The
Lord's Poet
Easter and Spring Edition 2000
POETRY TO LIGHTEN A TROUBLED HEART
Page 2
THE SONG
Sometimes the words and music
Of my life can make no song.
Daily what I see is discord
Of all that could go wrong.
There is no harmony
As I now try to sing it.
Peace is not found in seeking,
For only God can bring it.
But Jesus takes disharmony
And all of life's discord
Making it a lovely song
With peace an added reward.
Kathi Phillips
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LIFE
A collection of scenes:
Recollections
With no connections;
Mental photographs
With little laughs,
Full of interludes
And attitudes;
Comes in bits and parts
Of fits and starts;
Still memories
Remembered still.
Kathi Phillips
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MEMORIES
Memories both good and bad
Of the life I have had:
Coming back, some haunting me
With the fears then taunting me.
Hearing read my favorite ryhmes,
Thinking that the best of times;
Braids that tempted many yanks;
Picnics taken on river banks;
Through the woods I'd walk with friends
Hoping childhood would never end.
Looking back, this thought I shout:
Hold on to good, the rest throw out.
Kathi Phillips
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THE PAPER
She gave us a paper
Containing two columns.
On the left it said:
"Without God"
And underneath were many words,
Naming how life could be
If God were not a part of it.
On the right it said:
"With God"
And beneath this heading
Was blank whiteness.
Words, for me,
Can only limit
What I am describing.
And so in this paper I saw
What life with God can be.
Without God
Life holds no more
Than the limitations
Of the words on that paper.
But with God
Life is an unlimited sea
Of blank white possibilities.
Kathi Phillips
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