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Poems

GREEN GRASS OF GRATITUDE

Ruth King

Green grass of gratitude, uplift my thought!Transform the dust heaps and the wintry earthOf loneliness, self-pity, hurt, and prideWith your compassionate growth and tender green,And I will water with repentant tearsAnd tend the shoots with love and kindliness;Reach deep into the warmth of kindling earthWith fingers quick to find the envious weeds,The clinging growths of fear and self-conceit.

GOD IS EVERYWHERE

Wilhelmina Belle Barnes

Can you imagine infinity?

TO THE USHER

Ruth Catherine Jones

It makes no difference where you areOr what the station be,The truth you know can be the starThat helps another seeThe way to health and peace.

DRY-SHOD THEY WALK

Nancy E. Barnhart

Dry-shod they walk across the sandWhere late the Red Sea rolled,For Israel's tried and holy bandIs safe within the fold.

TRINITY

Margaret Morrison

Fresh in its eternal springtide,Love that knows no turning pageGlows in pure creative beauty,Our supernal heritage.

THE DOVE

Margery A. Todahl

LIKE to a bird On lifted wing, The inspired Word Soars, glorying,

THE READING ROOM CLOCK

Elizabeth K. Bridgman

The planet keeps turning;Its turning I mark.

AT A LECTURE

Roberta Joan Seiferth

WHAT was it the lecturer said?

GLAD TIDINGS

Edith Fullerton Scott

HARK, the chimes of victory! Fear defeated! We are free! Joyous thought that now we can Serve with love both God and man.

TRUE BROTHERHOOD

Althea Brooks Hollenbeck

Men look on him and think, "He is her son.

GUIDE ME, LORD

Maxine Le Pelley

Guide me, Lord, that I may steerMy own course straight and without fear.

"COME UNTO ME"

Mary H. Oliver

Nearly two thousand years ago the wordswere spoken, "Come unto me, all yethat labour and are heavy laden.