February Poetry Corner

  

The heart hath its own memory

 like the mind,

And in it are enshrined

The precious keepsakes 

into which is wrought

The giver's loving thought.

 -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I remember when wintertime was really cold for days on end,

school was cancelled and we kids spent hours outside playing, sledding

down frozen hills of hard-packed snow, building snowmen and snow forts

and launching snowball fights in the backyard!

Those were the days!

"For the Lord gives skillful and godly Wisdom;

from His mouth come knowledge and understanding."

Proverbs 2:6

Painting By Sam Timm

 

Lord, let mine be

a common place

while here.

His was a common one;

He seems so near

when I am working

at some ordinary task.

Lord, let mine be

a common one, I ask.

Give me the things to do

that others shun,

I am not gifted or so poised,

Lord, as some.

I am best fitted

for the common things,

and I am happy so.

It always brings

a sense of fellowship

with Him Who learned

to do the lowly things

that others spurned:

to wear the simple clothes,

the common dress,

to gather in His arms

and gently bless

(and He was busy too)

a little child,

to lay His hand upon

the one defiled,

to walk with sinners

down some narrow street,

to kneel Himself

and wash men's dusty feet.

To ride a common foal,

to work with wood,

to dwell with common folk,

eat common food;

and then upon the city dump

to die for me.

Lord, common things

are all I ask

of Thee.

-Ruth Graham Bell 

 Jesus The Friend Of Children

Harry Anderson 

 "I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.
There was no other creature
That saw what I could see--
I stood and watched the evening star
As long as it watched me."

-Sara Teasdale

Evening Star

Photograph By Tommy Richardsen

"Shed no tear - O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more - O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root's white core."
- John Keats   

   

Signs Of Spring

Crocus Blooming In The Snow