Poems

From God alone

James Walter

God is Mind,
knowing all there is to know.
How can I know aught
that He knows not? …

Yea and nay

Bobby Lewis

“Yea; nay.”
Is this the shortest
prayer in Scripture?
It may be.
Certainly, it packs
a metaphysical punch
above its length …

Poem

It’s always God

Diane Warneck

It’s not my strength or resolve.
It never is, it never was
about a small “me”
praying to be victorious
over daily (sometimes nightly)
bouts of pain.
No, it is …

Poem

No matter to see

Kit Cornell Kurtz

There is no blemish to see
  in me.
  Only holy purity.
I’m only the gathering—
  Soul’s gathering—
  of unformed thoughts
  into their . . .

Poem

Don’t be fooled

Elsa Dardie S. Dunlap

Don’t be fooled.
Is it the real, genuine being?
Go back to the basics—
is it real or unreal?
A diamond or a rhinestone …

Poem

Sailing with God

Barb Goodspeed Grant

Sailing in Truth,
we
do
not
drift ...

Poem

Driven to the deep things of life

Béatrice Labarthe

I didn’t go to the beach
   this summer,
but God gave me a
   sunny-heartedness
to warm my smiles
   to friends and foes.
Why? Because …

Poem

There is love in God’s molding
   and exalting of our desires.
Our desire, as beautiful and
   impactful as it may be,
is merely a draft, a rough
   sketch, of something
   He always beheld.
Imagine …