Poems And Quotes

^{When I am called to duty, God
Whenever flames may rage,
Give me the strength to save some life
Whatever be its age,
Help me embrace a little child
Before it is too late
Or save an older person from
The horror of that fate
Enable me to be alert and
Hear the weakest shout
And quickly and efficiently
To put the fire out
I want to fill my calling and
To give the best in me,
To guard my every neighbor and
Protect his property
And if according to my fate
I am to lose my life,
Please bless with your protecting hand
My children and my wife.}

by

Chief James Crunk

When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high – piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And feel that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;—then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink

by

J.Keats

Fear in the middle of the night-
Fear and horrible imaginings-
Fear of my life,
Fear for those I love and our world,
Fear in the early morning
Fear and more fear-
Fear broken a bit by the light,
Fear broken a bit by morning prayer,
Fear broken a bit by ‘learning’,
Fear broken a bit by writing,
Fear broken a bit by morning coffee,
Fear less-
Fear in the neck and in the mind-
Fear down the spine-
Fear less in the light,
Fear of the night
Fear of the morning,
Fear of my life,
Fear for those I love and our world,
Fear.
Fear and fear less-
In the writing
In the prayer before prayer-
In the walking outside up to Shul
In the morning light
Fear gone for now,
Fear.

by
Shalom Freedman

There’s nothing to fear –

you’re as good as the best,
As strong as the mightiest, too.

You can win in every battle or test;
For there’s no one just like you.

There’s only one you in the world today;
So nobody else, you see,

Can do your work in as fine a way:
You’re the only you there’ll be!

So face the world, and all life is yours
To conquer and love and live:

And you’ll find the happiness that endures
In just the measure you give;

There’s nothing too good for you to possess,
Nor heights where you cannot go:

Your power is more than belief or guess –
It is something you have to know.

There is nothing to fear –

you can and you will.

For you are the invincible you.

Set your foot on the highest hill –
There’s nothing you cannot do.

Clouds hover in the midnight sky
And veil the light of silver moon.
From gentle waves so far below,
One hears a faded, distant tune.

Upon this night, at darkest hour,
The Peophins break forth in song.
And when sun rises, they return
To depths of sea, where they belong.

by

Reggieman721

You’ve been great.
I would hate to see us not be friends.
You’ve always been there throughout the thick and the thin.
Though we’ve sinned we have always stayed near.
Because I know that you care.

I want you to know that I do too.
All and all I want you to know I thank you for showing the lord to me.
And that I know deep inside that I’ll always love you no matter what!

Best friends we will stay!

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by

Carlie

A man staring at a small lake sees
His father cast light line out over
The willows.  He's forgotten his 
Father has been dead for two years
And the lake is where a blue fog
Rolls, and the sky could be, if it
Were black or blue or white,
The backdrop of all attention.

He wades out to join the father,
Following where the good strikes
Seem to lead.  It's cold.  The shape
Breath takes on a cold day is like
Anything else--a rise on a small lake,
The Oklahoma hills, blue scrub--
A shape already inside a shape,
Two songs, two breaths on the water.

by
 Ralph Burns

Maudlin nights somehow allay my grievances
Aberrant love still blazing me all over
Refuge I need but scoffed me away
Lonely soul, frozen in a dungeon of sentiments
Obstructed by uncertainties and agony
Naïve, I may describe to myself

Queer sound of zephyr I heard
Unveiling my face to see the sparkling light
Imperfectly created with blood flowing on the ground
Zest, at last but alone lamenting
Ordeal, it could be
No more I beg but I do love him