exist.  Which is a proof of the Goodness
The Goodness of God.
One.
One Person.
Me.
Start with yourself next time one wants
to fix the world.  if we all started with ourselves,
it would be a world with more light.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.///////
God I am tired/////////////////

"Hope"
When I Finally Grow Weary
I Will Fall Into Your Arms
Having Faith That You Will
Be There To Catch Me.
If I should Grow Faint Or Weak
I know you would nurse me to health
And That is a Light In the Night
To Keep You Warm, Like A Nearby
Star.

Poem To My Husband Theodore

The Very Shroud of Turin
Couldn't Capture Your Face The Way
Its rays fell softly onto my bedsheets this morning
sadness was heavy and hungry for me and i was at peace
If Jesus isn't real, then who is this Spirit that Quickens me
to rise up again and again every morning?  No faith
can only take one part of the way, and I feel Him With Me Now
Comforting, Reassuring, Like a Gentle Hand 
in the small of my back, gently guiding me onwards
and i do not fear to falter nor stumble, for Jesus Himself
Is the man who comes home to me Every night, and Jesus
is the one I Cradle in bed and cooks me chocolate chip pancakes
when i have a cold.  No the tender mercies of the lord sent me you.
My Life, My Love, My Salvation, My Husband, My Guiding Light
In a dark dark night, is You my husband Theodore.  
In Jesus' Name, Amen.

"I Feel Better"
God, I Have Just One Question
 God Tell me Why
Why did you teach the stars to Cry?
In fact, oh God, I'm Crying now
What's above and what's below
I dont believe we shall ever know
i understand your wonderful bedtime story
and if i hurt you, well God, I'm Sorry.
I suppose i'll turn in for the night
Knowing, somehow, things'll turn out right!
Goodnight God.  In Jesus' Name, Amen.

I am enduring a night
that has yet to see the dawn
i have faith that this night, too
will break through to light
of the morning sun and love
love better and happy, will
come, and satisfy my soul!
In Jesus' Name,
Amen!////

One OF God's Greatest Gifts
Is Being Able To Cry
Instead of being angry/

"Angry Sea"
The Little Waves on

the Cusp Of The Shore

Leapt Suddenly And Startled

Like Horses.  The moon

teased the Ocean By Day

And Big Creatures Like Nightmares

In Dreams Ponderously Wandered

the deep sea.  Aghast, agape was

This Ocean, lost to time's sanctuary

Something Eternal, Something

Ephemeral, Something

Alive.

"Pain"
To Be Alive is
To Be Able To Feel
Pain.  this is bad
I often wish i weren't
mortal so that i couldn't
feel pain
but i do
we all do
pain is real
scientists cause pain
i verily believe they
are the source of tragedy
and pain
but fortunately we can also feel
love, and all the other
emotions.  again, it is
the question of evil
the living have the capacity
 to feel pain
it is our weakness
physical, spiritual, emotional,
mental pain.  pain is real
i wish
that those scientists would stop
causing
things
to
feel
pain!
In jesus' Name,
Amen.

"I Gave Astronomy Up"
I refuse to study the stars
because i love them, and you can't
study something that you love.
i love them.  i know their names most
of them, i wanted to learn their names,
i had a map to tell me which
star is which but i
threw it away
i'd rather gaze at the stars
and see infinity
i love them, lord
i just love them.
I pray for them
I'm grateful that
i can still feel infinity
after all these years...
Lord, My Poor Heart!
They'll never measure me either
nor dissect my body nor soul
because i love, and they can't
study something that loves.
in Jesus' name,
AMEN.////

"Tell The Stars I am Fighting For Light in the Darkness"
Tell the stars i am fighting for them
if they tell me their dreams and secrets
they are safe with me i worship the stars
i am not afraid of the darkness out there
the stars are so infinitely beautiful, i wish
i could hold one in my hand like a firefly
and in fact, my diamond earrings and necklaces
and my wedding ring, they look just like stars. i dream
when i am wearing diamonds, that
 i have a cluster of stars about my neck
and hanging from my ears.  it is
to hold a star in the palm of your hand.
Tell the stars i am on their side!
Tell them not to get lost or give in
Finally, Tell them how much
I Love The Stars, i just
Love Them.  Universe, we
fight for you! I believe
Our Light will conquer the darkness
on our planet they call that energy "Evil"
We are fighting evil.  We Love you.
  In Jesus' NAme,
Amen.

"Daydreams"
Sometimes days
are so full of daydreams that we
lose the very reality we leave it behind
and in this evolution, create
a new reality
one we have created
sure, thoughts are beautiful sacred things
dreams are the fabric of the soul
lost to man is his source, i don't think
we'll ever find or discover
the origins of humankind but if we
if we need help there are always the stars
ask a spider and he will give you wisdom about stealth
ask the birds they will teach you all about freedom and flight
ask a beetle he'll teach thee humility
ask a bumblebee why he stung my mother,
it's the question of evil how evil is god?
and i dont think the human race is smart enough
yet, or ever, to figure out
which ways we should be going.  that is why
we still have wars.  my severest madness
is my most talented poetry, they impose
is there a "they" at all?  sure, but which "they"
and don't we already know the way?
Don't listen to anyone but your own little heart
dont listen to what people or institutuions claim
they lie.  you must be strong and have faith and endure
meanwhile, carve out for yourself a life
a life free and unique, fill it with every good thing
jesus loves us and the stars, you know, in the sky, they
have only one message "Love One Another" and
"Hope is the thing with feathers" in other words, they
love me, the stars, and i cant study something that i love, that loves
loves me in return.  that is betrayal.  the stars are alive.
they feel and live and die, they age and think and grow
you can talk to them from an eternity away
but carve out of this wilderness a paradise for yourself
a home.  Yes, one must find a home in all this confusion
with people and things that really love you.  A Meaning is
a home.  A home you build, day by day, fed with hopes and fears
and prayers, a home God Provides the means for you to build
A home is the essential thing to have, love and hope all follow suit
love one another, bind your loved ones around your neck
and trust them with your life because they trust you with theirs.....
I've got to get back to thinking.  more to come. Daydreams.////
In JEsus' NAme,
Amen.////

"Lost in Dreams"
I get lost in dreams all day every day

so that the cold pattering of rain on my cheeks

on a summer thunderstorm is a rude awakening

to the dreams within my head and heart

dreamers get pulled in by the gravity of sound

the trickling notes of melodic music soothe my soul

isn't it sweet and delicious to be alive, the capacity

"to feel, both in soul and body!

"Faith"
Life is fragile and tenuous
Yet it endures in the meanest of sidewalk cracks
and broken down alleyways
even in the cities there is hope
and the lonesome cold conifers of canada
stretching on so far
they are underneath the same stars
children grow into grownups
and grownups grow old
and faith in the night is a light
my faith that my husband will come home
night after night for the rest of my life
and his promise that i need not fear but trust him
and i trust him, even if it is madness, it is hope
Hope is fragile and Tenuous
Love is fragile and tenuous
my fingers are trembling as i type these words
almost like a butterflies' wings and yet
somehow i have faith in my husband
and i stay up all night and all day alone
waiting for him to come home and hold me.
Life is fragile and tenous
like the heart of a young girl, me.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.

If I were a fisherman
i would have a net
that could gather up the stars
shining like little fishes rolling in the water
gather all these stars of heaven into a fishing net
maybe the stars would keep the little match girl warm
in jesus' name,
amen

"Weaver of Dreams"
Weaver of Dreams
Must select the best wildflowers
(which are any wildflowers, of course)
making tapestry of courage and compassion
weaving dreams of memories and hopes and fears
love and life and beauty and pain
weaver of dreams
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.

I don't need money.
We are rich in our hearts.
I am a poet.
There are earthly things that money cannot buy
like a clean conscience and a love that's pure
There are heavenly things that money cannot buy
Like the love of God Above.
We don't need money.
 We are rich in our hearts.
I am a Poet!
In JEsus' Name,
Amen

"Have You Ever"
Have You Ever Looked Up At The Sky and Wondered
If you were completely alone on this earth, or if
somehow
there were something
more
more, that you could be doing with your life?
Have you ever felt alone, like nobody could hear you
but the Spiritual realm?  Have you ever felt alone?
Have you ever felt like you belonged to something they don't understand?
Have you ever felt
like your people werent on the earth right now?
Have you ever?
I do.  I pray.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.

"To Archangel Gabriel, My Gaurdian Angel"
Gabriel, i love you so very, very much
i do not know what to do. i fear no fate
for you are my fate and you are with me
wherever i shall ever go, i shall not walk
alone.  i do not know what is yet to come,
but i pray that you will be with me all the way
loving me, supporting me, guiding and listening
to my heart, i pray you will always love me.
and when i get to heaven, i will be with you the same
and may we never be parted.  send my love to Raphael.
He is so protective over me, he loves me very much
Raphael and i were married for about Six Years, william
and i for eight, and Gabriel and I for three so far.
they never left me, we never resented each other,
simply grew weak and moved apart as time passed
our loves waxed strong.  i can only follow my heart
in truth, i love you all!  I am never lonely because they
keep me company.  In jesus' name,
Amen.

"An Enchanted Evening Alone"

An Evening of True Enchantment

Spiderwebs adorned in Dew on every strand

covering my book The Changelings and a spider

web in my window and beyond the spider web

spontaneous fireworks display in the twilight of

a muggy night just outside my porch i stand watching

wonder in my eyes and in my heart abounds miracles

miracles and gratitude for these miracles lord, lord,

Lord we know not the indirect source of thy ways

But we Know that God Works Through Us and through

space and time, tenderly weaving stories he's fashioned

Every burst of light bedazzled starburst exploding into new birth

heralding som new age of hope, some new and better time

heralding the Glory of God and the Grandeur of God

I watch, my heart a flutter--is this for me?-- i know it is

a gift to me from God.  And to the world.  God Loves me

so much...He Provides Hope and so very much more

The Lord Provides Joy and Miracles, Love and Light

Each Firework is a Galaxy expanding and dying in the night

Or a Supernova of which there have been four

Or an exploding star dying in the night stars and galaxies

are so like fireworks i guess thats why they call it

The Big Bang.  I am so grateful.  And the stars wheel

silently eternally overhead gaurding the dead and the living

lampposts in the night's deep sea of void

blinking on through clouds the stars are burning bright

constellations of the centaur sagittarius are outside my window tonight

Love,

Caroline

"Theodore is the only one i will ever love"
I believe you'll never leave me Theodore because
Even If You Did Ever Leave Me Theodore
My Husband My Soul My Life Your Wife
Because I know a secret you have that you're
infinitely proud of and that secret is
that You Are The Best Person I Could Ever Love
The Best Man I Have Ever Met
The Best Man I Have Ever Had
The Best I Ever Had
And If you left
And I found Someone "Better Than You"
It Would Drive You Insane with Jealousy and Pride
And You'd Be Right Back In My Arms Again
If There Was Ever a time i had to move one and find
some person "Better" than You, and you found out,
found out you had been replaced....well,
it would drive you insane with pride and indignity
because the greatest thing you've ever achieved, in your heart,
is that you are The Best Person I Have Ever Had
And The Only One I Could Ever Love
Ever Again.  I Could Make You Jealous
but there's no need, for we are madly
In Love.  Theodore you are the best person
i could ever have or ever had, is you.
you are the only person i will ever be able to love
and you won't go, because you are incredibly proud
to be my one-and-only.  You Crow like a rooster with Pride
that i am youre wife, and I am just as Proud
That You Are My Husband!  We are Forever.
Till' Death Do Us Part and lay us side by side.
In JEsus' NAme,
Amen.

"The Night Sky"
I Speak The Language of The Stars
I am gifted with universal language
I also know about what the stars are
Now I am learning their Names
And The Constellations and
The four directions in the nights
of summer and eventually winter
which i am learning that sky as well--
When i look to the stars they shall be
Be More Than Stars I will know them by name
and when they speak to me they
will be like people in the sky (Gods).
 When i look up at the night sky
i will not only be able to know
where i am on the face of the earth, but
where the stars are in the sky
furthermore
the stars speak to me in unspeakable tongues
so they will speak to me as they always have,
but now i will know them each and call them all
By Their Names.
In Jesus' Name.
Amen.////

"NAmes of the Stars In HEaven"
There are So Many Gods and Goddesses to Worship
There are so many Stars in the sky to memorize their names
So that if life
finds you
on a dark deserted highway on a cold
crisp starry night at any time, you can
look up at the stars in the sky and
pray to them
one by one,
name by name.
I am learning the names of the Stars in the Sky
Amen. ^-^

My Heart Is a thousand paper lanterns
hovering sublimely in the sky, abloom with hope
echoing "Hello" to all the vast infinity of blue sky
blue sky that doesn't ever ever end-- it just thins
what is out there and what is holding us in this embrace
but the love of god for his earth and its creatures
i hover sublimely in my heart, hoping i dont die
for life is sweet though life is difficult and hard to do.
God, Sustain me in my Heart Lord Now and Always
In jesus' name,
Amen.///

"Choke"
Heartbreak settles in like heavy snowdrifts
smothering the world with choking flecks of ice
i don't know what is normal anymore and i'm scared
i don't know if there is a future and it looks so damned dim
i take each day as a challenge money is a myth i am alone
solitude is a fact of life they dont know how it feels to be me
they never will noone ever will there is only you holding me
and when you want to be alone i feel like there's no hope for me
and i try to keep my head above the water but the snowdrifts are
choking me do you think there's a way out who would help us but god
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.////

"I am The Moon"
Name Me The Moon
I am the pale milk Moon
lazy and still, face
unchanging, round and
pregnant with ripeness
harvest moon i am ripe and full
 in thy lonely nethernight of your cemetary
when you poise on thy toombstone,
remember me there, with you
for i am the moon
the moon is me
I will be with you
 forever
Amen.

The Pain Of Existence
is a real thing
Lingering out the steady days of time
pacing yourself to time with nothing
lengthening one's life until one grows old
losing oneself in emotion, i only want to
laugh and cry meandering tears wet my hair
grieving hurts like a toothache and being alone
dolerse, an ache, is my heart, for what lies ahead
is utterly unknown and what lies behind is so vast
and what lies within me is so much pulp that i feel too much
death came on a summer afternoon and stole away my love
now i cling to my husband like my only hope, and he
only wants to be alone for now.
In JEsus' Name,
Amen.

The Madness of a Writer
To Go On Writing Till They Say
"She's Mad", which makes one sad
endeavouring towards madness is a way to be brilliant
troubles needs must be passing like a ship out at sea
kissing the shore from the horizon line
sharks hunt, dolphins play, children dream
and grownups worry about their weight.
if i worried about my weight i would be unhappy
and its better to be fat, than to be unhappy
so i'll just be fat and happy.
In Jesus' name,
amen.

"Lazy Summer"
Trickle of sun-warmed water on my toes
and fingertips.  i scoop a handful
of sunlit water and it trickles down me forehead,
nose and cheeks.  I feel the weeds of summer
are growing into my heart, and the hazy days
are so akin to laziness, so that one can't really
help being friendly.  Summer vines growing
summer wine and summer fruit and summer tea
Alabaster filled with blueness the pool is waiting
but i do not want to swim must cover one's skin
to keep it white as snow, the hot right sun will tan it
so.  better to stay indoors and write.  Open the doors
and feel free to extend one's hazy laziness into a soft
blanketed grass carpet of a world where only a hammock
could be more comfortable than one is now.

"Why Poets Must Continue Writing, On and On"
Poets must continue writing on and on
We Poets are the soldiers of and angels of God's Jesus Christ
We bring peace, love and joy, into the reader's hearts.
More people should read Poetry
More People Should Write Poetry
Mor People should find a place they can belong
as i have, and shere poems with beloved
friends who become friends, once they've read
your poetry.  Poetry is so important we need even more poets
we need to find poets and encourage poets one another,
we are poets inside, and everyone has a voice
Poetry Is One of The Last Great Hope Of Mankind
Poetry, Art, Music, the Humanities, the Muses-- these Graces
come to us as technology threatens the world- not only our own species,
but all the earth with extinction.  In short, Poetry is my battle
and it is the essential thing it is
One
Of
 The
 Last
Great
Hopes
Of Mankind,
and I believe
if we all write as one,
each praying unique like
snowflakes, we
WILL
Be
 Heard!
Write for the human race.
In Jesus' Name, Amen

I Went To See The Garden Growing

I Went To See The Garden Growing
Tired, I leant against the doorway, meditating
a peace came over my soul that only God Can Give One
And It was that moment i noticed one plant
there was one tall plant dying for want of water
for it was growing out of a little-watered place
so i lifted the water basin that i have set as a bird bath
and i i watered my plant from the bird bath.
It will live now.  and there is yet water for the birds.
Mercy and comapassion is the purest form of truth.
May it grow for the rest of its long life, and i grow with it.
My little Garden, lord!
In Jesus' Name I Pray.
Amen

"Love Poem To Theodore"
I Would Cross The Deepest Ocean
To Be With You Theodore
I Would Wait A Hundred Years
To Be With You Theodore
I Would Steal You All The Toys In China
If It Would Make You Smile
If Only For A Little While, I might
Put thy aching heart to rest
I'll always give thee all my best
and where I fall short of thy dreams
I will paint my eyes to thee to seem
as perfect as I have ever appeared
In Thee, My Soul, My Life, endeared
And Should We Face An Early Doom
I'll Lay Me Down By The In Yonder Tomb
That beauty eternal, except for thee never
Was such a darling shining star as thee, ever!
And Should mayhap it bring thee a smile
We'll Cuddle Warm and We'll Sleep Awhile
We'll Cuddle till our lives are aged spent through;
Then Wake in death, To The Dream, Of You!
Love,
Caroline

"God, All of This is For You"
God, I Hope
you like
my poems because
i made them for
YOU.
no...really!  i made...them....
for...you, God.
and anyone else who might want to read it.
I wrote these poems and stories and paintings
FOR YOU GOD
Please Forgive Me.
I was Confused.
Fifteen Years I've Been Writing,
and i hope and pray i am able
to write you praise Poems and stories
all my Life.  I wouldn't be
me
who i am
without my poetry
i am a poet!
Father God, I wrote these books....
For You.  I am doing my best
more are soon to come
they are coming every day
Lord, Let me never Forsake Thee, for
I have Tried So Hard To Praise You All These Years!
I Love You, Father God.
I Love to Write To You.
I Hope You Read a poem or two,
if you have time . ^-^
Love,
Caroline (and Theodore) Land

"What makes me an angel"
The Part In Me
That Is Immortal
Is The Part In Me
That Noone
And Nothing
Can Take Away
Courage is a Miracle
it is hope for the human race
i don't pity myself
that's why i'm still alive
i've got something immortal in me
i am an angel
i cant prove it
but i know that i am
deep inside
and that's why
i cannot be
a sinner like
the rest of you
i'm better than that
i'm an angel
In Jesus' Name,
AMEN.////

"When It Was Over You Held Me"
When It Was Over You Held Me
And That Was Enough to Get By
On Through is a light in the Night
Crushed By the Gravity of a Hellbent
God, We Raced Through the Thunderstorm
Over a Delirious Angry Sea of Sharks
And Reefs And God, I Just Held On
To my Plastic Covering My Plastic Tarp
I Held On To it wrapped around my
small body like it was you my Love my Life
held on for dear life
and when it was over you held me
in your soft warm all-forgiving arms
and we laughed, and for the first time
you smiled Victory, and then
We Let Go And Got Up For A New
Blow.

"Stars"
I am more than I am
I am fighting for something
This is Bigger Than Us
This is Bigger Than Us
This is Bigger Than Us
The Universe Depending On
The Strength Of My Pen,
I Will Fight For The Universe
The Pain Makes Me Stronger.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.////

"My Words Are Wings"
MY Words Are Wings
To Spread them and Fly
Because Baby, We are Angels
And Even Angels Go To War.////
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.

"If They Do Come Up"
This, Then.
The Soul is a million fractals of light
the souls of man are shining bright
though thee be yet another in the night
it doesn't dim thee in God's sight
God made us immortal spirits to dwell
and live in his paradise omipresence cries
omnipresence cries when his daughter dies
and i cry with omnipresence with swollen eyes
her death was a loss to the pure of heart
so find your battle, and go and start.
Fight them on through night and day
fight for your love and you may
get to hold your love again
and you may, you may, may even win!
In  Jesus's Name,
Amen.

"What To Do"
You Pray like crazy.
You Pray.  and when
they come to
take you away
you let them
because christ did.
in jesus' name,
Amen.////

"All Lives"
Now I Would Die For Thee.
All Lives Lead to Thee.
All tears are wept for thee
meaningless is everything
like my wildly singed hands
i fear the darknes not
it is actually all i can see
i see a great war is life
life is the battle
between good and evil
thats the purpose
and the mining, is that
i dont have time anymore
i have so much time
time to dream is lost behind
time to fight is here at hand
valkyrie, rush into crazy battle
i will fight them off and off
they will not win i wont let them
i have a powerful weapon
my life and what i do with it
it is important what i do with
my life and my ability
to lose it
i am fighting evil
In Jesus' Name,
Amen.////

In reply to silence a yellow umbrella

When i look at you i see
Sympathy foremost
And then
A sense of loss
Like blood
Red blood leaving my heart
 I fear
Fear death
Also
I fear the great king
He who must not be named
So fearing death and kings and loss
Of poetry, I declare
You my kindred
Spirit. So in
Reply, I have
An umbrella
In our fears you
You can join me
Hiding
Safe and warm
From the world. Hide here
Under my banana yellow
Umbrella of my dreams
Hopes and fears we share.
Its raining, raining...
Amen

Know You are loved

If I could give everyone a gift
It would be
The realization, in ones
Time of doubt and despair, that
That you are loved
And god loves you infinitely
So don't give up
On your life, because
Knowing
You are 
Loved
Can save your life. 
Know you are loved.
Amen.

Solitude is true freedom

When I am alone
I am never lonely
I prefer solitude
The shadows of my own face
The burning light within my heart
My own beautiful mind
Myself and my soul
I prefer solitude
Introvert sensitive I am
I would be happy
On a desert island, except
I love my husband
Solitude is bliss
I am my own strength
Empowered.

Its just the fear of being alone

Loneliness is an ache
One grows used to
Like a needle
In the vein is the pang
Of loneliness sharp calm
Sobering to realize one is
Finally and literally, completely
Alone. I get pangs of loneliness
And cold fear rises in the 
Back of my neck for instants
But
I'm too brave to feel it for long
I shake it off and keep working
I am Like Laura croft in tomb raider
I'm too brave to feel loneliness
It's simply the fear of being alone
I am not a fearful person
Courage is my closest companion.
Never alone
In Jesus name, amen.

hope frivolous, lost

Hope frivolous, lost
Dying isn't the question
Nor the problem a sadness
Rises madly in my heart like
An ocean wave capsized
By gravity and the stars
I would give it all to write
Again.

“The Colors of Fire”

I saw the Colors of Fire

It is Red and White and Orange

It Burneth the Dead Twigs And Sticks

And transformeth them

Into ashes.  Fire is calm  and kind.

It is a Force, a Power, a Gift,

That Prometheus Died To

Give To Humankind

Oh Burn Bright, Red Fire!

Burn Bright and True

Fire of God’s Light, we

Believe

In You!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen

“My Grandmother taught me Fire And Water”

My Grandmother Taught Me Fire and Water

She awoke something in me,

Something that I lacked

A Love for an Art Man Has All But Lost

Yet Which is There

All The Same!

My Grandmother

Taught me

Fire

And

Water

Fire And Water, Earth and Wind—

They Will be my companions, now,

So long as I do not

Forget them

If I forget them

I will lose them

But I have not

Forgotten

And I remember the

Memories

Of my

Childhood!

Amen.

“I Hope They Come, Lord.”

I hope the birds come, Lord.

I hope they bathe in the Water

And drink the Water

I hope they eat the seed in the feeder

I hope birds

And insects

And animals  come

Come, and know

That

They

Are

Safe, and that

There is Hope

For All Living

Beings.

Amen.

“Learning To be Free”

Can you set yourself free?

Life is real and beautiful.

The Colors of Fire are The Rainbow.

My Grandmother taught me

Water

And

Fire.  Now I am Learning----////

“Earth, Wind, Water, and Fire”

There Are Four Elements:

1 Earth

2 Wind

3 Water

4 Fire

These elements are Forces---

They have always been

And they always will be

They are good

//humans are so confused because

They

Fear

The natural

World!

“Oh Ye Of So Little Faith,

Why Didst The Not Believe?”-Jesus

Amen.////

If thee wish a wish

Wish it with all thy heart—

And nurture it with prayers

And feed it with fears

And water it with Hopes,--

All day all night in thy heart,

No one knows

It’s there

And yet

It Glows!  Oh, What a Light

Is this!

Wishes can come true

They don’t always do;----

But wishing

Mustn’t it

Do

Something?

Anything?  Mustn’t There Be

Power

In a Prayer?

And so as I prayed the Lord Would

Deliver Me—

He did.  And i

Am not even lost!//

Amen.

“There is Joy”

There is Yet Joy.

There is yet hope.

The world cannot take it.

Love Bloometh

Love Bloometh

In the meanest sidewalk cracks

And the darkest of lonely houses

In a lonely house

Lord, there is

Yet Joy

There is Yet Hope.

In a Lonely House

Where Love Bloometh Not,

Still, yet,

Life

And

hope

must

go

on.

The memory of Joy of Love

Will keep thee warm so long

Yea, even through the darkest night!//

“In between is Life”

In Between is this my wonderful life;

And looking back I’m so grateful

To God.

Amen.

“Conclusions”

Time Goes By…

Loneliness Seeps in

Unanswered phone calls

The days go by and you

Realize that you are

Or may be—

Completely alone

With no point

And nothing

Time Passes…

There’s nothing to become

Nothing to do…

Sadness seeps in you wonder

Why

You are suffering

But

There doesn’t seem to be

A reason for your pain

It just is, that’s all

No one to know

No one to blame

Nothing to do

Nowhere to go

Nothing left, at All.//

In Jesus’ Name,

//And So, I Went Walking

Lost to time’s Sanctuary

Sea Waves Beating a grey shore

More Good, no evil there

Love is in these ebb-tides

Love and Eternity

--I could have stayed there

Forever.  In Jesus’ Name,

Amen.//

“In my Loneliest Hours”

In my loneliest hours

When pain and fear are seeping in,

I cling to hope and

Endure.

When I fear I cannot take the

Pain any longer, I yet dig deep and

Survive.

I think of Theodore.  He is my everything

All that I have left

Lord I could not go on

Without

Him!  If it weren’t

For him I wouldn’t

Be here, lord

Knows

I Love Him.

In my loneliest hours Jesus comes

‘a-whistlin’

Almost as though

Nothing were wrong!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen.

The Pain Of Living

Lost Me You Did
My Soul Melted
When Words Won't Flow 
They Way They Used To
When My Heart Broke, Suddenly
Suddenly I Couldn't Write
Anymore.  Tears came
only tears.  no words.
when somebody dies, rhyme
and meter lose their meaning
if words could express my heart
i would capture all this drenching pain
and the ecstasy of still being alive
treasuring the time i have left
with my loved ones
the preciousness of life
the fragility of life
tears are rawer than poetry
tears transcend words
when i find my soul in the midst
of all this pain and always-changing,
i will
let
you
know.
In Jesus' Name,
Amen

"On Poetry"
Are You Going To Pour
Your Heart
And Soul
into your work?
Or are you going to
seek
meter, form, imagery,
the technicalities of
writing?  Writing is not the ends.
It is the means to an end.
Poetry is a tool, not the goal.
The Goal
Is To Pour Out Your Soul
Pour Your Soul into something
some of the best poems
are the simplest
it doesnt have to be full
of big words
or pretty details
it's the heart that shines through
In Jesus' Name,
Amen./