Poems

The child within

B. Lois McKay

She was somewhere under tenoutside playing in the yardwhen something went amiss,so she quickly went inside,passing her mom busy in the kitchen,to her room where she threwherself on the bed and silentlyasked God to help her do better.

Poem

Volumes of gratitude

Bea Roegge

My to-do list outran the page but then I penned what God has done and it became a volume.

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The stillness of Your voice

Jef Scoville

In the morning I will listenFor the stillness of Your voice,And I know that You will give meAll the grace and calm and poiseI will need throughout the dayTo face the world and all its noise,As I listen in the morningFor the stillness of Your voice.

Poem

Reunion

Bettie Gray

This time the road home to Texasthunders through clouds, and ends as a runway borderedby fields of wild Mexican primroses and Indian paintbrushThe sky has the starring role in every Texas tale.

Kids

Secret of the fiddlehead fern

Lyn Littlefield Hoopes

Kids

For a kid who loves bugs

By Caryl Krueger

The hour has come to go to bed.

Kids

Celebrating love and family with snapshots and poems from you

Nathaniel Becker, Sara Dickson

Spoons on noses,hear them calling:"Help us! Help us!We are falling!"

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Brinkmanship

Kim Shippey

Stand proud, my son,in the morning lightof your teens,fearless as the sun,yet unashamed ofsmall clouds of reticencethat say "think"before you blast your waythrough life's adventure.

Poem

City street crossing

Suzanne Liebenrood

I live in a large city that is noisy and packed with concrete, steel, glass, cars, and trucks.

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In Pristina, a green vase sings from a table left standing

By Warren Bolon

A white chaliced tulip, orange-crowned daffodils butter and honeycupped, the perfume of narcissuspetal fanned, these are vowels in God's own language.