Poems

What is Perfect?

SYLVIA N. POLING

Jesus said our Father is perfect, sowe should be perfect, too.

Open your door to God,And you open your thought to Love;Be generous with your love for all,And the freedom of Life will be yours;Take heed of the truth in Spirit,And Truth will answer your needs;Be as a tree—

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GOD'S ALLNESS

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Sometimes, when it seems mocking tears,frightening dreams, and false fearswould accent my smallness,I think of God's allness,and it melts them away—I soar in the wideness of mercy, the tallnessof justice, in boundless purity.

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TAKEOFF

Robert Howard Zeller

O perfect One to whom our prayers ascend,We ask Thee not for any earthly thing.

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SOUND SHELTER

Neil Millar

Typewriters fling noise-pellets at the air;Telephones spurt their little jets of belling;Throughout the city, rumbling, roaring, yelling,Din burns and beats at every thoroughfare.

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SMALL RAIN AND TENDER HERB

Margery Macdonald Cantlon

Now upon the tender herbemerged from dark terraininto a sunlit world superb,fall gently, soft small rain!

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ON HEARING BEETHOVEN'S NINTH SYMPHONY WITH CHORALE

Mary Dunham

With intricate balance of thrust and counterthrustThe beams support, uphold the houseWhere the white-robed choir is singing of joy;And listening with joy, I hear again,Not the words of Schiller's odeThat Beethoven loved and celebrated,But "In Thy house securely dwelling,Where Thy children live to bless"Christian Science Hymnal, No.