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Poems

PURIFYING OUR ENVIRONMENT

Esther M. Scheck Peterson

Moral decadenceand sensual impurity—are these not the basic causesfor overpopulationand world pollution?

SHARING

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

I made complaint to God:"You gave me precious seed, but only sandto plant them in! I'll share with friendto whom you gave a richer land!"

SPIRITUAL INTENT AND THE SKYLARK

Milton B. Marks

If one's own pardon one has grace to win,God's gift, reflection, glow where sense had been;A brother's lark of hope and faith, on wing,Might rise and rise, and thence more bravely sing.

PEACEMAKERS

B. Lois McKay

Each is a star,shining resplendently in the heaven of Soul;Each may flower,bathed in spiritual light;Every one voicingglad birdsong;All children of Lovebelonging to the one Father, Mind.

THE WALK TO EMMAUS

Mary Goodall

"Did not our heart burn within us?

THE VERB "TO BE"

Dilys Z. Heelan

I am, he is, thou art;In every land in every tongueThis is the way we startTo claim our being—in the present.

WITNESS FOR TRUTH

Margaret Tsuda

Visualizea lofty hall,a judgment seatmagistrate imperially robeddespite irregularities ofaccusation and hour.

"IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD"

Margery Todahl Blokhine

God's law is felt in rhythm of the seasons:Spring, summer, autumn, winter.

INTACT

Helen G. Hasler

No mortal dreamCan change the factThat God createdMan intact.

THE MEASURE

Barbara Thayer Sibley

It seemed a thousand years, yet, in Thy sightThe measure was the watch within the night,Exalting vigils kept, until the day,Defined by light.

VILLANELLE FOR THE SEVENTIES

Vera Moulton Green

If He calls me, what shall I say?

COMING HOME

Jessie Louise Salls

Error's chains are rivenWhen, sin destroyed, forgiven,The prodigal comes home.