Poems Junction

Nobody knows this little Rose –
It might a pilgrim be
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee.
Only a Bee will miss it –
Only a …

If there is righteousness in the heart,
there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character,
there will be harmony in the home.
If there is harmony in the …

Her sleeping head with its great gelid mass
of serpents torpidly astir
burned into the mirroring shield–
a scathing image dire
as hated truth the mind accepts at last
and festers on.
I struck. The …

If you think you are beaten you are,
If you think you dare not you don’t,
If you’d like to win but think you can’t its almost a cinch you won’t.
If you …

WHAT A
PRIDE”
One of the most
significant
word is
PRIDE…
Because when you have to
much of
it…
YOU always dont want to be
the first one to do the step to with
someone….
YOU always try to hide your
feelings…
YOU dont …

REALITY”
Im going to smile like
nothings
wrong…
talk like everythings
perfect…
act like its all a
dream…
and pretend its not hurting
me…
but what about the
reality?
SMILE..without the real
LAUGHTER…
DREAMS…but its a
NIGHTMARE…
why not cry instead of
smiling, were your in
pain…
crying sometimes …

Your hands easy
weight, teasing the bees
hived in my hair, your smile at the
slope of my cheek. On the
occasion, you press
above me, glowing, spouting
readiness, mystery rapes
my reason
When you have withdrawn
your self …

(And I, I am no longer of that world)
Naked, he lies in the blinded room
chainsmoking, cradled by drugs, by jazz
as never by any lover’s cradling flesh.
Miles Davis coolly blows …

The Great Way has no gate;
there are a thousand paths to it.
If you pass through the barrier,
you walk the universe alone.
This poem was submitted by Wu Men.

The park bench was deserted as I sat down to read.
Beneath the long, straggly branches of an old willow tree.
Disillusioned by life with good reason to frown,
For the world was …

Steel doors – guillotine gates –
of the doorless house closed massively.
We were locked in with loss.
Guards frisked us, marked our wrists,
then let us into the drab Rec Hall –
splotched …

When I was in my younger days,
I weighed a few pounds less,
I needn’t hold my tummy in
To wear a belted dress.
But now that I am older,
I’ve set my body free;
There’s …

There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields -
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is …

Until I learned to trust the Lord,
I never learned to pray;
And never learned to fully trust,
Til sorrow came my way.
Until I felt my weakness,
His strength I never knew,
Nor dreamed, til …

Some one started the whole day wrong–
Was it you?
Some one robbed the day of its song–
Was it you?
Early this morning some one frowned;
Some one sulked until others scowled;
And soon harsh …

We are meant to be
Like roses in the spring,
Full and fresh and new,
And budding and blossoming.
We are meant to be
Like stars of the summer,
Bright and clear and high,
And young and …

Well hello there my friend,
I haven’t seen you since the end,
I’m glad to see you once more,
I’ve missed you since you left out that door,
Now there is nothing left …

What matters is not how deep the valley,
Nor how dark the lonely night,
But the closeness of our loving Shepherd,
Our Comforter - our guiding Light.
He who holds our hand when we …

When I was small, a Woman died –
Today — her Only Boy
Went up from the Potomac –
His face all Victory
To look at her — How slowly
The Seasons must have …

When Night is almost done –
And Sunrise grows so near
That we can touch the Spaces –
It’s time to smooth the Hair –
And get the Dimples ready –
And wonder we …