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<body background="images/bbackground.jpg"> <p align="center"><a name="POEMS_TOP"></a><img src="images/bpoborder.jpg" alt="BPOborder.jpg (11340 bytes)" WIDTH="469" HEIGHT="72"></p> <p align="center"><small><strong>From our readers...</strong></small></p> <table border="3" width="100%" bordercolor="#0F76CA"> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b><u><br> When Hope Is Enough</u></b></font> </p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>There comes a time in each man's life,<br> When life brings trials and sometimes strife.<br> All he has is faith to cling to,<br> With power above and hope to bring through.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Many will say his dilemma is doomed,<br> But all the while his faith sprouts and blooms.<br> There is no reason to this man's thinking,<br> As they try to analyze his internal dealing.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Holding firm with his heart's desire,<br> For a fragment of hope, his spirit to acquire.<br> Not giving up when life is down,<br> For his faith brings seed and many a crown.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Trials in life will come and go,<br> By spreading hope our spirit grows.<br> For there is One that gives us life,<br> So don't give up in all your strife.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><br> <font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Copyright 2000 Donald D. Campbell</b></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></b><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font size="1">(<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Palais/6153/Dons.html" target="_blank">Check our Don's web site</a>)</font></p> <p>  </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><br> <b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><u>Hear ye him</u></font></b></p> <p align="center"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">I held my stub, a deed of good, as invite to The Feast,<br> Made confident by Scripture that soon His words would be:<br> "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto the least<br> of these My brethren, ye have done it unto Me."</font></b></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Yet these words applied to sin, like yeast,<br> Gave rise to trepidation when taken verbatim:<br> Inasmuch as I have done it unto the least<br> of these His brethren, I have done it unto Him?</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>But for, "Hear ye him, in whom I am well pleased;<br> That none a work, but Love will set you free."<br> Then came, as I prayed to have my faith increased,<br> An answer to, Father, willst Thou give Thy Love to me?</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>"Inasmuch as I have done it unto the least<br> of these My brethren, I shall do it unto thee."</b></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Copyright 2000 Mark Kramer<br> </b> </font><font size="1"> (<a href="http://divine-love.org/index.html" target="_blank">Check our Mark's web site</a>)</font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><br> <font face="Arial" size="4"><b><u> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3">Deliverance</font></u></b></font><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><br> <br> </b></font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> Bits and pieces of the past,<br> Fragmented images of things that last.<br> Journey through life's mysterious trails,<br> Mastered dreams that will prevail.<br> <br> Anticipating things to come,<br> Imprints of beauty we've become.<br> Tapestry woven with sincerity<br> Dark threads of sadness bring clarity.<br> <br> Events influencing our very lives<br> Strife brings about our inheritance. <br> Eternal bliss, peace at last<br> Destination reached..our deliverance.<br> </font></b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> </font><br> <font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Copyright 1998 Maria Reed-Shore</b></font><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><br> </font></b> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><br> <font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><u>Footsteps of Angels</u></b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br> </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <br> <b>When your heart climbs a mountain,<br> And your soul finds a sweet peace.<br> Then you hear footsteps of angels,<br> You're heart beat is increased.<br> <br> When Your eyes see what you have been,<br> And changes now and then.<br> You have heard footsteps of angels,<br> As you begin to grin.<br> <br> Your heart melts at the site of a blind child,<br> Bending down, giving him a hand.<br> You feel a lift from heaven,<br> And join in with their band.<br> <br> When the sea calls your name,<br> As you stare out over it's shore.<br> Admiring it's beauty and knowing what it is for,<br> It is really angels at your heart's outside door.<br> <br> When life you give for all you care,<br> And time for you is late.<br> Just listen for angels footsteps,<br> They will carry you to heavens gate.<br> </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b> </b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Copyright 1998 Donald D. Campbell</b></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></b><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font size="1">(<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Palais/6153/Dons.html" target="_blank">Check our Don's web site</a>)</font><br> </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><b><u><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> Sing Praises</font></u><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br> </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <br> Sing praises unto the Lord<br> All ye people<br> Thy souls shall drink<br> from his loving cup<br> Ye are blessed <br> by the Grace of God.<br> Love is the vehicle.<br> Love brings all happiness.<br> Love will carry you and sustain you.<br> All is Love.<br> Love is All.<br> Receive thy strength <br> from the Love of the Lord.<br> Spread the message <br> of God's Love.<br> And the nations of the world <br> shall reap His benefits.<br> Go forth with these tidings <br> all ye people.<br> Thy Lord had spoken<br> And so shall it be.</font></b></p> <p align="center"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>-- Copyright 1999 Brenda L. Boldt </b></font></p> <p>  </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><br> <u><strong><b><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My Guardian Angel</font></b></strong></u></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Maybe I can't see you <br> but I know your by my side,<br> you have never let me down<br> especially when I cried<br> <br> You protect me through <br> night and day,<br> worries and wonders<br> and whatever comes my way<br> <br> You stood by me through<br> my dreams and fears, <br> and with the love in my heart <br> I just know your near<br> <br> When my time has come<br> to leave into the dark of the night,<br> I hope you will be there to guide me<br> into the beautiful eternal light</b></font></p> <p align="center"><big><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b>-- </b></font></big><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><small>DT</small></font></b></p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><b><u><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> Awakening</font></u></b></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Now I long,<br> To be, to belong.<br> For I never craved to possess<br> Until More Washed ashore,<br> And I knew I had less.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b>Now I long,<br> To be, rid of wrong.<br> For no sin springs to life<br> Until more<br> You explore,<br> And Good becomes rife.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b> Now I long,<br> To be, be as strong.<br> For no wish brings The Love<br> Until more<br> I adore<br> The Father above.</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b> Now I long,<br> To be, be among.<br> For I shall seek to progress<br> Until more<br> Than before<br> I Divine Love possess.<br> </b></font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Copyright 1999 Mark Kramer<br> </b> </font><font size="1"> (<a href="http://divine-love.org/index.html" target="_blank">Check our Mark's web site</a>)</font></p> </td> <td width="50%" valign="top"> <p align="center"><br> <b><u><font size="3" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Two Souls Wandered</font></u><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><br> </font><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <br> Two Souls Wandered Once alone, two souls wandered through time,<br> Searching so desperately, their counterpart to enshrine.<br> The days were long and the years passed on,<br> Until one day they crossed and heard each heart's song. </font> </b> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Life took on meaning and purpose to find,<br> As each held the other, their souls to ever shine.<br> A great purpose, an eternal plan was given,<br> For two so loving, a world to span was driven.</font> </b> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A call in the dark, a need to be filled,<br> Now two brought together to shine for the world.<br> Working together with love for each other,<br> Helping mankind to see, as his spirit flutters.</font> </b> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A gift of truth has been their life long theme,<br> Now united they stand, to achieve a lasting dream.<br> Together they dream, of love and life eternal,<br> As words spill forth, to shake men's hearts internal. </font> </b> <p align="center"><b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A purpose for two, to see such a need,<br> To encourage the meek, to plant a living seed.<br> Life is searching and learning truths of life,<br> Seek and find these words, for you to end all strife.<br> </font></b><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><br> <font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Copyright 2000Donald D. Campbell</b></font><b><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> </font></b><font size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b> </b></font><font size="1">(<a href="http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Palais/6153/Dons.html" target="_blank">Check our Don's web site</a>)</font> </td> </tr> </table> <p align="center"> </p> <p><strong><u><big><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="3"><b>In A Santa Cruz Restaurant</b></font></big></u></strong></p> <p><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>I am thousands of miles from home-<br> Yet I am home here, as well.<br> For in the sandy brine,<br> The deep spoke to me and told me of my destiny.<br> It was to unfold as do the waves,<br> In rhythmic repetition of genius.<br> My frailties are tender vines<br> Delicately wrapped around my heart.<br> They must be unraveled,<br> These tendrils,<br> So that the heart be allowed to expand fully.<br> And this destiny of mine-<br> She has been formed and shaped by the moments, ordinary and extraordinary,<br> That weave through my life<br> Like gold thread in a medieval tapestry.<br> I am a mortal who knows of the Divine Love.<br> This, this is destiny-<br> To ferry past the dangerous shoals<br> And come to rest in the fair harbor of Peace;<br> To articulate the polyphony of glory of the Celestial Spheres.<br> For that world is very dear to me,<br> Though far away.<br> I remember the ending of fairy tales,<br> And realize with gratitude that they are true.<br> For it is this world that can foster illusion<br> And seem to destroy all hope of<br> The feisty sparrow of happiness.<br> Oh, my sweet, gentle Muse,<br> I have known fear and despair;<br> And great peace and joy.<br> I have been an astronaut<br> In the universe of feeling.<br> I have ploughed the deep and found, in my wanderings.<br> The Pearl of Great Price, washed up upon the sand.<br> I hold It in my hand-<br> I am glad.</b></font></p> <p align="left"><big><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><b>-- </b></font></big><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><small>Copyright 1999 by Arthur Charles Finmann</small></font></b></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="times" helvetica"><b><font color="#000099">[</font><font color="#000000"><a href="poems.htm#POEMS_TOP">Top of Page</a><font color="#000099">]</font></font></b> <font color="#000099"><b>[</b></font><font color="#000000"><b><a href="index.htm" target="_top">Home</a><font color="#000098">]</font></b></font></font></p> <hr color="#0F76CA" size="3"> <font FACE="times" Helvetica"> <p align="center"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font size="2">We welcome your poems. 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