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.