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Poems

TURN HOMEWARD, PILGRIM!

Elizabeth Rogers

Have you sought passage through some weary, landof human hopes, entanglements and dreams,and found, for fast, no crumb of bread at hand,

THAT NIGHT ON GALILEE

Gibbs Hofmann

See how the fantasy of frightEngulfed the doubting twelve that nightAs wind and waves the vessel swept,And peacefully the Master slept,He, waked when they in fear were tense,Rose in divine magnificence,Whom nothing mortal ever moved.

THE STILL SMALL VOICE

Edna B. Brown

Not long ago a tempest raged.

THE GATE OF HEAVEN

Donalda von Poellnitz

The time of reckoning was close at handAs Jacob came to answer Love's demandFor equity.

RESURRECTION

Margaret Hovenden Ogden

The field I reap,The harvest of attainment,The ripened yield that bends with the wind and reaches to the light,Is not the fruitage of a single season.

WAIT ON MIND

Peter John Sutton

Restrain false fervorbefore words flickerfrom unmeditating lips,before considered paintbrush slipsfrom guidance into unconsidered splash.

ONWARD

P. Rhodes Bowen

Do we, still doubting, stand afar,thinking yet to drawneeded security and warmthfrom matter's fickle law?

"THOSE THAT ARE WITH YOUNG"

Mildred E. Kendall

So well does your heart knowthe healing touch divine,so true your pure and deep desireto find His hand to guide.

A LIBRARIAN'S PRAYER

Bonny Norman Gregory

I asked God in the morningTo use me for His glory,To fill my thought, to form my wordsTo tell the simple story

"WHEN I CONSIDER THY HEAVENS..."

Margery Todahl Blokhine

The stars that in their courses moveAre not haphazard motes astrayAlong the vulnerable wayOf time and circumstance.

GRATITUDE

Godfrey D. C. John

Sky cannotroof insuch rushof summer joy:I hear you shoutin the sudden rainwashing your eyes.

MORE LOVING TODAY

Vera Sohr Kelly

I obeyed , yes, I obeyedin one small thing: My tent was madea little larger.