Marilyn MorningstAR
poetry & prose
© 1970-2009 Marilyn Morningstar, All Rights Reserved
Bemused I wonder as I write my poem If anyone will read it Either now or when I'm dead If anyone will need it!
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LOVOLOGY Once our love was veiled through our forgetfulness, yet it does live again just as our spirits live in the eternal worlds as the veil is lifted and we remember again. The depth of our love did hibernate and linger awaiting our awakening, and though a million years had passed not one truth nor inch of depth did pass away from it, for love has a life of it's own, and it will live as it wishes against all rejection, opposition, and distance. My love for you lived a life of its own fantasy, in a world of make-believe somewhere within the stars where dreams that were once laid to die, may resurrect old hopes and make application for an opportunity to be reborn into a new life in a world where love abides only with the pure in heart and the selfless humble ones who give their all to their beloved. Then once again beyond all eternal comprehension you were in my arms again, and at last your love embraced my own and fathered a dream child, a new life with a new breath and a new hope and a new world of blessed spring blooming in colors unknown before to the human eye, and a blissful rainbow with no end and no beginning, just multitudinous shades that swelled my soul with an effervescence too splendid for my weary heart. My dream of dreams, my hope of hopes, there in my arms, there in my heart with overflowing adoration and an endless yearning. And then you were gone again. The depth of love our appeared in a vision at the moment of departure, and through the longings of separation love has given a re-birth to the new life that cries to know love again, and yet its breath multiples the pit of pain that continues to abide as the distance tares away at the truth and reality teaches unwanted lessons that serve to haunt and humble and hurt. And now, though the waves of the sea of life separate us in body, there is not, nor ever has there been a wave large enough, nor a sea deep enough to separate the bond of love that was knit into my fabric by that heavenly being, and which stitches my soul to yours in some vast exalted form. My love is far greater than all the cords that bind the world together, yet know not their strength. Though its greatest wish may be to bind your soul securely to mine in an everlasting carousel of wonder, yet its greatest joy is to set you free knowing that the strength of my love alone will bind your spirit to my own so tightly that no power of steel nor forces less than that of God Himself can loose you. I will always recall our loves delightful days of desires and anticipation's and fantasies, though because of them my dreams may again be shattered, as the tempest destroys the tiny seaside hamlet in its innocence, and scatters the remains among the thistles of the desert. Yes, my weary soul may dine again among the broken hearted, and my feet may push me forward into some distant land of forgetting where broken dreams and lost loves may be shelved and tucked away into some solemn corner of life's bitter memories while the world teaches its sober lessons, and yet through all my stumblings will I remember those eyes that loved me, and those hands that held me, and those words that had no answers. And then, even every moment that I do inhale the air of life will I recall the pain and anguish and loss that has followed me since the day you first said farewell to us. Yet will I cling to love though its rivers may drown me and it's sea may carry me out to the depths of despair. To find you my love, I will fly beyond the farthest star though the fire of the sun may sear my outer form, yet will my spirit live to greet your devotion and heart of honor, someday my love, someday among the starlit clouds. The jewels of your love fill me with riches beyond measure and wonder far greater than the glory of the earth's celestial body, and yet my tears still fill the oceans as the sharp edges of your golden gifts drill holes in my heart of loneliness, and the realization of the possibility of losing your love again crucifies my joy. Yet do I yearn for your love's steep mountain, as it beckons me with the soft green hills of hope, and simple paths of scented dreams and fragrant passions, and in that yearning do I make way for forgetting the rocks that do tumble upon me as I climb the arduous mountain of our love's journey. Ah, to know, love is a hoe, a sickle, a pruning shear in the hand of God, and though He hollows your depth with His tools it is as a cleansing and refining for the soul, for upon awakening from this elementary reality one must be purged and pure to claim to be a part of God's heart, which existence is to understand the ultimate experience of true love. Your eyes give me dreams to dream. My eyes hunger for your face.
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UNTIL WE MEET AGAIN ABOVE The moon is rising now Full and glowing and guiding Above the blanket of white cotton Clouds of love’s destiny deciding
As the wings push me onward It takes more than my breath away It locks my heart in endless yearning While it takes from me. one bright day
I cannot stop the burning Of the words your heart disclosed I cannot put the dream to sleep With the last chapter is yet untold
And yet there comes an ending To the saddest chapter of my soul And then a new beginning Where love once took it’s toll
And so it is this stage of life When true love becomes the aim And all else resumes it’s smaller place Within this life’s odd game
I will pass this way but once When the swell of sadness sings A tune of your forgiving love Such happiness it brings
Thank you for your goodness Thank you for your love Thank you for a day to remember Until we meet again above
July 1994 flying home from Seattle
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The Pain Once we were born into A World of flowers and love
But suddenly we awaken In an ominous world Of fear and hate
The mysterious wonder of It all is that we are only Born to die within that Sphere of incredible creatures
And what does it mean to live and to die is not only to love and to be loved
In retrospect what have We actually accomplished At the end of our life, If only we have the material Properties of man made Substances, which are only Obtained to be left behind At the end of it all
What does our one Small life mean to a World of so many millions Of loquacious, busy people If not to find peace of mind And understanding of our intelligence
If only all of us could Be born to accomplish the Very simple task of making Others happy. It would all Be worth while, the pain of Birth and dying.
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AS I RECALL YOUR KISS As I now rest once again Within our sweet abode A certain sadness lingers As I feel our love erode
As I cast my gaze once again Upon the comfort I have lost And wonder why I had to go I must recall how great the cost
For no matter how I love you There are things too great to ask Now matter how much I love you For me there is a greater task
If only I could have pleased you The way the Lord would have it If only I could have pleased you A life together we could have knit
As I now rest once again Upon your sweet embrace It breaks my heart, my darling Oh, how much I miss your face
As I gaze into your eyes again And feel your lips so rare There will never be another Whose kiss could quite compare
And so there is much sorrow As I must say goodbye again It could have been so special I am quite sad it had to end
But there are dreams that cannot be And there are principles to ponder Yet throughout all my life to come My love for you will yet grow fonder
As I recall your kiss
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Void Matters
When void moments take the place of memories And memories pleasant lose their hope And hope becomes a thing that used to be That's when you ask, why
Why does this pain pierce the gall And make pulse grow so rapid And the world turn inside out That's when you ask, how
How can feelings numb grow hot And hot ones put to sleep And wash away desires voice That's when you ask, how long
How long until the heart may burn And kisses may be written And when will love feel real again That's when you ask, where's he
Where is he who smiled at me And turned my life to ashes And kissed good-bye one broken heart That's when you ask, why bother
Why bother now when hope is gone And make sense of life's chatter And live for just the breath you take That's when you ask, what matters
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VOICES IN THE WIND
I hear a voice in the wind A voice to me quite clear Yet, I do not discern it Perhaps, I do not dare
It is a voice that's calling Perhaps it's in my heart But life is full of voices I don't know where to start
The voice I hear is crying The voice, it comes more clear Not one, but many calling For me their burdens bear
They call to me from India They call to me from home They call to me from deep inside How can I do it all alone
The voices cry of hunger The voices cry for love The voices tear my heart apart I can feel them in my blood
Listen, hear their voices Listen, hear their pain The breeze brings the message Can you hear it in the wind
How many voices call us How many voices cry We'll never really know them Unless we go to them and try
Don't let the voices dwindle Don't let your soul grow thin The voices bring you blessings Send them back upon the wind
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A THOUSAND MIRACLES
I conquered many human treasures Even joined forces of great measure Tripled the task not even asked And yet my heart must wear a mask
A thousand miracles might mend the wound Yet roses wilt where once they bloomed When love so long ago was killed It was just as if my blood was spilled
I conquered where others dare not Kissed their tears while others fought Mended knees and hearts so dear But most of all filled up with tears
A thousand miracles would be a start To mend a million pieces of my broken heart What ever happened to love ever after Without it there is just sad laughter
I conquered many disorganized minds Even learned to read life's signs Flew the world and felt it's sorrow The thing for me no need to borrow
A thousand miracles could never mend the stain A thousand miracles won't even ease the pain No, there is no hope without your love For all my life, just one miracle from above
A thousand miracles can't bring you back A thousand miracles yet just one fact A thousand miracles without your heart A thousand miracles with us apart
Is a thousand dead miracles
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TIME OF TOKEN
He wants me to sing a token tune He wants me to ride on a paper moon He wants me to laugh, sing and play But I can do that some other day
Today there is something I can do To help someone-not like you Someone helpless, meek, and mild An old person or a forgotten child
If one day, my maker I must meet I'll kneel down and bathe His feet And he will know what I do today Then I'll have time to sing and play
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I'LL BE THERE Every space reminds my heart Of the sweet gift your lips impart And my craving soul longs to hear The tender words of love you bear
The touch of your silky fingertips As they caress my body and lips Your breast against my beating heart Feeling the desire from the very start
Even though our time is short I'll be your girl in this small port And savor every moments love Then send it away on a crying dove
But will I ever forget the feeling That once sent my soul a reeling And stirred every inner desire Like the blazing heat of an open fire
No, my love, you'll always be One precious, precious memory Ask the sea when you meet again About the fusion we here did blend
Listen for whispers on the ocean's wind You will hear the words of love I send Forever the shores beyond your mind Is where my words of love, you'll find
When you're alone in some far away land Remember how tender you held my hand Think of the desire that kissed your heart The passion from which we had to part
And I'll be there ____________________________________ What could I do
We danced all night I was in his arms
As we loved and laughed All that night I knew somehow I had insight
I was almost in love with him But he wasn't almost in love with me
He loved another And this I knew But I wanted and needed him
What could I do?
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Lullaby Town Fairies bring the most wonderful dreams The sandman and Prince Charming are kings Where lullaby's are sung by cherubs on high And the moon and the stars all dance in the skies
A child's mind can imagine many things A happy heart, oh, how it sings Radiant notes and sparkling eyes Cherry, apple, and pumpkin pies
There is a place called lullaby town Where no one is allowed to frown A place of peace where love is full It lives inside of each of you
Once a child who could not speak Showed the world its very peaks Laying there with death so near Faintly smiled, took away my fear
She was too young to know the way Through clouds of cotton and sunset rays But just before the moment came She reached for me through all the pain
Have a Merry Christmas, she sighed Then she took the golden angels ride Heaven brings the most peaceful dreams For now I know she's with the king
Children should live to sing and dance Or at least be given half the chance With help from folks who care like you Others will live a life brand new
Let's never forget the children sweet Who we will meet at the Savior’s feet They need our work, our help, our love And special prayers to him above
Christmas spirit, take home with you Smell the scents of pine, taste love renewed And don't forget to stop in lullaby town During the hustle, bustle of holiday sounds
It's up to you to find the ways To silver hours and golden days Through nursery rhymes and charming toys You too can embellish all the joys
There are dreams for a penny and some that cost two There are dreams of clowns and dreams for fools Fairies bring the most beautiful dreams But you are the only one it seems
That makes them come true
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WHAT ANGEL
Are we puppets in the play of life On the stage where lies loves lonely knife Controlled by acts beyond our reach Of lessons no one but we can preach
And who are we but actors weak Without a script of authors speech Oh, when do we follow or when to lead Director please, answer so we may succeed
Alone we grope through our painful parts And dodge the test of hidden darts That pierce the character of this play With points so sharp they cause decay
When at last the scene has ended And we have been both praised and offended What angel comes to our applaud Depends on the role of life we trod
The castle for some is roses and plums Still others desire chocolates with rum For some a golden carriage will do Or the mist of the morning in shades of blue
What angel will understand the play Or why we didn’t want to stay Which castle will suit our confusion Of splendor within our roles illusion
Where is the angel of life’s agony Who changes life’s drama to ecstasy When the curtain falls on precious scenes And the part was but a part of what it seemed
Where is the angel who sings your sorrow When joy and happiness must await tomorrow Will the song of the saints ease the pain Can it even remove the pressing crane
That crushes and lifts life’s mystery As we stumble through the agony and the ecstasy As we adore our precious melodies And beg for more painful, blissful memories
Oh, angel of mercy where are you Should I plead again and beg you too Won’t you come, my guardian to take my hand Close my act, and deliver me to the promised land
Where love may blossom without a shower And players may dance within life’s flowers As freedom lifts my curtained heart Oh, please, a castle of love to me impart
What angel will sound my love supreme What angel will grant my fondest dream What angel will bring me home to you At last to play the part I drew............
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'Peace' The Symbol of the Century
'Peace', the symbol of the century But what are we doing to demonstrate it To our loving world that Peace is the answer
We continue in war and Thrust our weapons out To our brothers
Can we believe that If we kill every human body In this world that doesn't Believe in our Peace We can have what we want
Is it peace or power
One question though How many of our precious Sons of God are We throwing into the depths of Hell along beside
Is it our responsibility to do destiny's duty in saying Who shall live and who shall die
Or is it the lovers of Peace With their power Using their force to make hatred and death
Do they not realize We must First learn to love each soul For if we hate anyone anywhere We will never find the peace we seek
The answer my brothers is Not war or force
For to hold love in our heart Is the only gleam of hope We will ever have to Lead each other to peace
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ONCE LOVE
Your heart becomes a tender blue The joy you feel you'll always know Takes on a sleepy, dormant glow
Once his love has laid with you Your heart takes on a different view The bliss you feel you'll always have Soon no longer marks your path
The world and its' games are played Before you grasp the sad charade Life has sucked out all you had The love is gone, life's so sad
Once its love has laid with you Your blinded to the cards you drew Life has killed the dream you dreamed Never quite was the joy it seemed
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The P's of Possession
Patted into a small ball Pretending to feel real Pealing the thin skin Piercing the sinners substance Priming the prim and proper Pouncing on any ambition Pointing to perfect imperfections Purposely rushing and crushing Poisoning the ingredients Putting masks on melting men Perpetrating it's greening meaning Pounding them into oblivion Pleading to end lust and injustice Plowing through the rolling red tape Picking out the silver seeds Pondering WHY
Precious bloody money Pinches starving slaves Promising future fortunes Pernicious cruelty crowds Prudence seldom stays Pampered sets sounding Pushing them down Pardoning cries of lies People begging for freedom
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A MIRACLE IN PARADISE
Where is my paradise The place within my dreams Where lovers kiss in moonlight And make love in sunlit streams
With a hand to hold at midnight Along the golden shore I need to be a lover in love Only that, and nothing more
Send me a miracle in paradise Who'll make love so tenderly And take away the bitter cold Kiss me and make me free
At last my dreams are coming true You are here with me I'm letting go of all my pain As we share our love at sea
A miracle in paradise Don't let it slip away Our passion is so potent In the sunset of the day
Your tender lips awaken me I will never be the same After holding you, my miracle My fire cannot be tammed
My lover in paradise Nothing means more than you But this feeling in my heart I hope you can feel it too
Where is my paradise It's right here in my heart The moment that I met you I could feel it start
You gave me a new beginning A hope for things unseen The words you softly whispered Ended my searching dream
You are my miracle in paradise My lover with lips of love Now I know what I've been missing And praise the stars above
But will it last forever When paradise no longer lives When you go back home to her And all that she has to give
A miracle in paradise Don't let it slip away Our passion is so potent In the sunset of the day
Your tender lips awaken me I will never be the same After holding you my miracle My fire cannot be tamed
Nothing means more than you But this feeling in my heart Please don't make me blue
And when the dream has ended If you are no longer mine What will I do with your memory When our songs no longer rhyme
My miracle in paradise My life is in your hands My miracle in paradise It's time to make our plans
You are my paradise The lover of my dreams You are my hand to hold My sunset and my streams
A miracle in paradise Within the folds of time There will never be another Your paradise is mine
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No Ordinary Man
An ordinary man can sit on the porch And be satisfied with the simple things An ordinary man finds happiness in a sip of beer And a fishing pole or a five point deer
But this man was no ordinary man He wanted the taste of many treasures He wanted to feel the grander highs Of spirit, mind, and pleasures
An ordinary man has time to spare And cares not how he spends it An ordinary man accepts his gloom And misses the smell of successes bloom
But this man was no ordinary man He wanted celestial joy and set to get it He wanted to serve both man and God And leave the world better than he found it
An ordinary man is idol and board And blames it on his lot in life An ordinary man can't find things to do And often times this makes him blue
But this man was no ordinary man He made himself a winner He lived, suffered, sinned and grew Laughed and loved even the rose dew glimmer
This man loved people of every kind Especially the innocent children His goal was to alleviate hunger The hunger of the little children
This man loved good books Good works he loved to do He loved to write, to paint, to sing This and work was how he grew
This man had set his goals, you see He bloomed where he was planted This man took right out of life What others took for granted
This man had a big family Which he cherished above all other He gave of himself as much as he had To them and all his brothers
This man was not an intellect Although genius he could be This man was not a rich man Because he gave away his fortune to be free
This man was no ordinary man Because this man was an extraordinary man This man was no ordinary man For this man was a woman
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Sunshine Calls Me Home
Sunshine calls me home When all seems dull and cold When my life is such a storm I remember well the warm
Home is where my heart Fuels to fight the right The night without you there The night filled with despair
Once you were in my arms No questions spoiled the flame We knew it could not last We knew it should not last
Now sunshine calls me home It's there I can forget Someday we'll meet again Someday we'll meet again
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BUT HE PROMISED
“I’d give anything not to do this” His words were so soft and weak “I’d give anything not to do this” Words he promised never again to speak
“I love you more than I thought possible” My soulmate, my friend, my lover “I love you more than I thought possible But how can I choose you above the others”
“I’m so sorry, I must say it again What have I done to your life I’m so sorry, I must say it again That I failed to take you for my wife”
“Someday I will come for you, I promise When we can live the years together Someday I will come for you, I promise Then we will share our love forever”
“For now I must say goodbye, sweetheart I must sacrifice your love for God’s test For now I must say goodbye, sweetheart I’m sure for this we will be very blessed”
But he promised
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The Seeker
As he lay beneath the greening leaves of the aging oak tree, his mind was clouded with mortal translations as he wondered what to believe. The strong breeze awakened him from a sleepless dream. His opened eyes widened to engulf the images which appeared before him. Outreaching, like a newborn infant yearning for security and comfort, unknowing of the human tragedies, he reached openly for guidance, as a beggar in the midst of a royal crowd. Silvery shadows of silky personages stood barefoot, uplifted below the beckoning sun which had risen in this moment. Voices as silent as ripples over a forsaken pond, revealed true meanings. As they touched hands, he clung tightly in an effort to grasp the realness of it. With trembling lips he kissed the scared yet scared hand, which drifted again from his reality. Haunted by the gnawing knowledge he knew he must stand and face the world.
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PARADISE
It's been gone too long I miss its' music I miss its' song
Where is music It's been gone too long I miss its' melody I miss its' song
Where is grace It's been gone too long I miss it's measure I miss its' song
Where is love It's been gone too long I miss its' pleasure I miss its' song
When love is no longer graceful And music no longer song Life is no longer lovely And paradise is gone
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To My Beloved...As I Sit By The Fire
I lay beside the fire now Warming my thoughts of you The blue flames surround the log Like I surround you in love
The breath of the fire caresses my face With chills of remembrance Of nights alone in Brussels Of lingering fire that burned my soul
The white flames dance and withdraw They are confined to togetherness They move and belong to one another As we belong to each other
The red embers sparkle of and on As the flames leave and return again Like your dark eyes that sparkle always When they meet mine in our closest moments
The fire tempts my passions for meditation Contemplation, relaxation In my hectic city of life, but Most of all it directs my senses
The reality of fire is time Time is not everlasting Not in our rude creation But love fires the eternity's
The fire quickly inhales it's source Smiles flickers while knowing Time limits itself and awaits no man Tonight's fire is tomorrow's eternity
Love with me the fire Help us to understand it Use it for the benefit of eternity Lasting above all others
Above all others our fire shall burn We will kindle it each moment Praying it not to go out Moment by moment remembering death
For death is the end and the beginning If we are true to it endlessly The flame of love will be born again In the death of an eternal fire
Be my love, my fire Fill me with your sparkle Your faithfulness is my splendor We shall go together through the lightness
Out light shall be one with the fire We will no longer see darkness Our lips will cease to kiss For we will be one forever
I gather the wood piece by piece Building our love for eternity Each piece keeps it burning Through all the showers of sorrows
Sometimes the fire is sad When it's love turns to ashes Or when it dances for no one Or when it watches people cry
But our fire is glad We work, we keep it burning For the sake of happiness We shall never let it die
Come with me and sit by the shadow The fire will shade our disappointments And brighten our awareness of The true importance of now
The fire is reality, we are reality The fire is never ending unless Left enkindled and forgotten Neglecting is not our style
Without fire there is no warmth Without love there is nothing Our hearts burn exchanging love Our flame is alive!
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Holocaust 2
The fairyland of commercials Slaps my face I wasn't meant to be a hero 6000 at the rail station The colors create a vivid vision Yesterdays horrors haunt me My life so incidental To mend blood and broken hearts Barbarous men with swollen smiles Die in secret solitude Dreaming realities nightmares Hump upon hump falling Calling silently for mercy At the pinnacle of the unthinkable The ultimate inhuman atrocity Crowned, blood-stained victory
The vengeance I feel Too strong to verbalize Hatred swells my heart Freedom as close as death Not dying, severely suffering Ultimate inhuman persecution
Worried about the shape of Our asses, and smell of our breath Knowing the horror, terror Of the most unforgivable Sins of mankind
Forgetting the fall of Rome Shutting out what is coming Playing down one horrific bloody Event that exemplifies and warns What is happening - blindmen
The holocaust isn’t over yet __________________________________________ Holocaust 1
The fairyland of commercials Slaps my face I wasn't meant to be a hero 6000 at the rail station The colors create a vivid vision Yesterdays horrors haunt me My life so incidental To mend blood and broken hearts Barbarous men with swollen smiles Die in secret solitude Dreaming realities nightmares Hump upon hump falling Calling silently for mercy At the pinnacle of the unthinkable The ultimate inhuman atrocity Crowned, blood-stained victory
The vengeance I feel Too strong to verbalize Hatred swells my heart Freedom as close as death Not dying, severely suffering Ultimate inhuman persecution
We worry of the shape of Our asses, and smell of our breath Knowing the horror, terror Of the most unforgivable Sin of mankind
The holocaust
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THE LAST ROSE When I lost your love I lost my dream come true I lost every hope on earth The moment you withdrew
Life was not worth living Nor would it ever really be Unless one day you returned To give your love to me
My life was lived in sorrow But most of all regret I had lost you, my soul mate I had failed to pass your test
Nothing else could compensate So I played a sad charade And kept the buried secret That you and I had played
If only there were no movies No lost love songs to hear Maybe then I could have forgotten And stopped the years of tears
No matter how I tried To give my love to another It was you, my love, only you Forever, my only real lover
Each time the phone would ring My foolish heart would pray Let it please be him, oh dear God It must be him, or I shall die today
So many years have passed now Why do I still love you so Why do your eyes fall upon mine With such a tenderness and glow
Until today my heart was destroyed No hope of freedom from my pain But after the look within your eyes A certain sunshine replaced the rain
Although I know I'll never have you To caress your tender eyes Or lay with you on lazy mornings Or gaze on moonlit skies
Although my heart is torn and broken And the years of loving you are lost And no longer can I bear your child Perhaps to me, the greatest loss
Somehow I can go on now As I gaze on your last rose After all these years, you love me Together forever? Only heaven knows
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Life
A cloud burst feeds the infant seed A beam of sunlight adds to life it's need A necessary spark to the roots sprouting A patch of earth gives a homeland freely
A leaf appears, the first tree is born It's birth is celebrated by generations It grows up strong and tall and proud It is the tallest of creations Its pride is kept in quiet greatness It smiles and waves in gusty winds It loves the sun, it reaches for him
Then one day man was created Then the earth's nature cried Then the earliest creatures crumbled Then man took over Then the tree, so old and humble Cried as it fell to the ground and died ____________________________________ Life 2
A cloud burst feeds the infant seed A beam of sunlight ads to life it's need A necessary spark to the roots sprouting A patch of earth gives a homeland freely A leaf appears, the first tree is born It's birth is celebrated by generations It grows up strong and tall and proud It is the tallest of creations It's pride is kept in quiet greatness It smiles and waves in gusty winds It loves the sun, it reaches for him Then one day man was created Then the earth's nature cried Then the earliest creatures crumbled Then when men did override Then the tree, so old, so humble Cried, as it fell to the ground and died
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Ocean Sunrise
But the sunrise over the ocean Blended my heart and mind
Sadness mixed up with new joy
The flowers of love were folded The pages weren't turned back
And our smiles were swept Under the white worldly waves
As the sunrise was a new day No mornings were given Nor nights taken unwillingly
But the autumn seeds were split And the new blossom wondered Where to go from here
But her soul couldn't let me go Even now when there's someone else who cares She contacts my mind When the sun rises over the ocean
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Somewhere My Love
Beneath the pale moon light There will be happy songs to sing Under the bloom of a starlit night
Somewhere Out There My heart feels you thinking of me Hears you wishing on the same lost star Hoping to find a way for our love to be
Somewhere My Love In a paradise where dreams come true The snow that covers our hearts and hopes Will melt and freely reveal the love that grew
Somewhere Out There You'll come to me with love again Out of a treasured memory you'll return And at last you will love me without an end
Somewhere My Love The rays of our sun will always shine The bluebird will write a melody just for us While we share our love throughout all time
Somewhere Out There My longing prayer will touch your heart As the angels on high set the stage for love You will be mine, and never again from me part
Somewhere Out There As the stars glow to light the snow Tears will shine against my aging face Remembering the dream of your love I'll never know
Think of me now and then, my love Dreams and memories are all I have of you
Think of me now and then, my love And remember how deeply I still love you
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Somewhere My Love 2 Somewhere My Love Beneath the pale moon light There will be songs to sing Under the bloom of night
Somewhere Out There You must be thinking of me Wishing on the same lost star Knowing our love should be
Somewhere My Love Out where dreams come true The snow that covers our hope Will melt and reveal what grew
Somewhere Out There You'll come to me again Out of a memory long ago Our voices once more will blend
Somewhere My Love The rays of our sun will shine The bluebird will sing loves melody When we find one another in time
Somewhere Out There My prayer will touch your heart And you will wonder where I am Wishing my life to be a part
Somewhere My Love As the stars glow upon the snow My face will press the window pane Dreaming of the love I'll never know
Think of me now and then, my love And remember my love so true Think of me now and then, my love As I, forevermore, will do of you
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Let Me Call you sweetheart Let me call you sweetheart Each day my whole life through And when I go to the other side I'll wait at the gates for you
Let me call you sweetheart A melody of love I'll sing Each day for your gentle ways The joy that your love brings
Let me call you sweetheart And hold your hand in mine Let me be the one you love For longer than earth's short time
Let me call you sweetheart My heart yearns to be with you To caress your lips with love And build a fantasy brand new
Let me call you sweetheart For in your love I'll sing There is no one else on earth That God for me did bring
Let me call you sweetheart Until the end of time For you are unforgettable My darling Valentine
For Dale Derstine |
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Snow in the Mountains
There may as well be snow in the mountains Without your hand to hold, I feel it all over again There may as well be no heaven to hope for My death has come living this hell alone inside
There may as well be snow in the mountains Instead of the delicate pink hue of the sunset For me there can be no beauty on this earth Because of the circle of sorrow surrounding me
There may as well be snow in the mountains When off we lift from ahigh, life again is gone Without your love, I am done, my only darling The mountain may as well be a valley of tears
There may as well be snow in the mountains There may as well be salt in the pounding sea There may as well be seven alluring wonders For lovers without busted, bleeding, dying hearts
There may as well be snow in the mountains Just like the last time you broke my heart There may as well be snow in the mountains All year long to remind me of the day and the hour
That you sucked out my last breath, and killed life for me
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A MIRACLE IN PARADISE
Where is my paradise The place within my dreams Where lovers kiss in moonlight And make love in sunlit streams
With a hand to hold at midnight Along the golden shore I need to be a lover in love Only that, and nothing more
Send me a miracle in paradise Who'll make love so tenderly And take away the bitter cold Kiss me and make me free
At last my dreams are coming true You are here with me I'm letting go of all my pain As we share our love at sea
A miracle in paradise Don't let it slip away Our passion is so potent In the sunset of the day
Your tender lips awaken me I will never be the same After holding you, my miracle My fire cannot be tamed
My lover in paradise Nothing means more than you But this feeling in my heart I hope you can feel it too
Where is my paradise It's right here in my heart The moment that I met you I could feel it start
You gave me a new beginning A hope for things unseen The words you softly whispered Ended my searching dream
You are my miracle in paradise My lover with lips of love Now I know what I've been missing And praise the stars above
But will it last forever When paradise no longer lives When you go back home to her And all that she has to give
A miracle in paradise Don't let it slip away Our passion is so potent In the sunset of the day
Your tender lips awaken me I will never be the same After holding you my miracle My fire cannot be tamed
Nothing means more than you But this feeling in my heart Please don't make me blue
And when the dream has ended If you are no longer mine What will I do with your memory When our songs no longer rhyme
My miracle in paradise My life is in your hands My miracle in paradise It's time to make our plans
You are my paradise The lover of my dreams You are my hand to hold My sunset and my streams
A miracle in paradise Within the folds of time There will never be another Your paradise is mine
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Once Around Once Again
Once around once again Here I am alone again It wasn't you It wasn't him That made me fall apart It's just the song of a broken heart
Once around once again Here I am alone again It wasn't her It wasn't them That made me fall apart It's just the song of a broken heart
Once around once again Here I am alone again Was it me Was it I That made it fall apart Or just the lullaby of a broken heart
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Without True Love
Without true love A man could never sing Without true love The bells would never ring
Without true love The soul cries deep within Without true love
Yesterday's memories can make you cry Yesterday's regrets can make you die Without true love
Without true love The spark has lost it's fire Without true love The heart forgets desire
Without true love The birds have lost their choir Without true love
Yesterdays memories can make you cry Yesterday's regrets can make you die Without true love
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Silver Spoons
No silver spoons and sky lit rooms Are important to me now Only the love I've left behind I need it back somehow
Why do people live in little squares Of earth that have no end Why do people cry for gold and stones Worth nothing, just to spend
Why was your love a shining sword A piercing promise kissed goodbye And a heart sorely torn By just a swift unforgiving sky
No silver spoons can heal the wounds No silver spoons can bring you back No silver spoons can numb the tunes Left in my broken heart
Yes, no silver spoons nor sky lit rooms Are important to me now Only the love you took away I need it back somehow
The lives are just a fairytale A figment of a play And soon it will be over We must awake someday
Why was your love a shining sword A solemn promise, not goodbye My heart, my heart, my heart is torn By your cold and swift goodbye
No silver spoons No silver spoons No silver spoons
Can bring you back
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destiny You and I cannot be an accident; we met by design, we met for some mysterious reason like two old kindred spirits who at last found each other again. From the first moment our eyes met, I knew you. Oh, not as ---- from ------, but from some distant memory far back in millenniums past. We, I believe, have known one another and will always know one another, not in the worldly definition, but in the spiritual one. I love you, -----, not only as a woman and man love each other; but much more than that. I think about you every day and pray you are happy. I miss you every night and wonder if I will ever see you again in this life. Perhaps destiny demands suffering for its gifts. I accept mine with a full heart, for to have found you among all the others, is a little miracle, one I shall never forget. I will remember always how you looked at me with your beautiful eyes, how well you loved me and how leaving you broke my heart. So many wishes linger along the turbulent waves of the sea. If I can’t get back to you, I know we will meet again if only among the stars of our next rendezvous where you will again light my path.
What extraordinary resources destiny selects to accomplish its designs. Over a vast ocean, on a foreign island, a world away from my home, I found you. If I could sit across the porch from God, I’d thank him for lending me you.
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Judge me not Judge me not for the broken dreams of another For busy blindness keeps me fresh And hides me away in my closet of lies
Judge me not for the unseen pain The forgotten horrors hidden away Societies deformities alone in cleanliness
Judge me not, for my time is taken I have no time to share, to care To try to mend the broken dreams of another
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Without Love there is nothing
With chills of remembrance Of cold nights without you The flames sparkle like your blue eyes And I wish this moment would burn endlessly But the reality of the fire is time It is not everlasting in this rude creation It awaits no man, but love fires the ages Tonight's fire is tomorrow's eternity
Will we kindle our fire forever remembering death For death is the end and the beginning If we are true the flames of love will be born again Your faithfulness in my splendor Fill me with your sparkle and take me through the darkness Our showers of sorrows won't drown our fire
Without Fire there is no warmth Without Love there is nothing
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NO OTHER EYES How do I express my love for someone with eyes like yours. Eyes that pierce my own with a depth that kisses the core of my soul, eyes that speak through their silence, speak of a desire that surpasses the senses, and engages the marrow of my being with it's fire. Yours are the eyes that say they were born to love me in just a glance. Yours are the eyes that fill the heavens with cupid's stars to lighten the way to your heart. Yours are the eyes that no longer direct your soul through the lonely streets of life, but rather lead your glowing aura through the sunrises of our glorious days together. My darling, I love your eyes because they disclose the depth of your being, and let me feel of your goodness and understand your potential. Those eyes of yours are full of everything I ever wanted in a man, and I revere their kaleidoscope of virtues. Together our eyes will move forward through our journey together, and if we are willing our eyes will teach us how to love. Our eyes will teach us how to surpass this moment of ecstasy, and draw out the nurturing sap from the tree of endless love and at last we will understand the true meaning of love in all its glory, and you and I will become one in understanding. Until that day, I pledge my eyes to yours for no other eyes have touched me like yours. Yours are the eyes I long for, my darling. Yours are the eyes I love.
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OUR LAST GOODBYE
All good things must end Even good love cannot escape The ends of things, like days, and plays, and passion
Can't we keep it simple And wrap the good around us Seal out the daily rhyme of facts And hold on to that first kiss
No, foolish romantic All good things must end And what you thought you had Is lost in the light of reality
Oh, that the fantasy will linger Our pure love can never die Can the end be the beginning Sparking another eternal round of good
So, keep your spirit open To good things that must end In this joy and tragedy of life You'll see beyond the veil
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Lights of Night
Illuminating bulbs telling tales Flickering flames flaunting falsehoods When gambling men grumble Groaning over yesterdays' leftovers The lights will smoke with dawny dreaming
Which of them so politely panting Will win a night of dine and dancing Wicked words and clacking crystal Find their way to bedroom whispers
Crowds purchasing crowning moments Running wenches serve them poison Hoping, hating, hardly waiting To grasp their golden just reward
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WISHING Wishing in a Hawaiian Sunset For a blonde haired surfer, rather fine But his life is in the water All I want to do is make him mine
Wishing in a Hawaiian Sunset For those blue eyes with a board How can I ever find him again Where are the surf boards stored?
Wishing in a Hawaiian sunset For his body strong and young Why didn't I stop when he smiled It could have been so much fun
Wishing in a Hawaiian sunset For that surfer that stole my heart With just a wink and a gorgeous smile That sexy look that said, let's start
Wishing in a Hawaiian sunset For that blond haired blue eyed babe Who waved his desire, that look of love Imagine the love he would have made
Wishing in the sunset Running on the sand Dreaming on an island For that fine hunk of a man
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GOODBYE LOVE I know you didn’t mean to Break my heart I know your intent Was honorable from the start
As love goes, however, it happened You couldn’t give yourself to me Though I had not loved you long You broke my heart, you see
Now I must say goodbye Or you will break my heart again Once, shame on you But twice, shame on me --it’s plain
I am just glad I understand It’s better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all For I know the pain is worth the cost
Goodbye love
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LIKE THE SEA
People are like the sea On the surface they seem fragrant and inviting But underneath they are full of secret hiding places
Love is like the sea On the surface it seems tranquil and alluring But underneath it pulls you down and drowns you
Life is like the sea On the surface it seems simple, graceful But underneath it is full of turmoil and complication
So why do I love the sea Because it rushes to the shore with kisses And shares its' secrets about love and life with me
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Golden Moments
One in life is but a dream Of how golden it can be But when there's two We have a scheme, and then A dream come true
Some days before In shining sunlight We gazed and dreamed Of this golden moment Now here we are This moonlit night
One day beyond this moment We'll be looking back And remembering these Golden moments, and Then we'll know for Sure, life is but, loving
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A Lovely Surprise
Life has started all over for me The young years of happiness Have come again in a sweeter form Than a mother could ever guess
The love and devotion I gave my child I thought I could give to no other But life held a lovely surprise for me This year I became a GRANDMOTHER
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GONE AWAY
Yellow, red, blue, green Your wave draws my scene Paradise, your sails dream GONE AWAY
Palms and emotions sway A dove whispers silent days You have gone away GONE AWAY
Stirs my hearts song Love captured, an aura dawn Does sting so strong GONE AWAY
Blue skies smile alone Wishing arms clutched the wrong Soft cheeks near belong GONE AWAY
Is Aloha love intense Where is the sunset fenced It was just pretense LOVES GONE AWAY
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MISUSED STRENGTH
Centuries of cultures, driven by greed Physical superiority solely convincing King upon king, men upon men Rulers over and over Insatiable
Growing further away from the truth Desiring after lustful pleasure Trading intelligence's for servitude Using force for sinful purpose
And all the while Deceiving futures Transferring the lies through birth Boys grow into men, accepting examples Harnessing questionable facts Quieting truths Caring not of disintegrating minds
The watchful creator painfully viewing Wondering how this wickedness was made Hovering over his dominion of horror He gazed sorrowfully on the sins of man Unraveling the self-centered mind The end drawing nearer visions
Quietly, humbly females withdrew Accepting, acquiesces in order to exist Brutality unpleasant Love desired Overpowered by misused strength She opened not her lips to express Ideas mounting colorlessly rejected Allowed she was As a woman To speak of love and foolish things
Generations of brainwashed beings All knowing, learned men Convincing and convincing Society upon society Beaten down and silenced Physical punishment exchanged for Expression--she acquiesces
Piercing the soul of her mind Pondering "was this God's plan"? Knowledge given written only by men Already subjected to lingering concepts Professing the omniscient knowledge Answered prayers proved this wrong Personally visited, the father had said
I made men strong to labor in the fields I made enduring women to labor with spirits Powers both sacred, yet unique
In mind and spirit I made them equal I am sorry woman for what man hath done Now she knew Enslavement and surpressment of the mind Not made by the Lord, but induced by men
Waiting for decency to replace self-centeredness Only a few hundred years oppressed she suffered Slowly begging, just a crumb of openness Yearning to express, to be unleashed Nearing the end with half-opened truths Reluctantly releasing the reins
He stopped at a distance from acceptance Still wearing zippered pants Staring intensely, opening the book Hearing God's words as an equal man Instead of an equal human being He closed the book, sitting erect Fearful that Deity would make the wrong choice.
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The Hungry Lover
A Frenchman on a Mexican shore Came for a vacation, nothing more He met a girl with blue-green eyes They sat and swat away the flies And watched the hungry and the poor
A Frenchman on a Mexican shore Found out what she had in store Her gentle touch, her warm embrace But most of all her special face They saw the hungry and the poor
A Frenchman on a Mexican shore Fell in love more and more As vacation end grew very near He felt frustration and fear Was touched by hunger and the poor
A Frenchman on a Mexican shore Speaking French and nothing more Lost his true love by the tide Of culture shock and suicide Crying for, the hungry and the poor Evermore
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NO FLYING WINGS
Why can't I evade this hunger This yearning for the sword When does love pretend a picnic With broken hearts it can't afford
Spinning wheels and webs within us Only deepens silky memories And as we hear our sorrow cry The hurt strikes and floods the seas
If only music had no notes And poems just would not rhyme Maybe then I could forget you Somehow, some way, sometime
My love has no flying wings My heart just won't forget My mind is filled with memories Of lonely nights and much regret
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WHY, MI AMOUR
Why, mi amour, must love end Can't we try, and then pretend To make of life the perfect fantasy You once envisioned for you and me
Why, mi amour, must I cry In losing you my heart will die How can I live with the memory Of us entwined in love's ecstasy
Why, mi amour, must you go When all I have done is love you so And danced with you to loves sweet tunes On sunny sand and cloud swept moons
Why, mi amour, must love leave My mind nor heart can yet conceive How so much love can change so fast When I thought that it was meant to last
Why, mi amour, must I feel This trembling pain as I kneel And ask to shorten life and pain For without your love, there's not to gain
Oh, mi amour, my life must end Remember, the red roses to send And as you bend over my somber face Remember, no one can take your place
Oh, mi amour, my life must end But always remember the love and when You gaze on ponds and autumn's leaves Think of me as I become love's last breeze
Oh, mi amour, my life must end If only this pain you would now mend But you must live your life brand new Remembering the precious love you threw
Away
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Blinding Sun
Did you know There is sadness beyond your door? There are hungry children crying Dying in the streets?
Did you know Babies cry for a reason? Old folks fade and die in loneliness?
Did you know At your backdoor someone cries Pleading, begging for a touch?
No! You did not know You closed your eyes and soaked up the sun.
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Heaven
Heaven is a little house Where fragrant roses grow And this is where my heart lies As my true lover knows
Heaven is the place I'd be With hearth fire burning bright And candles in the window To light the way at night
For that one I loved with eager eyes At quarter after seven To press me close, just once again To enter into heaven
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MASS CONFUSION
Where can I turn for peace When mass confusion never seems to cease And crowds and chaos within my mind Beat upon the shores I find
Shores of love and loss and laughter With ships of dreams and ever afters And moons that smile on loves illusion That fills me up with mass confusion
Where can I turn for peace When love long dead can now increase And angels fiddle with cupid's bow Shooting arrows through frozen snow
Snow that flurries here then there Never knowing the victim's dare While dancing in the chosen heart The arrow strikes and then departs
Where can I turn for peace While cupid has his arrow feast And mass confusion fills my world As roses bloom where once they curled
And all at once there's too much love Too much confusion from above When dreams come true to late to be And mass confusion is what's left for me
Where can I turn for peace Where can I turn for peace Where can I turn for peace When mass confusion is my beast
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Heavy Heartache Happening
During this decade of unrealistic, Indecisive individuals, we Find still, the searching for A lasting meaningful answer to it all
Some seek only for prosperity To feel that flow of gold dust Running through their fingers. Is that truly happiness Not for me
For when we leave this heavy World of ours, do we not Leave all our earthly Possessions behind
And yet, we must find a purpose To this preposterous happening. Maybe it's fame as some would believe. But not me
Somehow the ominous anxiety Of death for me has passed For this heavy heartache happening Of living has meant little To me, until now
Now I have found in my Searching; Love. The only Worldly treasure we take All the way home.
I found you.
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THE WEB
The pasted smiles Upon their lips Turn to white When they are sick
The slinky clothes Jewels of gold All turn to rags When they get old
Their made up eyes And frosted hair Will turn to straw When no one cares
We know the truth The glitter and gold Is not important And they've been told
They knew before But now they're caught In the web Of being bought
Their hearts are hard To love, so free They'll never be happy Like you and me
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LET'S MAKE IT LAST FOREVER
I heard a song on the radio That reminded me of you Oh, how I wondered if You missed me, too
I saw our quite parking spot Your face behind the wheel Oh, how I wondered if You missed my sex appeal
I felt the shirt you left behind The scent your perfume made Oh, how I wondered if Our love would ever fade
Let's make it last forever Forever's too soon to fade
Let's make it last forever This feeling that we've made
A song for me and you Oh, how I wondered if You had heard it, too
I saw the door you closed that night The image of your tears Oh, how I wondered if She, your tears, had cheered
I felt a knot inside my heart At your not coming back Oh, how I wondered if You felt the same attack
Let's make it last forever Forever's too soon to fade
Let's make it last forever This feeling that we've made
Forever, forever, forever, This feeling that we've made
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The time
The time came, it was a boy His father passed cigars Played cards And passed the bottle
He knew it...a boy...he knew His first and only one of two They rushed him off to incubator Smiled and said, "Come back later"
At noon he returned with packages Kimonos, pajamas and a bib A fluffy white quilt with blue birds
The nursery drapes were open He stood happily a hoping To see his newborn glorious son So proud to see what he had done
He caught a glance, but thought he'd wait Until he could hold him and celebrate He sat beside the mothers bed They waited patiently, but in stead
The doctor and the nursery nurse We must tell you, tell you first With grim face, he softly said We're so sorry, your baby's dead
Tears ran down the father's cheek "Never another child will I mistreat I was so wrong, I have learned I've received the pain that I have earned"
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One Marvelous Miracle
One burning thought centers my sight Are you really mine, my precious hero Will you be there at the mornings light With every new tide of love's tomorrow
At dawn, will I be at peace in your arms Ever feeling the love we tenderly share The rare treasure, a kiss of love's charms The moments whispering how much we care
The blue birds will sing our song of rhyme When our lips express a deep forever A miracle, a fortune, your hand in mine When tomorrow brings us at last together
Once a thousand miracles well stacked Couldn't mend my sad and lonely heart But love anew has changed the sad facts One miracle, you and me will never part
You are my dream come true, love ever after A miracle I can feel, and touch, and hold One miracle sent from heaven to mend The pain, the stain of broken dreams of old
Just one miracle from heaven for me Just one miracle He knew would do Just one miracle, now I can see Just one miracle, my love for you
Is one marvelous miracle
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Condemnation
Bound By the chanting chains, my heart racing Sank into oblivion. Waste Flowed freely uncontrolled: Nightmares not! This and life are real Burning sweat Rolled from my puffed up and reddened eyes Opened to face the cruelties of my brothers. My blood drenched hands Grasped desperately at the blistered earth for freedom. Cast down among the waiting thorns Piercing more than a bruised carcass, but Failing to repress the truth of the soul.
Laughing through their golden teeth they Spoke of decency, Pervertedly the jeweled bands upon their bodies Grew! We'll see no sorrow Feel no pain with our bags full "they said" Inlayed instead upon their minds Imprinted duplicates of seen horrors, unforgivable sins Locked within to never be Forgotten by men or Gods, yours or mine.
Think no more you time has come Hurriedly locking hands and feet Wasting not their profitable time for kindness Stripped of pride, culture, family, Rotting in the smell of unbathed corpses Praying loudly, silently praying Surrounded by death, humility Wishing for an end, any end. I Lay beside swollen flesh gurgling Trying short breaths to breathe Wanting desperately to hold her Soothe her wounds: too late for that.
Feeling the warmth of her soul depart Knowing that I would be going soon Shinned in my eyes one spark of light Awakened quickly by my rapid breath Crying, crying for I was not dead Blackened wet hours Passed as years Suffocating within the stench of malicious disease Sleep was sickening Rocking unventilated Waiting to waken Wishing to sleep forever. Unlike hibernation the Waking was sour. Salt Splashed violently reviving me often Saving me for the Tormenting future.
Smelling at last the freshness of day Seeing faintly for a moment Awakening to the harshness of humanity Living is to be shamed, beaten, belittled Ridiculed, raped and tortured beyond recognition Repeating: The fullest extent of the law, law? Blinded by justice, freedom, liberty Knowing not of these Fleeing to find my mammy: she knew Accepting her fate humbling dying Bewildered: God had they Captured you too?
Weathered and wrinkled my eyes filled Realizing it was too late for me Hoping desperately, in payment of time Justifying this inhumanity to our children Mixed by now, the blood of many Praying they could fulfill my dreams and Mammy's Finally now, finally He would take me home Back to freedom, Hallelujah, free at last!
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IT WAS THEN
When I saw you standing there I felt a power beyond your eyes Something quite unique to men Like wings of your heart could fly
At first I wondered if it was right The feelings my heart sent racing Like a sparkle of new sunlight Through my soul was chasing
It wasn't that exceptional smile Nor your hand within my own But rather the unspoken words Whispered from your spirit zone
At that moment I knew the truth I saw more than a man by me Your spirit fed my mind with all That you were meant to be
It was then I understood the night It was then I looked beyond your eyes It was then I knew why it raced It was then I saw past the skies
It was then I knew it must be right
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My Beloved
Loving You Loving You
So many nights So many days
I have dreamed of this moment And now you're here
In my arms My beloved
How safe I feel How warm you are How I've loved you From afar
My beloved
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HEAR THE ANGEL'S SONG Many men have given Much to many without love
Though men may give To many without love
Women are different
Women give like angels Who cannot love without giving
Whose gifts are free Whose love hears the angels song
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COME BACK MY LOVE
What is this feeling, This feeling in my soul Can you tell me How it happened This love I'll never know
Why am I trembling When I speak your name Please won't you tell me I'll never be the same
What is this feeling This feeling in my heart Oh, can you help me Can you help me With a start
Why do I love thee When dreams can't Come true Tell me how then How can I forget you
What can I do with Just a faded memory Make this love I'm feeling Have a reason to be free
Come back and give me The love that's in your heart I know if we try, dear We can make a brand new start
Come back, my darling Come back, my dear Come home to Virginia I always want you near
Come back to Virginia Oh, come back, my love Come back to the mountains And bring the stars above
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BURNING BRIDGES
Hand carved into my bank of memories Were the eyes that owned my eternities The arms that possessed my dimensions And the love that became my obsessions
One by one they were etched upon my heart Like burning bridges before they fall apart Foolish hopes and dreams of fine tomorrows With no regard for realities ghastly sorrows
When you took me where you lived I found That it was to you I was eternally bound My long search had finally come to end It was with you, my worlds I would spend
There would be no more beaches to roam Nor nightclubs, nor trolleys, nor bridges alone For within your eyes the puzzle found pieces To form a depth of love with constant increases
Within the fold of your neck I smelled the magic As your hands touched me I lost all sense of logic And before my mind could extinguish my desire I became a willing prisoner within your loving fire
At that united moment my life was no longer mine For I had given it to you as a gift of my love sublime There were no longer two lovers playing alone, you see For the fragile interlacing of two created ‘us’ to be
It was then I understood the lonely footprints in the sand It was then I knew I was yours as God had surely planned For you are the wind behind every sail that ever went to sea You are my highway, my peregrine, my treasure meant to be
I am not here on this planet to find great fame and pleasure I am here to take your hand and teach you of love’s treasures And give you the chance to feel how angels love in heaven And hope that you will keep this gift and give it back times seven
No matter how many lifetimes you live, this love calls one time In a universe of ambiguity this depth of certainty forms a rhyme And the magnet that creates this strength of love and longing Cannot help but work it’s way toward the place of it’s belonging
And so my love I beg thee, do not set our bridge a fire Do not give away my gift of love because of a desire For bridges bring us heartaches, and yet they set us free Oh burning, burning bridges please stop, remember me
Oh burning, burning bridges can empty hearts on fire Oh burning, burning bridges can kill my love’s desire Oh burning, burning bridges have mercy on my need Don’t burn our bridges, love, on bended knee I plead
On bended knee I plead
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ONE FINAL GOODBYE
So this is what happens to love When it’s less than blessed from above There are no more happy sunshine rays There is no more light to show me the way
How can we still love and say goodbye Again and again my heart repeats why But there are dreams that cannot be And somehow now I can clearly see
I cannot build a life on childish hope Waiting and wanting, how can I cope Hoping for a fantasy that cannot be A future of love eternal for you and me
So my love, this is my final goodbye To you and the dreams and the tears in my eyes I should have known it could never be Because you never really belonged to me
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DEPARTURES & REUNIONS
The longing in my departure today As my heart caught the message in your eyes Was deepened as you begged me here to stay And as I heard the tender words of your goodbye
It seems that our love is a love unique To departures and reunions of our smiles and Gethsemane's And from soul love we both yet seek We bend and mesh loves harmonies
When I leave my heart beseeches me Another moment in your arms Another moment in the pounding of your sea Just one lethal injection of your charms
I may be gone before your day has dawned And you have built your tower of seeds Hoping to find mercy in my palms While I bask in the wonder of your needs
Yes, the departure grunts a sorrow To others lacking depth of love yet known Ah, the reunion shapes the wind to blow The scent of it's flowers never known Seeds of heavenly flowers, such colors never known
And when again your arms tie me to your chest And our union enlivens my lonely heart I recall the message of the blessed The coin is double sided, sorrow and joy apart
So weep not at my departure For love itself seeks to blossom Where once your sorrow stirred A reunion of joy will surely come
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Someday We Will Meet Again
Someday we will meet again When birds meet in the clouds When moon and sun both shine Then we will meet again
What happened to the rain What happened to the snow What happened to the birds Why don't they sing any more
Someday we will meet again When rivers flow upstream When lovers cease to dream Then we will meet again
What happened to the kiss What happened to the love What happened to the life That once did sing for me
Someday we will meet again When flowers cease to bloom When young girls cry in vain Then we will meet again
What happened to my man What happened to my mind What happened to my life Why won't it ring for me?
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Loves Reality
How can you and I understand This game of life we play How can we win, And not lose our way
When we find the perfect Love of one for all eternity
Our heart is filled with a joy Unknown to most humanity
That's when the game becomes A game we can win Because we found our way What a lovely way to win the game
Through pure reality The way to win Through loves reality
Once we know What a way to win Through loves reality
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UNTIL THEN
I’ll have a blue, blue Christmas without you I’ll be so lonely recalling the love we knew How can I live this merry season all alone When your love within my heart I’ve sewn
Christmas eve will find me by the glowing fire With recollections of our passion and desire Alone I will ponder when I will see you again Praying for just one more chance for our love to blend
Sleigh bells will be ringing to the sound of a lovers kiss And I will be dreaming of every moment I’ve missed Every moment I’ve missed within the warmth of your arms Every moment I’ve missed within the bond of your charms
And as I watch the snow falling upon the foothills I will reproduce the vision of us in a life fulfilled Where distance no longer separates us from our dream And life will become more in that day than it ever seemed
And as I dream within the white Christmas of my mind I will think of the words you spoke to me of love sublime And as I smile at the recollection I will cry for your touch Not because my pain is great, but that I could love so much
Someday there will be a star in the east for us Someday we will no longer have hearts of dust Some Christmas day will be ours to love and share What a joy will fill our hearts as we show how we care
So my darling, as the silver bells fill your season Remember all these challanges have their reasons And one day when our eyes our opened to dreams We will know that our love is even greater than it seems
Until then... Until we meet again... Remember how much I love you And pray for the day we’ll be together again
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TO MY HUSBAND ON OUR WEDDING DAY
What is in a Wedding Gift From a woman now your wife How can a trinket alone express What only can be said with a soft caress
There are no things of worldly good To tell you what I think I should From my heart so full tonight My soul expands with pure delight
At last your mine, my darling To have and to hold my starling To always be my man, my stay How could there be a brighter day
Now you are my husband dear Now there will be no more tears Only sunshine will kiss my days As we snuggle together in tender ways
Thank you for your precious gift Of love and desire and happiness Please accept this little verse A token of gratefulness unrehearsed
For your gift of love
I love you
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HAPPINESS IS BORN
Cast away your pain Cast away your sorrows Don't' think your life is bad Don't think your life is sad
Make yourself a winner Make yourself a hero Wake up to the sunshine Wake up to a world that's fine
Happiness is born inside you
Give yourself away
Happiness is born inside you
Make a happy day
Cast away your wanting Cast away your sins Think of what you can be Think of what you can see
Make yourself a messenger Make yourself a spirit Wake up to the morning Wake up to the warning
Happiness is born inside you
Give yourself away
Happiness is born inside you
Make a happy day
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THE WEDDING RING
Life is a circle of golden choices Just like this ring offers a dozen courses
Life has no beginning, nor an end Only challenges and changes for us to blend
As you wear this symbol of love Remember the circle began in Heaven above
All of life's endless treasures Must be cherished with no small measures
Love is the ultimate gift of life Pamper it tenderly to secure it's flight
Wear this display of your devotion While you never forget this moment's emotion
The circle may lead you to your destiny If you remember to consider your actions carefully
Never forget the precious gift you share Honor and love and treasure the ring you now bear
For tomorrow's circle of eternity Is where your love can blossom eternally
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I PROMISE
When cupid placed your hand in mine He knew our hearts would blend He knew that we would fall in love By the angels he did send
The moment that the arrow left That fluffy cloud up in the sky And pierced my heart with honey love I knew our love would never die
Every moment since I met you My life has been a dream come true And now that you will be my wife (husband) Forever I will love and cherish you
My darling, I adore the way you look at me That sweet look in your eyes melts my heart And helps me see forever within your arms Knowing without a doubt we'll never ever part
As I stand before the folks who care I make a promise from my heart To always give more than my share And try my best from the very start
I promise to bend my ways To do my part to keep the dream I promise to care, to listen, to grow To make it even better than it seems
And as we grow older together My love, may I promise thee To cherish this love as a beauty And never from it flee
I promise forever after today To give my heart and soul to you Throughout our lives together Here on earth and in heaven, too
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"For every thorn, a petaled rose"
Once when I was a little child A thorn had pierced my skin And mother kissed the pain away Like the Savoir cloaks our sin
Once when I was a little child The thorns were scarcely there But as I grew into the world They didn't seem so rare
Once when I was just sixteen A thorn had pierced my heart The only cure seemed death at best And then I fell apart
Once when I was just sixteen A friend, whose care was true Gave to me a precious rose Which spoke of life brand new
Once when I was all grown up The sun refused to shine But through the dreary clouds A ray of hope I'd find
Once when I was all grown up My son became a rose And through his love, each petal gave Hope, and strength to fight the foes
For thorns peak out and let us feel For every thorn a petaled rose Heaven scents and natures colors Secret drifts from what God knows
When your blue has turned to grey And loneliness pricks your heart Remember it's a testing ground For your grandest play and part
The thorn is the world's interview The rose, a treasure of certainty Nothing more than your very own Dress rehearsal for eternity
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IF I COULD PAINT MY LOVE
If I could paint a picture of my love for you It would have the most majestic landscape Complete with oceans and rivers and falls
There would be a tropical sunset and a beach And you and I would be there making love Kissing all alone under the resting sun
A rainbow would appear in front of evening stars And as the soft hues faded into the darkest night Our moon would smile at the love I offered you
Then I would wipe the sand from your shoulders And pull you by the hand, laughing as I pushed You down again into the sand and covered you
Not with the sand, but with my body of endless love Together alone under the stars I would raise you And we would be one in body, mind, and rapture
If I could paint my love
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My House of Life
Give me wide walls to build My house of life
The North to be Love against The winds of fate
The South of Tolerance That I may outreach hate
The East of Faith, that Rises new each day
The West of Hope that dies A glorious way
The threshold 'neath my feet shall by Humility
Give me wide walls to build My house of life
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BRIDE'S WEDDING VOWS In my dreams, how often I have sailed in the ocean of your love, dreaming of this day, the first day of the destiny of our endless love. My sails are full set upon the adventure upon which we now embark, the journey of love divine, love eternal. Love and love only has directed our course upon these waters for it has found our love worthy, and now we must melt our love like a running brook flowing through a land of enchantment, and merge our lives as the river and the sea. Let us sing the ancient melody of love everlasting knowing the joy and pain of too much tenderness as the white doves deliver loves secret treasures to our humble ship, and then fly free to the heavens, returning with only the love in their hearts, as someday we also will.
May the glow of our new morning shine upon our ship of life, while our love becomes a 'moving sea between the shores of our souls', and the daybreak harkens to the whispers of our winds pleasure, that we may once again awake together at dawn with winged hearts giving thanks for one more day of loving, and after the day is done, slumber together with a prayer in our hearts that our joy may be as endless as the grains of sand on the shores of eternity. Through eons of time our ship of love will carry us forward as each tender word seals the memory of the moment in the heart of God, and as we bend our sails in the wind of our differences, abandoning lives challenges for more worthy destinations. The season of love conquers all with it's songs of praise on our lips, and its traditions of warmth in our hearts.
____, your love has beckoned my heart, and my heart has followed. From this day forward my soul will bond with your soul, as I promise to be your helpmate, your best friend, your wife. Within our sea of love I will tarry the rest of my life with but one burning desire--the desire to fill you with the joy of my adoration, that you may always look upon me with the same exceeding tenderness I now see in your gentle eyes. A tenderness that cannot be bought or replaced by all the riches of the world, a tenderness that demonstrates the soft love you now offer.
As we now stand before these witnesses and vow to interlock our hearts and lives, I think of our love as a blossoming rosebud in the fresh dew of the morning, and pray that our love will always remain as fragrant as the everlasting perfume of the new rose. As you take my hand from this alter, I will follow you, I will depend on you, and I will cherish you. But most of all, I will always, always love you.
Yours by the seashore, and everywhere,
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WAIT FOR HIM
To see the world in a grain of sand Is how I feel when I hold your hand To envision heaven in a tender flower Cannot express my love for you each hour
If I could hold infinity within my palm It could not replace love’s sweet psalms If the world was mine for just one hour I would trade it all for love’s fresh flowers
Oh, how gladly my soul recalls The moment when my heart did fall Oh, the beginning of sun and moon The whole world sang a happier tune
The loving touch and warm embrace That precious smile upon your face The feel of loving lips upon my cheek That charmed my heart and made me weak
Your love has pumped new life in me For now I am your wife to be Your touch, your hope, your tenderness Makes me feel especially blessed
How much I would give for just one hour To be wrapped with you in love’s bright power How weak the power of human kind When another hour we cannot make or find
Sweetheart, the one who’s soul I’ll abide Please wait for me and be my guide To more than bliss in life’s short span Take me toward the celestial plan
Sweetheart, I know if we do our share He will help us our burdens to bear For as much as my being is filled with you Our pledge of love to Him is due
Sweetheart, if we love Him together Our lives and love will be so much better So as we wait with our bittersweet pain We must remember all there is to gain
Sweetheart, virtue and honor and sacrifice Is the least we owe to our precious Christ The day will come and we’ll walk the aisle Knowing we caused our redeemer to smile
During that hour of vows so sweet It will be as if we alone kneel at His feet Offering our all to prove our love For all He has waiting for us above
As we wait may God bless our display of devotion And bring us together once more
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WHY NOT ME
Do the tropics speak of love When they sing their saddest song And tears fall from their skies On my heart that weeps so long
Your twinkling razor of rusted love Has left my soul to torch and bleed Yet through the pain and the tears There is still that desperate basic need
Oh, how I miss that chocolate kiss That could have helped me through tonight How lonely is this love you missed Gone was all with you, at dawns new light
But why Why not then Why not now And most of all Why not me
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WHY
Why does my heart triple beat Why do tears fall from the skies Why do clouds pour down on me Why did I drown in your eyes
Why does this pain hurt so bad Why can't I forget this memory Why is my life so damn sad Why did you do this to me
Where's that chocolate kiss That's suppose to last forever Who say's dream are bliss When men can be so clever
Why does my heart fall apart Why do tears drench my face Why didn't I see it from the start Why can't my mind leave this place
Why does my heart break so hard Why won't my mind lock you out Why did the devil shuffle my cards Why did he fill you full of doubt
In my dream your eyes met mine With sweet forgiving and love anew But it seems I've lost all track of time And the color of love is black and blue
Why must my heart be shredded Why does this emotion cry Why is my song so dreaded Why can't this pain just die
Why didn't you understand Why did you plan to test me Why did you change the plan Why didn't you hear my plea
Where is the sunshine in the sand The spirit once shining in your eyes The breeze between our clinging hands The kiss, the touch, the love we sighed
Why was it so wrong to be in love Why not feel your tenderness on me Why did you break my heart of love Why did you kill our life to be
Why do I wander, hope, and pray Why do love stories make me cry Why don't I understand the play Why do I want to end it all and die
It wasn't just the lonely hours It was the longing for your favors It was the night and the power That made me, your love savor
So When the moon is full And in your mind I appear Remember us, and pretend We are kissing still
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FLYING WINGS 1
When will birds ever sing again When will night time go away When will I be free of you my love When I've begged you here to stay
My love has no flying wings My heart just won't forget My mind is filled with memories Of lonely days and such regret
If only music had no notes And poems just would not rhyme Maybe then I could forget you Somehow, some way, sometime
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When all the world is gone
Oh, silver spoons and sky lit rooms Seem so important now But love between two souls Is all the counts somehow
So when it comes again If it ever does that is Stop your life and look around It's something not to miss
For life is little neutrons That don't last very long And memories are all that's left When all the world is gone
And people live in little squares Of earth that have no end Yet cast off love with a sigh Without ever knowing him
Their lives are just a fairy tale A figment of a play And soon it will be over They must awake one day
Then you'll know that it was me That could have changed your day Then you'll know that I loved you And it wasn't so hard to say
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When I fall in love When I fall in love It will be forever When I love him true I will leave him never
When I give my heart It will be completely I will feel it in his touch As he kisses me so sweetly
When I fall in love It will be like thunder When he holds me near The earth will move down under
Now the storm is coming I sense it as I shiver The feeling when he's near Like the pounding of the river
Something tells me this is love To feel his hand in mine The beauty of his gentle eyes The moment when our hearts entwined
When two lovers feel so strong Only we have loved like this Maybe it's more than love we feel It's more than the tender kiss
Oh, my love Close your eyes tonight, and Dream of my love by you Feel the joy as two souls embrace And pray that our dream may come true
That we might fall in love forever
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All too Soon I hold the joy of life in my hands. The tender softness of her newborn skin warms my heart as rapidly as the morning sun warms a frosty meadow. Her tiny eyes, blue as the deepest ocean open wide to engulf the newness of life. So small, so new, this infant of mine. All too soon, she will be grown, and I will hold up my hands and remember the day she fit between them.
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America
America is God's country It is the promised land of Pilgrims seeking freedom Found in the palm of His hand
America is God's country My allegiance I give to thee That I may have this glorious Place to live and be free
America is God's country Overflowing choices to choose Our very own Garden of Eden A paradise we must not lose
America is God's country My heart beats strong for you After seeing a world of hunger I cried to come home to you
America is God's country They are beating down our doors To have a little piece of the dream A blessing that is already ours
Thank God for America
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Wheel of Fortune
Wheel O Fortune Turn for me Won't you stop On Number three
If you'll just let me I'll play all night But first you must Do what's right
Let me win Let me win Let me win Tonight!
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Who Am I?
Am I the old German man Who cuttith sticks on Sunday, Swept into eternal imprisonment?
Am I the woman with swollen lips And a missing eye inflicted By my husband, the sun?
Am I the thief who stole The cabbage on Christmas eve?
Am I the one who blocked the path To church with brambles and thorns?
Or am I the old Chinese man Who binds marriages with A silken cord?
I am none of these you see I am just an image seen From your eyes, on the moon. I am the image of you.
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WINGS OF DEATH
How does it feel to be Nothing more than a sin And a test for the best
How does it feel to be A lesson to have conquered A heart too blind to guess
How does it feel to be Dined upon at the dinner hour But forgotten as life is blessed
How does it feel to be Drank and savored with delight Until all needs are fully stretched
How does it feel to be Left a cepher in the snow As your mask is torn and etched
How does it feel to be The victim of dead dreams When each step was painfully sketched
How does it feel to be The cross beneath the king Laid to rest in a potters ditch
How does it feel to be Discarded ointment for a soul After soothing the sinners itch
How does it feel to be Dead within a living thing With no aim, nor dream, nor nitch
It feels like your guts Were sucked out and splattered Worms are eating the last of your senses While the wings of death are all that matters
The wings of death The wings of death The wings of death Will sail my heart to freedom , at last
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USELESS COLLECTIONS
Why do we buy, buy, buy Buy, buy, buy, until we die Buying many useless things Things to later wrap with strings
We think this youth will never end End it does and with such pain Pain of loosing the last of youth Youth tied up in endless buying
Acquiring lots of things, things, things Things, things, things, useless things Sparing children, less important Important are those things, things, things
They pile up till we are ninety Tidy then in cardboard cartons Pilled high in someone's attic Fat trick life played on us
Thinking of the good old days Days of buying, collecting barrels Barrels of broken useless dreams Dreams that crumble with age
Age crumbles dreams and things Things that beautify society Defy realness of love and creation Creation of the flesh and soul
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Execution
I stared solemnly at his somber face As I prepared for the ending moment To which I was to address myself As a swollen cloud opens upon An unexpected cove with a flash flood
Unusually pressing against my mind Were thoughts of promises promised Yet never more to exist or be fulfilled Made into lies by absolute tongues Of men possessed by intolerance And power from which he was dying
Then she appeared, attaching her Melancholy eyes to his in a fixed gaze The guards placed her in position She shook horribly with pleading eyes Cast upon her lover. Her eyes closed: I aimed, hesitated for a moment Trying to pretend God wasn't watching Then I fired and the dam burst From her lovers eyes
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Working
The pasted smiles Upon their lips Turn to white When they are sick
The slinky clothes Jewels of gold All turn to rags When they get old
Their made-up eyes And frosted hair Will turn to straw When no one cares
They knew before But now they're caught In the web Of being bought
Their hearts are hard to love so free They'll never be happy Like you and me
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Only One
Your spirit that is filled with pain Is felt so deeply by your friend Although no one can ease your heart A feeling friend can do a part
To lose your best friend and mother Such sorrow could not be known to others Especially a mother so dear as yours One that loved you so, throughout her years
Looking back through all the days You can recall her gentle, loving ways All the joy you knew being together That joy and love will go on forever
Your pain and tears will always flow Until again your mother you know Until that day you'll need a friend A special friendship that will never end
Someone who knows you and understands Someone who can help you make your plans To greet your dear mother once again And hold your hand through life's short span
Only one can fill that need Only one can hear inner pleads Only one has felt these deep pains Only one can bring you home again
There's only one pain worse than yours That is the pain a mother endures When her dreams and hopes of eternal things Die the death that spiritual death brings
For all things there is a season For all things there is a reason Faith in Christ and a willing heart Will give your soul a spiritual start
Then take his hand all the way home His path will lead you through the storm Your heart will swell with sweetened truth And you'll find joy and happiness in youth
Let Him be your guiding star And your mother will not seem so far You will feel her love through Him Until at last you'll be together again
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The Waiting Is Over
He lives in a shack at the top of the hill It's late, it's late, it's getting late He looks and breathes as if he's ill I wait, I wait, I hate to wait
And if he is he will surely die And I, not I, will hold his hand And he will die, die! But why Must I, yes I, hold his hand?
Well, if your sick then you will die And they will come and tell me But why, oh why, must you die As I kneel here before thee?
I want to pray in your little shack It's late, it's late, it's getting late Why pray now, your death is fact I wait, I wait, I hate to wait
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THE HOUR GLASS
The hour glass, the hour glass Measures precious minutes of life As trembling beads of sweat Follow one another through the strife
The bottomless pit is minutes away And gravity certain in it's direction Like the Devil in his notion Devours, defeats, destroys perfection
Innocent beauty produces misery As the passage becomes congested And all that seems to be is not But a message much infected
When at last frost is all the matters And all the hopes and dreams are dead The hour glass of life sadly shatters From the frozen, broken heart and head
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One Child
Once when life was sweet and new He played among the hills Once when life had just begun And life had yet been tilled
Once when life was sweet and young He strummed guitar and played a tune Once when life had just begun He wandered under stars and moon
Once when life was just unwrapped His smile kissed glowing eyes Once when life had just begun He gazed at clear blue skies
Once when life was just a key He found his gentle song Once when life had just begun His drum played a differant throng
Once when life was sweet and new He kissed her cupid cheeks Once when life had just begun His baby she did weep
Once when life was on it's way He played his girl a note or two Once when life had just begun He heard her pleasant coos
Once when life had come at last He walked with her one eve Once when life had just begun He sat her on his knee
That one child did give him joy That one child gave love to life That one memory of child so sweet Surely will never pass
That was surely pleasant joy The joy of Dad and girl That was surely memory sweet When life is gone at last
Written for Uncle Howard Greene's funeral 1988
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abortion? To build a web To write a poem To make a cake To wear a thorn To be a dog To be a mother To be a frog
To say a word To speak a thought To tell a story To lie a lot
To develop a vaccine To create a song To invent a skateboard To get a long
To study to make To think to build To feel a feeling To have a will
To crawl to play To walk to school To run to work To rock to sleep
To live in peace To fight in war To choose the fate To die before You live?
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Where have you gone my child? Where have you gone , my child?
I've gone to a glistening beautiful place All filled with crystal and golden lace Where the whitest cloud kisses the wind And God's pure love seeps within
Where have you gone, my child?
I've gone over the rainbow and home again To kneel and pray and sit by Him In His celestial home on high Singing songs of sweet forgiving and lullaby's
Where have you gone, my child?
I've gone to a homemade nest in the sky The colors of which would gladden the eye And feelings of peace and love and joy Are gifts given freely to each girl and boy
Where have you gone, my child?
I've gone where golden halos and angel wings Surround cherub cheeks with special things And crystal carpets watch with love Giving peace to glistening eyes above
But, where have you gone, my child?
I've gone to rest where the white dove flies Where perfection is sweet in angel eyes Where time is non-existent to me And precious things are given free
But, where have you gone, my child?
I've gone to the place you told me of My fathers mansion just above And here I'll be waiting just for you To come and hold me close to you
But, where have you gone, my child?
I've gotta go, Mommy, but see you soon When all the butterflies come out at noon You'll see me too; in every heart But secretly we will never part
Have you gone, my child?
Yes, I am going, but I'll always be near With deep love in my heart for my family dear For we each know that we'll eternally be One truly chosen family
My child...
Don't weep Mommy, Daddy dear I'll be watching over you, don't fear We'll all be cuddling in heaven again When Heavenly Father brings you two in
My child...
The hours has come and I must go To that wonderful place of which you know Once again I'll sit on his knee And now and then give him a key
Sweet child.
I'll sing Him a song in ever soft tones And blink at the shine of His golden throne Come...come I will; to hold your hand When it's your turn to enter His land
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Eternal Love
Think of me as a child When sad times were mild When every dream was so exciting Everyday was so inviting
Remember me as a girl My life was smooth as a pearl My young heart was in flight Filled with hopeful young delight
Wasn't I just sixteen When all that counted was the team And my foolish shouts filled the house Knock 'em, knock 'em, knock 'em out
Yesterday was just a moment ago When future dreams seemed so slow I remember my heart a pitter patter And Mom asking me what was the matter
Oh, I dreamed even day and night Hoping they would all turn out right Home, husband, and family That's all that really mattered to me
Deep in prayer I prayed for you My wee little children before you knew Your Mom was praying for precious sons And a little girl would be so fun
But it wasn't until I held you close That I knew I loved you each the most When I leaned to tuck you in each night That's when I knew it turned out right
My days were filled with joy by you Even the little tuffs we knew It was that special love we shared That made me know how much you cared
When two hearts love as much as we We will never be alone, you see No parting can stop our hearts No veil of forgetting will keep us apart
The soft clouds have wings above And I have flown into their love But my soul remembers for sure That our special love is forever pure
Think of me as a child, a girl Remember me each time you twirl And cry not that your mother is gone Because I'll be with you in every song
Every evening I'll be up there Up in the heavens, the heavens so fair And if you'll look up just before dark You'll find me right there in your heart
Every wish upon a star Will have my blessing from afar And every rainbow that you see Will have a special tint from me
Please, for me, stay true to the faith So we will meet in that special place Where families join hands eternally And we'll be together for eternity
Our love will never die, my sweet children
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One in a million Once a babe in a mothers arms Just like any other Once a child with cupid charms The first joy of his mothers
A little boy with golden hair And sweet, caressing eyes Grew to be a youth so fair And yet a man so wise
A son so dear, a brother best His family by his side Todd went on his mission blessed Over the ocean he did glide
Only one in a million have That spirit and that glow Only one is a million 'That' we will always know
Once across that great blue sea He fell in love it's true With the Portuguese people and a little girl Who's eyes were shiny blue
He loved the land, he loved the Lord And his home was in his heart The love he had for his family was stored Way down deep in a special part
Only one in a million know That spirit and that glow Only one in a million Todd, was one we know
When he had reached that pure estate And God took him under his wing Rainbows danced and trumpets played And all of the angels sang
Only one in a million, Todd Have your spirit and your glow I need your help with others, son You'll see you loved ones again, you know
One in a million missionaries Make Heavenly Fathers chosen list One in a million missionaries Will ever be missed like this
Written for the funeral of Todd Hunt (1986-87), son of Roger Hunt. He was shot and killed in Portugal while serving a mission for the LDS church
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I I stub my toe I drown in noise I cry in silence See the toys
Of grown men knowing The passion of sex The joy of a baby I feel perplexed
I taste the blood Upon my Tongue The sorrow of death Can I overcome
Morality of uncertainty Beating on my chest I close my eyes Continue life's nest
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A Simple Shepherd Boy
My eyes shed tears when I was three One eve as my mother taught of Thee My tender heart embraced the love That she said would come from above
When I was six and on my knee I prayed that He would answer me When the answer came, I knew then I would never be the same again
Father made me a shepherd when I was ten I roamed the hillside to sheep attend Father said to be still and ponder The meaning of life and all of its wonder
The smell of the meadow flowers were sweet It lingered all day as I watched my sheep The warmth of the sun caressed my cheeks As it softly drifted off to sleep
The evening breeze wandering by Brought with it the darkening sky The sheep were lowing on the hills And the night was soft, calm, and still
My heart was full of quiet delight As the stars shown so brightly that night My soul was happy, my life at peace As my head laid softly upon the fleece
So glad was I, a simple shepherd boy A blanket of grass, the country joy So glad not to be busy with city things And just to hear the sheep bells ring
The distant glow of the city lights Twinkled oh so bright that night The little fire kept me toasty warm As I gazed upon the sleeping farms
Just as I turned on my feather bed I thought I heard a voice who said Just a small, simple shepherd boy But he will understand the joy
When I looked up the light grew bright It was an angel, then many, oh the site When then I heard their voices ring My heart, my heart began to sing
The voices sand of the promised One That this was the night that He would come The story, the story my mother had told Tonight, tonight it would unfold
In my awe as I looked to the sky I saw the star by me near by In great profusion shone to me I knew it led where He would be
I knew it then, that I must go And even my sheep they did know I beckoned my pup to keep them safe Until I returned from seeing His face
The splintered rays of radiant light Across the hillside the dark grew bright The angel sang a beckoning song And motioned me to come along
The road was long, we traveled far At times I could not see the star The night was cold, but I was warm My heart could tell that He was born
It was only a simple nativity scene But a sweeter face I will never see It was the Babe, He's come at last Upon His face my tearful eyes were cast
And then it happened, just to me Mary let me hold her baby And tears streamed down my cheeks For He was so tiny, so mild, so meek
I knew it then, that golden night That I had beheld a God so right I knew His eyes had touched my soul And I would n'er again be cold
His celestial light glowed in the stable A homeless Babe, but not a fable His tears were not a baby's cry For someday He, for us, would die
And through my life I'll remember The baby Jesus there in the manger And I know now as I did then That He was the king of Bethlehem
The Christ Child, The Savoir of the World
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AT YOUR FEET AGAIN
Oh, that my sinful heart May yet be blessed, dear Lord With pure, unselfish intent That only your way can afford
Oh that my eyes be opened That my selfish heart repent And come to be more like thee From whom all love is sent
Oh that my mind be filled With more of your sweet love That I may touch the world And bring your souls above
Oh that my hands be cleansed From all my selfish deeds And worldly choices so impure That crucify my needs
Oh that my soul be touched Like the spirit your music does That I may have that feeling That smooth comfort of your dove
Oh that my feet will take me To your love, your mind, your ways That I may be your instrument To bless your children's days
Oh, that my life will change That I may always do your will And fight off my selfish traits That love will abide me still
Oh, that my 'all' will love thee That thou would forgive my sins For my only true desire, dear Lord Is to kneel at your feet again
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All That Matters
All that matters is to believe In this moment of time In this hour you may retrieve Believe the light of your mind
You can be all you want to be In this moment of time Open your minds eye and see The magic there in your mind
All that matters is to believe All that matters is to conceive All that matters is to retrieve The light of your destiny
Why not stand and face the day In this moment of time Stand up straight, in focus stay No time to waste your mind
All that matters is to believe Reach down within your mind The promise lies in lights relief That only you can find
All that matters is to believe All that matters is to conceive All that matters is to retrieve The light of your destiny
All that matters is to believe In this moment of time You have the power to conceive Within the light of your mind
You can be what you want to be In this moment of time You can see what you want to see If you can control your mind
All that matters is to believe All that matters is to conceive All that matters is to retrieve The light from eternity
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Where Angels Play
T'was the night before Christmas And all through the land Carolers were brightening lives of the sad And parents were filling stockings as planned
Silver edged red and green wrapping paper Eggnog and family by the fire The snow flocked twinkling Christmas tree Fills my lonely heart with desire
"I'll be home for Christmas" If only in my dreams The holiday songs of season joys Don't cheer me, or so it seems
I guess its cause I'm missing you My son, so far away I surely miss the sweetest smile I haven't seen in quite a day
On frosted morns remember me Your mother who loves you dear Your wondrous life, a gift divine You are my favorite Christmas tear
Thank you for your kindness Your goodness and your love Thank you for finding yourself Through Jesus Christ above
Throughout my day left to me This Christmas will always shine Because of my first sons mission call And the glorious work sublime
This special day my heart will be More full than all the rest Full of sadness missing you But joy, a joy yet expressed
So my son, if loneliness strikes your heart Remember this Christmas mine will be Meeting yours where angels play And soon the year will flee
for Dewayne Smith 1989
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My Princess
We lived in a house Just my mother and Priny She was my best friend My only sibling
She was my shadow We laughed and cried We went everywhere Side by side
Her eyes sparkled When she looked at me As if she knew We were meant to be
She placed her paw Upon my head With soft persuasion Put me to bed
She slept with me When nights were cold Or when she knew I had a heavy load
She was the best person I've ever known For all the love That she had shown
Although twenty years Have quickly passed My heart still quickens When I'm ever asked...about Priny
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The Seasons Tune
Like the summertime Just like the autumn breeze Life is never ending Just like the deep blue seas
Spring will come and bring it's cheer When love is near the angel's sing Winter speaks of slower nights Then at last you feel His wing
When tears of love you weep The seasons play their saddest song And yet their gladdest words are heard
When Jesus sings along
Just like the summertime The season of the resurrection Will be here one day, I pray Just like the autumn breeze When all who know will say
I never knew rainbows danced Or angel rode on moonbeams But now the winter's come at last My Lord has taught me all these things
My Lord is Him whose eyes are love My salvation in victory My Lord, my love, I'm at your feet And I'll praise thee through eternity
When tears of love you weep The seasons play their saddest song And yet their gladdest words are heard
When Jesus sings along
Just like the summertime The season of the resurrection Will be here one day, I pray Just like the autumn breeze You will see Him again and say
My Lord is Him who knows all things My salvation is a victory My Lord, what joy this brings I'll praise thee eternally
My Lord is a love I've never known My Lord is a love I've never known My Lord is a love I've never known I'll praise Him through the seasons of eternity
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A Mother's Testimony
When I think of His hands Full of loves rare cares The perfection of each child His quest It reminds me how great was His unwavering path To honor His divine calling and test
It is His example I must follow Must teach His love and lenity With word and song I'll be strong And mother a home of charity
When I think of His heart Surely broken and torn Pure compassion for those with trust It reminds me of the joy I feel Sharing the love of Christ
Many times a broken heart must pray For the joyous gift so free That comes from the tender grace above And touches our hearts eternally
When I think of His wisdom All knowing worlds without end In sweet supplication never amiss He remembered to thank Father in heaven For blessings of eternal bliss
My knees are bent to honor Him Shall I give thanks or cupidity All my love does flow out now In awe of divine potentiality
When I think of His words So poignant and pure through His parables given to attest He remembered the plan on the mountaintops And on sea he proved the rest
My lips will lead me where I go For my words give me away Now I must prove myself to him With a voice of honesty
When I think of His hands Pierced, covered with blood I can feel a deep pain in my chest Then remember the love He felt in His heart For those who had done Him jest
When I think of His tears The pain from His pores And His heart pounding in His breast Then remember the humble prayer on His lips Of the promise he made without protest
And through that promise He kept for us My family can be with me Not just for life's short span But throughout the eternities
And though I be a beggar A man without a name
And though I be a widow With nothing to offer Him
And though I be a loner Broken as grains of sand
He will save me and you For He is the son of man
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mental illness | virtue & vice |
GONE BEYOND Sickness drags her down, down, down, Down, down, down, beyond the ground Seeking help when no one listens Listens to the sick ones pound
Pounding, sounding like a lion Lying, laying like a lamb Meekly shaking, hardly waking Waking to the sound of hands
Restraining some sickly servant Serving steak to Mrs. Fair She is starving, almost hungry Hungry for some cold fresh air
Sickness drags her down, down, down Down, down, down below the ground Seeking love when no one gives it Gives it to the sad sick souls
for Mable Greene
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A Day's Work
Slinky dresses, made up eyes Jewelry shining gold The pasted smiles are veiled lies
So let the truth be told That the glitter is just there For the fatron to behold
The minds behind this glitter share A solitary thought Of how they fell into this snare
So willing-now their caught And held by need alone Or the fear of being bought
Thus hardened into stone With happy days so few Longing to go home To begin their life anew
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FEVER
Bottles of booze And hookers hooking Champaign bubbles They're always looking
Money missing Magic moments With squares of red Numbers clacking Backing up against The felt With red and green Chips stacking
Secret sibilant sounds Seeking help From Buddha, God Or someone else Just one hot roll And progressive betting Would be the perfect Winners setting
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Dead End
A vision waking Came to mind from a nightmare I must not think it bad dreams It passed fast haunt me But hit hard thoughts enter Vividly convincing scaring me I must not see it but I'm awake She was standing the blood On the edge has stained Sick with anguish the street Staring bleakly my eyes It was just a vision saw Of scull hitting cement her Blood spattering hit Painting and The butchers window splash Blood red I must push it out Not think it Bad thoughts Come true She's sick, I know But must not go Jumping In front of My face As I stand Helplessly
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DEAD END
She might leave now Now that time doesn't matter Fatter than she was when Ten years age she was sane
Time is a mirror Mirror of terror Fairer than eternity Certainly ending time
She is ready to go Show her God Rod of lightning Frightening us all
She finally jumps Lumps swell in the throats Coating the dead cement With her unwanted waste
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Discovery
Oh Misha why, I thought you knew You did, you see And me, now me I watch, I grieve I see the blood Run down your cheek, Yet you're not dead But you will be And so will he What have you done Power must survive And you must die
Yes, he loved you, But others did, too And your blood So precious, pure Over and over To prove the law Will be poured out And love loses And you lose But what do I win?
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Escape
A thought turned inside out, locked in a packed bottle of bubbly putrid brains rocks the barrel and topples landing beside the truth serum filled with all the answers.
The fumes of the saturated cells filled the room with the stench and lifted the thought toward heaven but stopped to watch the bottle bursting, falling in slow motion toward hell.
It escapes, turning the stomach of the mushy corpse hanging in the closet of his mind.
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friendship | history |
A hundred secrets
I lived in a house In the hills of Hollywood With a hundred stairs And an encompassing view Just my mother and Priny Of the valley Lived there with me. Only one friend Her name... I had there an Indian who was Donna. We used to climb, Ducking from The hills and Poison ivy. There was Leading from a castle A narrow path, to my house and hers We had a marked place Where we Just in the middle Would meet No one knew That was s short cut Our path Through those hills It was one secret Of one hundred.
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Futile Energumen Towered with uncertainty Creating a cosmic green house Perishing not through the ages Of unknown civilizations; Stating facts undissected, while Brilliant men stammer Searching for answers Unwilling to accept faith unworthy With crystal skulls they operate Destroying faithful all ancestors
One million years have passed Like dust from a star Disappearing through the Triangle of knowledge Swallowed with Atlantis Leading nowhere-or somewhere Arousing God's wrath They greet Mr. Neanderthal.
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Christmas Friends
Friends like you are special Really just so sweet I couldn't forget your love Nor resist giving you a treat
On Christmas eve when all is still And you're sitting by your fire Winking at you with each flame Is your secret friend that you admire
So have a very Merry eve And when sleep fills your eyes Know how much your friend loves you As you glance up at sparkling skies
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To Yates...We spoke of you
Figure of his own he was Irish Mythology and Fairy Tales He loved Maude Gonne, but she was gone The rose of peace and The rose of battle were Threatened by the sorrow of love First and last as one. His world rudely shaken Power of love within it taken Famous harmony of leaves And life awakened by a frail girl Mythological characters live with The twins Castor and Pollux. The decline a a great civilization Parallel to the Christians Visitation of the Divine; Great wings beating still Against the blood of the air and The climbing moon in an empty sky, Symbolic of Helen, but not Literal object of affection; Doomed as you and All those who die without love! Those weeping from bed, Arising, weeping from the sea know The center cannot hold. Replaced by ugly noises are Man's image and his cry. The best lack all convictions. I may have entertained you If you were with me The white stars in the sky, The loud chanting of the quiet leaves Make my eyes see double. Musical flavors abound Your eminent beloved work Stands alone among the greats! The war had given you inspiration But the blood dimmed tide was loosed Looking forward, and The rest are full of passionate intensity, Like Hitler and the Nazi's, The future in the second coming, The image bank we draw on, Troubles my sight. The lion body And the head of a man moving, Shadows of the indignant Desert birds, and The two centuries deteriorated sickens you. What rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem Would die to be born again? The vision is born of truth. Even St. John of the Cross believed The substance of the experience was valid. You hint the end of all Your rough beast, is of The vision of His coming. The complexity and yet the smoothness Is like the music of Mozart. Smoothly flowing over the water. Your battle against authority, The danger in your wish is sad. The Bishop and all the Crazy Janes Living through your fingers Crumbles the hearts pride. The curses and the Bishop All found softly in the tomb Their skin alive was white The skin in death turns black. The language is crazy But specifically sustained By the woman's sorrows And the solid man. The system of viewing The interior and exterior life Looks beyond all life, Through others life, your life! Return to old civilization The disgust in life you see Your friends contributed to your dreams, Making a living, making a life. The fumes of apple wine Remind Wilbur and I of you.
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In Search of Old Shanghai
Old Shanghai, where has all your glory gone Where flow your exotic shores And the sailors who sung your songs
Old Shanghai, your beauty is surrounded By gray blocks of concrete and drying rags And ugly streets, walking, driven, and pounded
Old Shanghai has lost it's sweet pollen And given heed to factories and dust And eaten everything that's fallen
Old Shanghai, your ports have been abused Your children and your old ones, too Everything in your path has been used
Old Shanghai, soon you will be no more Only rusted antiques will be viewed In museums where your life was stored
Poor Old Shanghai, your death is drawing near Your simple life to be destroyed When every stroke of culture has disappeared
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A Florentines Wife
Gioconda, have a lasting memory Five hundred years, she's old But in the hearts of millions She holds a secret never told
Her enigmatic smile, her slender hands She was but one of three to thee Describe her beauty, no one can Could you have known her popularity?
They gaze at her with trembling hearts From all across the sea, they come To lay, just once, their eyes upon La Gioconda, the sacred one.
Leonard possessed the special talent He captured her soul with paint Great pains taken, suffering spent To portray Mona Lisa, the loving saint.
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memories | attraction |
I Remember
I remember now, the silver lining Beyond the veil of life defining White lace bumbling at noonday time When everyone seemed to be in rhyme
I remember my mama's sweet eyes The special smell of rhubarb pies Playing in tall cool blades of grass When I was just a real young lass
I remember papa's piano tunes And pastel sweet peas in new bloom With sparkling April dew on the path That led me schoolward day at last
I remember lips of cherries sweet The moonlit night he swept me off my feet Smiles that tickled deep within Every moment thoughts of him
I remember white poppy lace Pink cotton puffs upon my face Those two sweet words sung in key Meant he would spend his life with me
I remember many things Sweet honeydew and wedding rings The whisper of my lovers song The tears I shed when he was gone
I remember laughs, frowns, and jokes When we got together with the folks Ups and downs meant life was on Lost emotions meant life was gone
I remember rain, smoke, and dirt Even remember deep down hurt When sorrow sung beneath the soil And all I ever did was toil
I remember a certain wishing well Even our china dinner bell My sweethearts mansion on the hill The smell of the earth that we did till
But most of all
I remember tiny feet Soft blue eyes and skin so sweet Baby laughter and baby tears I best remember through the years
Yes, baby bumbling with purple toes More precious than silk, that tiny nose That clear small voice that spoke to me Of secret love that was meant to be
That velvet skin on my bosom breast Gave me more joy than all the rest Cupid eyes and cherub lips Even remember first little steps
When one had grown, another born I loved them each and every morn The darling children born to me Were my reward for eternity
When life turned cold and dark one day It seemed the hardest game to play But deep inside I always knew That one day would be, just we two
Wait I did, and now at last We'll be together as worlds go past With memories sweet of angel's born To us on gentle sunlit morns
Though I remember it all my dear I choose to sleep without the tears Instead, remember throughout eternity My wonderful moments in mortality
Cry not for me, nor for yourself Don't put your feelings on a shelf Lift up your life and remember me And know through Him, you'll too be free
One day soon we will meet Sitting at our Savior's feet You and I, just we two With life and love and joy renewed
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PRIDE IN A BILLIARD BALL
A bald man sits In red surroundings Drinking, smoking Almost drowning
He shaves his head Puffs and glances Rubs his nose Almost dances
The shiny head Burns his fingers Watches numbers Almost lingers
He likes his scull Sips his drink Looks around Almost blinks
He sees her coming Bites his lip She looks at him Then she sits and thinks- "Too bad he's bald"
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