The Lord's Poet
Easter and Spring Edition 2001
POETRY TO LIGHTEN A TROUBLED HEART
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BASKETBALL
Basketball? You must be nuts!
No one here can play that game!
Most of them can barely walk
And the others are quite lame!
Now think a minute,
Sadie.
We can play basketball.
Use trash cans for
the baskets
And put handles on
the ball!
Kathi Phillips
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MARATHON
How can you call it marathon,
It's only once 'round the yard,
Barely four hundred feet,
That isn't so very hard.
But look at who has
entered,
Not one less than 85.
We have to make it
short, Gert
Or some will ne'er
arrive.
Kathi Phillips
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LIVE AND LEARN
Mistakes,
We all make them:
More often
Than we'd like to admit.
Mistakes can bring disaster
Or cause growth.
It depends on our outlook.
We can choose
To curl up and die
Because of our mistakes.
Or we can decide
To live and learn
And thereby
Learn to live.
Kathi Phillips
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CROSSING TO MY FUTURE
I stand upon a river bank
And give my hair a subtle yank;
And as I stand, I contemplate
What will be my future fate.
I look up to the other shore
And seek to find some new detour,
A way to get from here to there
Without wetting the clothes I wear.
There is no bridge nor boat in sight
And though it fills my heart with fright
I know that I must cross the stream
If ever I'm to reach my dream.
And so I take a gentle plunge
As towards that other shore I lunge.
It matters not that I'll get wet
If to that other side I get.
For once I stand upon that shore
My clothes will soon be dry once more.
Kathi Phillips
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