reading poems
old and new
evergreens
reading poems
Category: Christian Poetry
looking at envelopes
looking at envelopes
I think, my father
would save these
and collect the
stamps
raindrops
raindrops
on the window screen
in my small study
and then the birch tree
with green and gold leaves
and then evergreens
beyond the trees
grey sky with some blue
restful to read
restful to read
poetry books read before
Autumn morning
Saturday afternoon
Saturday afternoon
some time to listen
to quiet music and read
sunlight fills a lamp
that is not needed now
and the light shines
on the wall with art
by people I know
who also offer light
beauty hope
From Psalm 119:
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet,
and a light unto my path.
Psalm 119: 105
Perhaps because
perhaps because
it is Autumn
I think of my mother
the season when
her last illness
began many years ago
and the trees
outside her hospital
window
I read to her
from the Psalms
and poets she would
know from long ago
and new poets too
most of all
I remember her faith
and unconditional love
that is with me still
From the Psalms:
Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty:
neither do I exercise myself in great matters,
or in things too high for me.
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself,
as a child that is weaned of his mother:
my soul is even as a weaned child.
Psalm 131: 1 – 2
Bible Verse and Photo
But we have this treasure
in earthen vessels,
that the excellency
of the power
may be of God,
and not of us.
2 Corinthians 4: 7 (KJV)
