Lord, Here Am I

Lord, here am I to labor unrewarded,
To serve unpaid, unloved, unsought, unknown,
Unknown, unloved by all but my dear children,

Eden

Eden

-Linda Lee Lyberg

Darkness falls and I am alone

Emptiness abounds, no place to call my own

Forgiven

Beholders many faults may find,
But God forgave them all
Before the earth or sea or time,

Easter smiled

Poetry challenge: Easter poem

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Shadow of a crown of thorns
upon there on the wall
Contrasted in the brightness
sweetest thing I saw

God is…

 

   

When the storm clouds are all around me, and there seems no place to hide

My soul cries out to Jehovah God and I reach deep down inside.

For it is deep inside my soul I find provision everlasting

Knowing Jehovah Jireh is always ready to provide.

Cord of Three (Valentine Challenge)

Poetry challenge: Valentines poem

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Ruth 1:16  “And Ruth said, Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest I will go: and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people , and thy God my God.”

(Happy Valentine’s Day, my love!)

A Cord of Three

Looking back through the years

Through the laughter and the tears,

Standing forever by my side

Standing together, husband and bride.

My Heart Hurts

 

The last few years have been strangely visited by the passing of so many friends, their parents, their spouses, their children, their best lifelong friends. When you go through such a loss it helps knowing you have friends, family, and God to turn to when the pain is overwhelming and just too much to bear.  However, there are many lonely nights where it is just you and God, sharing the burden of loss.

My Heart Hurts

Waking up this morning with life’s plans rolling along.

With children, family, and friends in their places where they belong.

Hearing that my cousin has cancer drove me to my knees in pain.

My friend called to say her granddaughter has a tumor on her brain.

Longing in my soul

I hunger for something solid
A touch that soothes my soul
Genuine Presence of God
That fills up this “heart-hole”

Sure, I have salvation
My Savior is Everything
Yes, I have Spirit revelation
Joy of Him makes me sing

Still, there must be more than this

Man in Charge

Gaze upon the twinkle stars

Who am I? A question I ask.

The Ire of God

Earl’s heart
like the rabbits and deer
gets its tides from the phases
of moon. As it wanes
all is quiet in the woods
and furrows.

Incomprehensible

Poetry challenge: Easter poem.




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Breath of Life

Reflection

Poetry Challenge: Easter poem

Shadow of a crown of thorns
high up on the wall
held there in a flickering light
sweetest thing I saw
Around me people quietly prayed
the Spirit, moving, felt
a whispered word, a silent prayer
shared as people knelt

Light of Day

Secluded by the tired night

Weary eyes no longer bright

She journeys to her quiet place

Scattered Softly

Golden angel, midnight light

Ethereal being, ever bright

Lost, found and kept

Lost to shouting seas
Found with murmuring ones
Kept upon a whisper
When the silence comes

Snatched when anger’s present
Gathered when it’s calm
Shared upon a whisper
When words become my psalm

Fields of yellow ochre

In fields of yellow ochre
wandering, carefree as a cloud
drifting on a summer breeze
I felt a richness here endowed
The chalky soil beneath my feet
hard packed by days of sun
and through the haze the shine of sea
on this day that’d just begun

Sage Advice

On vacation years ago on a 100 degree day in June
I was looking for something fun to do that afternoon
At the Tourist Info booth I stumbled upon a gnarly old man
He rocked back and forth in his chair; used his hat as a fan

I asked him what there was to do in his mountain town
He looked up at me and slowly knit his brow

Counting my blessings

Started counting my blessings
but the task it is tough
Soon ran out of fingers
two hands not enough
One for each friend
and there are many of those
Far more than my fingers
and even my toes

The Earthquake

And it keeps going on,

faster than before.

Racing one another,

pushing more further.

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Our dreams and wishes,

are doubling the height of the Everest.

Never satisfied,

the greed is endless.

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Planning one day like this,

and the next month like that.

We have the whole year planned,

the whole life is programmed.

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Every second is chalked out.

Some plans made, some got cancelled.

Smiling and laughing,

deluded in our own world.

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Home

I have a beach of shingle mixed
with golden sea-washed sand
Its grandeur and its mystery
forged by God’s own hand

Undulating

Undulating patterns
On the river caught my eye
Providing cause to ponder
As I wandered slowly by

Easter day yellow

Forsythia yellow leapt to life
On Easter Sunday morn
Dead throughout the winter
Today it was reborn

Reveal God : Trinet Poem

Poetry challenge: Trinet poem.

Time leaps
Time slithers
We grow so, legs of metal
In our eyes, deep under ground
Hope moulded
Dream smelted
Thought shaped

Two words

I don’t know how to come back to you
It’s been such a long time, you see
As I’ve not been living my life for you
But keeping it all back for me.

Stepped on a crack

Stepped on a crack in the pavement of life
And heard something chasing me
Turned and saw the bears of the night
Bricked it, suddenly

I Stopped Watching

 

( I wrote this for Shirley Maya Tan and Malaysia )

I listen to music

puts me in a certain frame of mind

I want to be sad

like the tears welling in the moment

I want to feel pain

Broken Pieces (Free Verse)

Poetry challenge: Free verse poem.

 

Rejected,

Dejected,

hopeless despair

envelops me,

as the missing pieces-

scrambled,

Meaning of ‘I’

In the quest to find
Elusive meaning of ‘I’
By innards of mind
A question deep, dry