**DEVOTION**
~~by Sybil Bauer(for my husband)~~
Silent thoughts transcend holding visions of our lives
Vital for devotion and adoration to survive
Each crack in time a chasm of that we are aware
For everything is meaningless unless you are always there
You are a refuge existing where love stands supreme
As role of guardian angel your candle always gleams
Your guidance and protection, a rich harvest of content
Your star igniting up the sky an impressive testament
Your values, your beliefs, your wisdom bring insight
Releasing vital fresh impetus to validate and unite
An understanding peace enveloped with the warmth
As two rare souls coalesce for spiritual rebirth.
As diaspointments mist and desires on decline
Ourstrengths, our power calmly meld, alerted to combine
With seeds of faith, that Special bond Help to keep me sane
As you enfolded me with love to ease away each pain.
A rich
tapestry of memories manifest in our dreams
There is no greater happiness together a celebration beams
Our spirits merges as one, a journey in full flight
Divinely scultured and entwined, revered in holy light.
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**JOURNEY OF THE HEART**
~~~by Sybil Bauer~~~
There are whisperings at the bottom of my heart
Always there to remind me of the purpose the years impart
A journey that built a time of lasting love and affection
A custodian of treasures and dreams that brought perfection.
We rose above the darkness naked and unbound
You turned the voice of the wind into a melodious sound
A strain made sweeter by all the laughter shown
In the shelter of each other, love the foundation stone.
We have learned to listen to the silence, hear a choir singing
Changting hymns of our youth and splendour of the living
Staying focussed on our blessings are the golden threads
Sharing the cycle of life with no words of the heart left unsaid.
The future lies unpainted for our hands to shape with glee
The glow shining in the mirror of the moon, is scultured by degree
Faith and courage stand beside us, the secret of eternity
With the song of ages, the wellspring humanity.
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**ANOTHER DAY, ANOTHER DREAM**
~~~ny Sybil Bauer~~~
Iam a tree
Struggling bravely, valiantly to accept the uncertainty of life
Ravaged by a long winter waiting for the dawning of spring
Praying for divine protection during darkness
Bearing scars from limbs torn, ripped apart while
Standing cold and stiff braced against the wind
Whispering echos haunting the shredding bark
Detached feelings floating in the tangled gloom of trees around
The the winter ended, gone the ghostly grey fog
Now in place of death by silence a new reality awakening
I begin to thaw warmed and softened by the music of spring
Flapping wings blow aways clouds of winter's grit
The breezes rustle gently teasing my branches
Out of barbs tenden new beginnings colouring the day
Natures healing dancing from the inside out.
Proudly I stand straight, tall, strong
My head held high to greet the world
It is my time to be free of physical bondage
For I am not Just any tree
I am a tree that surved the winter.
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**THE THIN VOICE OF REASON**
~~~by Sybil Bauer~~~
Fields sown with dreams of visions splendid
Dreams driven by hope and strength of character
Now lost, decayed, devoured by reality
With dust clouds blocking the light of self.
I wish that I could cry to wash away the agitations
That eddy deep down in the darkness
Symbols of my own essence hidden from view
While the spirit stumbles in an ocean of doubts.
The thin voice of reason echos a helplessness
An ambivalence about life undulating between
Health, Illness,Fatigue, Depression
A life devoid of meaning, an emptiness
A quiet desperation, a pernicious torment
Monotony and humiliation in the loneliness,
Unthinkable thoughts resting in the psyche
Pursued by treacherous silences that know no end
All negative emotions experienced in anticipation
At times miseries so damned death wishes reside.
I have known ho to rise and fall with the wind
I have felt the pain of the fall
Endurance each day becomes victory
A challenge to strive, a challenge to survive
Siphoning strengths from future hopes
Without forming a cloudy tomb for a dying sun.
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***BUTTERFLIES AND INSECTS***
~~~By Sybil Bauer~~~
Don't let the past sit on your shoulder nibbling your ear
Don't let the sun see you crying, spilling over promises of fear
Walk new paths, find you refuge to cogitate and escape
Feel like an insect shedding one body for another shape.
See the light in darkness, a goddes of healing blest
There is solace to find a sympathiser hidden in your chest
She is prepared to listen, put bandages on your heart
And sees with your eyes the tears of truth that smart
Give rein to the imagination sliding on rainbow's hue
Lost in the secent of thousand roses, let the denizen woo
Be a frequent flyer, then may a chat with GOD be bidden
Paint your greatest work of art a vivid spectrum of moods hidden.
Don't look backwards in doubt or the future you may miss
Look forward in hope, like a butterly evacuate your chrysalis
Release your spirit, have faith running through veins anew
Son one day I can meet up with the person that is YOU.
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**BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD**
(Psalm 46:10)
~~~by Patty Hong~~~
Lately, I saw beauty in quiet things
Skies ever so blue, clouds ever so calm
Guiding sunrays through the naked woods
Setting my days into gentle moods.
And while the brook whispered to the doves
Guiding sunrays through the naked woods
Setting my days into gentle moods.
And while the brook whispered to the doves,
To their Maker I whispered my love.
Lately, I saw how the still winter dark
Wasn't quite so still and dark anymore
In its eternity were the brilliant stars
Moving even so quietly announcing Spring.
Whilst new birth stir beneath the silent soil
Night moved into day making my Lord ever so real.
Lately, I saw faith grow strong in tempest, but
When hearts ached the most, silence dug the deepest,
While I stood in awe watching God's mighty grace.
Prayers made no noise as they went beyond my lips
And answers came, when they came, without a sound
As kindred eyes gazed upon Him.
Lately, I saw how patience made, the best peace
While perseverance did its work moulding souls.
And my soul yearned for solitude
That I'd listen more than speak.
For if no one knew my troubles at all
There was my Lord who knew my all.
Lately, I seal my lips tighter yet
Taking my stand beneath His Cross
While I take heart in quiet rest
in trusting my Maker still.
I reach in, to be ever more still
To know that He was and is my God to fill.
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**I DON'T KNOW**
~~~by LISA H.~~~
I don't know,
I've got this thought in my head
It just won't fade
Everytime I wake up, I get so scared
I can see this much too Clearly
I'm fading away
To give something a voice,
That'd make it much too scary
and it gives it a place in your reality.
I wish I could pretend
Have thress wishes or a magic wand
To make this all better
The cage keeps on getting smaller
I keep getting older
asking for cures, answers words,
and reason not a judgement
Hostile angry stares
No understanding, caring,
While I lay here awake
Tears on my face
Screaming into my pillow
I want an escape
Just a place in the world
To call my own
A place to feel free again
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**CAN YOU TELL ME**
~~~by LISA H.~~~
I keep waiting for something,
A bridge to seomwhere else.
What I've tried to build
It's made out of smike
It just dissolves into the air.
No stable ground, or permanance,
Just waiting here to fall
Is hope just an aillusion,
Or soemthing I've made up?
So, am I just dreaming?
To want something else beyond this pain?
Is that just another denial?
Is that just another game?
Urealistic dreamer,with unrealistic dreams
But we all create reality,
and non-one's reality is the same
So can you really tell me
What all that means?
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**STONES UPON THE OCEAN"**
~~~by Linda Marie Paraoch Carlson~~~
O, the pull of mighty waves
Whose power has calmed
To gently brush the shores
In timeless effort.
Reaching across miles of promise,
And bridges of dreams.
Hope stands upon the shoreline
Readying for a sign.
An eternal - internal prompter
To stand firm and never waiver.
Ancient tales reach lands end
As broken bits of a puzzle unsolved.
A sweetheart’s promise stored
As an undiscovered pearl
Buried in the sand,
Treasure, waiting to be found.
Will this moment last?
Not long enough.
Will the good of life outweigh the heartache?
Unlikely so.
But strong and sure as waves reach
The destination of their desired journey,
So shall all life bridges be crossed,
And...
As long as hope stays,
Love of life will triumph and endure
Just as the mighty ocean waves.
And our hearts will serve
As the skipping stones.
---Written for Jazzie’s Studio & personal web site.
by: linda marie pharaoh carlson ©copyright,
november - 2004, all rights reserved
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Poetry, words from one's soul
Sentiments echoed, without knowing
Emotions shared, without trying
THANK YOU, MY DEAREST FRIENDS!!!
For allowing me to share your private thoughts.
NOTE: It is illegal to copy poems without authors consent!!
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