Category: poetry

March 29, 2024

    I am on this journey to understand more about the truth.  I am seeking to understand my mental health as well as my spiritual health.  I think we have to pray more direct and heartbroken prayers.  These are the prayers that say: Lord we are wrong, please help your dying children.  These are…

February 8, 2024

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.  You will seek me and find me when you seek me…

February 5, 2021

I have been moved by the temperature of this country to speak in a voice that God has given me.  This voice is often creative and sympathetic to those who struggle in this so called country of freedom. This is a Poetry Power Special!   I want to share a series of poems that came…

November 27, 2019

    The Audacity   The audacity of you thinking that you can You can’t, you won’t, so often you ran The conspiracy of you to think any other way You cry, you laugh, you catch the lick of the fire that burns your right hand   Oh what will be found? Oh what will…

November 20, 2019

A tale of two Kingdoms   It was the best of times and it was the worst of times It was the time that the ancients never forgot  but the worry and fear kept feeding the pot The words that were written so long ago Supplied food for the weary And hope for the needy…

November 13, 2019

About Life I once was the teacher Who stood tall and spoke right “Grow up Get a Job Be responsible and act right”   The thing to grasp  was that my right was wrong My hope was in life But not in its song The left brain taught a journey That went amiss A promise…

November 6, 2019

Envy Not Me     Oh that fall How great you are So far down So far apart And I thought that I built a building  so grandiose So far and so close So dawned and so boast Look at the glimmer of the glass  So tall is the tower So high is its power…

October 30, 2019

Don’t use Me     Don’t use me Don’t use me up Don’t lift me high Then spill the cup Don’t cry the most gutless help cry and make me think you need me With hopeless eyes and grieving With cloudy eyes to seize me   Don’t leave me cold Don’t kill my soul Don’t…

October 9, 2019

You Just Jellin     Another school shooting . . . And yet again we fail to identify the problem. The problem is not the lack of security in the schools, It is not the drill exercise that went wrong. The problem is the lack of care for young souls and the cantankerous states of…

October 2, 2019

  One by one its the happening two by two we fall watch and pray saints waiver and run all who have doubt but all overcome awake is the dead and the shake comes with might all that will drown are those living life lose and you gain try and you die fight and you…

September 25, 2019

Lavender Skies   And so I find comfort in the words of requite in the softness of day in the process of night   And so I press towards and through and over and beyond to get to the place Where I always wanted to be   Lavender skies Holiday wishes floating in time Finding…

September 18, 2019

Why do we do the things that we do? What type of pleasure really fills you? Nothing, oh nothing will satisfy the soul unless you give up the selfish ego   Because we are all Psycho  living in a world that is not our own  creating the spaces we call a home  and round and…

September 14, 2019

  Winning   Although we lose souls we are winning Although we cry out with our most wrenching groans Although we drag ourselves treacherously through the trials of life We will yet gain victory on our thrones   Teach us Lord how to fight How to pray and how to speak How to comfort each…

March 5, 2019

Welcome to Art Teacher for Purpose. . . Teaching Christian Living and Kingdom Principles   I’m a Writer I’m a Christian Writer who teaches Kingdom principles and my Purpose is to help you find Your Purpose 1 2 3 Everything is not Okay a creative language essay on the end  Everything is not okay  …