Feelings of old pull at my heart
As I’m praying my life must start
Too long have I been pausing here
While waiting for love to appear
By now I am expecting nought
For in the process dreams get caught.
I’ve wished so hard to find the way
To take a chance and longer stay
Well here’s my heart, please help it heal
Teach me God’s love and how to feel !
A heart so full it cannot breathe
The gift of love from God received
A joy we all hope to believe
With goals we may at last achieve !
I had a talk with myself today
Hoping to find a much better way
To cope with life and its ups and down
Learn to be happy and lose your frown
Take a moment and rethink your goal
Deep down inside your heart and your soul.
Be slow to anger, avoid the strife
Try to be pleasant most of your life
Remember the Lord, He is your strength
And is with you for all your life’s length !
So often that I’ve wished to be
The star upon your Christmas tree
A candle on your birthday cake
And privy to each wish you make.
I prayed quite hard that you and I
Would be together by and by
And now my world is part of yours
You’re my umbrella when it pours.
There is a God who watches o’er
His children that He does adore
I’m positive He loves us all
And picks us up ere we should fall
I’m sure He knew that we might be
In love for all eternity !
I lost my heart when I was young
To Jesus, Lord, through hymns we’d sung
The music touched me to my soul
To be with God became my goal.
Throughout the years I’ve wondered why
These hymnal verses make me cry
The beauty that is God’s to give
Shall in our hearts forever live !
A little bit of humor, her smile to show she’d dare
The sound of laughter on our ears floating in the air
A tiny piece of heaven for every one to share
Today’s my mother’s birthday and oh, how much I care !
The day is gray and full of gloom
There’s not a rainbow in my room
The sun itself has hid away
Refusing to come out and play
The air is heavy and morose
It’s hard to breathe and ever close !
Perhaps the weather will perk up
Before it is our time to sup
We’ll take a glass of wine or two
Remembering our rendezvous
And ask the Lord to help us spend
One evening that may never end !
I hear the sound of running feet
It fills my heart with pride replete
Midst noise of children in the street
And all their antics with each feat
They’ve not yet learned to be discreet
Reminding all how time is fleet !
I love You Lord, You are my strength
For You I’d go to any length
No distance is too far for me
Because You’re my eternity !
There was a dream that I once knew
When you loved me and I loved you
So long ago in years gone by
Before we had to say goodbye.
I stood there all alone that day
The day that God took you away
Somehow I didn’t comprehend
Was this the way our lives would end ?
Now here am I still standing tall
Awaiting God’s last curtain call
Stay with me Lord, I need Your strength
To get me through this final length !
Oh how I wish the world could be
A place that’s bathed in sympathy
Imagine how much joy we’d see
If all were cloaked in pleasantry ?
A special bit of heaven came knocking on my door
And sounded so familiar, I’m sure we’d met before
Oh my dearest child, you are a wonderment to me
Please come visit me again whenever you are free
I pray that you will share all the laughter and the joy
That God does offer gladly to every girl and boy !
Oh my dearest angel wherever you may be
My arms still long to hold you ever close to me
The years may come and go and never shall we meet
Until the final day, perhaps on heaven’s street
And if that day can’t happen, I shall understand
That all I have prayed for falls under God’s command !
AMEN.
The rain it tumbles to the ground
There’s not a dry spot to be found
The wind it whips among the trees
Embracing all the sodden leaves
The morning’s light turns into dark
The air about is still and stark
While clouds do pass and fade away
In their circuitous display,
The seasons change from day to night
Without a single goal in sight
How simple all our lives could be
Accepting God’s equality !
I know You Lord, You speak to me
With every measure I can see
There from the treetops in the air
From rooftops, birds now perching there,
On every branch in every tree
Each bird sings his own song to me.
How beautiful this life does seem
With all God’s creatures in each scene !
I love You Lord, please take my hand
And lead me to the Promised Land
Show me the path to Latter Days
That I may follow in Your ways
Each child that listens soon will hear
God’s loving Message on his ear
Trust in the Lord, He will not fail
The world is His, each hill and vale
Like every thing the eye can see
Is made by Him for you and me !
AMEN.
My hearing has become acute
I hear a flutter on the roof
It sounds like angel wings to me
Accompanied by symphony
Oh ecstasy, how my heart sings
In unison with angels wings !
A garden is that special place
Where hope and fear meet face to face
Where dreams are made or fall apart
And courage wins when tears depart.
An island in a lifelong storm
Where each must to their strength perform
A place of peace where God resides
And answers prayers and love provides !
Each time that I sit down to eat
I notice there’s an unfilled seat
It’s been like that for quite awhile
I don’t feel ready yet to smile.
I wish your laugh and wisdom’s word
Were still the pleasantries I’d heard
For times have changed, you’re gone away
I miss you more, day after day !
Who’d ever guess that I should be
Alone at last upon life’s sea,
I never thought that I would share
My dinners with an empty chair !
The sun comes peeping o’er the hill
The day is white and bright and still
Each morn brings us another day
Another chance to thank and pray.
How wonderful God’s plan has been
Allowing all to scurry in
We don’t need any special gift
To help us smile or spirits lift
He’s always there with open door
How can we ask for any more ?
We love You Lord, and beg of You
Give each the strength to see life through,
This dearth of help that now may be
The darkest night we’ll ever see,
Or longest day we’ll ever know
As in our lives will sadness grow.
Because of You, we’ve traveled far
To reach the Comfort that You are !
AMEN.
Of all the words that have been writ
There is but one that covers it
Of all the feelings man does know
There is but one that all must show
For love it is that grows and glows
Straight from our minds unto our toes
And brings to each that God-like worth
The blessings of His love on earth !
Across the fields of No Man’s Land
The poet guides his magic hand
Describing all the feelings clear
Of incidents both far and near.
This is the place where freedom rings
While opportunity still sings,
Where each and everyone of all
Have heard the sound of caution’s call.
No matter what the future’s cost
Or if some dreams by chance get lost
We are the champions of all
And stand together or we fall !
Come dance with me, the moon is bright
Stars are alive, a wond’rous sight
The creatures in the meadows sleep
Filled with the sounds of nature deep
The world is ours for ages past
Let’s pray to God that it will last !
AMEN.
Sometimes love happens fast
And takes our breath aghast
Tis odd we should depend
On love to help one mend
For it is each who’ll chance
To gamble on romance.
How shall we make it clear
We hold this value dear
And live on borrowed time
With life wrapt up in rhyme !
Of all the joy which I have found
That laughs and weeps and will abound
And as emotions that astound
Too often seem to be compound
The love of God which is unbound
Fills all my days with peace surround !
There is a tale I wish to share
Bout teenaged feelings, love and care
There was a girl of but fifteen
He was a boy of just eighteen
Each Sunday sharing the church pew
Who can decide what each one knew ?
What was it they were thinking of
Because quite soon it looked like love
Though young and silly girls may be
Assured were both she cared for he
He was a lad, handsome and tall
In every way, he seemed her all.
On Sunday morn, dad passed the plate
She taught a class, they walked home late
Along the Boulevard they’d chat
They walked and talked of this and that
Soon the young man was her best friend
Perhaps with each their lives they’d spend.
Now at this time the world was sick
Young men fought wars in battles thick
That was the year her daddy died
When she felt so alone inside
So many issues war creates
Among those most when faith abates.
How could they know before that day
The war would filch their love away
Of all events that I have seen
And all the places I have been
Too precious now those days bygone
That their first love was based upon.
So sad the pain that war does bring
As all their dreams took flight and wing
Thus never to return that way
Not then or any other day
Too bad this story has no end
No memory nor any friend !
Days come and go, they slip away
To morph into some yesterday
Where yesterdays forgotten lie
Reminding all of past goodbye.
Too sad that we cannot replace
Those memories of last embrace
As o’er the years of each regret
Somehow the pain we can’t forget.
Our vision dims, the picture fades
And we are here left with charades
That echo pain and misery
Of loving days that used to be !
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Claire V. Bogdanos 