My gratitude, dear God above
I am surrounded by true love
My fate’s been sealed and is secure
There’s no escape, of this I’m sure
The time grows late, what else is left
Too soon it is, the world’s bereft !
HIS POWER ( 2020 ) 2020/01/27
The world we’ve known waits outside the door
Where it may be what we’re praying for
A kindly word or a tender heart
To grace the day with a healthy start.
Outside the door where true life exists
Common sense should forever persist
For each needs the strength to carry on,
Passion to follow when hope is gone,
Then reach for the sky to touch a cloud
Praising the Lord and his power aloud !
THE LAST HURRAH ( 2019 ) 2019/12/31
Too many dreams have come and gone
While life itself still lingers on
The days pass by, the candle burns
As years fly past, the earth still turns.
What was today now bids goodbye
And all that’s left, a quiet sigh !
THAT FINAL DOOR ( 2019 ) 2019/12/18
As I peer out my window pane
I see the snow has come again
Here in the early hours of dawn
The whiteness seems to brighten morn.
Oh what a luxury it is
To be assured that we are His
And will be so forever more
When life shall close that final door !
NEW CENTURY ( 2019 ) 2019/12/12
Whomever thought I would live to be
Alive in another century
How fast all the years have whizzed on by
With a tender shrug and a sad goodbye.
While I’d like to believe it’s okay
Trying to pursue another day
In a world I neither fit nor last
Since the twentieth century’s passed !
AMEN.
PATIENCE ( 2019 ) 2019/12/08
Throughout my youth and ageing years
I’ve known the company of tears
My rainbow has appeared at last
The final role my life has cast.
I’m still on hold, accepting too
As life has taught me what to do
I wish I had the patience of
Each saint and angel up above !
BRIDGES ( 2019 ) 2019/11/20
There is this tugging on my heart
How did it ever get its start
A numbness rising from the floor
Into my feet and out the door.
What’s happening, I do not know
I cannot make it stop or go
Please lead me Lord, teach me the way
Help me survive each lonely day.
Where are the tears I need to cry
With each and every sad goodbye
Where are the kisses I have earned
Ere all my bridges have been burned ?
SEEKING DREAMS ( 2019 ) 2019/08/28
How grand is it to seek one’s dream
Far better than it mayhaps seem
For dreams are wishes not yet true
Without a boost from me or you.
Tis quite okay to ponder why
Some dreams may fade and often die
Perhaps that strength required to win
Needs faith in God to help begin !
MY MOM ( 2019 ) 2019/04/24
Another day, I miss you so
You left me here long time ago
You closed your eyes and went to sleep
And that’s the memory I keep.
I held your hand, was but we two
Too long a time I’m split from you
I need your love and always will
Remember this, I love you still !
HIS FINAL CALL ( 2019 ) 2019/03/30
Whate’er we hear or see each day,
Integrity gets in the way
Truth comes at last, who is the Beast
That rules the world and all its Least ?
We certainly are gone quite mad
In truth, most citizens are sad
Hyenas rule at every gate
The Just are cowed and much irate.
Salvation seems quite overdue
How shall we know when dreams come true
Perhaps to pray as we’ve been told
Remembering God’s promise old
Each are His children one and all
Awaiting on His final call !
EXPECTATIONS (2019) 2019/02/23
The wind is in the willows
The birds are on the wing
While lazing here on pillows
My heart begins to sing.
The year is growing older
Before long twill be spring
My will is growing bolder
In spite of winter’s sting.
My faith begins increasing
In every way it may
With all my fears releasing
The burden of each day !
TO THE LAMB (2019) 2019/02/19
Oh little lamb you are to me
A symbol of God’s charity
Your wooly hair and all your curls
Reminds me of our knits and purls
In early spring you sacrificed
So we’d have garments warm and nice.
A pair of soft and wooly socks
Or sweater set that really rocks
Paired with wool tights tucked in the boots
While shearling-gloved hands pulled up roots
You’ve mown the lawn there as you eat
And trampled turds with your hoofed feet
You’ve closer gathered when it’s cold
And seem to live to be quite old !
IT’S CALLED SADNESS ( 2019 ) 2019/01/11
There’s an instant lonesomeness in the whispering of the winds
That fills the heart with loneliness before each day begins
There is a moment of darkness that dims all of our sights
A prelude to the blindness that precedes life’s true delights !
IF IT FITS ( 2019 ) 2019/01/06
The world outside is crass and cold
The air inside, both brash and bold
And takes time getting used to it
If we expect our lives to fit
Let’s make the best of what we’ve got
No matter if it fits or not !
THE RISING OF THE SUN ( 2018 ) 2018/12/18
Sometimes the words get in the way
Of all those thoughts we have to say
Like all the angels in the skies
Whose wings do bid us sweet goodbyes
Or shutters closed ‘gainst bitter cold
Burst open for each sunshine’s role
Like evening prayer before we sleep
Filled with our promises to keep
Our lives in order, should He come
Before the rising of the sun !
IT’S THE SEASONS CHEER ( 2018 ) 2018/11/20
There’s so much snow upon the ground
Midst signs of winter all around
The wind is cold and icy breathed
It mixes with the air that’s left !
The signs of warmth rise here and there
While smoking chimneys pierce the air,
Fireplaces through the winter’s night
Will shed their pleasant warming light.
The shadows dancing on the wall
Invite us now to taste it all
With friends and neighbors far and near
So all may reap the seasons cheer !
WE’RE TOO OLD ( 2018 ) 2018/11/16
When most of the darkness leaves us
And we are at last all alone
There’s no one left to deceive us
We are basic’ly on our own.
In the midst of our lifetime’s storm
When good sense and health have vanished
Imagine that this is the norm
And what’s left here has been banished.
When the new replaces the old
And life seems to have gone astray
Remember we once were that bold
But short of a permanent stay !
INEXPERIENCED ( 2018 ) 2018/09/08
T’was once upon a time ago
When we were full of life aglow
Before emerged this need to know
With tiny impetus for show
Our lives were truly less confused
Filled with days both calm and diffused
May all that anger be excused
To find ourselves in turn amused !
HELP FOR STORMY DAYS ( 2018 ) 2018/08/12
Dark storm clouds gather up on high
While shafts of light shoot cross the sky
The rain it tumults to the ground
And fills each crevice to be found.
The thunder and the lightning roar
As darkness creeps inside the door
The streets are full of glistening streams
That flow forever, so it seems.
All lives encounter stormy days
Both cold or sad in countless ways
With this exception each may take
God helps us up before we break !
HELP US GROW ( 2018 ) 2018/07/25
I spy the remnants of my life
Surviving all its stress and strife
I sense the depth of my defense
While reaching out for recompense.
Where are the goals I thought I had
That separate good from the bad,
When will I learn to use my time
In aiding those who dare to climb ?
I find myself caught in the net
That seems to have no exit yet
Please show me, Lord the way to go
To help our lives and values grow !
DARLING CHILD ( 2018 ) 2018/07/12
Lord, You’re in charge of wrong and right
The sun by day, the stars by night
The winds that blow, the rains that fall
The light and dark, life overall.
You are the wisdom and the brains
The loss that memory retains
With dreams that we’re all guilty of
When all are young or bold in love.
The changes come, the changes go
Time flashes by the more you know
As God and all the angels smile
Because each is His darling child !
CRIMSON PLUMES ( 2018 ) 2018/05/26
In the distant fields, row on row
Where all the stalwart poppies grow
God’s crimson plumes wave in the breeze
Their masses reaching to the trees
Across the hills and o’er the plains
With multitudes of mounting aims,
Who’s heard the call both loud and clear
And knows the day of judgement’s near ?
THE FUTURE’S DEAD ( 2018 ) 2018/02/09
There was a time we all felt good
The way united people should
We worked together like a pack
I prayed we’d get our mojo back
But all this stress and anger too
Is something that we must pass through
I see no clear path straight ahead
Just seems as though the future’s dead !
INCONVENIENCE ( 2017 ) 2017/12/28
An icy sleet covers the ground
There’s no safe footing to be found
The winter’s menu slowly grows
Extending to some heavy snows
Alas this season seems to be
Arriving inconveniently !
IF WINTER COMES ( 2017 ) 2017/12/11
The wind, it whips around the bend
How long before the winter’s end
The snow, the sleet, the icy road
That soon becomes a heavy load
But when the elements do flee
The spring arrives to comfort me.
I’d like to greet another day
With fragrant blossoms on the way
There is a line I can’t ignore
I’ve heard so many times before
If winter comes, it’s true you’ll find
That spring is never far behind !
NOT OUR FAULT ( 2017 ) 2017/12/08
Seems that our lives are changing day by day
While fleeting years keep getting in the way
They appear to have a mission or two
Since we are pressed for time, what shall we do ?
As the days get shorter and time speeds by
Too much to remember, harder to try
All of our efforts will keep us awake
Along with those chances we often take.
There’s a point in time when we’ll have to halt
Please understand this, it won’t be our fault !
LIFE’S LAST SLEEP ( 2017 ) 2017/12/05
There’s been so many friends along the way
That have gotten lost or have gone astray
While their faces blur and the names escape
Memories get caught in the charged landscape !
As the past rolls by and the time moves on
I will wait here like an old mastodon
In a silence that I would like to keep
Until I close my eyes in life’s last sleep !
YOU WILL BE THERE ( 2017 ) 2017/07/06
Of late the days all seem to fly
As leaves of time keep flashing by
There is so little I can grasp
I need a halt to take a gasp.
Sometimes I’m deaf and sometimes blind
I’m never sure what I shall find
How can my life just melt away
Without my having any say ?
I trust You Lord and know You care
That in my pain You will be there !
Claire V. Bogdanos 