Poems
Hope

Don’t start the day with doubts and fear,
For where they live, faith disappears,
Hope won’t grow in a gloomy heart,
Where sorrow lives and tears drop,
Start; don’t give up before you have begun,
You still have time to get things done,
If we do something, why not in a best way,
Why tomorrow, Why not today?
There are no rainbows without any rain,
There are no victories without any pain.


I SAID A PRAYER FOR YOU.

I said a prayer for you today,
And know god must have heard,
I felt the answer in my heart,
Although he spoke no words.

I didn’t ask for wealth or fame,
I knew you wouldn’t mind,
I asked him to send treasures,
Of a far more lasting kind.

I asked that he would be near you,
At start of each new day,
To grant you health and blessings,
And friends to share your way.

I asked for happiness for you,
In all things great and small,
But it was for his loving care,
I prayed for most of all.
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Can We Still Be Friends?
(By Kathleen Sheppard)
I was cold and hurting
lost out in the night
wandering and searching
for heaven's light
I saw the night sky clearing
when you spread your rainbow wings
But little did I know
what joy you would bring
From that moment on
a friendship did start
you kissed away my tears
and sheltered my heart
I bless the day God
sent you from above
But then I grew fearful
for I had fallen in love
I told you this feeling
and what did you say?
You said you liked our friendship
and that's how it would stay
I cried for a friendship I thought I lost
But then I felt your warm, gentle hand
You then whispered in my ear
that by my side you'll forever stand.



My Prayer Has Been Answered

I asked for strength,
And God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom
And God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for prosperity
And God gave me brawn and brain to work.
I asked for courage
And God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love
And God gave me troubled people to help.
I asked for favours
And god gave me opportunities.
I received nothing I wanted
And everything I needed.
My prayer has been answered.
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A Lesson I Learned

At ebb tide,
I wrote a line upon the sand,
And gave it all my heart
And all my love.
At flood tide I returned,
And found my ignorance on the shore.

The Tree

I think I shall never see
A poem as lovely as a tree
A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed
Against the earths sweet flowing breast.

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts its leafy arms to pray.
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of Robin in its hair.

Upon whose bosom snow has lain
Who intimately lives with rain,
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can create a wonder like a tree.

To Do

"He slept beneath the moon
He basked beneath the sun
He lived a life of going to do
and died with nothing done"
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Alcohol

"I've drunk to your
Health in travens,
I've drunk to your
Health in my home,
I've drunk to your
Health so damn
many times
That I've almost
ruined my own"

True Heroism

Let me not pray to be sheltered from Dangers,
but to be fearless in facing them.
Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain,
but for the heart to conquer it.
Let me not look for allies in life’s battlefield
but to my own strength. Let me not crave for anxious fear
to be saved but hope for the patience
to win my freedom. Grant me that I may not be a coward,
feeling your mercy in my success alone;
but let me find the grasp of your hand
in my failure, wherever I stand.
                                                                     - Rabindranath Tagore