Poems

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An angel at midnight

Kurt Lancaster

Throes of thought,screaming for attention,cut the midnight silence.

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"Who teacheth like him?"*

Louise Clarke Harsch

I've learned when healing comesIt's like the Beatitudes understood.

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A resurrection for you—walk free!

Karin Jean Gillett

"The Lord is risen indeed, andhath appeared to Simon.

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Back-street Christ

Godfrey John

"No, it's not too late to walkto where no hands, no lies abuse— to wander openly, to talkof hopes to free, of fears to lose.

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Stings

Charlotte Egea

Angry words stung like the hornets whose nest was stirredby a broom held all wrong,as a boy swept the porch, his job that day,and I shouted to make my point heard.

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Wake up! Wake up!

Dorothy Edith Drummond

Have I been thoughtlessly so long sleeping—Losing the bright, sparkling, first love and joy,Resting on laurels long grown dim,A figure of apathy, ardency thin?

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The angels of my life*

Margery Vause Carlson

My angels wear no wings—except the wings of Loveto bear me upabove the stony pathand help me soar.

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I fill the void

Robert Ennemoser

Right where a yawning void stares you in the face—loss, failure, and desolation,where nothing seems to thrive,where there seems to be no way out—right there am I.