Category: selah poetry
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in everything
give thanks,for the rising of the sun and the pouring of the rain the storm thunders,the quiet waters seasons that come and go,the promise behind the rainbowand the flood that taught uswhat we know for the silence of the shadows that reminds us of the learnings from the past,and the…
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lullaby
tonight I long to be the childcurled up in her mother’s hughands intertwined with love’s simple cure: a soft kiss on the forehead I ask the stars to let me fall asleep with her sweet song in my eartonight her voice is all that I want to hear I long…
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le soir
so long, my aged memory the autumn leaves have fallen your unkindness has awakened the blossoming tree,a new season for the eyes to see in the interim, I sing the anthemof a child in wait for a mother’s kiss through David’s harp, the birth of a psalm,here listen —a warm…
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feather duster
like tiny feathers floating in the skyswiftlyscattered by the wind,unchased, unseen then careful what you listen neither false nor true,it’s not yours to spillfasten thy mouthbe not like otherswho bruit about,many have fallen in the trap stirring up angerhatredhurt how many more lives will it ruinwhen it reaches theears of…
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moonlight
hold on and chasethe moonlight’s gleamin the coldest of nights; may we always find joyin the littlest thingthat keeps us alive in spite of hardshipsand suffering may we still cling to the faith that we were born ofeven when clouded by weakening thoughtsmay our confidence in the possibility of miracles…
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the trial
was it ever a crime to love muchwho is brave enough to judgehow one’s heart cana martyr, yes, is deserving of morebut we hold not the right to force one’s soulinto denying its truth we do not question how one can easily forgive and the other, hard to let go…
selah; 