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Poems

PROGRESS

Louise S. Darcy

How forcefully I said,"I am right!"

HEARKEN

Marion Stewart Hopper

Forgive me, Father.

A GRAIN OF MUSTARD

Jonathan Lee

A grain of mustardIs very smallBut bigger than error—That's nothing at all.

SHORELESS, FREE

Maxine Le Pelley

Look from the seaRedundant seaFrom ebbing, flowingMortality's me.

TRAFFIC JAM

Anne Valma Holway

Sometimes words only push and pull,go round in circles, getting nowhere.

GRATITUDE

Kathryn Laney Veazey

Gratitudeis somethinginadequately expressedin words.

GIVING

Barbara L. Kelly

Once, when a friend gave much,I found myself disturbedthat I had no means to repay her.

READING TODAY'S LESSON

John N. B. Millican

Not a mortalBlinking in the candlelightOf a dark morning,

LESSON-SERMON

Richard O. Howard

No euphonic cloudiness here—No hazy, vague conjectures,No dogma, no ritual,No other to interfere.

LARGESS

Mary J. Augustine

Thank You,dear God,for every blessing—big or small;and, thank You againjust for beingAll.

WHAT THE SUN IS SAYING

Godfrey John

Soul is saying

BY DAY, BY NIGHT

Carol Earle Chapin

No matterhow hate scorches,God's cloudy pillarshields.