Poems

PRACTITIONER

Margaret Bowen Lane

No need of sculptured marbleTo immortalize your consecrationNor poet's lyric versesTo describe your dedication;Uncounted lives uplifted, brightened,Distresses healed and burdens lightenedBear witness to your selfless love.

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PROVED, UNPROVED

Daisy Stieber Squadra

Walls:cement, fieldstone, brick,mud, mosaic—allcrumble under history'srelentless millstone.

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BREAD

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Scriptural passages have saidthat God's children shall be fedbread.

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HARVEST

Maxine Le Pelley

Some seed will germinateFar sooner than the rest;And early is the growthOf young plant manifest.

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"WE SHALL NOT ALL SLEEP"

William Aubert Luce

"We shall not all sleep,"We shall not all sigh.

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COMMUNION WITH GOD

Jean Hazel Allen

If but one hour I consecrateTo seek His grace and meditateOn things divine,Established is my day.

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OVER THE WALL

Pearl Strachan Hurd

This the way out—grow tall!So tall that the wallShrinks round your ankles.

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THY WAY

Max Dunaway

"Shew me now thy way," dear God,For I have lost my own.

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"FROM THE FATHER OF LIGHTS"

Vera Sohr Kelly

Your example, oh, your standabove all variableness!Your light becomes an impetusin my rebirth.

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LOVE, NOT VENGEANCE

Alexander George Hardman

When in the Adam-dream I seeInjustice victimizing me,And vengeance, in the garb of right,Would neutralize my woeful plightYet trail a burden of dismayNo sentient courage can allay;