Help me, oh Lord, to find the way
Back home to You at end of day
Give me the strength to carry on
When all my energy seems gone
Show me the path that leads to peace
Where all my pain at last will cease !
NOT ALL BLISS ( 2019 ) 2019/05/08
Each day I rise with great surprise
To find the world before my eyes
I thank the Lord that I’m alive
And query how I still survive !
I’ve lived this life a long, long time
Indeed it’s been a tedious climb
At times I’ve thought I can’t go on
But rules are what life’s based upon !
Forgive me Lord for doubting You
What e’er You’ve taught, it is all true
I’ll carry on, I promise this
And know that life is not all bliss !
FEELINGS ( 2019 ) 2019/05/01
This is my home, my place of birth
The dearest spot to me on earth
Because it’s where my life did start,
I learned to love and use my heart.
For every moment of each day
When I was taught to speak and pray
This is the place I shall recall
That still remains the best of all.
A gentle touch, a tender hug
A handshake or a kindly tug
Are ways we show how much we care
And promise always to be there !
BEFORE THE FALL ( 2019 ) 2019/04/29
The world’s comprised of many types of folks
Both young and old, lass and lads, dames and blokes
Perhaps a total of eight billion strong
Inhabit earth wherein we all belong
May the Lord have mercy upon us all
Helping each to find peace before we fall !
LET US REMEMBER ( 2019 ) 2019/04/28
Oh would that I could see my way
To finer times or better day
Recapturing moments escaped
And memories that we’ve forsaked
Or that one might look forward to
Remembering how dreams come true
For joy’s composed of little things
That make us smile and lends us wings !
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 !
ADORATION ( 2019 ) 2019/04/23
I sometimes think we’re here too long
And never know where we belong
We spend a lifetime here and there
In laughter, joy or in despair.
Mongst all the feelings that we’ve had
Perhaps we’ll settle for the glad
Some kindly thought or gentle word
Yet nothing sounding too absurd.
The world is full of magic still
If we accept God and His will
Learn to appreciate the gift
And to the Lord our praises lift !
AMEN.
RESURRECTION ( 2019 ) 2019/04/21
Oh Lamb of God, we’ve come so far
Since that first sight of Eastern star
That signalled Your impending birth
To all the creatures on this earth.
Time now to celebrate the day
Of resurrection on the way !
TO SET US FREE ( 2019 ) 2019/04/20
Tis now the time of Easter morn
When hope of man will be reborn
It was the day of Christ, you know
About two thousand years ago.
An honest man of word and deed
Who came to save our world in need
This son of God who suffered so
Did save us from all hell below.
And so today we honor Him
Who died to save us from our sin
Remembering His agony
Because He died to set us free !
BE ALWAYS THERE ( 2019 ) 2019/04/15
The night is cool, the air is sweet
God’s vernal world lies at our feet
Each dried up twig now sports new leaf
The winter’s gone to our relief
Our barren coast revives once more
With summer dreams in full encore.
How glad am I to feel awake
And comprehend just what’s at stake
This life we have is all we need
Let’s thank the Lord and pay Him heed
As He’s the answer to all prayer
Oh blessed Lord, be always there !
FOREVER FRIEND ( 2019 ) 2019/04/14
There was a dream that I once had
Which made my memories so glad
Long time ago when I was young
And all my hopes were yet unsung
The energy still kept its charm
And laughter held no great alarm.
Tis time for freedom and for joy
When all life’s pleasures are employed
Oh, would that God was always there
To hear our ever grateful prayer
And see us through until the end
He is our true and constant friend !
I MISS MY FRIEND ( 2019 ) 2019/04/07
Before I entered in life’s maze
I’d been alive a thousand days
I walked and talked and learned to sing
Good manners came with everything.
My mother, she was but sixteen
Had never been a high school queen
She was my best friend my whole life
Through happy days and those of strife.
The hard times came, then went away
But left the scars of yesterday
Sometimes when I do quiet sit
Those memories may be relit.
I’ve often wondered how we did
When daddy died, I was a kid
Today the days just seem to fly
I must learn now to say goodbye !
HE IS NOT BLIND ( 2019 ) 2019/04/06
Good morning world, I’ve come to say
The Lord gives us another day
A day to do what e’er we choose
A day to win, a day to lose.
And if we’re smart we’ll use it well
That others may His story tell
And so it moves us closer to
His day of judgement tried and true.
It matters much our real intent
Like how our wisdom has been spent
And have helped our fellow man
The best as many of us can.
Our God is fair, unerring kind
But to our faults He is not blind !
ANTICIPATION ( 2019 ) 2019/04/03
There lives a love that waits for me
Beyond the reach of destiny
A love that is one’s legacy
And takes us to eternity !
A MOTHER’S LOVE ( 2019 ) 2019/04/01
How much is it I loved you, like flowers loved the gentle rain
As soldiers loved the glory of those great battles won or gained
How can I explain God’s miracles and that which I’ve now learned
The fervor of His majesty into our hearts has been burned.
There is no other answer and to seek one would be in vain
For all we pray, we know there is not a chance we’ll meet again
I’ve promised you my darling, we shall not e’er run out of time
As long as you remember why and for whom we’ve been consigned !
DO WE DARE ( 2019 ) 2019/03/31
My heart is full, I cannot bear
The loss of ones no longer there
My day begins with hope and prayer
Away, the gloom of dark despair.
With those now gone, we shall compare
A memory that all may share
Tis now, by chance won’t seem unfair
We’ll carry on, but do we dare !
KINDER DAYS ( 2019 ) 2019/03/29
When I was young and quite naive
There were these myths I did believe
I’ve learned the moon’s not made of cheese,
Be sure to say “thank you” and “please”
The world has changed, I understand
But overall, life can be grand.
There is one thing I’d like to say
“A nightlight keeps the dark away”
Each happy ever after starts
When we shoo anger from our hearts
Let’s try again to learn new ways
To fill our lives with kinder days !
A BETTER PLAN ( 2019 ) 2019/03/28
It happens every day I wake
My early morning “thankful” break
When I meet God ’bout halfway there
And offer up a simple prayer.
There can be tears I must admit
Sometimes I find it hard to quit
But even harder through the day
When I would rather run away.
That’s not an action worthy of
The special depths of mother love
I’ll have to learn as best I can
That God must have a better plan !
BECAUSE OF YOU ( 2019 )
The world outside is dark and grim
I beg You Lord, please let me in
It matters not what I shall eat
Or whom it is that I may meet.
Tis only in the shadow of
Your all consuming constant love
That all my hopes and dreams can be
Some part of life’s reality
I promise now that I will do
What e’er You wish that pleases You !
AMEN.
TRUST IS A VIRTUE (2019) 2019/03/14
When I was but a little child
And life was newer, sweeter, mild
My mother taught me many things
About the joy that kindness brings
And why respect’s a two way street
When often strangers chance to meet
The earth is precious needing care
With trust the virtue all must share !
BE ALWAYS THERE ( 2019 ) 2019/03/13
There is a God, I know He lives
With all the blessings that He gives
He is my Saviour and my Friend
Who’ll stick with me until the end.
I have no fear, He’ll be with me
Until I reach Eternity
I often wonder how He knows
About my fingers and my toes,
My every thought and every deed
My hopes, my dreams and every need
God is the answer to each prayer
I beg You Lord, be always there !
AMEN.
SOME FORSAKEN ( 2019 ) 2019/03/08
To find oneself alone at last
With memories of things now past
Of happy days and lazy times
Some foolishness, some silly rhymes
Or moments when tears cannot stop
As dreams we’ve had did a flip flop.
Tis strange how life’s misunderstood
In quite many a neighborhood
But we must carry on, you see
For that’s a part of destiny
The path that each one has taken
Leaves some winning, some forsaken !
AN ANGEL’S PROMISE ( 2019 ) 2019/03/05
The angels up in heaven cry
For all the babies that will die
Ere all their lives have yet begun
In agony as one by one
They feel the thrust of surgeon’s knife
Before the ending of each life.
Our dearest Lord, have mercy on
These tiny victims that are gone
Help all who’ve suffered from the crimes
To rise again in kinder times
There find the promise of God’s love
And help from angels up above !
LIFE’S SYMPHONY (2019) 2019/03/01
I hear the music in my head
With words not always quite as clear
Since I arise from my small bed
All full of love and void of fear.
The world around us is a joy
Its grandeur overwhelms me so
Like all the comforts we employ
With all the treasure God may show.
The length of time and how we knew
However long, His mystery
No matter now what e’er we do
None may escape life’s symphony !
“IF I BE ALIVE” ( 2019 ) 2019/02/28
There was a man that I used to know
He was my gardener long ago
A man of honor and good intent
Who said exactly just what he meant.
True, I knew he was a man of God
And back in those days that was not odd
He went about his work with great ease
His goal in life was to help and please.
A kindly man full of deep respect
Not an inch of ground did he neglect
His parting words I can still recall
They never changed, no not once at all.
He taught me a lesson that does survive
” See you tomorrow, if I be alive ” !
THANK YOU, JOHN ATANASIO !
A SKY FULL OF CLOUDS (2019) 2019/02/27
Across the meadows of the sky
The scattered clouds are drifting by
Like puffs of cotton hung in space
All seeming to be out of place
The clouds diminish one by one
Until the skies of day are done !
AN EARFUL OF CHEER (2019) 2019/02/26
Mocking bird, mocking bird, sing me your song
Help keep me amused through all the day long
Sing me a garrulous tune with your notes
Including for me, your mocking bird quotes,
Love your clear whistle each morning I hear
Wishing me well with an earful of cheer !
FAREWELL MY CHILD (2019) 2019/02/21
I really don’t know how to hide
This sadness that I feel inside
I’ve tried so hard to do it right
E’en though I’m lost, night after night.
The ache is there and won’t subside
And all because my child has died
Love’s all we’ve got no matter what
The grief remains though we may not.
I love you now, I always will
Until my heart at last is still !
Claire V. Bogdanos 