Poems

Here and there and everywhere

Nina Rose Jackstadt

When you're going out and coming inGod and His love are there with you.

Two views—one true

Lucile Jury Kennedy

You are not defined by chemistry, my friend,by DNA and the atomic dust of today, or dust of Eden,of what begins now, or in mystic lore, and changesand must end.

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Being in love

Jan L. Kater

My wife and IBoth fell in love withAll that God has doneIn each of us.

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No one, not ever

Mary Elizabeth G. Baker

No onecan make us sinor be a sinner.

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Claim your day

Allison T. Demarkles

In my day, shall there be night (ignorance, fear)—orillumination (love sincere)?

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I have never been held on any death row,Never been imprisoned in a cellblock so;Nor am I a human storage binOf wrath or fear, disease or sin,Sentenced to die by earthly law or medical decree—I am God's man, His image, wholly freeOf error's ways or ill desire,Not mortal selfhood set on fireBy evil thrust.

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"Be ye ... wise as serpents, and harmless as doves"*

Nancy L. Holder

The wily serpent, finding that his skinis now an outgrown, worn-out sheath,simply shrugs it offand moves on, free in the new onealready right there underneath.